Growing up, I was always a bit of a people pleaser. I was the girl who was "too nice" and many times that got taken advantage of. I wanted everyone to be happy, to be liked, to keep the peace and to avoid any sign of conflict; many times at the cost of my own peace, personal values and ...
30 Journal Prompts for Living Beyond Fear this June!
I don't know about you, but I've been in an adventurous mood these days. Likely because I just finished cramming this Spring semester and am looking forward to summer more than you could possibly imagine. I also remember the (recent) days when summer was just another string of months of ...
When Insecurity Is Sabotaging Your Relationship and How to Stop It
New relationships can be both wondrous and terrifying for the one daring to love again after betrayal. Vulnerability leaves you wide open. And being wide open is…scary. That’s exactly when insecurity becomes the unwelcome third party. We get so excited to be with this wonderful person that we ...
The 7-Day Anxiety Detox E-Series is Here!
Anxiety is real. Always fearing the worst that could happen. Struggling to grasp peace of mind. Overthinking. The insecurity that rules your relationship. And the battle to trust God through it all. It’s so easy to accept our anxious thoughts as truth because they feel ...
When Insecurity Gets in the Way of Your Purpose
If we left everything to our insecurities, we’d never show up for our lives. Insecurity is truly the condition of never “being enough”. As long as we continue to hang in the balance of not smart enough, not brave enough, not “attractive” enough, and all else we’ve been convinced of, our potential ...
6 Ways Stepping Outside Of Your Comfort Zone Will Radically Change Your Life
There are so many things I would have never known I was capable of had I not stepped outside of myself and just did it. This blog, for one, wouldn’t exist. You would not be reading these words right now if I became paralyzed by every insecurity about it. Let’s be real, the ...
5 Mentalities That Are Holding You Back in Life
In the world of Cognitive Psychology, which is the specialty of my interest, there are about 15 known thinking distortions common to so many of us- myself included. Cognitive Distortions are essentially when your structure of thinking is flawed in it’s reasoning. Cognition is how your mind processes ...
4 Steps to Untwisting Insecure and Anxious Thinking
Insecurity is no joke. I've been talking to a lot of young women whose thoughts are literally drowned out by fears- fears in new relationships, the way people view them, the future, struggles with family and friends, and so on. This can trigger extreme reactions to events that aren't as threatening ...
How to Stop Overthinking and Live in the Moment
Does your thinking tend to drift into an eternal cycle of the why’s, the how’s, and the what if’s? Welcome to the club my friend. I am by nature an over-thinker. I have a PhD in overthinking. I’ve mastered it just about all my life. I’ve been guilty of overthinking about my overthinking. After a ...
The Biggest Lesson God Taught Me This Year…
God has really been keeping me lifted these days. I mean, literally, I’m writing this from 40,000 ft up in the air. Austin and I are on our way to yet another big move. I was so sure I’d NEVER leave Los Angeles, the city I was born and raised in with all my friends, my family and my home church ...