awakening

Just about exactly four years ago, I wrote a guest post for a fellow author’s website. He asked me to write about how doubt was currently coinciding with my faith. I was up to my eyeballs with twenty-month-old twins and my own anxious swirling — how I was...

we don’t have that kind of time

It’s way too easy and way too tempting to believe that what we have to offer isn’t enough or doesn’t matter. Way. Too. Easy. It’s subversive to show up — fragility and all, vulnerability and all, humanity and all. Here’s to getting...

on hope and heartbreak

A bit of video for you today . . . me talking about hope and heartbreak. (I acknowledge that my hair is a little bit crazy. Hopefully, you can see past that situation.) 🙂 May he bind up the brokenhearted today, wherever you are out...

sneak peek: table of contents

Today, I thought it would be fun to give you a little sneak peek into the Table of Contents of Breathing Room. This gives you an idea of some of the themes I’ve written about and hopefully starts you thinking about how this book might intersect with your own...

the frantic lunatic is me

In case it wasn’t readily obvious, I thought I should let you know that I tend to be on the more anxious side of things. I tend to be the kind of person who gets a little manic and panicked and nuts and — when I’m in that state — everything...

cosigning

Thanks so much for all of your amazing comments about my new tattoo and the story behind it. We need to know that life isn’t about bowing down to fear, anxiety, people’s perceptions of us, or our own shame. Despite the fact that it’s uncomfortable, I...