by Sara | Mar 2, 2020 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery
Author’s Note: I’m scared to publish this. Yep. It’s messy and emotional and a little too vulnerable. I thought giving it three weeks would help, but nope, three weeks after writing this I’m still scared to share this with anyone. But...
by Sara | Feb 24, 2020 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Mental Struggles, Navigating Healing & Recovery
“I just finished the Pentatuach!” “Congratulations!” My brother isn’t usually that sincere, but he was that day. Reading Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy so close together can be tricky for our low attention spans. I mean seriously, why do we need to...
by Sara | Feb 17, 2020 | Girls Only, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Lyme Disease, Mental Struggles, Uncategorized
Happy Valentine’s Day! I know that Valentine’s Day can be hard when you have a chronic illness for a lot of reasons. Holidays in general are difficult when you’re sick, since it can be hard to participate in the celebrations going on. Lately,...
by Sara | Feb 10, 2020 | Gut and Food
Are you on a diet? Many people with chronic illnesses are put on diets. There are so many kinds — Keto, AIP, Vegan, Paleo . . . the list goes on. I’ve been on a modified AIP diet for years now, and before that, Paleo. That first year was hard. Even the smell of food I...
by Sara | Feb 3, 2020 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Navigating Healing & Recovery
The last few weeks, I’ve felt God nudging me to not be so reliant on my safety nets forever. I’m healing. Sometimes it hard to believe and I know it may be hard to hear, for which I’m truly sorry, but I’m healing. My body is truly healing. This isn’t just another vain...
by Sara | Jan 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Diamonds 2020 is over. I feel like I have to keep saying that so that it sinks in. I woke up the day after the conference much earlier than I wanted to (I planned on sleeping in) super stressed about the conference . . . even though it was over. It’s been an...
by Sara | Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today starts the official Diamonds 2020 blog tour!! (Also, the MERCH SHOP OPENING, but more on that later.) Whoop whoop! I have a special message for you. Even on the first day of opening registration for Diamonds 2020, we got a lot of messages and comments and DMs...
by Sara | Jan 15, 2020 | Book News & Recs, Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Guest Writers, Living With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
There is nothing quite like the panic leading up to release day and the relief of successfully making it to release day in one piece. But we did it! I jumped through Amazon’s hoops for the third time, and the Diamonds 2020: Fighting Together study guide is now...
by Sara | Jan 13, 2020 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges
So often as spoonies we can feel useless. Maybe we don’t always use that word, but it sure seems like we can’t serve God or other people very well while chronically ill. Other people can volunteer at summer camps and lead Bible studies and go to 4th of July parades,...
by Sara | Jan 10, 2020 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Guest Writers, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
Diamonds 2020 is officially under two weeks away! Final preparations are in full swing. There are social media lives and takeovers going on, a study guide release days away from occuring, trial runs in the works, way too many giveaways (if that is such a thing), and...
