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BY JESS BROWN

I’m not sure if this sounds super dramatic but I’ve felt suppressed for a long time. I can’t keep plants alive but I know there comes a time when a plant’s roots are growing and the only thing holding it back from growing more is the size of the container its in. I can make […]

Beginning, Community, Mental Health

Like a small plant rising 

Celebrating personal growth and becoming who you are meant to be

You will find it. What do you mean it? I mean whatever your heart or mind immediately filled in when you read this title. Ha! For me, something that I have feared for most of my life (yes even childhood) was that I would never find love and get married. I think being exposed to […]

Faith, Jesus, Mental Health

You will find it

I published a podcast similar to this topic a while ago: here. But this is something that can come up at times for me still to this day. The desire to be fully healed according to my standards of healing so I don’t have to feel embarrassed that I’m still not over “it”. Have you […]

Beginning, Faith, Jesus, Mental Health

Be gentle with your healing

I’ve been thinking a lot about how stuck I still feel in the writing process despite the fact that I started consistently blogging in 2013. I don’t know if shame is necessarily the right word but I feel frustrated that I’m not further along. Writing has always been there for me to process difficult emotions […]

Beginning, Mental Health

You can do it again 

One of the hardest things I’ve faced in my healing journey is feeling like I have slowed down. There are days when I really want to keep pushing forward because I’m motivated to be more creative or there is a huge list of things I want to achieve and either I feel like I can’t […]

Beginning, Faith, Mental Health

Read this if you are moving slowly