I bet you have never heard that phrase before, "Emergency Anxiety Kit". You're probably thinking this is something like a first aid kit, filled with band aids, ointments, wraps, medications, etc,. Well, this is similar but not the same. You use a first aid kit generally when there are emergencies. Its a "just in case"…
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…
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…
Continue reading ➞ Emotional Healing Week 6: Tips To Help Overcome 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,…
Continue reading ➞ Emotional Healing Week 4: Conquering The Anxiety
Week three. I am still, blown away at the amount of people that have been encouraged by these posts. How am I doing? Good! A little better each day. The anxious brain has kind of been sitting at the back of my mind for a few months. I wake up and think, “Is today going…
Hey guys! I am back to report on week two of overcoming anxiety and depression. And I have got to say, I am feeling so much better (knock on wood). The last five weeks I have been focusing on not having anxiety at all. Trying to get rid of it or ignore it, breathe through…
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…
"Don't go to bed angry" I can not tell you how many times I have heard that phrase in my life. Too many to count. When Brendan and I got married, at the guest sign in table we had this paper machete ballon that we had people put encouraging notes in. On our 1st anniversary…
Here we go again. Our 3rd cross country move. From Nebraska to Virginia, Virginia to Florida, and Florida to California. It's so weird to think that I've lived all of these places. If you would have asked me when I was 16 what I thought my life would look like in 10 years, I would've…
Lets talk about expectations. We all have them right? We have goals, a state of mind, or a really specific picture in our head when we think of different situations. In health, in families, in marriage, in work, in social lives, in the mirror, and life in general. It is perfectly normal and can be…
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