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when depression hits
Recently, feelings of depression have hit me hard. There are a lot of different views on depression and anxiety. If people have told you that what you’re dealing with is not real or that you should think happy thoughts instead you are seen. I hear you. It is very hurtful to be told what you’re dealing with is not valid. God sees you and he hears your heart too. Anxiety and depression are a lot to deal with. It is hard to do things when you are experiencing symptoms of them. I wish I could tell you there was an instant fix to all to these illnesses. As a Christian…
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New Beginnings
Do you ever want to start over again? Sometimes we all wish for a redo button to appear in front of us. But we’ve all heard those negative people saying there are no second chances! Says who? That’s my question because guess what? Everyday is the chance to start a new. You can restart your mindset, your goals, your food choices and attitude. It’s never too late to start again. You may be asking how can that be? Maybe you haven’t had second chances before in your life. There are a lot of jobs and schools who lack that sort of grace but let me tell you, my God is…
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Tylenol for the heartache
Growing up my mom gave me Tylenol for everything. My head hurt? Tylenol. My knee hurt? Tylenol. Everything was fixed with Tylenol. Are there places in your life where you wish you could just take Tylenol to rid yourself of the pain for a little while? The last few days I’ve felt a lot of emotion. A lot of hurt, fear and sadness. So I thought, as I was up at 3 am crying, “I wish I could take Tylenol to make my heartache go away.” There are tools to use to make heartache fade. The type of heartache I’m talking about is a deep, deep sadness. The type you…
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In need of heart surgery?
Now, I’m not talking about the type of surgery that comes from a heart attack, I’m talking about your heart of heart. The real deep part of you that feels and hurts and loves. Heart surgery can come by surprise. Sometimes you need it for past hurts or traumas that you have been dealing with unconsciously. Sometimes it happens with new wounds or fear you’re dealing with currently. Recently I’ve been in need of heart surgery. I don’t deal well with stress and I have been plastered with it. Everyday something new happened that I had to deal with. I was also dealing with anger and feeling misunderstood/not heard. Those…
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Hate Thanksgiving? Read this
We see the happy family in the movies and TV shows and think wow, I wish my thanksgiving could look like that. Holidays can be hard if you have an unconventional family or situation. But even in the midst of trauma and bad memories, we can still make the best of the holiday. We don’t have to go on hating the holidays. It’s typical to think of all the things we’re thankful for on thanksgiving, hence the “thank” part. So we can practice gratitude. Gratitude changes everything. You can go from hating your life to actually enjoying getting up in the morning. Sometimes you have to look up from the…
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Fear v. Hope
The difference between fear and hope is that fear is without love. You don’t feel fearful when you know you have someone who has your back with you. Struggles with anxiety are well known in this day and age. If you’ve ever felt fearful to do something but your friend is also fearful, if you go and do the feared activity to prevent your friend from being scared—you just combated your fear with love. “Perfect love casts out fear.” 1 John 4:18. God is perfect love. He can eradicate you from fear. Lift your fears to him. Lay them at his feet. He is a kind and listening father. God…