Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor, Certified Anger Management Specialist, Christian Counselor for Depression, Anxiety, Codependency, Personality Disorders, Trauma – Canton, Woodstock, Holly Springs GA & Video/Phone
Christian Women With Depression devotional posts. Penny Haynes’ journey through depression, anxiety and fear.
In “Streams in the Desert”, I read of a beautiful flower that grows both up on an unprotected mountain top as well as in the valley. The version in the valley is pallid, without much shape or color. The version on the mountain top, however, is beautifully colored and shaped – magnificent. It reminded me […]
Unbelievable! I was at the gym on the treadmill and saw a commercial for a diet pill that basically told you (through images) if you take the pill, you’ll look like these young, tiny half-clad girls, and end up with a gorgeous guy holding you close. And you’ll be loved, desired and happy! Bahahahahahahahaha. At […]
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 really bugs me. I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, […]
Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. Ps. 46:10 Being still is the hardest thing when you are anxious or depressed. I know, in my case, that was because if I was still, my thoughts used to SCREAM at me, […]
I know that sounds like a really stupid thing to say, but sometimes, you need to know that what you are hoping to find ISN’T ACTUALLY OUT THERE. That was something that had a very freeing effect on me. Once I found out I was tormenting myself looking for something that didn’t exist (basically uncovered […]
I still have panic attacks. Little ones, mostly. Like the kind when all of a sudden your heart starts to race, and your hands start to tingle. It happened this morning, when the bills came in, along with my unemployment benefits letter. To fill you in, after working for myself for several years as a […]
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