A Beautiful Life (with anxiety)
Social Anxiety. That’s what the therapist called it as I sat across from her on the mahogany leather couch. Her office was devised to...
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Jun 10, 20216 min read
Finding a Family when Yours isn't Near
Dear Future Family, “Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my...
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May 26, 20213 min read
3 Biblical Practices to Help the Anxious Christian
One of the most popular google searches in the realm of mental health is “anxious Christian.” In Western culture we often dissect these...
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May 12, 20212 min read
Mental Health Awareness
Did you know that May is mental health awareness month? I’m so happy to see how far we’ve come as a church and as a society in inviting...
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May 5, 20215 min read
Introvert or Insecurity?
A Change of Focus Can Help! by Amy Lynn Simon For many years, I chalked up my lack of interest in our church’s women’s events to my being...
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Apr 28, 20214 min read
Godly Encouragement for Introverts
by Mary Rabe My personality has always been a bit of a conundrum, even to myself. See, I love people. I care so much about others, and I...
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Apr 25, 20214 min read
Freedom in the Midst of COVID
by Janet Bryant Brown The culture in our neck of the woods, a southern heavily logged area of the country thrives on drinking sweet tea,...
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Apr 24, 20213 min read
How Does God Help with Anxiety?
An Exerpt from Take Heart: God's Comfort for Anxious Thoughts As someone who has struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder, social...
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Apr 22, 20215 min read
How to Invest in Friendships
3 Ways to Make Friends a Priority Again by Jennifer F. Riales I know, this series is all about the introverts that would rather hang out...
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Apr 7, 20215 min read
Showing Up As Your Introverted Self to Your Loud People
By Elisa Preston As an introvert, showing up in relationships can be a struggle. Elisa gets it! I’m so excited to have my hope*writer...
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Apr 5, 20216 min read
Cultivate Real Relationships
A 2-Step Path to Self-Love & Spiritual Sight by Michelle TK Do you feel like you want to cut through the social noise to cultivate real...
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Mar 30, 20213 min read
The Hope Hidden in Easter Eggs
Easter eggs. This year I'm especially digging them. Why? I'm glad you asked. 1. They are bright and beautiful. Our family's Easter this...
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Mar 24, 20215 min read
When Life is Tough- Where are you God?
When life is tough, where are you God? When life is hard, this question feels like a lump in our throat. I think it's a worthy question,...
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Mar 17, 20213 min read
Finding “Enough”
This is an adapted excerpt from my new book Take Heart: God's Comfort for Anxious Thoughts now available for PREORDER! “It’s so easy on...
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Mar 11, 20214 min read
Feeling Distant from Friends
LAST WEEK we talked about how struggle and hurt can cause us to feel distant from God. Is there any debris of hurt and doubt that has...
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Mar 3, 20215 min read
Feeling Distant from God
Are you in a season where you are feeling distant from God? I can relate. We went around the circle to answer some question. I honestly...
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Jun 23, 20202 min read
For the Christian with Anxiety
Are you a Christian that struggles with anxiety? Then friend, you are in good company. I don’t like that the meme takes the Lord’s name...
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Mar 9, 20203 min read
Contagious Faith
My thoughts on the Coronavirus. You hear Coronavirus, and you've already formed some kind of opinion. Yes in the U.S. somehow we can even...
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Feb 11, 20204 min read
GRACE BUTTON
The ultimate parenting reset. It wasn't about grace. Not at first at least. No, the "grace button" started out as the "reset button." I...
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Feb 3, 20203 min read
Lessons From A Seven-Year-Old
PHOTO BY RACHEL SCHOENEMAN PHOTOGRAPHY Their feet tangled together, baby blue high tops and pink ankle socks in sequined slip-ons. Their...
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Dec 23, 20192 min read
(Child-Like) Faith by Candlelight
The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world…Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name,...
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Oct 21, 20194 min read
Let's Be Brave
How many jobs have you had? If you're like me, you could count on both hands. In college, I cleaned someone's house, babysat, and made...
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Jun 15, 20194 min read
What I Learned from Yelling at My Kids
“I need some space!” I hear my own words echoed in my three-year-old’s mouth as her big sister scoots beside her on the couch for a...
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Jun 4, 20193 min read
Take the Leap
God pushed me into my life's greatest adventure. Where is he pushing you? Every negative pregnancy test has given me a little plunge of...
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May 28, 20194 min read
Life is Hard, But God is Good
When life is hard we know that God is good, but in the moment of struggle we live in an unanswered question. Social media packages our...
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May 20, 20195 min read
The Art of "G'Yalling It"
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...
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May 8, 20195 min read
How We Rise Above Disapproval
Last night I had a dream that I’d taken my daughters out for a quick bite to eat. I wasn’t wearing makeup and my hair was in a mom bun....
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May 1, 20196 min read
Do You Love Me, God?
“Where is God in ordinary life? When I’m numb and tired from heaps of laundry and stubborn kids. Where is God on those days I need him...
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Apr 24, 20197 min read
Becoming Real
"If my heart looks broken in, then I've been brave enough to live..." Christa Wells Eight months pregnant with a two-year-old in...
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Apr 17, 20194 min read
Truth in The Inward Parts
Why Life's Greatest Challenges Make Our Hearts Wise and Beautiful Eyes squeezed shut, her body swayed and twirled as her arms reached...
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Apr 9, 20193 min read
We Were Not Made for Shame
Shame is a weapon that Satan uses to push many women behind self-sewn curtains of isolation. You see her over there—her eyes are averted,...
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Mar 28, 20193 min read
How Do We Protect Our Hearts?
All winter has been one cage rattling cough after another. “It’s to be expected with an immuno-suppressed child,” the doctor said with a...
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Mar 21, 20192 min read
This Time Will Pass
I had a dream. A dream where I waited in a long line. The queue of people wrapped around faded cement buildings. I saw a white haired...
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Mar 21, 20191 min read
Peace Just Today
The world overwhelms My doubt overcomes But the weight of Your Glory Gives me peace The noise of this world Crowds out Your Whispers But...
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Jan 22, 20192 min read
Anything, God?
Learning to Say a Tentative Yes God is feeling so big in my heart right now that it’s hard to go through the every day motions of washing...
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Jan 1, 20191 min read
Oh Baby This is Us
You know all my secrets baby, The truths that I hold in, Thanks for keeping quiet baby, For holding tight my hand. You know all my crazy...
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Dec 31, 20181 min read
Black Coffee Heart
Come meet me in the morning, When the monsters are asleep. Whisper me the promises, I know only you can keep. Come meet me in the...
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Dec 25, 20181 min read
Rest in His Enough
I am with you now. In the wandering, in the waiting; when your plans didn’t work out. When your dreams aren’t coming true. I’m with you...
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Jan 16, 20182 min read
Brave Means Taking the Next Step
Sometimes brave is tucked within the humble, every day things of life. We think brave is shown in a big defining moment. But what if...
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