If there is but one thing that I need the most when I am anxious, it is this. Presence. In depression, we need this. Having someone safe alongside me in my fear. It is the parent holding a child’s hand as they go off to surgery. The advocate who […]
Anxiety & Stress
45 posts
Find hope and practical tools for managing the “monkey circus” of the mind.
This category offers faith-based anxiety relief and Christian stress management techniques, exploring how to cultivate the peace of mind promised in Scripture while navigating the physical and emotional challenges of life’s storms.
When the Stress is Too Much
The stress load was too much to handle, but they knew what to do, so...
What’s Your Ambient Stress Level?
It surrounds us all the time. Ambient stress. We probably aren’t even aware of it...
Stress, Jenga and Washing the Dishes
We think our lives have a strength to them, but remove a few Jenga pegs...
Recent Posts
Stop the wild swing between past regrets and future fears. Learn how to ground your thoughts in the “Now” by binding truth to your heart. Sometimes my thoughts seem to go to another time. They don’t stay grounded in the here and now. They either swing out into the future […]
Who is on the throne of your life? What is keeping you anxious? Perhaps something needs to change. Back in the eighties, Bob Dylan came out with the song ‘Gotta Serve Somebody.’ In the song, Bob goes through many life scenarios of who or what you might serve. You may […]
When guilt isolates, “I am with you” is the only bridge back to hope. The power of solidarity helps us in the face of judgment and shame. How are they going to respond? How will they react? They had done some things they knew would go against what everyone thought […]
Are you waiting for the other shoe to drop? It’s called anticipatory anxiety, but you can find release and the anxiety can go. You know it’s going to happen; it’s just a matter of when. And in that waiting, in that zone of tension, you sit. How do you hold […]
A judgment has been made, and you’ve been put in a box. Possibly you have built this box yourself? That box needs exploding from the inside out. It felt like they had been judged. A rulebook had been passed over them. Measurements had been taken. From the very few questions […]
Feeling overwhelmed can feel like you’re caught in a flood, but you are not alone. Reach out. I shut down. What was coming at me was too much. The brain was emotionally overloaded. I think I am a very sensitive person. Nothing wrong with that. My sensitivity helps me […]
The most vulnerable point of change is at the beginning, but if we can catch the little foxes that spoil the vine, those things that would want to kill new growth, then we can find the change. It’s spring here in New Zealand, and for grape growers, it’s the riskiest […]
Life can drain you. You can only do so much. The spoon theory is a wonderful metaphor to help us understand our limits. I wondered why I was so tired. I hadn’t done much I thought during the day, but upon reflection I realised I had given a lot of […]
There is a fear in all of us. It’s been there seemingly forever. The Psalmist sings ‘Search me, Know my Anxious Thoughts.’ Can God be that good? I was watching a TV program about border control in the U.S.A. The officers had a tip that someone coming through immigration was […]