Category: Stress

A Slow Burn

February 13, 2020 2 Comments

Like many of you, my story-- my overseas story-- is full of complicated layers of stress, hope, survival, endurance, and resolve. There are highs and lows. We get tired,...

Pain and Trials, Stress

There’s Hope After Burnout

February 11, 2020 12 Comments

“I feel like I have nothing to give.” I’ve scribbled these words in my journal in more than one season. The...

Life Overseas, Stress

Burnout Came For Me

February 9, 2020 12 Comments

Burnout came for me about six years into living overseas. It grabbed me without any warning. Sure, we’d had family stresses, team changes, moves, a medical evacuation, changes in...

Overcoming Obstacles, Spiritual Formation, Stress

When I Would Rather Hit You Than Love You

November 13, 2019 12 Comments

I really loved the people of my host country before we went. I mean, I prayed for them, I sacrificed for them, I fought for them and advocated for them,...

Pain and Trials, Stress

Stop It!

October 9, 2019 2 Comments

When we sold our house before leaving for Indonesia, my husband had to patch up holes in the walls. Holes that I had made with my fist, a Sippy...

Spiritual Formation, Stress

Seasons of Joy

October 6, 2019 7 Comments

Yearly seasons have taken on a whole new meaning since living in the tropics. Winter doesn’t exist here, and neither does fall. Our entire region swings between beautiful spring...

Advice, Stress

Just Dance

September 22, 2019 7 Comments

It’s Friday night in 2012 and the lights are low… My five-year-old daughter is dressed in a pink leotard with a shiny black traditional skirt wrapped...

A New Outlook, Overcoming Obstacles, Pain and Trials, Stress

Journeying Through Trauma

January 6, 2019 10 Comments

A few months ago, I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder primarily as a result of my childhood as a TCK in Outer Mongolia. Early 90’s Mongolia was not...