Mental Health
Why We Need Other People to Pull Us Out of the Pit: Part 5 in the Series on Trauma Recovery
I want to talk to you this week about why people, are such an important part of our trauma recovery. It’s so easy to isolate with our stories and our pain. It’s just as easy to stuff it down with a bad habit – especially during this time of social distancing when people are seeing…
Read MoreWhy Unaddressed Trauma is an Open Wound in Need of Healing: Part 1
Podcast link: https://open.spotify.com/show/7mZHeGcvCaBkUNKb7Oc27o This is the FIRST OF THE SERIES ON TRAUMA. Why the Open Wound of Trauma Needs to be Healed Hello my friends! I want to talk to you today and over the next few months actually about a pretty heavy topic – and that is Trauma. The Lord has laid this message…
Read MoreHow God Wants to Make Your Broken Beautiful
He wants to heal it, and shine light through it. He wants to use our brokenness to help others see that light in this dark world.
Read MoreGentleness and Why the World Needs it
“With anything in life, we can’t race through pretending the pain didn’t happen – or we’ll never deal with it, and we have to deal with it to GROW through it.” – MTS
Read MoreDisciplining Ourselves in the Midst of Distraction
This week’s message is all about distractions and how we can discipline ourselves in them. They are a part of life, so they aren’t going to go away but we don’t have to discipline ourselves alone, because God wants to help. Check out the video and the extra stuff below. Study the scriptures, and get…
Read MoreThe Hope On the Other Side of #Metoo
Whatever happened to you, however it made you feel emotionally, physically, mentally, even spiritually – you need to know that God is right there. He is close to you and wants to comfort you because you are His child and He knows you are hurting because “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed,” says Psalm 34:18.
Read MoreWhen Stress Comes: How to Function When You Can’t Function
We all have those times when stress really hits us. That’s what I’m talking about this week to give you some tips on how to work through it with God when it comes, especially since when we’re stressed or anxious we tend to think God isn’t there, right?
Read MoreShow Up and Stand In Your Brave
Where is God calling you to be brave? Where is he nudging you to plant the seeds he’s called you to plant where you’ve let your fears quiet your brave? Do you think you can show up and be brave anyway? I know there are still a lot of women in this world who want to live behind the mask. I get it. It seems easier. Yes. But what does that do for the women, especially of the next generation who need us just live brave and vulnerable?
Read MorePTSD: No Discrimination
“You’re a mess.”
Those three words stung like no other. They came from the mouth of a neuropsychologist following a cognitive test in the late summer of 2015.
Forgive Yourself for Your Perfectionism
We are convinced that if we just get our food right then all will be perfect, but we’re still focusing on that thing we’re trying to control, like the food. Truth is, God is the one in control and we have to trust him.
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