People say you need boundaries, but what do you want to protect? When you know your ‘YES,’ you will be able to express your ‘NO.’ This website is founded on the word ‘Yes,’ but in order for the Yes to be realized ‘No’ has been said multiple times. I have recently […]
A Wellness Path
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We face struggles, so we try to control the uncontrollable — but this only brings more stress. It’s better to stay in the zone of what we can actually control: ourselves. Quick answer: When we try to control people, outcomes, or circumstances outside our power, our stress and anxiety rise. […]
It surrounds us all the time. Ambient stress. We probably aren’t even aware of it, but we can do something about it when we recognise it. Quick answer: Ambient stress is the constant background pressure of bills, work, relationships, health worries and unhealed hurts that we stop noticing because it […]
Every one of us needs someone to help us with our stress load, but the best person is someone who has been there, done that, got the scars to prove it —Jesus of the scars. Take the stress away. Essentially, that’s what many of you and I pray for. We […]
Grief is hard, but grieving alone can be a torment of anguish. So we sit with the broken, we stay silent, and we sit Shiva with the tears. Quick answer: Sitting Shiva is the Jewish practice of a seven-day mourning period after a burial, when friends and family visit […]
Quick answer: In Job 2:10, Job asks, “Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?” Faith that lasts doesn’t demand only blessing. It grows by knowing God more deeply in both the good seasons and the hard ones, trusting that we are fully […]
People can say some harsh things to us, but when someone close says “Curse God and die,” you have to go to a deeper place of faith than they possibly have. I was watching him wilt. He was once like a flourishing plant, enjoying water and sun, growing and giving […]
It can be so easy to lose hope. But when we ask, ‘How is it with your soul?’ an opportunity opens to journey to know wellness. ‘How are you?’ they asked. My response was polite, and I said that I was okay. They repeated the question. They wanted to know […]
You have a story. You are a story. To receive a story is to listen to the white space between the words. I hear stories every day. You do too. But there are some stories I hear where I sense I am on sacred ground. It’s when you feel that […]
We need a weight loss program for the heart, but we can’t do it alone, so a vicar steps in and declares, ‘You are forgiven. Be at peace.’ I could feel a kind of weight leave my body. I had carried this tension and held this stress for so long […]