For a solid month when Instagram first came out, I thought it was just a photo editing app. In fact, it wasn't until I was getting "like" notifications on my pictures that I realized the public could see them. (It was super embarrassing too because there were an obnoxious amount of selfies on my page…
The stressors of every day life are enough to make you put your blinders on... and not the good kind. We tend to go in survival mode, getting so caught up in ourselves and our struggles that we block out the heart cries of others. When I'm feeling like this, I get out of my…
**If you haven't already read part one, go to the previous post and start there! My first encounter with the psychiatric facility was a small white room. It was furnished with only a plastic-covered couch. Just like the movies, it was incredibly sterile and even more lonely. I laid on the couch for what felt…
Every week I post on Instagram, asking how I can pray for you specifically. And every week, I get replies about mental illness. Crippling anxiety, depression, OCD, bipolar... the list goes on. Many, many heart cries for healing and peace. This post was initially supposed to be about ways to reduce anxiety during the winter…
"Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?" Charles Bukowski I got invited to an event recently (potentially by accident) that I stressed about for days. One of those things where you talk yourself out of it almost immediately. There was this persistent, nagging voice in my head that…
