What Postpartum Depression Looks Like {Signs and Symptoms}
While preparing for the external version of our breach son, a delivery nurse went through all the check-in procedures. While going through my medical history, I answered yes to a history of depression....
View ArticleWhy Should We Hope? {On Marriage, Sin, and Redemption}
Hello friends, can I speak to you as friends? Because today I am not sure if I know how to write an article or how to form an essay. I can only speak – and feel I am being invited to speak to you...
View ArticleThe Myth of Enough: Five Minutes on Being a Woman Today
It’s Friday again and I want to be more disciplined in my writing so I am going to once again join the Five Minute Friday writing community. You are welcome to join us! Every week we write for 5...
View ArticleNew Season, Same Song
It’s Friday and time for Five Minute Friday. Every week, writers around the world follow the same one word prompt and write for five minutes. No major edits. No second guesses. This week’s prompt from...
View ArticleHow to Defeat Shame {An encouraging word from Psalm 3}
Shame is a liar. It looks at who we are, the deep parts of us, and identifies us as flawed. Broken. Unworthy. Unlovable. In my worst days, I have believed the lies of shame. I have believed I have...
View ArticleDear Tired Mom
This week’s Five Minute Friday prompt suits exactly what I wanted to write about anyways, “Mom.” Here is my 5 minutes of writing with little to no edits (so hard, by the way). First, I want to say I...
View ArticleI feel like a fake! I’m a terrible mom! :: Impostor Syndrome and Parenting
Neil Armstrong felt like a fake. Imagine. While in a room full of artists and scientists, musicians and discoverers, he said to Neil Gaiman: “I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck...
View ArticleThe Truth of Who I Am :: Shame vs Love {FMF}
It’s Friday and time for Five Minute Friday again. Kate Motaung has prompted us with the word “Truth.” I could go so many ways with this, but right now there is only one I want to talk about. The...
View ArticleWhat Inspiration and I Cannot Do
It’s Friday and this week’s Five Minute Friday one-word-prompt is Inspire. Feel free to link up over at www.fiveminutefriday.com! We would love to have you join our writing community. Or read others’...
View ArticleWhy You and I are Never Alone
I’m part of an incredible ministry called Women’s Walk with Christ and one of our core beliefs is that every woman can hear from the Holy Spirit about her needs and her situation. This is a rare...
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