Week 3 of the series Glory Days in the Mind: When Escaping Inside Keeps You From Living. A gentle note: this post touches on sexual abuse. Please read at your own pace, and see the support details below. Quick answer: If your daydreams are always about being someone better (braver, […]
A Wellness Path
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Quick answer: As children, we make sense of pain by reaching conclusions about ourselves, such as “I’m behind,” “I don’t belong,” or “I’m not enough.” Those conclusions often stay with us into adulthood, and a present-day rejection can trigger the same old feelings. Hagar’s story in Genesis 16 shows that […]
Quick answer: Maladaptive daydreaming is a compulsive retreat into vivid inner worlds for hours at a time, often to escape loneliness or pain, until real life starts to suffer. Underneath it usually sits a belief: the real me isn’t enough to be loved. Fighting the daydream rarely works. Naming that […]
Quick answer: Many people carry their darkest struggles alone for years, surrounded by people who know about them but have never come close enough to truly know them. Healing begins when someone is willing to meet you at your “coal face”: to listen without fixing, to see past the […]
For anyone carrying tears that won’t come. Quick answer: Not being able to cry while grieving is common. Shock, exhaustion, the pressure to keep functioning, and the fear of never stopping once you start can all build an inner “dam wall.” You haven’t failed. Isaiah 25 pictures God wiping the […]
On the farm I grew up on, a road ran along the boundary. Part of the roadside had slipped away, but the fence still stood, and everyone could see where the road ended and our property began. One day my father came home and told us someone had dumped rubbish […]
I could see it beginning to happen — the early warning signs that he was heading back into his old patterns. His addiction pathway was so deeply worn into his brain that it turned his head like a magnet snapping into place. (It’s one reason why habits are so hard […]
Words spoken can become sentences we carry. Verdicts we live inside. Discover how faith rewrites generational trauma. Jump to: What Is a “Sentence”? Generational Trauma Isn’t Just Personal — It’s Cultural Where Faith Meets Generational Trauma How to Break the Cycle: Trace It, Face It, Replace It You Are Not […]
There are some words that, when you say them, carry a power or energy behind them. They trigger a response. I often hear the sentence “I’m not religious, but …” and immediately I know what the person is saying. Well, I think I do. They have the word “religion” loaded […]
There are things about me that I don’t want others to see. In fact, I probably don’t want to see them myself. There is a resistance to go “there,” but I have a good shepherd who keeps calling me back to an ancient path intersection. A place where there is […]