What Anxiety is Trying to Tell You and Why You Must Listen 

Sitting on my counselor’s couch working through what I thought was a setback last summer, it felt comfortably familiar, curiously reminiscent of a Central Perk couch scene in Friends.  Through tears, I…

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When Purpose is Painful, Practice 2 Pivotal Rhythms

“How many times will I fail you, Lord?” Time and again, I've tried to muster the nerve to share my faith but felt incapable and incapacitated to form the words.…

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A Prayer for the Shadows and Light, the Darkness and Dawning Light

As my prayer life becomes more desperate, uncertainty slithering out of last year and into the next, it looks like it may be another year of challenge and faith-testing for…

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A Proven Practice to Manage Holiday Stress and Anxiety

As I lay there, barely able to tolerate the steamy heat swirling about me, focusing became increasingly difficult. Claustrophobic, I tried to remain calm in my body. Then it happened.…

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