When Your Thoughts Are Loud and God Feels Distant
When Your Thoughts Are Loud and God Feels Distant Sometimes the loudest thing in the room is your mind. You try to pray, but your thoughts won’t stay still.Then, you…
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Adoption is Our Joy and Their Deepest Loss
Adoption is Our Joy and Their Deepest Loss Adoption is beautiful. It’s redemptive, brave, and life-changing. Honestly, it’s one of our greatest joys which is expanding our family, raising children…
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Make Yourself a High Priority – Yes, You’re Allowed To
Make Yourself a High Priority – Yes, You’re Allowed To When did taking care of yourself become optional? Somewhere along the way, we learned to glorify selflessness at the expense…
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Depression and Self-Worth | Faith in Hard Places | Mental Health and Healing | Suicide Awareness and Prevention
Fighting the Darkness Together
Content Note: This post discusses emotional darkness, depression, mental health struggles, and may include crisis-related themes. Please read with care. If you are in crisis, thinking about suicide, at risk…
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Mental Illness and Ending the Stigma
Mental Illness and Ending the Stigma. I am also not embarrassed to talk about my mental health journey. I have struggled with it since…well, for as long as I can…
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To Conform or Not to Conform
Content Note:This post briefly mentions abuse, anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. Please read with care. If you are in crisis, call 911, call or text 988, or go to your…
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Speak Up and Fill the Silence
Speak Up and Fill the Silence is a phrase that I just heard on a television show and it has resonated with me. As I sit here, knowing how silent…
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Meet my Guest Blogger and Sister Tera
A note from Brandi:This guest post is shared with permission and reflects the personal experience, faith, and perspective of the writer. It discusses adoption, parenting, marriage, waiting, spiritual growth, and…
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Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness
A note from Brandi: This guest post is shared with permission and reflects the personal experience and perspective of the writer. It is offered for awareness, encouragement, education, and connection….
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Backpacks By Lesle’ Honore’
This poem stopped me. As a mom, and especially as a mom raising a Black son, these words hit a place in me that is hard to explain. We have…
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Praying for our Children
Some nights, I have prayed long, specific prayers over my children. Other nights, I have stood at the kitchen sink with the dishwater cooling around my hands and said, “Lord,…