Countless credible sources report that exercise helps ease anxiety (see here, here, & here). Turns out they were right. After a whole lot of trial and error and starting over and over and over…I’m four months into the most sustainable healthy lifestyle I’ve ever had.
Read More Exercise & Nutrition | How to Manage Darker DaysDon’t crazy people go to counseling? Isn’t it admitting that you’re like mentally ill? Besides, loved ones say that it isn’t a good idea, because aren’t we just having issues because we don’t have enough faith?
Read More Counseling | How to Manage Darker DaysMany are reluctant to express a struggle for fear of being labeled. “I mean, yea I get super worried, my thoughts race, and I can’t function sometimes, but I don’t like, you know…have anxiety.”
Read More How to Manage Darker Days“If you decide that the way you do things now are perfect and you never attempt to improve yourself again, well then yea, you’d turn into a pretty awful teacher, but I don’t suspect that happening.”
Read More Why You Should Keep Trying Even When You Already Failed IIWe should just keep failing. If we haven’t used our talents yet, we never will. So we should give up. Walk away. Choose something else to occupy our time. The things worth doing come naturally, so if it requires effort, it wasn’t meant to be.
Read More Why You Should Keep Trying Even When You Already Failed IParadoxical, this teaching. Monday to Friday is a blur of preparations, gone before dark, back with the sinking sun, washed dished, and (mostly) dreamless sleep. On Fridays, two of my English scholars have the same prayer request during worship: that the weekend goes by slowly.
Read More Why Teaching Helps My Anxiety III wish everyday ended like today…But they don’t.
Read More Why Teaching Helps My Anxiety I“Girl, I totally feel you. It’s weird how functional I can be with certain things when I’m overwhelmed but completely shut down when it comes to responding to messages or emails…so YES. TOTALLY UNDERSTAND.”
Read More Why I’m on Facebook but Ignoring Your Texts: Anxious Confessions“Miss Callie! He’s stealing from my box again!” The outraged young lad silenced half the room with his accusation. He straightened to his almost-four-feet, hands clenched, bottom lip firmly turned down. He meant business.
Read More Given Away: Giving When It’s Still YoursObstructed vision of people in the same experience can lead me to believe I am the only one.Experiencing life without meaningful connection can lead to exceptional loneliness, and the devil can use perceived loneliness against us.
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