Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about, and trying to heal from, ugly things people have said to me. I’ve always been told I’m overly sensitive or that I take things too personally. When I was younger, I remembered adults always chiming “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” when my classmates or I experienced someone saying something rude to us or about us.
The thing is, as God has recently revealed to me, that phrase is not biblical.
Now let me show you why it isn’t, and why this phrase is actually a harmful one to teach children who have experienced verbal bullying.
My husband and I, after almost three and a half years of marriage and combatting my personal medical anxiety, started trying for a baby in March of 2025.
Almost a year ago, after going through seasons where I’d temporarily delete Facebook from my phone, I read what Cal Newport had to say about setting boundaries for social media usage in his book, Digital Minimalism, and made the decision to permanently delete the app off my phone. While in the grand scheme of things this sounds like a minor decision, this change has instead altered my life for the better. Here’s how.
As you may have noticed from some of my previous posts this year, 2025 has been a tough year for me. Today, however, I’m not going to complain and recap about all the bad things that have happened. Instead, I’m sharing my go-to methods for powering through those hard days in hopes that they will help someone else who is struggling.
In the midst of an anxiety attack, nothing helps me more than cranking up worship music. Here are a few songs I recommend that help fight anxiety, remind me that God is in control, and offer reassurance that He will never leave nor forsake us.
I can’t help but notice that 2023 has been a difficult year for many people, myself included.
I often call fitful seasons like these a Life Rut, where you feel like you’re doing your best to drag your feet in hopes of reaching the other side of this treacherous ravine.
And that’s today’s question: How do we get through life ruts as a Christian?
Though I started off my career as an indie author doing author related tasks on Sundays, I’ve felt convicted to treat Sunday as a day of rest in this area for the past few years. Here’s why.
Comparing myself to other creatives thrust me into a rabbit hole of discontentment for a couple years, and I’m just now, with God’s help, finally stepping back onto a steady foothold and escaping that trench.
How did God help me overcome the worst of Comparisonitis? Let’s go back and trace those steps.
How does developing a daily Bible-reading habit affect your spiritual walk? Join me in discussing the top 3 benefits I noticed from reading the Bible daily throughout 2021!
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