anxiety

2016
Faith and Religion
Growth
Health and Wellness
Mental health
Write 31 days challenge

Believing There Is Enough

One huge barrier I’ve encountered in taking care has been the feeling of lack and living in the idea of scarcity. Believing that I do not have enough and may not get enough stirs fear up in my heart and keeps me from doing things that are important and necessary to being healthy and functional […]

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2016
Growth
Health and Wellness
Mental health
Uncategorized
Write 31 days challenge

Release from Resistance

The strands of what has unraveled still twist around, waiting to be woven back in. Let’s pick them up again. This is where I am and then – the resistance. The resistance swells within me before I even get started. Everything seems too hard, too much, too boring, too overdone, too simple, too complicated. I […]

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Faith and Religion
Growth
Health and Wellness
Home and Family
Mental health

When You Realize You Spent A Whole Month Just Holding Your Breath

I keep a calendar in my laundry room that is reserved strictly for recording little memories. It’s a practice I started a few years ago, when I was trying to pull myself out of the darkness of things not going so well. I haven’t kept one every year since then, but I’ve tried to do […]

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Faith and Religion
Health and Wellness
Mental health
Perspective

This Light And Momentary Affliction

I’ve been told that I am called to lay down my life. Too often, I think I think of that in terms of literally dying, when it’s more likely that I am to lay down the life that I want to have or think I should have or even have been convinced that I should […]

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