Tag: hope

• My View From Counseling

  

  I know I need to go and I also really don’t want to—these thoughts hang simultaneously in the air. Does anyone want to voluntarily sign up to work through hard things with someone they don’t know very well? Definitely not me. I text a friend, please check in with me to make sure I schedule…

  kristenrupp525

  March 3, 2023

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• Like Velcro: trusting another with my dark thoughts

  

  From thousands of feet in the air, I found myself looking down at the Indiana countryside, wind rushing past my face through an open airplane door. My palms wet with sweat, heart thumping, and legs trembling, I braced myself for what came next. “Okay, you have to jump!” the skydive instructor, who I was securely…

  kristenrupp525

  February 24, 2023

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  anxiety, Christians struggling with depression and anxiety, depression, God’s provision, hope, marriage, mental health, moms and mental health, support of another in mental health, writing to heal and encourage, you are not alone

• Where is Jesus in My Darkest Moments?

  

  Do you struggle with day upon day of slate gray, dull, wintery days? You know, the ones where darkness creeps in before 5 PM? Me too. Honestly, I am deeply afraid of this season. The darkness of night often breeds opaqueness within my soul, where depression and anxiety lurk in the shadows, ready to pounce.…

  kristenrupp525

  February 3, 2023

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  anxiety, Christians struggling with depression and anxiety, depression, hope, hope in Jesus, light in the darkness, mental health, moms and mental health, writing to heal and encourage, you are not alone