How God’s Presence Helps with Panic

How God’s Presence Helps with Panic

I’ve been struggling with anxiety lately. Although my ever-evolving relationship with Jesus has freed me from a lifetime of anxiety attacks and debilitating fear over the course of the past twenty-five years, I still get afraid. The irony of my latest battle with...
No Pray No Peace?

No Pray No Peace?

“People don’t have peace because they’re not praying.” I cringed when I heard the well-meaning podcaster’s words. Although she wasn’t theologically incorrect, her blanket statement was devoid of context or explanation. As a Christian and someone who had my first panic...
Fearing My Book on Fear

Fearing My Book on Fear

I’m writing a book for young women about how to fear less. Twenty years ago, the Lord freed me from panic attacks that I’d battled since I was five. Although I still struggle with fear, I don’t struggle with the overwhelming kind of anxiety I once did. I’m not...
Confessions of a (Reforming) Hypochondriac

Confessions of a (Reforming) Hypochondriac

I didn’t feel good.   Although I’ve always been a hypochondriac, I’ve been less of one thanks to the Lord’s help. I used to scroll frenetically through Web MD at the slightest onset of pain. I used to fixate on whatever I was dying from that day and let it...
Why I’m Quiet

Why I’m Quiet

I have spent countless hours writing the past week but have nothing to show for it. Why? It’s been a hell of a week…hell on earth manifested in hatred, violence, anger, and words. So many words. I suppose I felt that more words would add unnecessarily to the...
CONNECT WITH LAURA