Every January "New Year, New Me", weight loss ads, and work out regimes are everywhere. For people in Eating Disorder Recovery, or people with body image issues, this is a really hard thing to see and deal with. Should I make goals at the beginning of the year?...
*Disclaimer- If you feel any emotion too strongly, seek medical attention. I am not a therapist or licensed counselor. These are just my experiences and my thoughts. This week I read 4 books. To some, this might sound like an accomplishment. But as I closed the 4th...
" I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you." - Psalms 32:8 I have an inner monologue that runs through my head at almost all times. I thought that it was normal to have this voice just chatting to me...
"Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits- who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,"-...
When things are going bad in our lives, we tend to keep focusing on the negative. When the negative is loud, we don't see the blessings. Our thoughts can keep us in that negative place longer than we are supposed to. When we start to praise, when we start to give...
"Do not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you."- Deuteronomy 3:22 A product of fear is to hide. We hide behind our behaviors, our situations, our shells- just so that we don't have to face what we are really scared of. For those of us with...
Mark 12:31 "The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." "If only I ________ like her..." Comparison is something that we, as women, do without even realizing it. Some of us compare appearance, lifestyle, money,...
Shame is the deep humiliation and embarrassment that we place on ourselves. We can be ashamed of different things in our lives: our pasts, our bodies, our mistakes, a current situation... But the enemy will use what you are ashamed of to try and control you. To try...
James 4:7-8- "Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil , and he will flee from you. Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded." Order is helpful. For example, when baking...
Spiritual Warfare. That's what a lot of us experience daily and we don't even know it. The constant anxiety, depression, eating disorder thoughts, addictions, fears, and bad behaviors: all of this is spiritual warfare. Anxiety has become so common in our vernacular...
