Meaningful Relationships | How to Manage Darker Days

Maintaining meaningful relationships amidst anxiety is both extremely difficult and extremely necessary. It’s difficult because when anxious, we often push away those closest and whose care we need the most. It’s necessary because often the only people who can lift our spirits and talk us out of it are those closest to us. I’m running away from that which can help me.

Exercise & Nutrition | How to Manage Darker Days

Countless credible sources report that exercise helps ease anxiety (see here, here, & here). Turns out they were right. After a whole lot of trial and error and starting over and over and over…I’m four months into the most sustainable healthy lifestyle I’ve ever had.

Counseling | How to Manage Darker Days

Don’t crazy people go to counseling? Isn’t it admitting that you’re like mentally ill? Besides, loved ones say that it isn’t a good idea, because aren’t we just having issues because we don’t have enough faith?

How to Manage Darker Days

Many are reluctant to express a struggle for fear of being labeled. “I mean, yea I get super worried, my thoughts race, and I can’t function sometimes, but I don’t like, you know…have anxiety.”

Why You Should Keep Trying Even When You Already Failed II

“If you decide that the way you do things now are perfect and you never attempt to improve yourself again, well then yea, you’d turn into a pretty awful teacher, but I don’t suspect that happening.”

Why You Should Keep Trying Even When You Already Failed I

We should just keep failing. If we haven’t used our talents yet, we never will. So we should give up. Walk away. Choose something else to occupy our time. The things worth doing come naturally, so if it requires effort, it wasn’t meant to be.

Why Teaching Helps My Anxiety II

Paradoxical, this teaching. Monday to Friday is a blur of preparations, gone before dark, back with the sinking sun, washed dished, and (mostly) dreamless sleep. On Fridays, two of my English scholars have the same prayer request during worship: that the weekend goes by slowly.

Why Teaching Helps My Anxiety I

I wish everyday ended like today…But they don’t.

Why I’m on Facebook but Ignoring Your Texts: Anxious Confessions

“Girl, I totally feel you. It’s weird how functional I can be with certain things when I’m overwhelmed but completely shut down when it comes to responding to messages or emails…so YES. TOTALLY UNDERSTAND.”

Exceptional Loneliness

Obstructed vision of people in the same experience can lead me to believe I am the only one.Experiencing life without meaningful connection can lead to exceptional loneliness, and the devil can use perceived loneliness against us.