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Receiving Grace for Growth After Seasons of Stress and Trauma

Receiving Grace for Growth After Seasons of Stress and Trauma

Oct 25, 2022 | Trauma-Informed Growth | 1 comment

After you’ve endured a season of challenges in your relationships or circumstances, it’s common to feel weighed down, emptied out, or frazzled without the ability to think straight anymore. For some of us, these seasons seem to stack up relentlessly. You...
4 Ways to Cultivate Empathic Connection in Relationships

4 Ways to Cultivate Empathic Connection in Relationships

May 8, 2020 | Trauma-Informed Growth | 0 comments

Ever find yourself struggling to know what to do or say when someone you know is struggling? When their crying, or upset, or unusually quiet? Have you ever felt dismissed or unheard in conversations with others? Perhaps you’ve done the same to someone else?...
4 Ways to Cultivate Empathic Connection in Relationships

We Don’t Have to Understand to Walk Alongside

Apr 10, 2019 | Trauma-Informed Growth | 2 comments

It started in the garden. This need to know. How things will work out. Why this happened. What to do next. And how others should live. It stunts our ability to grow. I’m not talking about knowing God intimately at a heart level, but trying to know about God...
Who Will Go First? When Suffering Stays Hidden

Who Will Go First? When Suffering Stays Hidden

Jun 9, 2018 | Trauma-Informed Growth | 4 comments

Goodness, watching the news or scrolling through social media can make you sad and glad. Can’t it? Just this week, I watched two powerful videos that had me grinning from ear to ear. I smiled with tears, moved by beautiful stories. But in the span of two days, tears...
Caring for the Whole You {Choose Wholeness}

Caring for the Whole You {Choose Wholeness}

Oct 31, 2016 | Trauma-Informed Growth | 1 comment

For as much passion as I pour into the belief there is always more peace, joy, and freedom to know in Christ, I also wholeheartedly believe in the value of finding healing for the whole person. This can look differently for different people and in different seasons....
How to Keep Going When the Way is Hard {Choose Perseverance}

How to Keep Going When the Way is Hard {Choose Perseverance}

Oct 28, 2016 | Trauma-Informed Growth | 2 comments

perseverance : steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success (Oxford Dictionary) perseverance : steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a belief, or a purpose; steadfastness. (The Free Dictionary.com) The times I’ve...
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When Trying Harder Isn't Helping & You're Tired of Hurting

No matter how hard you try to do the "right" and "good" things, especially as a Christian, sometimes the hard things never end.

It's frustrating and depleting.

You may wonder how to make it through. And why isn't God doing the things you thought he'd do?

Perhaps you're in a season of transition.

You realize you're not the person you thought you'd be. You're not experiencing the "abundant" life you thought you should have by now.

You may look back at your life and wonder, "How did it get this way?" "What happened?" "Why haven't I been able to do (or not do) the things I want to do? Or act the way I want to act with other people?"

You may be feeling exhausted, confused, hurt, and disappointed.

But dealing with all those messy thoughts & feelings seems like too much.

What can you do? Could it ever be different?

It can.

After years of over-serving, people-pleasing, and trying to be a "good" Christian, I bottomed out. In deep pain & utter exhaustion I cried out to God asking for healing, not just for the recent trauma & extreme stress I'd endured, but for the years of fears that held me back from being who I sensed I was designed to be.

It was a scary prayer, so I asked God for courage to face the steps of growth that would be difficult.

Since then, I've experienced a tremendous amount of healing & pursued a lifelong journey of growth.

Today, I feel more fully alive as the person God designed me to be. The journey that began with a prayer in 2013 continues today

If you're ready to dig into a journey of growth & healing too, I'd love to support you through the content I share &/or the groups I lead.

When you subscribe to email updates, you'll receive a couple of messages from me. I'd love it if you replied to say, "HI" and let me know you're ready to experience...

Growth for LIFE.

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