I shared part of what God has been teaching me this summer here, and today we're going deeper. If you've felt pressure to be a "good girl", I hope this encourages you. I’m sitting in my counselor’s...
“Have you failed yet?” My friend and coach asks my workout partner and I this during an early morning session. We both shake our heads, “Then you’re not done.” We take turns adding more weight to...
Do you ever feel like you’re not doing enough in this season of your life? Yep, me too. Here’s what recently changed my perspective. I’m sitting cross-legged on the floor like a kindergartener,...
I’m driving with my husband on a beautiful day after having Thai food (my favorite) and all seems well until I remember a recent mistake. My inner critic speaks up with harsh words and suddenly my...
We’re celebrating love in happy ways this month. We’ll give each other heart-shaped balloons, cards with warm words, and boxes of chocolates. But what about the times when someone we love is in a...
The church is in the center of a small town, the kind that’s a combination of boarded up windows and cute boutiques selling soap with ribbons around it or antiques repainted turquoise. The foyer...
In my early twenties I sat in a counselor's office and first heard these words, "You have depression and anxiety." Relief flooded through me. There was a name for my struggles? Help for what I...
As we start a new year, it’s easy to focus on goals and resolutions. Can we also take a moment to recognize all we’ve made it through? Maybe last year you got up on a day you didn’t feel like it,...
I stand in front of the mirror and ask my reflection, “How could you have done that?” I think back to an incident yesterday where I was not at my best. As much as I want to, I can’t take back the...
I’m seated on a chair in the middle of the kitchen in my childhood home, a towel draped around my neck like a makeshift cape. My mom and grandmother read instructions from the back of a box. How...