Tag: Anxiety

• Fighting Words

  

  Satan tries very hard to cause us to believe false truths. As we begin to believe those false truths and have doubts in our hearts and minds, we begin to turn ever so slightly from Jesus. Sometimes, I believe the lies. words + photographs JAYLA PENICK Some days, I believe I must be happy and…

  homegrownjournal

  September 7, 2022

  2022, September 2022, Storytellers

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• Lessons & Plans

  

  “’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future,’” (Jeremiah 29:11). Ever since I can remember, I knew the plan the Lord had for me. He had clearly revealed to me I was called to…

  homegrownjournal

  September 7, 2022

  2022, September 2022, Storytellers

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• In the Wilderness

  

  I’m a highly-functioning, anxious depressive. Doesn’t that sound fun? I hide it extremely well — the gift of being considered highly-functional. No one sees the panic flaring in my chest as my carefully-controlled world descends into chaos or the agonizing oppression that weighs me down when too happy becomes so, so sad. I’m guessing that…

  homegrownjournal

  June 2, 2022

  2022, June 2022, Storytellers

  2 Corinthians 12:9, Anxiety, Depression, Eaglecrest Counseling Center, God, Jesus, Joann Weston, Mental Health, Prayer, quiet + kin, Satan, Suicide, Tara Hathcock

• Mental Health for Each of Us

  

  We appreciate the time taken by Joann Weston, MA, LPC, a licensed professional counselor at Eaglecrest Counseling Center in Springfield, Missouri, to help us begin a conversation about mental health, as well as offer ideas on how we can support, love and encourage those who have been diagnosed with depression. We hear about “mental health”…

  homegrownjournal

  June 2, 2022

  2022, Culture, June 2022

  Anxiety, Celebrate Recovery, Depression, Eaglecrest Counseling Center, Encourage, Health Problems, Infant Death, Joann Weston, Love, M.E.N.D., MEND, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Definition, Mental Health Wellness, Mental Illness, Missouri, Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death, NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Ozarks, Physical Health, Self-care, Southwest Missouri, Springfield