4 results for tag: Fear
Perspective for Enduring Panic Attacks
Panic attacks—they are crippling. Your mind spins, your pulse is out-of-control fast, the world fades, and you feel like you are sinking into it. If this is happening to you—I am so very sorry.
Have panic attacks become a part of your life since loss occurred—or become accentuated? In this post, I focus specifically on enduring panic attacks with biblical perspective, with peace.
I understand that you have likely spent significant time praying and yearning for a remedy. And I understand that when you hear the words “worry,” “fear,” or “anxious” from others applied to your brand of panic and anxiety, you often cannot relate to what ...
Nourished by Christ in My Wilderness of Anxiety
About four years ago, I experienced my first, full-blown panic attack. Those experiences accumulated and I grew to have increasing difficult with leaving my home. I remember willfully dumping myself into the passenger seat to be driven to my parents’ nearby home—only two minutes later to feel an urgent pull within for the car to be turned around. Or I remember my husband and I taking our trotting dog for a walk, yards from our home, unable to carry a simple conversation because of the mental pain.
For many Hope Moms, anxiety of various proportions can come as one of the threads that compounds the grief journey, and in this post, I focus specifi...
His Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Fear has always been an unwelcome companion in my life.
As far back as I can remember, I was well acquainted with that tight feeling in my stomach and the shortness of breath in my lungs that I would get when I was afraid. Many of my decisions were shaped by it.
I didn’t make it through many sleep overs as a child because fear would call me home. I wouldn’t open up to many people, because fear was always there to remind me that others may not accept or understand me. Fear convinced me to say no to countless opportunities as I got older because it would whisper dozens of excuses to me;
Don’t try, you might fail.Don’t reach out, you ...
Anchored: Wrestling with Fear
Over the next nine weeks on the blog, we will be following along with our fall Hope Groups as they go through Hope Mommies’ newly published Bible Study — Anchored. For those of you who did not register for a group this year, this will be an opportunity to walk through the topics studied in our Hope Groups. For those of you who are currently participating in a Hope Group, our desire is for these posts to reinforce the lessons you are learning with your group. Wherever you are in your journey through loss and grief, I pray that this series will encourage your heavy hearts, remind you of truth, and point you to the unrelenting, far-reaching ...
