I once had a therapist tell me something about healing that I didn’t fully appreciate until about three years after she said it. She said: “The story you’re telling yourself about what happened may be the thing that needs healing more than what actually happened.” I nodded politely in the moment, filed it somewhere in […]
I am not a private processor by nature. When something breaks in me, in a relationship, or in a season of life, my first instinct is to talk it out with others. But after years of facing betrayal from several in a community I thought I could trust and being judged for who I naturally […]
Some wounds are clean. A loss that was no one’s fault. A disappointment that came from circumstances rather than choices. A hard season that arrived without a person attached to it. Those wounds still hurt, and they still require real healing. But there’s a certain straightforwardness to them. You know what happened. You know what […]
Nobody told me I was allowed to stop. I come from a long line of people who push through without stopping to renew. It’s not a bad inheritance, honestly. There’s real grit in my family tree. People who showed up when showing up was hard, who kept their commitments even when the cost was high, […]
I kept a journal from my early twenties that I reread a few years ago. It was my way of measuring how well I’d been growing in my faith, in my spiritual walk, in life. I’m not sure what I was expecting. Maybe some nostalgic warmth, a few cringe-worthy fashion references, the general amusement of […]
I didn’t expect the year I asked God to grow me to be one of the hardest years I can remember. Looking back, I’m not sure what I thought would happen. Maybe a quiet deepening. A gentle stretching. Some new insight arriving on a Tuesday morning with my coffee, leaving me wiser and largely undisturbed. […]
We’ve covered a lot of ground this month, exploring the truths at the foundation of focus. We talked about distraction and the way it slips in quietly to scatter your peace before you even realize it’s happening. We talked about comparison, and how someone else’s highlight reel can silently rewrite the story you’re telling yourself […]
Fear doesn’t always appear in your life, clear as day and easily identified. Sometimes it just shows up as a feeling you can’t shake. A low, persistent hum underneath everything else you’re doing, making you lose your focus. You go about your day, check your list, say the right things. But underneath it all, something […]
Busy and focused are not the same thing. But they can feel identical from the inside. Until they don’t. Busyness fills your hours. Focus directs them. And for a long time, I confused the two. The Week I Was Fully Busy and Completely Off Track A few months ago, I had one of the most […]
Comparison rarely begins loudly. It usually starts subtly — scrolling, observing, noticing. You lose your focus as you acknowledge someone else’s milestone. Someone else’s growth. Someone else’s visibility. And suddenly, your own path feels smaller. The Scroll That Shifted My Focus and Mood I remember sitting on the couch one evening after a long day, […]
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