Why Self-Care Is Important for Victims of Trauma
Self-care is especially important for victims of trauma. Check out today’s article for six ways to incorporate self-care into your everyday life to promote healing and overall well-being.
Tag: mental health
How to Stop Anxiety Attacks Before They Start
Suffering from anxiety can make you feel isolated, cause mental health issues, and even threaten your relationships. But, you don’t have to accept regular anxiety attacks as status quo. In today’s article, I’m sharing some steps you can take and techniques you can use to reduce the occurrence of anxiety attacks so you can live a calmer life.
3 Keys to Find Meaning
In the book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, writer, and Holocaust survivor, Vickor Frankl, shares how he held on to hope, found meaning and purpose, and persevered through horrific conditions while living in a Nazi concentration camp. If you’ve ever wondered how you can find more meaning and purpose in your life, this post is for you!
5 Characteristics of Chronic Anxiety (And How to Treat It)
How can you tell the difference between normal, everyday levels of anxiety and chronic anxiety? In today’s post, I’m sharing 5 characteristics of chronic anxiety, along with ways to treat it so you can experience peace, move toward healing, and reach your full potential.
Broken Jars and New Beginnings – Finding Freedom in Forgiveness
An important, but less recognized, aspect of mental health is forgiveness. Studies have found that the act of forgiveness can lower our risk of heart attack; improve cholesterol levels and sleep; and reduce pain, blood pressure, and levels of anxiety, depression and stress. Forgiveness is about decluttering our minds from the anger and bitterness that hurts us so we can move toward improved heath and healing. In today’s post, I share a powerful testimony of forgiveness that God used to set me free.
5 Ways to Cultivate Resilience
With everything going on in our world, combined with our own personal struggles, it is easy to feel hopeless or discouraged. In today’s post, I’m sharing 5 strategies to cultivate resilience so we can persevere through adversity. If you’ve ever lost a loved one, had your heart broken, battled anxiety or depression, struggled with chronic health issues, felt the weight of grief or disappointment, been a victim of injustice, navigated a difficult relationship, or lived through a global pandemic, then this is for you!
From Flawed to Fulfilled – Overcoming Body Obsession to Find True Freedom in Christ
In From Flawed to Fulfilled – Overcoming Body Obsession to Find True Freedom in Christ, Tiffany shares the challenges she faced when her weight became her identity. Bombarded with images of the “ideal body” on social media and in her modeling career, Tiffany’s thoughts became dominated by food and exercise. When she reached a turning point and realized this way of living was toxic for her physical, mental, and spiritual health, she began to make changes that set her free from shame and guilt so she could secure her identity in Christ. Her story will inspire you to turn your eyes to the standards set by God and focus on the things that are truly important.
Praying Through a Pandemic
How do we pray when we have no words or don’t know where to begin? What do we say when we long for God’s peace, but all we feel is anxiety and fear? We can start by praying the way Jesus taught His disciples two thousand years ago. In today’s post, writer and teacher, Rachel Ryan, shares the prayer she’s clinging to through the Coronavirus pandemic and how that prayer has brought comfort and hope in the midst of uncertainty and hardship.
The Art of Daily Rest: My Coping Coffee
Just like we fuel ourselves physically we need to recharge ourselves emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. We can exercise regularly, attend therapy, and eat the cleanest diet, but if we are not also practicing rest and relaxation it’s all in vain. In today’s post, guest author Danielle Pete shares healthy coping strategies to combat stress so we can be prepared for battle when faced with blindsiding hardships.
Two Truths and a Lie About Anxiety
Have you ever felt like you’re drowning in a sea of worry and Jesus is sleeping? If so, you’re not alone—Jesus’ closest friends experienced the same thing. In today’s post, Jen shares common misconceptions about anxiety and two truths that are helping her shift her focus from the waves of life to the One who controls them and walks with us through the storms.