Dear Megan, I am inspired by your strength. Not just the strength of recovering from physical trauma, but also emotional trauma that you...

Recently, I watched an episode of Jada Pinkett-Smith's Red Table Talk in which she discussed addiction. I was intrigued by the many...

Recently, God has been working on my heart in the area of forgiveness. I am not the most obedient person and still have many flaws and...

Back in the Fall of 2019, my therapist asked me if I saw myself as a victim or not. After a few seconds, I responded, “No.” But then I...

Yesterday during online church, the pastor spoke about the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. In John 11, Mary and Martha,...

It was the end of the fall semester when I decided to get 2 jobs over winter break. I ended up working 2-3 jobs. Since I had struggled...

As a kid, school was a safe-haven for me, even though there were many challenges I faced there. I remember being in kindergarten and...

There were several circumstances in my life I thought I would never make it out of. One that sticks out more than others happened during...

I admit it. Working with kids was scary, especially on the cusp of losing two siblings I raised as my own. I was so terrified that...

Often when you’re struggling, you don’t know where to find hope. On my mental health journey, I found hope in a lot of different ways...

I can understand why people say that bitterness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. A few months ago, I made a...

Recently, I was talking to a friend about grief and pain and reflecting on my experience of surviving an emotionally dark place. She told...

Recently, I have had a few conversations with people on the other side of mental health. These are the people who interact with those who...

Over the summer of 2019 and for the first time in a long time, I felt an overwhelming sense of God’s presence in a place I felt it was...

The best things in my life have been caused by God. The worst things in my life have been allowed by God. This truth was hard to come to...

Welcome to a new chapter in my life! How did we get here? One day in August 2019, I woke up and realized that seven years of my life had...

Lately, I have been waking up at 2 and 3 AM. I wake up thinking about life and questioning my decision to be so public about my mental...

I remember when I was about seven years old and I was on the school bus, headed home. One of my classmates kept staring at me. Finally,...

Sometimes I ask myself, "Could I be a friend to someone like Job? Or would the negativity of his circumstances cloud my judgement of his...

Recently in therapy, I discovered how many unhealthy boundaries I have had in my life. So much so, I decided to write an article about...