Everyday Living

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Managing an Unbearable Workload: When Resting Isn't Enough

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You are going through an intense season, and the work never stops. Then, the weekend arrives, or you go on a holiday trip, and it’s amazing, but soon it’s Sunday night again and you start dreading what’s coming.
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I Entered a New Year in Tears, But God Held Me Fast

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At the beginning of last year, I was facing anxiety on multiple fronts. While others were looking forward to the coming year with hope, I was starting mine with dread.
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When You Want to Give Up Before You've Even Started

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An organisation in my college was calling for submissions for a writers’ workshop, so I decided to try it out, as I had just finished writing a story.
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Making Decisions—How to Trust the Spirit (and Not Just Your Gut)

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What course should I take? What career should I pursue? Who should I date—and marry? Making decisions in life is hard enough, but it’s even harder as a Christian...
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How to Be at Peace When You Have Not Achieved Your Goals

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What has this year been like for you? Were you able to do all that you had set out to accomplish?
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I Quit My Job for My Mental Health

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Backstabbing colleagues. Inattentive managers. An unmanageable, ever-growing workload. These were a few of the factors that made me quit my job.
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Finding Peace When God Doesn't Answer Your Whys

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I was over the moon when I saw those two lines on the pregnancy test. However, during the first scan at about the eight-week mark, it was immediately obvious something was wrong.
Dear Church, Can We Talk About Mental Disorder?

Let's Talk About Mental Disorders

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I tried sharing about my mental health struggles at one of the first churches I served in. I thought asking for help from a church leader would be a good idea. But the response I got was simply, just pray more, trust God more.
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3 Reasons We Procrastinate (and How We Can Overcome It)

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We all have moments of procrastination. We live in a world marred by sin, so we all inevitably have to do things we don’t enjoy doing or find hard to do. Even so, many of us probably wish that we didn’t procrastinate so much! But before we can think about how to overcome it, we need to first understand why we do it.