Art Journaling can provide another way to process difficult feelings or anxiety. While a huge proponent of journaling, changing up exactly “how” you journal provides new ways to relieve anxiety and allow your creativity to flow! Learning how to start an art journal will open your eyes to new benefits of processing your emotions. An art journal is simply a…
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How to Start an Art Journal
What is Missing From Your Mindfulness Practice?
The Examen is a spiritual discipline that helps you bring God into your day to day activity. Gaining full awareness of the beauty of creation all around you keeps you present and reduces anxiety. Gaining full awareness of the Creator’s constant presence with you, is what is missing from your mindfulness practice. Welcome to Mindfulness Monday! This week I’d like…
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Grounding Techniques to Reduce Anxiety
Sometimes, it comes out of nowhere. That sudden feeling that I can’t breathe, heart and mind both racing at the same time. Depending on the day, I may feel like I can’t sit still or like my body is paralyzed. Ultimately, I feel out of control. This happened on a regular basis until I learned to use grounding techniques to…
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How to Overcome Discouragement
Cruel words, a thoughtless email, careless remarks; I feel like I am drowning in discouragement. Unseen, ignored, longing for a kind word, yet none comes. Days flow into weeks, yet it is as though I am invisible, can no one see that I am drowning? Sometimes I can’t seem to figure out how to overcome discouragement. Discouragement can result from…
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How to Use Essential Oils For Comfort and Healing
Have you ever felt like you just needed some peace? Emotional or even physical relief from ongoing stress, pain or just an especially challenging time in your life? We all have times like that and often no idea of what will really help. I’d like to share with you how to use essential oils for comfort and healing. Along with…
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When Suffering Threatens to Overwhelm
As I sat in the dark just before dawn, I replayed the conversation over and over in my mind. I felt blind-sided; I never saw this coming. How was I going to walk this journey? I felt enveloped in the darkness, I couldn’t see the next step. Have you ever felt like this when suffering threatens to overwhelm you? After…
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Will My Grief Ever Go Away?
Will my grief ever go away? Asked my 10 year old little girl camper at our sponsored grief camp for kids. I enjoy serving at the children’s bereavement camp sponsored by the hospice agency where I work. We have children ages 6-12 years old that have lost a loved one to death. Each counselor is assigned one child, and you…
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Breaking Free From Busyness
Welcome to Mindfulness Monday! Each week I’m going to share with you some ways you can live more mindfully in the present moment. This week we’ll be learning how breaking free from busyness can actually result in more productivity. By learning to be more present, right here, right now, you will live a fuller life, love more completely and free…
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Prisoner Set Free
Thank you for joining me for Weekend Worship. Sometimes I have no words, my heart is full. Feeling like a prisoner set free, haunted by my past, unable to break free. When I cry out to God, He answers with healing and freedom. I find comfort in the Psalms, because it seems many of the Psalms express what I am…
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