It’s so easy to live in denial. It’s a trap that you can fall in effortlessly. When you don’t admit that you are hurting, it inhibits you from receiving the healing you so desperately need. I am no stranger to living in denial. Are you? I did for years. Years of believing that I didn’t […]
In loss, there you will find grief. It can come on suddenly when we acknowledge what we have lost. Grief can bring us to a place of great despair. It’s hard to know what to do. I was deeply stricken by grief as I came to terms with the losses I experienced from my childhood, […]
My heart was filled with deep resentment from the hurt I experienced in the past. I resented the ones who were supposed to protect me, but failed me. I grieved over the lack of relationships that were meant to show me what love and forgiveness looked like. Left with shattered hopes—fearing that I could never […]
“I love you.” Growing up, I longed to hear these words. I heard the phrase thrown around a lot on television, and read it often in books, but I never heard it for myself. It made me not really understand love. Was I loved? Was I capable of giving love? These unresolved questions left me […]
I felt like I was beyond repair; I needed to acknowledge that I had a problem, and that I couldn’t fix it on my own. I tried many times, but the compulsion to control certain things—brought on by unresolved pain from the past—overtook me. I felt lost, and broken to the core, but knew that […]
Faith and GatherTM has shared a post that I’ve written, titled The Gift of Rejection in Community. Please visit their website to read more!
The Love Offering Blog Series by Rachael K. Adams has shared a post that I’ve written, titled The Truth of God’s Love. Please visit her website to read more!
The high expectations that I had placed on myself to love others led me to think that I needed to sacrifice myself. I placed my needs and wants last, after the wants of others. Not caring for myself left me completely empty. I was exhausted mentally, physically and emotionally. I was depleted to the point […]
I was weary and heavyhearted, feeling like I would never be able to trust again. I had experienced a great betrayal in a past relationship, which brought me to this place. I trusted that his love for me was unconditional and secure, but it wasn’t. Left with a wounded heart, I questioned my ability to […]
My doubts and insecurities in my identity were leading me to feel trapped and causing me to think I could not change. I didn’t think I could trust God to change my mindset, even if I asked him. I thought this change would be too hard, and would bring me on a journey that was […]
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