Mental Health Meets Faith
Body image has been an area of my life that I have had to be on guard for lies influenced by the media, my own unrealistic expectations, and the enemy of my soul. I have had to be intentional about replacing a lie saturated narrative about what makes me beautiful and replace it with Gods truth. Different seasons in my life have brought different changes in my body. In some seasons I have carried more […]
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Cor. 10:5) I spend a lot of time thinking about thoughts. That may sound a little funny, but a long journey with anxiety has taught me that paying attention to my thinking is crucial. Prior to that, anxiety was often a debilitating force, wreaking havoc in the background of […]
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Eph. 2:10) Recently, I stumbled across this quote in a book I read: True freedom will only bloom in your life when you put on the truth of who God says you are. Knowing who God wants you to be is not the same as practicing who He wants you […]
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of the world but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. (Rom. 12:2) One night as I was dozing off into sleep, an image came to my mind of one of those old computers, the kind that extended from floor to ceiling and took up a […]
Recently, I wrote a creative piece entitled Letting Go of Control and Splashing into Life. This piece was birthed out of a recent experience I had, during which I felt the Lord speaking to me about the role control has played in my life. This was not a new theme for me, as I have dealt with “control freak” tendencies over the span of my life. However, it did uncover a new layer of a familiar subject and brought […]
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. (Isa 61:1) Jesus read these words in a synagogue on the Sabbath in his hometown of Nazareth (Luke 4:18-19). According to the scripture, He read these words not long after he was […]
Where are all my readers at out there? I was always the kid who loved to read and would choose a good book any day over riding bikes or kicking a ball. And while I have less time for reading these days, with the demands of work, studying and just general life, I still try to find time to read whenever I get a chance. For all my book lovers out there, here are some […]
In this post, I wanted to share with you some resources I have found to be incredibly useful for trying times, tough seasons, personal growth, healing in the midst of anxiety and depression, and for simply making everyday life more beautiful, rewarding and fulfilling. Cleaning up the Mental Mess podcast by Dr. Caroline Leaf In my earliest stages of learning to cope with pervasive anxiety, this insightful podcast by Dr. Caroline Leaf provided me with […]
What are some of the elements of your favorite movies? Is it the suspense? Is it the feel-good vibes? Is it the true story content? What about the storyline of the overcoming underdog? When it comes to our lives, we all direct our own stories, or movies, if you will. For fellow Christians, we might ask, “Hold up. Doesn’t God direct our story?” I think the answer to that is yes and no. God loves to direct our lives, with his permission. He doesn’t […]
At the start of this year, as I began to read through Genesis, I came upon these familiar words, “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day, he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done” (Gen. 2:2-3). I started to think about the idea of sabbath. In the […]