The End of Anxiety: How I Deal with Intensity, Contempt, and Triggers Without Losing Myself I haven’t felt anxiety in over 670 days. No panic. No self-doubt. No feeling of being overwhelmed by the world’s chaos. And it’s not because life got easier. It’s not because people stopped being difficult. It’s because I found myself….
You Don’t Need to Posture Before God
I Am Always Spiritual, But Never Always One Thing For years, I lived under the weight of an assumption—that to be spiritual, I had to be engaged in something explicitly holy. That my connection to God was strongest when I was in prayer, in study, in silence. But what about the rest of my life?…
There is no such thing as anxiety…
The End of Anxiety: How Knowing Myself Set Me Free Anxiety is the chaos of being lost—the fear that arises when you do not trust, love, know, or believe in yourself enough to face, handle, embrace, or overcome an experience, whether real or imagined. I haven’t felt anxiety in over 660 days. No panic, no…
“I’m Not Attracted to You Anymore” the freedom in these words.
Few phrases hit harder than when the person we love says, “I’m not attracted to you anymore.” It feels like a direct assault on our identity, our value, and the very core of who we are. But in reality, while this statement is deeply painful, it holds within it layers of meaning, about them, about…
Peek out, Come forth, Be seen…
Peek out—if only the edge of a gaze,a flicker where the veil grows thin,for the earth hums low beneath its breath,whispering your name in tones that rise,a hymn spun from roots and restless skies. Come forth—not boldly, but as the tidecreeps in to kiss the unsuspecting shore.You are no tempest, yet storms sleep in you,a…
Forgiving Others is About You
Forgiveness is a word that carries the weight of a lifetime, doesn’t it? It’s simple to say, but its depth is something that can drown you before it saves you. For years, I misunderstood forgiveness. I thought it was something I did for the benefit of others, a way to release them from the consequences…
Test Your Peace and Embrace It
Testing Peace and Rest: Where Authenticity Takes Root Peace is a strange thing when you first find it. It feels almost too good, like something you didn’t earn or don’t quite trust yet. It sneaks in quietly as you start peeling back the layers, discovering who you are underneath everything the world told you to…
The Solitude We Fear and the Self We Find
To be alone is often a fear most cannot consider, much less face. The silence of solitude terrifies because it leaves us with nothing but ourselves, stripped of the noise that so often fills our days and drowns out the questions we are too afraid to ask. Yet, in solitude lies a gift unmatched, a…
I Need Nothing.
“I need nothing.” The words hang in the air like they shouldn’t belong to me, but they do. They weren’t always mine, though. There was a time when the word need felt like an open door to panic, a constant grasping for something—validation, security, meaning—that I didn’t believe I had. Back then, every want disguised…
You Better Think Before You Follow… Who’s Driving You?
Ideas are a dime a dozen; they’re everywhere, all the time, all at once and it’s very hard to tell we’re even being influenced by them. I’ve engaged in some extremely diverse think tanks only to find the majority of of people just want to be heard. Everyone seems to be an expert, and yet,…