Influence For Purpose

As a massage therapist, I love seeing how God uses me to help someone physically recover.  Even more so, as a mental health expert from more than 14 years of personal experience and research, I love seeing how God uses my husband and I, among others, to help people recover from mental breakdowns through the sharing of our testimony . 😇 . We are referring specifically to people who who’ve been told something along the lines like that they should consider going on disability because they might never be able to work again, and/or they will need to remain on psychotropic medications for the rest of their lives. Basically, these people have been told to give up. This was also my story. 😔 . It’s our passion to see people overcome mental struggles and not be defined by a diagnosis. God’s word and truth about who we are  can not only give us hope,  but allow us to live a life of fullness.  His definition of full is joy, peace, and love.  This too, is my story! 🙋🏻‍♀️...

Emotions can be so tricky!  . We have many positive emotions,  but often we have just as many negative ones. . And just because we "feel" those negative emotions doesn't mean  we need to become one with them. . We can acknowledge them, but we don't have to welcome them.  . Whether they are from our past or our present,  it's very easy to contemplate those emotions.    Some of them feel nice to hold on to! . I keep having a dream in which my subconscious  keeps trying to take me to a past emotional state  as if desiring me to acknowledge it  and become one with it.  . I used to ruminate on these thoughts in the past.    . The word ruminate means to think deeply about something,  and I used to think so deeply about this that  I used to feel so sorry for myself and angry about the injustice   that had been done to me and others. This was a problem because I do not want  to revisit painful memories that I ...