Why I Can’t Just Pray My Anxiety Away

WOAH. That's a big title. Hear me out on this one guys, I think this is a very large misconception in the community of mental health and faith. It might be better than you think. Okay, before any of you come on here to bash my faith or throw the "The bible says not to…

The Emotional Side of Moving: “I can’t do this again”

This is the 2nd part of the moving post. Click Here to read last weeks moving post. As I have mentioned before in this post, physically moving is not the part that sucks. I mean it is definitely hard, but it is not the hardest part. You see, there are two parts to moving: The…

Emotional Healing Week 6: Tips To Help Overcome Anxiety

Week six. Six weeks ago I vowed that I would write about my journey with anxiety and depression and how I was healing from it. Now here we are, six weeks later. Overall the last four or five months have been kind of brutal for me. I was a roller coaster of emotions for awhile…

Emotional Healing Week 5: Finding Confidence

The last couple of months I have been focusing on not having anxiety on more of a day to day basis. Now, I am focusing on more long term goals for myself as the anxiety isn't as apparent. In my last therapy session we talked about some big, long term goals. Goals for myself, goals…

Emotional Healing Week 4: Conquering The Anxiety

Last week I had some real anxiety. Not all throughout the week, but a couple of instances. One of them really stood out to me. It was the first meeting of the Military Wives Bible Study I go to. I was slightly nervous going in to this but knew that it would be totally fine,…

Emotional Healing: When you are not okay

Hey there, reader. I don’t know who is reading this but I want you to know something about these words. These are very real, raw, and vulnerable words for me to write. It’s a little scary but it is also very good. Here we go. I have Anxiety, terrible anxiety. And sometimes not-able-to-leave-the-house type of…