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 | Sep 27, 2021 | Guest Writers, Mental Struggles, Navigating Healing & Recovery
Today, I’m so excited to share a new guest post. PTSD is something that many chronic illness warriors face, and I know we can learn a lot from what Rhonda has to share with us. Post-traumatic stress disorder (or PTSD) is a devastating mental health disorder....
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 | 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...
