1. Ask God to Speak in a Way You Can Understand One of the most intimate ways to reconnect with God is to ask Him to speak in a way that resonates deeply with you. Sometimes we expect to hear from God in grand, dramatic ways, but He often speaks through simple, personal moments. How […]

1. Learning How To Be Secure For Myself and Build Self-trust After spending time with mentors and having other secure women pour into me, I was able to trust that what I was thinking and feeling was true to me, even if it wasn’t always Truth. I learned that a lot of my pain stemmed […]

How do you know when it’s time to ask for help? Maybe you have been realizing you are in a rut and struggling a lot lately. Maybe you want to change but are unsure how or where to start. It’s normal to struggle and feel down sometimes, but maybe it’s not just been sometimes for […]

What Is Self-Judgment? Self-judgment is “the act of judging or criticizing oneself, often as an automatic reaction to one’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. It can be an uncompassionate response, such as being harsh on oneself in times of failure or pain, rather than being kind and understanding. Self-judgment can lead to feelings of rejection of one’s own worth, […]

Most of us were not taught how to be emotionally healthy If you were born anytime before 2015, you most likely did not have parents who understood how to help you identify your emotions and regulate back to calm and secure, ie be emotionally healthy. Our parents were most likely not taught and the parents […]

If you’ve been following the blog, we talked about what to do with big life changes a while back. Today I wanted to piggyback on that post. What do you do when life changes drastically and you are still struggling? It’s Normal To Struggle If I could say anything to ease your heart first, I’d […]

Learning to trust your body is important if you want to gain trust in yourself. If you want to be confident in who you are. If you want to understand yourself better. If you want to feel safe in the body that is yours on this side of heaven, you need to learn how to […]

We got married in a driveway. No, that wasn’t the original plan. Was there disappointment? Oh yes. For both my husband and I. See, we had been planning this wedding for months. I had been “planning” this for years. I started a “wedding playlist” on my Spotify 6 years ago. The playlist got overlooked accidentally […]

Surrender; to cease resistance, to lay down one’s agenda, to yield, to raise a white flag. Lately, the topic of surrender has been on my mind. If I think about it, I’ve been in a season of surrender. Honestly, I think a lot of our relationship with The Lord looks like surrender. Surrendering our plans […]

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First, it’s dreamy They say planning a wedding is stressful. And yet this is a day you have been dreaming of and subtly planning in your mind since you were a little girl. All those times your Mom’s best friends cousin invited you to their wedding, those extended family brides, and maybe even some close […]

Whew, this past season has been full of big changes and lots of moving pieces. Do you ever have those weeks that you look back and realize it went way faster than you wanted it to? I feel like I’ve been playing a bit of catch-up in the last few weeks. So many good changes […]

Do you know how to ask for help? I’ve struggled to ask for help, especially as an adult. I’m so used to doing it alone and figuring out hard things by myself that it’s actually been hard to accept help when it’s offered. I remember being 18, sitting in my college professor’s office right before […]

The Art Of Acceptance Change is hard and acceptance isn’t usually the first place we go when a season shifts. Life can feel extremely bumpy and uncomfortable at times. It doesn’t always go the way we plan. In fact, more times than not, life doesn’t look anything like we thought it would. It’s normal to […]

Getting To Know Yourself Do you really know yourself? And when I say “know yourself”, I don’t mean do you know your Enneagram number, your Meyer’s Briggs, or your favorite ice cream flavor. I mean, do you really know who you are at your core? The person beneath all the titles, behind all the amazing […]

How do you avoid pain? If you want to avoid experiencing pain, the best thing to do is stop feeling. Stop enjoying people. Lock yourself in your room and never show any kind of interest in anything. Does that sound enjoyable to you? The truth is that most of us live life trying to avoid […]

It’s okay to take a break and rest It’s okay to take a break and rest when you are feeling overwhelmed. Sometimes we need to take time away from the things that are causing us stress. In today’s world, social media is in constant “hustle mode.” It’s easy to get caught up in the rat […]

Our biggest desire in life is connection and belonging What do people most desire from you? The true and authentic, uncovered and whole you. People don’t want fake. They don’t want perfect. They want and need who you are at the deepest layer. But how can we give the world our true selves if we, […]

Feeling Discouraged Feeling discouraged can really bring a person down. You might feel sad and alone in something you’re starting. Maybe you’re doing something you’ve never done before and it feels daunting. I think it’s normal to feel like you have no idea what you’re doing when you first start something new. But when we […]

Bringing in self-compassion is the best way to get connected to the truest version of who you are. When we can see ourselves wholly and pour love into ourselves, we can thrive in life. When we know how to sit with the sad, scared, and alone parts of us, we will have greater capacity to […]

What do you do when you’re sad? Is it easy for you to feel the sad parts of your heart? Often times we are walking around numb to our feelings because at some point in our life we decided that feeling emotions hurt too much. It feels really uncomfortable to be sad. Our bodies feel […]

