Posts in Mental Health
Christians and Medication - Episode 32

Today we’re going to talk about my decision to go on medication for Bipolar and my experience with it so far. When I asked on Instagram if there was interest in hearing about this, I was surprised at the number of people who responded yes, so here we go!

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Suffering and Glory - Episode 31

I’m old enough to remember merry-go-rounds on the playground. You could push your friends around, go slowly by yourself, or have a friend push you until the wind made your hair crazy and you felt sick. When it came time to slow it down, you would reach out your hand and let the bars lightly hit it as they flew past, walking the line between actually slowing it down and breaking your hand. They were a source of laughter but also a little scary and not the play of choice for someone like me who got dizzy easily.

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Assembling Together - Episode 24

As with all things in life, I never know how much I have or how much I need what I have until it is taken away. If you’ve been around for the past three and half years, you know how much my new church has helped me to heal, how it has been a place I’ve purposely built strong community, that it’s the place I work and serve, that it has meant the world to my children, and how I couldn’t love it more.

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Episode 22 - Admonish One Another

Did you have a best friend growing up? Maybe you’re an adult and still have a best friend. I had a tumultuous relationship with the whole best friend idea. Being homeschooled in a small church didn’t leave a lot of options for finding the perfect best friend. I cried a lot of tears during my teenage years over relationships that were less than ideal. I had some people that were really good friends, but that was back in the day when we had to write letters by hand. My world really opened up when email became a thing!

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Episode 21 - Comfort One Another

The topic of one anothering naturally brings up a lot about suffering. We’ve been talking about how to weep with those who weep or how to encourage others who are suffering by singing to them. If life were all roses, we wouldn’t need each other nearly as much. Of course, we are to celebrate with those who have something to celebrate, laugh with those who are laughing, and rejoice with those who are rejoicing. But those seem to come a bit more naturally. It’s the suffering that’s hard to sit in. It’s when people are suffering that we need reminders of how to deal with it.

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Episode 16 - One Anothering for Evangelism

Have you ever looked at a family and really wanted to be a part of it? Maybe you had a rough family growing up or you just weren’t super close and your best friend’s family seemed awesome. Or maybe it was just a part of that family that you wished for - being told you were loved, or the hugs, or the games, or the laughter.

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