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...
by Sara | Aug 16, 2021 | Navigating Healing & Recovery
“There’s no way around it: Relationships are where we suffer our greatest wounds. and relationships will be the salve that heals them.” I saw the quote while scrolling through my Instagram feed. K. J. Ramsey’s caption following her quote made my heart ache and my...
by Sara | Aug 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Have you gotten to attend a Diamonds conference? Diamonds is an online event for Christians with chronic illnesses and other health challenges. There is so much work and preparation that goes into each event, and it’s anything but a one-woman show. As the conference...
by Sara | Aug 2, 2021 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Guest Writers
I love driving down Main Street. At night. When the streets are empty and the air is quiet and only a few people move on the sidewalk under the glowing lamps. Put me on Main Street in the middle of the day, however, and you’ll find me gripping the steering wheel with...
by Sara | Jul 19, 2021 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Guest Writers
Life spirals out of control especially when your health turns against you and worsens. In the midst of this, questions may arise: Why does God continue to allow me to suffer? Why is He not coming near me when I drew nigh to Him? And the painful feeling … God has...
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 28, 2021 | Uncategorized, Writing With A Chronic Illness
The #1 obstacle I faced when I wrote my book and started my blog was lack of confidence in my health and in what I had to say. Insecurity and feeling incompetent — not a fun duo. Do I even have enough to say to fill a whole book?Can I follow through and actually...
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 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Well that was awesome. Saturday, we hosted our first ever Diamonds Summer Event, all about marriage in health challenges. We talked about singleness, dating, communication, sex . . . and everything in between. I’m still trying to absorb it all. ...
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...
