by Sara | Nov 22, 2021 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Guest Writers, Navigating Healing & Recovery
Clarissa is one of our Diamonds 2022 speakers, I’m so excited to be sharing this guest post from her today. If you have registered for Diamonds 2022 for free yet, make sure you do so here! “God has a purpose for not healing me,” Dad had said. “Maybe to keep me...
by Sara | Nov 8, 2021 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges
By: Anonymous“So, you mentioned that some of the people in your life brought up my health as a concern.” I wasn’t sure I wanted to know what they had to say about it. “Yeah. I am just realizing how little I know about how your illness affects your life. I want to...
by Sara | Oct 25, 2021 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Mental Struggles, Navigating Healing & Recovery, Uncategorized
It’s ANNOUNCEMENT DAY! This will be our fifth Diamonds event, and y’all? It never gets old. This has been in the works for a while, and the staff and I are SO EXCITED to share these details with you! Who, what where . . . we have some awesome speakers and...
by Sara | Oct 25, 2021 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Navigating Healing & Recovery
I’m getting my license next week. (To drive, not to kill as a friend teased.) And for a long time, yellow lights stumped me. What exactly do they mean? As a kid, I thought green meant go, red meant stop, and yellow meant go slow. “Go” and “stop” are both pretty clear....
by Sara | Oct 11, 2021 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Guest Writers
I was lying in bed, tears soaking my pillow as I cried myself to sleep, in physical pain over the death of a dream. If you have known the pain of watching a dream crumble before your eyes, then you understand this. We’ve all desired something deeply, only to have our...
by Sara | Aug 30, 2021 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Guest Writers
My DiagnosisI started to have pain in my lower left abdomen in June 2021. I had experienced a mild version of this pain since my teens; however, it was painful and recurred often enough for me to see my digestive doctor. After I underwent a scope and blood tests, my...