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Grief and Mental Health

Don’t Give Up if You Have High Functioning Anxiety and Depression

This is the face of high functioning anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression is my norm. My anxiety started in elementary school. And my depression started in middle school, when I was in sixth grade and my dog died to be exact. I never know how much of it is situational and how much of […]

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Faith Grief and Mental Health

How Obedience with a Joyful Heart Provides True Rest for the Anxious Soul

The past year has been a difficult one, full of challenges much like the decade before it. I sometimes feel like a battered ship struggling to stay afloat in an unrelenting storm. And last fall, the seemingly endless stress of balancing marriage, motherhood, and caregiving—while trying to “keep it all together” and hide my depression […]