A Wellness Path

Does God use a Mental Illness to Slow You Down?

Does God use a Mental Illness to Slow Us Down?

Do you think mental illness is God’s way of forcing us to slow down and change our behavior or is it the Devil messing with our minds? I recently received this question from one of the readers It’s an interesting question and one that I think has many questions under the question. […]

Smell the Roses and Grow a Healthy Brain ~ Turning the Page Empowering your Mental Health

Getting Well Staying Well Mental health

Smelling the Roses Grows a Healthy Brain

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Just outside my window, I can see a beautiful yellow rose. It wasn’t there last week, well actually it was, but it was just tightly bound up under its green calyx. A lot can happen in a week, in a day, in a moment. I can see the beauty but to deeply […]

7 Steps to Regroove Your Thinking Patterns

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7 Steps to Change and Regroove Your Thinking Patterns

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Around the hillside of the sheep farm where I was raised were grooves worn into the soil by hundreds of sheep following each other. It was the easiest route. I also have routes in my thinking patterns that have become ruts. Familiar paths that have been worn deep into my thinking. A thought gets […]

Mental health Spiritual Formation

Becoming the You God Sees: Guest Post by Kristen Kansiewicz

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She walked into my office in a long, flowing skirt. She always had loved long, flowing skirts. But she blamed them and herself for both of her rapes. “Maybe if I hadn’t worn a skirt,” she thought. And she hated herself. The man read from his journal. Almost 20 pages […]

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Faith & Mental Health

14 Proven Bible Verses to Help Your Mental Health

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If you were to open my mother’s Bible, the first thing you would notice would be the handwritten verses and quotes that helped her mental health. Bible verses that can truly bring help. Dig a little further and you would come across underlined verses, cut out sections from the church […]

Mental health

Have You Voted For You Yet?

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It was election day here in New Zealand last Saturday and as I stood in line to cast my vote I started a conversation with an elderly English gentleman. He had come to New Zealand in 1968 on a world trip. Running out of money, he decided to stay. ‘Well, why […]

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The Day I Picked Up An Escaped Convict

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When I was on a 6-hour road trip back to university I picked up a hitchhiker. It was cold and wintery as I turned a corner on the Desert road and I saw a young man with his thumb stuck out. Thin, short hair and poorly clothed for the winter, […]

Mental health

18 Insights to Heal the Shame of an Attempted Suicide

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The shame of an attempt at suicide can cling onto you like the odor of some dirty old socks. You would do anything to get rid of that stench. Is that a good description of shame? That feeling of embarrassment at what you have done. You want to hide, run, cover it […]

Spiritual Formation

When God has left the building

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When God has left the building, turning up the volume won’t help. At the school where I grow vegetables, it can be very noisy. I have a group of children that love to help and to get my attention they will often speak louder, and wave hands like windmills. It can […]

Spiritual Formation

To Heal You Just Need to ‘Forget What Lies Behind’: Toxic Faith pt. 4

Life has a tragic way of repeating itself. It seems at times that we just go round an endless loop of repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Then someone says ‘forget what lies behind.’ One of my favorite classic movies is Groundhog day with a very young Bill […]