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Tag Archives: church
Unravelling
This week marks the halfway point of my time in the Therapeutic Community. Over the first three months, I made tangible changes; moved house, reduced working hours, withdrew myself from my parents’ “let’s divorce each other as inhumanely as possible” … Continue reading
Posted in character, church, disability, faith, mental illness, prayer, trust, work
Tagged abandonment, academia, anger, anxiety, avoidant personality disorder, avpd, borderline personality disorder, bpd, church, control, coping, drama triangle, eupd, fear, group therapy, rejection, therapeutic community
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Garden of Trust
You’d think that after 5 years, leaving Taizé would get easier. It doesn’t. It gets harder. The notes of a friend who, like me, journeyed to Taizé for the fifth time this year, returning to the UK a week … Continue reading
Posted in character, children, church, disability, faith, mental health, mental illness, plans, prayer, trust, work, worship
Tagged borderline personality disorder, bpd, Christianity, church, emotionally unstable personality disorder, eupd, pilgrimage of trust, prayer, Taize, trust in God, veneration of the cross
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Taste the Rainbow 🌈
As I cack-handedly gave the children’s address this morning, offering M and Ms (other sugar-coated chocolates are available) in an attempt to demonstrate that colour is inconsequential to taste, this is the slogan that was running amok in my mind. … Continue reading
Healing Steps
Be still for the power of the Lord Is moving in this place He comes to cleanse and heal To minister his grace No work too hard for him, in peace receive from him. Be still for the power of … Continue reading
Posted in church, faith, forgiveness, mental health, mental illness, prayer, trust
Tagged avoidant personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, bpd, church, emotionally unstable personality disorder, eupd, God, group therapy, mental health, mental illness, prayer, therapeutic community, two:23
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Treading water
Can you step into the same river twice? It doesn’t feel like there is any solid ground underneath my feet anymore. Like I am desperately trying to step down to find it, but finding that it isn’t there, and that … Continue reading
Posted in mental health, mental illness, morality, plans, prayer, trust, work
Tagged borderline personality disorder, bpd, church, exhaustion, fear, God, mental illness, suicide, worry
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