by Sara | Sep 2, 2019 | Book News & Recs, Navigating Healing & Recovery
For so long, I’ve desperately searched for a book about escapin survival mode. But I’m gonna be honest, what first attracted me to this book was the cover. It reminded me of Fiercehearted by Holley Gerth or Freedom! by Jennifer Renee Watson. Splashes of color...
by Sara | Aug 26, 2019 | Book News & Recs, Uncategorized
I have some news. I’m starting an email list. You see, my writing career has been changing over the past few years, and it is continuing to do so, which has led to some problems. I’m no longer just writing three articles a month for a girl’s online magazine that...
by Sara | Aug 19, 2019 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery
Don’t freak out. I’m saying saying goodbye to you. I’m not quitting this blog or writing or the internet or anything. At least, I don’t plan on it any time soon. In fact, I have some exciting stuff up my sleeve that will hopefully help me connect with you all better,...
by Sara | Aug 12, 2019 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery
Just one more thing. I could handle one more thing. Right? Bracing myself, I reached for my last reserves. It was just making a dessert. And on a normal day at that time in my health journey, I would’ve been just fine. But you see, I’d already done a huge list...
by Sara | Aug 5, 2019 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Joints, Living With Health Challenges, Lyme Disease, Mental Struggles, Toxic Mold Poisoning
I spent hours sitting in front of the toilet, waiting for the nausea to die down. When I finally worked up the willpower, I climbed into bed with my trashcan. I fell asleep holding my trashcan, late into the night, long after the world was asleep. It wasn’t...
by Sara | Jul 30, 2019 | Navigating Healing & Recovery
I would hide in the closet and sob. I would scream into a pillow or blanket, shaking. I would pound my fists into the floor, unable to take the irrational lies pounding through my head. It would last for an hour at a time, and I couldn’t escape it. These were my worst...
by Sara | Jul 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! IT’s BOOK BIRTHDAY TIME! Do you remember this day a year ago?! It was a surprisingly mundane day for me. I took a therapy horse ride ridiculously early in the morning, I went to the doctor . . . oh yeah, and I published and launched a...
by Sara | Jul 17, 2019 | Book News & Recs, Uncategorized
My little baby is growing up so fast! In less than ONE week, my first book-baby will be turning one year old. I haven’t even thought about a smash cake yet! Though I’m not sure I’d want a book to smash a cake. That’d be funny though. Okay sorry, off topic. Anyway....
by Sara | Jul 15, 2019 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges
My brother laughs at the number of novel-length texts I get every day. But I don’t mind it. I send me own share of novel-length texts. And if I can help someone by being a mentor, bring it on. As chronically ill people, we aren’t often able to serve the body of...
by Sara | Jul 8, 2019 | Living With Health Challenges
I haven’t achieved my dreams yet. Have you? All of them? Are you fresh out of dreams? Yeah, I didn’t think so. (If you are, it’s time to take another look at Scripture and realize God has a special plan for your whole life . . . and after, too. So dream.) What...
