Don’t Know How to Read Your Bible? Here’s a Great Place to Start
Where to start reading the Bible and resources to get you started.
Your Silence is Speaking Louder Than Words in the War Against Racial Injustice
I sat on my couch scrolling through Instagram when the words in the post featuring a photo of George Floyd shook me. “Your silence is speaking louder than words.” I shared the post and then continued scrolling. I didn’t like the idea of my silence making an impact but the words were from a random …
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Girls Like Me Book Cover!
My free book Girls Like Me: 12 Short Bible Studies About Biblical Women is coming August 25th, 2020! I’ve shared the book cover on Instagram but have yet to share it with any of my other friends. I figured it was time for you to see it. Girls Like Me is for the high school …
Why Eating Disorders are Hard to Recover From: A Letter to My Family and Friends #NEDAwareness
Dear Family & Friends, Some of you knew me before I was weight restored, back when the word ‘anorexia’ was stamped on my body in the form of sharp bones and sallow skin. I’ve come a long way since then. You can see it in my smile and the way I embrace life. I lost …
The Truth About Long-Term Eating Disorder Recovery #NEDAwareness
February 5th, 2008 is the day I left the residential home where I was healing from my eating disorder and embarking on recovery without professional supervision. I was 16, weight restored, and ready to re-enter high-school. Some people believe that having an eating disorder is like having an addiction to alcohol. Once in recovery, always …
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How to Live Life to the Fullest and Not Miss a Moment
A few months ago I choked back tears as I walked the empty rooms of my home. I took in the blue walls of my office with the bookshelf Mason built me. I imagined where my furniture used to be. I imagined never again seeing the place where I’d built my home. I was about …
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Remember This When Life Isn’t What You Thought It Would Be
My life has not gone the way I imagined. I sat in the car on Christmas-day 2018 and said to Mason, “Wouldn’t it be so cool if next Christmas’s we had a baby with us?” He nodded in agreement with a hit of hesitation because he’s a responsible human and sees dollar signs when I …
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6 Relationship Tips For The Married Girl or The Girl Who Wants To Be Married
I made the man–who would later become my husband–lie in the center of a busy intersection (at 1 AM) on the night of our first date. I call it a date because it was the first time we were alone together with those we-could-be-more-than-friend vibes but we wouldn’t officially date until a few months later. …
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Have You Read Any of My Favorite 2019 Books?
2019 was a down year for me as far as reading. In 2018 I read/listened to approximately 75 books! But in 2019 I read/listened to approximately 55 books. I have no idea how I ended up short so many books. I moved across the country during the second half of the year but that was …
How Much of The Kaleidoscope Girl is Autobiographical? #edrecovery
I’ve read a handful of fiction narratives regarding eating disorder recovery but haven’t found many written by authors who have struggled themselves. My book, The Kaleidoscope Girl, [fiction] dives deep into the mind of an anorexia sufferer. Writing fiction about eating disorder recovery helped me in the early years of my personal recovery and The Kaleidoscope Girl is filled with real-life eating disorder messiness.