So you can probably see how the teachings of Abraham Hicks could be perceived as spiritual bypassing as defined by @yourspiritualmermaid. Again, she said it is trying to force...

Spiritual Bypassing is an especially relevant term on social media right now. TikTok user, @yourspiritualmermaid, defines it as trying to force yourself not to be sad or angry and...

The year was 2019 and it felt like nearly a lifetime had passed since I completed that summer internship in Winona Lake. Leah Remini’s influence in bringing awareness to...

He showed up at the school one evening with an equipment delivery. Another student and I had just finished cleaning and closing the kitchen for the night. We were...

It was two weeks before I saw Rashaad again. He only came to do big jobs for Mr. Sims or to to make deliveries in one of the trucks....

 It was the last evening of camp preparation. The next day, church busses filled with cheering kids would be making their way down the long gravel driveway. Rashaad and...

I was still sixteen when I joined my older sister at Ambassador Baptist College, (ABC) a non-accredited IFB school which was then in Shelby, NC. Although I had been sent...

Only days after that trip to the club, my doctor’s office called. I was curled up reading Craving Grace when the phone rang. The medical assistant spoke slowly and...

I’m going to rewind again and this time back to the last eighteen months or so just prior to leaving NC for AZ. I was quickly climbing the corporate...

I want to go back to just a couple of years prior to my introduction to Mary Jane. I was working as a private duty nurse caring for an...

I can see my younger self sitting with my mother and siblings on the church pew. My father was standing behind the pulpit as he preached from the Kings...

Dear Diary, Wait. No, that isn’t right. Dear Readers, I’m writing these entries with you in mind. However, they are adapted from my personal diaries and journals. I struggled...