About Me
Mental illness. Parenting. Faith. Abuse recovery. This is where I'm living right now, and this is what I'm talking about.
Life is tough. A few years ago, an unexpected psychiatric hospitalization brought life as I knew it crashing to a halt. Over the next several months, I grappled with a new diagnosis of bipolar disorder, new realizations about the sexual abuse I'd suffered as a child, and major shifts in some of my closest relationships. It was the most painful season of my life.
And yet, life truly is beautiful. On the other side of all that, I can honestly say that my faith is deeper, my relationships with family and friends are more real, and my calling is clearer than ever. My deep desire is to give voice to both the desperation and the hope of living our fragile human lives as beloved children of God in a broken world.
I live with my husband and four children in an old blue house in the Portland, Oregon area.
Life is tough. A few years ago, an unexpected psychiatric hospitalization brought life as I knew it crashing to a halt. Over the next several months, I grappled with a new diagnosis of bipolar disorder, new realizations about the sexual abuse I'd suffered as a child, and major shifts in some of my closest relationships. It was the most painful season of my life.
And yet, life truly is beautiful. On the other side of all that, I can honestly say that my faith is deeper, my relationships with family and friends are more real, and my calling is clearer than ever. My deep desire is to give voice to both the desperation and the hope of living our fragile human lives as beloved children of God in a broken world.
I live with my husband and four children in an old blue house in the Portland, Oregon area.
