Much like learning to walk with a sprained ankle, living with physical and emotional health challenges takes balance and practice. I’m convinced that our own mental and emotional health has an immeasurable impact on our physical health. This may work in reverse as...
Have you ever noticed that when you start out with the intention of writing or talking with someone about something you’ve learned, God sets you up so that you experience it yourself in the process? For example, in 2010 my husband had plans to make a major career...
My greatest frustrations in life always come from the weakness of my body. When I consider the incomprehensible fact that God designed and fashioned our minds and bodies, with all their complexity in function and all their ability in thinking and learning, I realize...
It’s probably abundantly obvious, and I know I’ve said it before too, but I really, really love words. But here’s what you may not know: I like bad words a lot too. Not just swear words, although I admit that I have an affinity for those as well, but angry words. In...
My husband is an ultra-marathon runner. At least that’s the term we both knew for it when he got started doing it. Since then the longer-than-a-marathon events have become known simply as “ultras” and the competitors (if you can call them that) are “ultra runners.”...
I was using writing as a therapeutic exercise before that was ever a thing. I started writing in a diary when I was 6, and after its pages were filled I never threw it away. I kept it and I still have it. I also kept every diary I ever wrote in since then. Now I...
Until about ten years ago I had never heard of Imposter Syndrome, but when someone introduced me to the term I knew exactly the feeling the term describes. If you’re not familiar, imposter syndrome is a newly-coined term for the feeling that one gets when he finds...
My house is a one-level ranch-style home that is around fifty years old but has been well cared for and remodeled a bit in its interior. At the center of my house is the largest room, with an open floor plan kitchen and a large space with a window and a gas fireplace....
When I wrote last week about the multiple inferences contained in the Hebrew word shalom, I realized quickly that any attempt on my part to explain the many implications and nuances of meaning it can have would be pretty inadequate. For one thing, this is a topic that...
How many advertisements have you seen so far today? Think of everything you’ve looked at thus far. Consider commercials on television, on the radio, on podcasts. Ads that pop up in the middle of any good YouTube video. The banner and block ads on just about...
Melanie Makovsky has seen trauma turn into triumph through the lens of faithfulness. By examining hardships under the light of God's grace and love, she's learned to value suffering and loss as catalysts for deepening faith and discovering simple, everyday beauty.
The content presented on this site is based on my personal experience. I am not a mental health professional and this content is not to be considered a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis or treatment.
