Category: Spiritual Healing
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When They Rewrite the Past
I was trembling inside as I walked into the church for my grandma’s funeral. With traumatic memories of church and family swirling through my mind, my children and I made our way into the sanctuary and found our seats. I was going to sit down, but I felt duty-bound to shake off my fear and… Read more
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What Does it Look Like to Follow Jesus After Leaving the Institutional Church?
Christian leaders today treat deconstruction like the plague, warning their followers of the dangers of deconstructing, implying or even directly stating that people who deconstruct never knew Jesus or are turning their backs on Him on a direct train to eternal damnation. Yet, for many of us, deconstruction isn’t about rejecting Jesus or our faith.… Read more
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Trusting God With Our Emotions
Most of us have never been taught how to properly process difficult emotions or respond to the emotions of others in healthy and constructive ways. Some unhealthy emotional coping mechanisms that I have seen and/or experienced myself are: hiding from our emotions by burying ourselves in work, play, and/or relationships embracing certain emotions while ignoring others allowing… Read more