by DrMichelle | Blog, Depression |
Have you ever stared at your reflection in the mirror and felt like a stranger, disconnected from the person you once knew? This journey through the pit of despair became the catalyst for profound change in my life, a transformation marked by small, daily choices that eventually led me back to life, joy, and healing. Join me as I share the insights gained from my personal battle with depression. In this post, I share 20 ways to fight depression. This isn’t just a recount of my journey; it’s a guide filled with actionable strategies, spiritual reflections, and practical tips aimed at helping you overcome the challenges of depression. Together, let’s navigate the path to healing, hope, and a brighter tomorrow.
by DrMichelle | Podcast |
If you have ever failed at accomplishing a New Year’s resolution and then felt bad about yourself, then this is the perfect episode for you. The New Year always seems to impose a “re-set,” if you will, on our lives, and often it brings with it the expectation of life-altering changes in the form of resolutions which days later have a tendency to usher in feelings of defeat and failure. But that doesn’t have to be. In this podcast episode, Scott and I discuss some healthy alternatives to the fateful New Year’s resolution.
by DrMichelle | Blog, Encouragement |
The new year is upon us now, but as is common at this time of year, it has me reflecting on the past year. As I think back on the past year, one word comes to mind: Messy. I lost several loved ones prematurely for my liking. Several relationships proved challenging and difficult. Changes in business and ministry direction occurred which I wasn’t expecting. And several friends and I received painful cancer diagnoses and began treatment.
Those were things that primarily happened to me. Things I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
Yet our messes don’t just include the things that happen to us, do they?
by DrMichelle | Blog, Encouragement |
It’s that time of year again—that time when we naturally start taking an assessment of how our year has gone, and an inventory of the goals we both did and didn’t achieve over the course of the year. How does that make you feel?
Every year we seem to start off the same way. New Year’s Day comes and we are filled with anticipation, excitement, and resolve to make this the best year yet. Frequently, somewhere along the line, our motivation or perhaps our momentum gets suspended. Often, we mess up and give up believing not only have we failed, but we are a failure.
by DrMichelle | Blog, Encouragement |
Does the end of one year and start of the next leave you frustrated or disappointed? Was last year all you had anticipated it would be? Did things go as you planned, or at some point did you find yourself upside down or inside out from where you expected?
If you had asked me a year ago to bullet point for you what my year would hold, I can tell you now, I would have been way off base. I never would have predicted neck surgery, a boating accident with my son with subsequent surgery, being directed by God to close my private practice and enter into a season of rest before being diagnosed and undergoing surgery and treatment for cancer.
