Soaking in the goodness of the gospel, I started dating my husband. He too had grown up in a similar spiritual community to mine, and he too, through other ways, had been awakened to the gospel in his mid-twenties. Together we rejoiced in all the ways the gospel was changing everything for us. Still, IContinue reading “A Story of God’s Nearness in Anxiety, PPD & Religious OCD, part III”
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A Story of God’s Nearness in Religious OCD, part II
It has been 15 years since the Lord started me on this journey of knowing his nearness and consistent rescue when fear runs amok, and anxiety attempts to overwhelm. I really don’t want to downplay the role that therapists and counselors have in helping with mental health disorders like OCD or religious OCD (I haveContinue reading “A Story of God’s Nearness in Religious OCD, part II”
A Story of God’s Nearness in Religious OCD – part I
In my childhood and teen years I developed a disorder that involves persistent or sticky thoughts about morality and religiosity. It is driven by intense anxiety and fear in our relationship with God and moves us to engage in compulsive behaviors to calm the anxiety. This is called scrupulosity or religious OCD. It is aContinue reading “A Story of God’s Nearness in Religious OCD – part I”
For the mama fighting shame on Mother’s Day
Dear mama, are you fighting shame today? Shame… …in knowing all the ways you’ve sinned against your kids & failed in parenting? …in the sting of the brokenness you feel in motherhood that seems to be affirmed by the lack of appreciation from your kids? …in the insecurity that comes from remembering childhood hurt &Continue reading “For the mama fighting shame on Mother’s Day”
Aylín Merck 