Defeat can be excruciating, especially for the person whose identity is adhered to the their activity. When you believe your strength is the thing that is now gone, agonizing feelings of loss and grief come alongside the physical trauma of an accident. This was my head-space when injury claimed my athleticism. I felt as…
Out of the most difficult times have come the foundations of my faith. Without the strife of infertility, I might still be second guessing whether God exists. Without all-nighters nebulizing my asthmatic child, I might not believe prayer effective. You could say that these troublesome experiences were the fires that burnt away doubt, as…
The time has come to tell the stories of my fitness journey. Recently, I shared in a small group the “fun fact” that I once competed in body building. It drew a lot of attention with ahhhs and ooohs but, even all these years later, talking about it still brought my tears because of…
Unfamiliar territory can trip me up! Recently during a delightful outing, a single unknown caused me to loose all peace and joy because I let fear carry the conversation the entire way. The experience is teaching me that I have not mastered my mind. How I approach new things has become deep set in…
There are great mysteries that we may never understand while we are here on planet earth. Some profound questions are science based, like whether life exists on other planets, while others may be more religious in origin, such as, “what happened to Joseph, the spouse of Mary?” But it is the small, personal queries…
Last month, while in Hawaii, I wrote a post entitled Conquering Fear-Moving Forward With A Big Splash. In this post, I talked about how we need to push back against fear in order to gain ground against it. A personal example was happening in real-time…overcoming the fear of drowning by becoming comfortable in our…
When I began writing this blog, I had a lot to say about becoming untethered from hurtful thoughts and habitual behaviors. It’s a natural place for a recovery teacher to begin. However, there is more to living well and in alignment with God’s will than identifying false beliefs and refraining from taking action in…
I’m currently sitting in an Airbnb in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, with the ocean out one window and a luscious green space of tropical foliage before me. How did I get here? It wasn’t an accident, let me tell you! The story behind what brings me to this point in time is one part effort and…
