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Category: wellness
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I spent most of my life feeling trapped inside a body that I didn’t understand, couldn’t control and was at odds with. I felt misunderstood and invisible by much of the medical community who merely didn’t understand the complex landscape of my conditions, and I had to become the expert of my own health. Knowing…
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It’s so easy to view pain as a curse, even when I see first-hand all the good that has come from it. But in that moment, as my eyes welled with tears, I was overcome by the kindness of God to have filled me with such hope and assurance, and I whispered a quiet thank…
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No, Jesus probably didn’t experience the exact set of symptoms we struggle with, but He understands our experience in one profound way that encompasses any and everything we will ever endure. Fully God yet fully man; Jesus was constantly suspended in the tension of a Spirit that knows unbounded freedom, and of humanity that only…
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It’s pretty easy to trust God when we can see the path ahead, and to have peace about a situation when everything’s going smoothly. But what about when it’s not? I used to think that God’s peace over a situation meant that the path would seamlessly unfold before me – no bumps, no hurdles, no…
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Discharged from the hospital 2 weeks ago today after skull base to C2 fusion and rocked a yoga flow! Yesterday the pain was almost unbearable, as was an unrelenting headache, fatigue and foggy brain. I rested a lot, prayed a lot, took a long hot shower and curled up with heat packs. Went to the…