My brain’s been fogging and lagging like a laptop with too many large applications open on it. Though that and waves of fatigue have come, I have found safety in going slow today, not rushing to get so many things done that can wait another day and taking my time while I venture into exploring more of what it is You are leading and directing me to do moment by moment.
Tag Archives: Testimony
The Perks of Writing a Blog While Growing
One of the perks of writing a blog and being in a place of widespread personal development is trying to figure out which parts to broadcast and which ones to just plain-old keep private. I say all of that borderline sarcastic. To add even more into the mix, I personally use different art mediums to communicate things that I go through and to even show how I get through things. Some things will remain private moments as not everything is always needed to be made public.
Over the Summer and through the Fall I started a self-portrait series using photography in which I photographed myself in both staged and non-staged environments to retell events that I’ve gone through, to display battles I was facing in those current moments, and to capture what I hoped to eventually step into and embody. As I progressed through the project, I began to feel tapped out of things to say through photography. I was at a loss for words when it came to blogging. Even my journal was dry through those months. I practically was just alive is how I felt. Just living one day to the next without aim, without point (in my mind), and without much effort.
Navigating Mental Health
Something that I haven’t been keen on talking about in a broad and open way has been my battle with mental health issues. So often it’s been after the smoke has cleared and I’m back in motion of building and rebuilding things that I begin to talk about it. Things get torn down in the middle of whatever mental crisis I had going on and shame stays over way too long of a visit, so I prolong talking about it. I then would sprinkle it with ‘Jesus-talk’ and then also sanitize it so it wouldn’t be so much of the negative emotions attached to it when I spoke it up. I’ve done it so much to the point that this last time when I went through a deep depression…I couldn’t even be honest with myself about how bad it was actually getting.
Finding My Voice Through Writing
I wrestle a lot with writer’s block and also with finding my words. Funny and fitting that I would be prompted to write a blog. Initially I wanted to title it something along the lines of having something to do with being a wallflower and all I could hear and feel each time I got ready to enter the blog title in was an unwavering and convicting ‘no’. I already knew to name the blog Warrior Letters, but I was concerned about whether what I had to say would actually live up to it.
Reviving Warrior Letters: A Journey of Authentic Healing
Photograph by Super Straho via Unsplash I started Warrior Letters with the intention of encouraging others who may be going through things that I was currently facing as I went through it. Some stuff I wrote about on the back end of healing and was able to add a little bit more of something potentiallyContinue reading “Reviving Warrior Letters: A Journey of Authentic Healing”
It’s Not All About the Benjamins.
Just imagine it. You are rapidly approaching the month of December and the holidays are right around the corner. You know from your previous year that your spouse will be home for roughly four to five weeks straight because the business they work for does a seasonal shut down. Oh, and did I mention you are no longer working? Bills are piling up. You have ran clean out of money for emergencies. Don’t forget your second vehicle’s battery is corroded and you two are now living paycheck to paycheck. Living off of ramen and instant potatoes. For the cherry on top, God has promised to provide for all of you and your spouses’ needs during this time but that neither of you are to pick up ANY work. Come again?!
Dear Dr. Robert Lang,
The diagnosis of having major depression came with a thrust and heaps of affliction on all fronts of my life. Just the night before, I spoke with my sister on the phone. Having given detail of the struggle I was enduring, I looked over a small bridge on Wabash Ave
Waging War in the Maze of Your Mind
We are told as Christians that we demolish arguments and every claim that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5). But what happens when we try to wage war in the battlefield of our minds but our actions are still rebellious towards God? What happens when we really believe that we are within the will of God in a moment’s time, only to have Holy Spirit correct us and bring to our remembrance the fundamentals of our faith we seemed to have forgotten? One of them being OBEDIENCE.
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