Maybe asking if we deserve the hardships we have, or the suffering we are experiencing is missing the point of them altogether. Maybe suffering just is and life just happens– and the stories we tell either amplify our suffering, or not. Because my friend, you don’t DESERVE to suffer– yet you will.
I don’t know about you but I could use some ease and joy in my life at the moment– and from what I’m hearing from each of you as you respond to my newsletters is that you could too. So, here are the 10 things to STOP doing if you want to feel more JOY…
I share a bit about my experience falling into and leaving Evangelical fundamentalism, the overlaps of high control groups and fundamentalism with narcissistic abuse, my predictions about the wellness space and the collapse of “wellness gurus” into the alt-right, and near the end, what I wish people knew about Jesus.
Read MoreI was convinced life was meant to be hard. Relationships like sandpaper. Joy- fleeting Pleasure- sinful My body- bad Ease- not to be trusted Rest- earned. I crumpled up those beliefs, threw them in the fire, watched them burn bright until they were nothing and began again to claim my joy. I choose to believe Heaven was always here.
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