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When the Mess of Anxiety Takes Root in Your Heart
It’s been two years now. Two years since I looked fear in the face and boarded a plane bound for the jungles of Belize. It was a rather innocuous week-long mission trip, but prior to our departure, I had been an anxious mess. I’d never been a worried traveler. My passport was marked with the…
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A Journey through Anxiety – Wrap-Up
If this is your first time here, WELCOME! Please note that this is a wrap-up in a 5-part series on a journey I experienced through anxiety. To read the journey in its entirety, click through to part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5. Although I’ve been meaning to post this anxiety…
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A Journey through Anxiety – Part 5 (Belize 2012)
If this is your first time here, WELCOME! Please note that this is part 5 in a series on a journey I experienced through anxiety. To read the journey in its entirety, click through to part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and the wrap-up. How do you do it? How do you kiss your 18-month-old and just-turned-four-year-old…
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A Journey through Anxiety – Part 4
If this is your first time here, welcome! You’ll notice that this is part 4 in a series on anxiety, and this will all make a lot more sense if you read the whole story! So please click through to read part 1, part 2 and part 3. I could hardly wait for the MRI. Not because I particularly…
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A Journey through Anxiety – Part 3
I promised that I would get to the personal details of my own battle with anxiety, and today starts that story. If this is your first time here, please note that this is Part 3 in a series on anxiety. Click through to read part 1 and part 2. It started with the headaches. I’d…
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A Journey through Anxiety – Part 2
If you read Part 1 of this anxiety series, you know that today I planned to share how I learned to apply a passage in Philippians to some dark days in my own life. However, when the Little Man came down with a fever on Monday, his needs trumped the blog. And trying to put…
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A Journey through Anxiety – Part 1
This months marks an anniversary of sorts for me. Last year, I journeyed through a rather debilitating bout of anxiety. It consumed all my mental energy and physically manifested itself in ways that gave me cause for great concern. In turn, the physical symptoms only furthered the severity of my mental anxiety. It was a…