Breaking free from anxiety by walking away from shoulds
How to drastically change your life through words
I have been sitting silently. Waiting for words when none would come. When they do come, they don’t seem to stick around long enough these days to gather out of my mind and paste onto the page in front of me. I’m left utterly speechless when it matters most. And yet, in the heat of the moment, when anger or some… Read More
The reason why I hate self-help
I know what you’re thinking, “Wow, hate is a strong word for something meant to be so helpful.” Yeah, it is. But when you’ve looked for healing somewhere only to find out you were being duped, you’d hate it too. For most of my adult life, I’ve been drawn with an unexplainable magnetism to the “self-help” section of the book… Read More
How can I be a Christian and still struggle with…
How can I be a Christian and still struggle with… (*Fill in the blank.) When I first began writing this post, it was meant to be about the struggle with fear and being a Christian. But after I thought about it, I realized that even if you don’t struggle with anxiety, you still struggle with something, and more than likely,… Read More
How to make peace with your enemy
Making peace with your enemy The slate-colored sky surrounded the endless meadows on either side of the road as my Toyota sliced through the frigid afternoon air—ask anyone who lives in the Pacific Northwest, it’s all gray and green until sometime in June. I was headed North after an entire day away at a conference. Alone. Just the ashen sky… Read More
Thoughts on depression…
I was floating amongst laughing children while the sun glistened off of the rippling waves of chlorinated bliss. Shrieks and shrills fell like raindrops around me as I bobbed up and down with the movement of the water. The pool cooled my hot skin and for the moment, I felt weightless, even with an eight-month pregnancy belly. On that distant… Read More