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Womanly Wednesday: A Guest Post On Wrestling With Mental Illness

September 16, 2015 By Lauren

Welcome to this week’s Womanly Wednesday! I “met” today’s guest poster through one of those crazy small-world connections.  I recognized her unique last name in a blogging group and asked her if she knew an old friend that Jordan and I had done Young Life summer staff several years back.  It turns out she had married that old friend! I’ve loved getting to know her via email and blogging these last few weeks and love her deep heart to find gratitude and joy in the midst of brokenness. I’m so grateful to have her sharing her heart on the blog today and hope you’ll head over to check out her awesome blog, The Demczack Days, for more of her thoughts on life, marriage, and faith! 

My eyes welled up with tears. I started to sweat. My head pounded. My vision became blurry. My body began to shake unforgivingly. My mind raced with nothing. I felt light-headed, dizzy. Could I breathe? I felt like I was choking. My stomach sank. Salty tears spilled over and down my cheeks aggressively. I took sharp, loud breaths. I sat on the floor, not caring that I was at work.

Womanly Wednesday Wrestling With Mental Illness

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Filed Under: Womanly Wednesday Tagged With: Depression, Mental Illness, Womanly Wednesday

Womanly Wednesday: A Guest Post On Anxiety

July 1, 2015 By Lauren

Thanks for stopping by for this week’s Womanly Wednesday Guest Post! Today’s post is by my friend Jenny Hall.  I met Jenny (a fellow California girl!) before we started our freshman year at Davidson College, and have learned so much from the brave ways she has reached out to other people and to God to wrestle with deep questions of who she is and what it looks like to live her faith and her life well.  She is an incredibly passionate person who loves deeply, feels deeply, and runs after the things she loves with everything she has.   I am so grateful to have her vulnerable, funny, and beautiful words on the blog today.  

Womanly Wednesday Anxiety Oxford Jenny

There was a time in my life when I thought a lot about my armpits. I planned my outfits carefully. Sleeveless tops were best, obviously, but if I had to wear sleeves then I most definitely needed a sweatshirt on hand – even in 100 degree Southern California summers. It takes a lot to sweat through a sweatshirt.

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Filed Under: Womanly Wednesday Tagged With: Anxiety, Depression, Faith, Heart Stuff, Womanly Wednesday






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