Tag: mental wellness
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Help and Hope: Stop Walking Around the Furnace
Most people pray for God to remove the furnace. Few stop to consider that sometimes God is waiting for us to walk toward it. And if we’re being honest, most of us spend a great deal of our lives trying to avoid discomfort. We avoid difficult conversations, grief, doctor’s appointments, forgiveness, change, we even avoid…
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Caregivers Cozy Corner: Why Hot Matters
There are days when the road feels endless. Doctor to doctor. State to state. Waiting rooms, parking lots, hotel nights, and restaurants squeezed in between appointments. Caregiving has a way of stretching time thin, leaving very little room to tend to yourself in between tending to everyone else. One of the strangest discoveries I’ve made…
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Peace in the Storm: When Feeling Again Feels Like Drowning
The first thing I noticed was my breath or rather, the absence of it. I came back into myself gasping, lungs aching as though I had been underwater far longer than I realized. Fear followed immediately, sharp and disorienting, because with breath came awareness, and with awareness came feeling. I did not know how long…
Country Girl Gone City 