My whole life I was told that the fact that I am a sensitive and overly emotional person was a weakness. When I felt something strongly and expressed it, I was laughed at and told that it was a “bad” thing. Up until recently, I accepted that as truth. I worked tirelessly to shove feelings [...]
Inadequate. That is a word I have been using to describe myself lately. It keeps popping up in my head when someone puts me down, makes fun of me, when I can’t get over my emotions, when I can’t figure out a solution to a problem, when my hair doesn’t look quite right, when I [...]
I get so hung up on reading and writing and biblical scholarship. I love to study theology, spending countless hours struggling through tough questions that arise, going to sleep flustered because I could not figure it out yet overjoyed that I fought through it in the first place. I get that most do not function [...]
