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 | Sep 13, 2021 | Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Mental Struggles, Navigating Healing & Recovery
“I’ve been meaning to talk to you.” I smiled at the unexpected text from an old friend. “You seem to have a lot of experience with the whole healing thing, and that’s something I’m working on right now[.]” Now I laughed. I guess I do have a lot of experience, but then...
by Sara | Jul 5, 2021 | Living With Health Challenges, Mental Struggles, Navigating Healing & Recovery
Read part one here. I was recently processing our tendency to use every drop of energy we have with my counselor. As an Enneagram type two, self care is not my area of strength. As I have been trying to grow in that area, I have done research about self care and type...
by Sara | Jun 21, 2021 | Living With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery
For the first time since I could remember, I wasn’t utterly drained. It was a weird feeling. So weird it is probably hard to understand unless you have spent years ending each day with every drop of energy and willpower drained out of you. And even then — it’s weird,...
by Sara | Jun 4, 2021 | Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
What is a teenager doing hosting a marriage conference? A teenager, mind you, who has never been in any kind of romantic relationship and won’t be in one anytime in the near future? via GIPHY It’s hilarious. God’s hilarious. But marriage is something that is...