• last slice of dried up nasty pizza
    Body

    Are You Feeding Your Problems?

    Are you afraid of your food? How many of us have tried “diets” time and time again only to end up going back to binging on junk? Ignorance is bliss right? Sure, we know we shouldn’t eat junk, but if we don’t know the real reason why we shouldn’t, what’s really stopping us? If someone in the 1950’s said don’t…

  • woman standing in flower shop looking up with eyes closed
    Spirit

    The Importance of Prayer

    Sometimes, our prayers seem to go unanswered. This can be especially frustrating when you’ve spent a long time praying about your situation. You begin to feel hopeless. Your faith fades. You start to think that maybe it just isn’t meant to be. Oftentimes, you simply give up. When I first got really sick, I could feel the power of prayer.…

  • IV bag of fluids hanging from stand
    Chronic Illness

    The Broken Body

    Do you remember when your body broke? I do. Thursday, January 26, 2017. 9:30 am. It was the day I had my first child. It was the moment I had the epidural that went too far. Sure, that’s a common occurrence. Countless women experience it. The needle penetrates too far into the dura that surrounds the spinal cord and causes…

  • blue bowl of cereal and milk
    Body

    Breakfast

    I don’t know about you, but I find that once I make a bad decision in my day, I’m more likely to keep making bad decisions. If I start my day off with a frozen waffle, I’m more likely to skip my workout and call it a lazy TV watching day. I’m more likely to continue eating junk food because…

  • half of Bible open on plain surface
    Spirit

    Read His Word

    Have you read your Bible today? Are you patting yourself on the back because you got your “verse of the day” in? No, I mean, have you delved into the Word today? We speak to God all the time, and the Bible is one of His best ways of speaking back to us. The Bible is the Word of God.…

  • black and white of woman standing with hair blowing and covering up face
    Chronic Illness

    “But You Don’t Look Sick.”

    Do I look sick to you? Odds are I don’t. But I am living with an invisible illness. I am living with chronic pain. Do you know what unusual mentality comes along with being chronically ill? Paranoia. “But you don’t look sick.” Is a phrase so commonly used among the sick that we begin to question it ourselves. What if…

  • close up of tennis shoes running up steps
    Body

    Get Active & Stay Active

    Here’s the truth, I’m not a fitness trainer. Exercise has never been a passion of mine the way that nutrition is. But I understand the importance of it. I understand that it is necessary for our bodies to stay active, so I live by Sir Isaac’s First Law: An object in motion tends to stay in motion. An object at…

  • woman sitting in street raising arms on a cloudy day
    Spirit

    Praise Him

    Nothing seems to be going right. It  feels like the enemy is weighing down on my back, leaving me no escape from the pain. I’ve taken every pill I possess, but I cant even lift myself off of the floor. The hospital couldn’t even help me. What else am I supposed to do? Praise Him. But how can I praise…

  • thick slices of fattening greasy bacon in a black cast iron frying pan
    Body

    Don’t Go on a Diet

    Gained a few pounds? Losing some confidence? Or maybe there’s just a few bad habits and a little extra flab you’d like to nix. I can help with that. And odds are, my approach will be easier than you think (and likely easier on your wallet.) When it comes to diet, where do you even begin? I mean who doesn’t…

  • woman sitting in dark old empty church
    Spirit

    Run to the House

    “Ugh, what is the pastor going to say? What is everyone going to think? What if they call us out in front of everyone?” These were some of the thoughts that ran through mine and my husband’s heads as we made the long drive to church. Our stomachs turned with nervousness. Our hearts were racing. I had grown up in…