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05/27/2026

Sometimes healing starts when you stop treating your humanity like disobedience.

You may know God is good in your mind…
but still feel terrified of your own emotions.

So you push them down.

Stay busy. Stay productive. Stay “fine.”

…you learned that feeling too much meant losing control.

But when you spend your life avoiding emotion, you also lose connection.

Not just with yourself… but with God.

Real relationship with God was never meant to happen only in your thoughts.

It was meant to be experienced in your WHOLE BEING.

The reason you don’t feel spiritually steady isn’t because your faith is weak.

It’s because your nervous system has been living in fear for so long that vulnerability itself feels unsafe.

So you keep trying to think your way into peace…
while your body is still bracing for rejection, pressure, disappointment, or shame.

Healing changes that.

You stop performing closeness with God…
and begin experiencing His presence in the middle of your real human emotions.

Not after you calm down perfectly.
Not after you “get over it.”
Right there in the honesty of it.

That’s where spiritual steadiness begins to grow.
In the honesty of what you’re feeling.

🤍🤍🤍

05/26/2026

Okay, obviously God is not going to open a chat box and start typing paragraphs back to you. (👀 or, is he…? Jk)

Although honestly… I would prefer that because I want clarity, certainty, bullet points, and a 5-step plan by tomorrow morning. 😉

But I do think it’s interesting how quickly we run to AI, podcasts, opinions, reels, self-help content, and strangers on the internet for answers… (I’m totally a podcast ju**ie myself 🫣 .)

while struggling to sit quietly long enough to actually bring our thoughts, fears, decisions, and desires before God.

Not in a performative way.
Not in a “I prayed once so now I magically know everything” kind of way.

I mean real intentional time.
Stillness.
Honest prayer.
Paying attention.
Learning to discern His voice beneath all the noise competing for our attention every single day.
..the internet will always have advice.
More strategies.
More opinions.
More “right ways” to live.

lets get real... A lot of it eventually starts sounding the same.

But there is something grounding about slowing down long enough to ask:

“God, what are You saying here?”

Not because every answer comes instantly.
But because relationship changes the way we walk through uncertainty.

Sometimes the path becomes clear one step at a time.
Sometimes wisdom grows quietly.
Sometimes discernment develops slowly over time.

But I do think many of us have become overstimulated by information ... and greatly under-practiced in listening.

What are your thoughts on that?

🤍🤍🤍

05/25/2026

Acceptance has gotten a bad reputation because many women hear the word and immediately think:

“So I’m just supposed to tolerate unhealthy behavior?”

No.

Acceptance is not permission for abuse, neglect, manipulation, or chronic harm.
It is not the absence of boundaries.
It is not passive resignation.

In this context, I’m talking about the everyday overwhelm of motherhood and the exhausting pressure to manage everything around us in order to finally feel okay inside.

The noise.
The mess.
The attitudes.
The schedules.
The constant mental load.

Many moms spend so much energy trying to control their external environment that they lose connection with what’s happening internally.

And usually underneath that control is fear.
Fear of failing.
Fear of falling apart.
Fear that if everything around us isn’t managed well, we won’t be okay.

But acceptance is often where healing begins.

Because acceptance says:
“This is what’s true right now.”
“This is what I’m feeling.”
“This is what this season is bringing up in me.”

And ironically, that kind of honesty often creates more change than control ever did.

You may not have control over every circumstance around you.
But you do have more influence than you think:
over your awareness,
your responses,
your boundaries,
your nervous system,
your self-talk,
and the way you care for yourself in the middle of hard moments.

That kind of acceptance isn’t weakness.

It’s honesty.
And honesty is where healing starts.

🤍🤍🤍

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05/24/2026

Today I caught myself thinking,

“If I have one more sales call I might flip my lid.”

Not my most polished moment. 😅

But instead of pushing the thought away or pretending I was fine, I said it out loud.

And honestly?

It helped.

Something shifts when you name what’s happening inside instead of powering through it like nothing’s wrong.

Because most of the time we don’t “crash out” (as my kids would say) all at once.

We get there slowly.

One ignored signal at a time.
One tight shoulder at a time.
One “I’m fine” when we’re clearly not fine.

Naming the thought didn’t make my day easier.

But it kept the moment from turning into something bigger than it needed to be.

That’s what regulation looks like in real life.

Not perfect patience.
Not spiritual superhero energy.

Just noticing earlier… and responding sooner.

If you’ve ever surprised yourself with how fast overwhelm shows up, you’re not alone here. 🌿

05/23/2026

You learned how to say the “right” things.

“God is good”
“I’m just stressed.”
“I need to pray more.”
“I should be more grateful.”

Meanwhile your body is overwhelmed.
Your mind won’t slow down.
You’re reacting in ways you hate.

And underneath it all is the quiet fear that struggling somehow means you’re failing spiritually.

So instead of slowing down and noticing what’s happening inside you...
you push harder.

Serve more.
Stay positive.
Keep performing.

Not because you don’t love God…

shame convinced you that being human was something to overcome instead of something God wanted to meet you in.

Healing often starts when we stop spiritualizing our pain long enough to be honest about it.

What’s one thing you’ve been calling ‘lack of faith’ that might actually be emotional exhaustion?

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05/21/2026

I used to think “quiet time” only counted if it looked quiet.

Bible open.
Journal filled out.
Perfect morning routine.
Deep focus.
No interruptions.

But motherhood humbled me real fast. 😅

Now sometimes my quiet time looks like listening to scripture while folding laundry.

Sometimes it’s worship music playing while I clean the kitchen.

Sometimes it’s reading half a devotional before somebody needs a snack.

And sometimes it’s just sitting in silence because my brain is too overstimulated to process one more thing.

And, I know a lot of Christian moms carry shame around this.

We assume distracted means distant from God.
…unfinished Bible studies mean inconsistency.
…productivity and discipline are what make us “good Christians.”

But the pressure to do everything perfectly isn’t conviction…
it’s conditioning.

The kind that taught us our value comes from performance.
productivity.
doing enough.
Being enough.
Keeping up.

Meanwhile, God is not standing over you with a clipboard keeping score over half-finished studies and interrupted prayers.

He is still with you in the mentally loud moments.
In the laundry.
In the carpool line.
In the exhaustion.
In the scattered thoughts.
In the start-and-stop rhythms of motherhood.

Yes, there is value in stillness.
There is value in slowing down and simply being with God.

But there is also grace for the season you’re in.

Your relationship with Him does not become less real because your life is full.

And maybe healing looks like releasing the shame attached to being human…

instead of constantly trying to outperform it.

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