We stood at the front of the church, arms around each other. Other worshipers surrounded us. My tears fell on her tight braids as she hugged me back. My mouth moved, and I continued to pray for God’s healing over her past and that she would use the comfort she receives to comfort others in…
The greatest gift I’ve ever given myself was the bravery to press into pain and the freedom to heal from it. And it’s exactly what I want for you. It’s why I wrote Brave Enough to Be Broken. It almost feels like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Like brave and broken shouldn’t be in the same…
When I started working for the church, I joined the denominational health plan. And with that health plan comes a health tracking program, an online wellness program to help me be more healthy. We have workout and accountability groups. I have daily tidbits of knowledge about my body, daily reminders to move and care for…
With tears streaming down her face, my client said, “I don’t know if I’ll ever be free of this way of being, of feeling like no one cares about me.” I sat still as she shared her despair, listening with compassion and deep faith. She talked about how, as she was growing up, her parents…
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” ~Billy Graham On my personal health journey over the years, a big part of my angst as a Christ-follower was the thought that if I was godly enough, I wouldn’t be struggling so much…
“What if your plan doesn’t work?” I was asked this question when I was around eighteen, and it haunted me for years. My plans were supposed to work because—I thought—they were based on truth. But the asker of the question knew something I didn’t yet: sometimes our plans don’t work out the way we think…