Are you wanting to start your healing journey and not sure where to start? Have you started noticing you have triggers and pain coming up but don’t know what to do with it? Are you wanting help but not sure where to get it? Friend, you are not alone. I’ve been there and I’ve walked […]

Do you have unhealed pain in your life? Most of us walk about with unhealed pain. We are taught to stuff our emotions, keep your head up, distract ourselves and pretend everything is okay. But what if we’re not okay? What if we’ve been stuffing our pain for years and we’re still in massive pain? […]

Take your thoughts captive: If you’ve been in the Christian world awhile, you’ve probably heard the term “take your thoughts captive”. This phrase comes from the verse in 2 Corinthians 10:5, that says “We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (NIV). You see, if we are not partnering with God in […]

Be Kind To Yourself Be kind to yourself friend. Be kind when you don’t understand why you are hurting. When you don’t know why you are frustrated and angry. When you don’t know why you are trying to control and fix everything. Be kind. There’s a part of you that needs your love. That needs […]

How do you connect with your heart? How do you you connect with your heart when you don’t know what your heart wants? Is there a way to differentiate your heart from your mind? Why does it matter what your heart wants? How do you know what your heart needs? These are all great questions […]

Here are some resources I’ve loved and have helped me over the past 6 years on my health journey. 1. The Book and Workbook How We Love, by Milan and Kay Yerkovich How We Love is a book based on the attachment theory and includes the ways we as humans learn to love based out […]

What does holding space for yourself to feel look like? All the swirling emotions, the crazy thoughts that go on in your head, do you allow yourself a safe space to express those? This is such an important piece in our process as humans. It’s so easy to get into the flow of life and […]

Beautiful things I’ve been noticing lately Lately I’ve been noticing more beauty. I’ve been putting my focus more on what’s going well, rather than what’s going wrong. I’m learning, there is almost always something going wrong while something else is going right. I’m trying to allow both to exist. Both the stress as well as […]

How Do You Handle Stress When It Comes Up? Sometimes when we get stressed, all our pain comes out. We feel overwhelmed easily, we get more easily irritated with others, and our capacity can feel really small. How do you handle stress when life gets to be too much? The best thing to do when […]

My younger self doesn’t trust me… Okay, so you’ve reconnected with your younger self and realized she doesn’t trust you. She doesn’t feel safe coming in close. She doesn’t trust that you are going to care for her. Maybe she has judgments about you and doesn’t want to change how she views you. The first […]

Do you know how to reconnect to love after a stressful event? Do you get down on yourself when you make a mistake or start to spiral? Stressful situations have a way of revealing the stories we tell ourselves. Often times these stories are full of self-judgments, shaming, and negative self-talk. But are those narratives […]

How Do You Learn To Trust Yourself? Starting to learn how to trust ourselves is crucial for building self-confidence. But what does it mean to trust yourself more? What is trust? Trust is the ability to rely on, to tell the truth, to depend on, to hope in, and to have strength in someone. What […]

Have You Heard The Term Reparenting Before? What Is It? Reparenting is the act of giving yourself what you didn’t receive as a child. It is a rebuilding of yourself. It is the idea of allowing your child self be parented by your adult self. In the therapy world, it was used by therapists for […]

Are There Other Ways To Connect With God Than Church? An unspoken message that rolls around the church world is “If you are not reading your Bible and going to church, you are not honoring God.” But are there other ways to connect with God than those? How can weconnect to God outside of going […]

What Is A Trigger? Triggers happen when a present moment brings up a past pain or emotion. Our bodies hold memory from every point in our life. When we experience pain and do not get comfort or safety from the pain, our bodies hold onto the pain until we can get the need for security […]

Do you know how to practice self-love? Do you know how to be present and see yourself as important? Or do you believe that you are valuable and that your thoughts and feelings matter? Are you aware of how to practice self-love? We live in a world where the majority of people live disconnected and […]

Do you celebrate yourself? Can you pause in your life when big things happen and you handle them well? Do you know how to celebrate yourself? Today I want to talk about celebrating the wins in life. Whether big or small, we deserve to be celebrated! And you are your best cheerleader and oftentimes your […]

Why Is It Important To Process Pain And Are You Aware Of Yours? You may have started becoming aware of the pain you carry. I love that for you! Honestly, learning how to process pain has been the most taxing, yet rewarding thing I’ve ever done. But it has been so worth it! If you’ve […]

How Can You Start Saying “No” More Are you saying “yes” all the time and getting burnt out? Do you find yourself saying yes to things and then wishing you hadn’t? Or procrastinating after you’ve already said “yes”, dragging yourself to do the thing you now don’t want to? If this sounds like you, you […]

Twenty-four has been a unique year. I remember being eighteen and thinking I felt twenty-four, yet not actually knowing what the age really felt like. I can say it’s a lot better than my little eighteen-year-old self thought it would be. So much sweeter and richer. This has been a year of truly learning to […]

Hi, sweet ones,welcome to the blog! Let’s talk about transitions! Man, this season has been filled with so many fun and new things. A new blog, a new website, working on a couple of different projects. And a total transition out of Bethel’s School of Supernatural Ministry after three years! So much transition and so […]