Welcome to the blog.
This is a place to process the “hard stuff” we feel from a biblical perspective. No churchy lingo. No judgment. All honesty.
His Blood Covers Mental Illness, Too: Looking for Jesus in Times of Darkness
If you’re anything like me, your family and church growing up told you that mental illness wasn’t real and you just needed to pray more. Not only is it incredibly harmful to dismiss someone’s battle with mental illness, but it’s also not a true representation of broken humanity in desperate need of Jesus. I think people forget that Jesus came and died for a reason. Because of sin, there is brokenness in this world. This includes illness and sickness of all kinds.
99 Problems & Identity is One
I sat in my therapist’s office three years ago, and she just listened to me speak. Let’s call her Ava. Pretty early on, Ava told me I had identity issues. Even though I’m pretty open in therapy, when you hear that you have identity problems, it kind of rubs you the wrong way. I don’t have identity issues, I thought. I know who I am. But the truth is, I didn’t.