anxiety
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People like to talk about trauma like it’s only damage. Something to fix. Something to soften and soothe until it disappears. That’s incomplete. I wasn’t just hurt. I was trained. Not in a way I would have chosen. Not in a way I would ever recreate for my children. But training doesn’t stop being training…
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We’ve turned “God loves you” into “God affirms everything you do.” That isn’t love.That’s abandonment dressed up as kindness. Real love corrects. It sharpens. It refuses to leave you as it found you. A good father does not stand by while his child walks toward harm, nodding in approval so he can feel gentle. He…
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Moments of reflection — what better way to start a week. Chronic physical pain has been with me since I was a child. I have also lived with severe PTSD. A childhood wrought with murder, confusion, and constant physical, emotional and sexual abuse left its course surging through my veins. Chronic physical pain and PTSD…
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What are you carrying in your hands today? Is it strife, injustice — unworthiness? It’s an interesting question. What we carry in our hands may be a direct result of what is happening in our hearts. If our hearts are confused and full of chaos, I suppose our life will show the fruits of that.…
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I have learned that the body is a place where the spirit twists and kneels, sometimes bending low in sorrow, sometimes rising, bones creaking toward the sun. We are flesh, yes, but more than that. The skin is a thin veil, and behind it, something holy stirs, wild as…
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A song made popular by Madonna: “Something in the way you love me won’t let me beI don’t want to be your prisonerSo baby, won’t you set me free?Stop playing with my heart. . . Just try to understand I’ve given all I can‘Cause you got the best of me BorderlineFeels like I’m going to…
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Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?Though she may forget, I will not forget you! Isaiah 49:15 To answer the question — Yes, a mother can forget, neglect and care nothing about a child she has born, carried, and birthed. I’m not sad…
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“. . . I have looked upon my people because their cry has reached me.” I Samual 9:16 What if God chooses people to help the hurting. Do you believe in God’s annointing? I do! God heals through people. Every word we speak in silence to God, he remembers. He makes a record of our…
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I was miserably assaulted in my childhood by many members of my family – my parents included. I left that home and went right into the home of another abuser. Me and my children were assaulted by him for almost 18 years. My heart sobs over the loss and victimization that plauged me and my…
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Moments of reflection — what better way to start a week. A sociopath can impress you by their brashness and their amazing ability to lie on a dime and prevaricate at will. I know most of us don’t like to use lables like sociopath, narcissist or evil but there are times when we certainly need…