โ€˜Anxious yet efficientโ€™ โ€“ Making sense of my high-functioning anxiety.

Psalm 94:17-19 17 Unless the Lord had been my help,My soul would soon have settled in silence.18 If I say, โ€œMy foot slips,โ€Your mercy, O Lord, will hold me up.19 In the multitude of my anxieties within me,Your comforts delight my soul. As soon as I drove through my school gates, I felt my stomach do a backflip, my heart started racing … Continue reading โ€˜Anxious yet efficientโ€™ โ€“ Making sense of my high-functioning anxiety.

Psychology Meets Scripture on the topic of โ€˜worryโ€™ #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

Worry is a chain of thoughts and images, negatively laden and relatively uncontrollable; it represents an attempt to engage in mental problem-solving on an issue whose outcome is uncertain but contains the possibility of one or more negative outcomes to the point of debilitating the โ€˜worrierโ€™ in a state of anxiety.Definition of Worry adapted from … Continue reading Psychology Meets Scripture on the topic of โ€˜worryโ€™ #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

The tension between feeling blessed and stressed

There are moments where the phrase โ€œtoo blessed to be stressedโ€ couldnโ€™t be further from the truth for me. Iโ€™m not sure where the phrase came from, however, I do agree that it is appealing to the ear and the concept sounds good. But what do you do when the blessing from God is weighty? … Continue reading The tension between feeling blessed and stressed