This podcast is very near to my heart and was incredibly hard to share. For so long, I've been afraid to even speak of this season of my life that I struggled with panic and anxiety. I was fearful that by even speaking the names of these things, they would be triggered to return.
But I truly know that I am healed and that stories of healing are meant to be shared. Have grace with this podcast. I am rambly and a little disorganized, but it's because I'm emotional and it's all so personal. I believe that by putting biblical and logical concepts of discipline in place, we can manage anxiety and find peace. But my 4th point is the most crucial and life changing for me. I believe that by the power of Jesus and his Holy Spirit, I found the true and absolute healing I was looking for. Please listen if you or someone you know deals with anxiety and have grace for my bumbling words. I pray something in here resonates with you and helps you understand concepts that could help you. During this time, I wrote the below words as a way to remind myself that there was healing from all the pain. I wrote a lot during that time, and never shared most of it, so I might little by little post it here. Kind of scary to me, but it's also healing. I’d always grown up believing the best of the world, seeing it with rose colored glasses. But darkness scraped off my childishness, removing my skin, rendering it ashes. I had a choice To sit, to remember, to anger, to condemn Or I could re-grow that skin, painfully stronger than it had been. So you know what I did? My skin grew back, tough and more rosey than ever before. I have a power inside of me that spoke to the darkness ‘no more.’ It sang: ‘You do not have to be broken to be real. You don’t have to be broken to feel. You are mighty in your wholeness. Strong and growing and healed. And your rose-colored glasses are glasses no longer, but have become the way you see what is stronger. the darkness only wins if we sit in our anger but in healing, that childlike-rosey light is now your anchor.’
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Sherrie
11/9/2018 05:46:17 pm
I'm truly thankful for your courage in sharing your story! This has touched home for me, as a person that deals with panic attacks and anxiety. Your five steps mentioned has been the process that I attempted as well and removing all negative from my life. Staying close to the loved ones that support you through it all is a big blessing. Prayers is a must!💜 God is working through you in so many ways!
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