Have you ever watched someone pass away? I don’t mean “heard about it later.” Not “gotten the call.” Not “arrived after the fact to sit with the body already still.” I mean actually watched.
Have you been present, sitting there as a body fails in real time? Have you watched the chest rise and fall, then rise less, then not rise at all?
Because I have. And I’ve reached a place in the understanding of my own grief where I genuinely don’t care how uncomfortable it makes people to hear about it. Why? Because it’s coming for all of us… and if you don’t really look at that, you are not actually living.
Category Archives: Psychology
The Author’s Perspective | Before You Transition, Do These Things
Before you transition, stop existing and start living. Tell the people you love that you love them. Watch a sunrise without rushing. Forgive yourself for being human. Fall deeply in love with something. Learn how to let go. Be still. Leave people better than you found them. One day none of us will care about the numbers. We will only care whether we truly lived while we had the chance.
The Author’s Perspective: When the Mirror Stops Reflecting the Familiar
Looking at unexpected snapshots of myself, I did not recognize the person looking back. After years of caregiving, loss, and feeling like an orphan on earth, the face in the photos simultaneously said “this is who you are now” and “who are you now?” This is the quiet, tear filled space of delayed grief and spiritual becoming, where the outer form no longer matches the inner knowing, yet I remain a child of God, fully known even when I do not yet fully know myself.
Authenticity Unveiled | This Is What Spiritual Battle Looks Like
This is what spiritual battle looks like. A sobering reminder from the news about Perez Hilton. What happened is more than a public crisis. It is a visible fracture where body mind and spirit collide. Scripture warns that we wrestle not against flesh and blood. When someone begins turning toward the Word the opposition often intensifies. From professional experience I believe medication changes can open genuine vulnerability and the enemy is opportunistic. This is not a moment for armchair diagnosis or mockery. It is a moment for intercession. Pray for his deliverance clarity of mind and the true gospel to reach him in power. The battle is real. The One who holds all authority is greater still.
The Shadow Side of Agape: When Unconditional Love Becomes a Cage
Exploring the shadow side of agape love and the real cost of unbounded, undifferentiated self-giving. Scripture invites us into wiser, more integrated love that honors both the soul and necessary boundaries.
Authenticity Unveiled | The Dark Night of the Soul
There is a season that most people who have walked any serious spiritual or personal journey will recognize the moment you name it. It does not announce itself. It does not come with a warning label or a timeline or a clear explanation. It simply arrives — and what it brings with it is a kind of interior darkness that is unlike ordinary sadness, unlike depression as most people understand it, unlike grief in the conventional sense. It is a darkness that feels specifically targeted. As though whatever light you had been navigating by has simply gone out. If you have been there, you know exactly what I am describing. If you have not, I hope this gives you a map for when you do.
When Grief Compounds: Layers, Love, and the Family Left Behind
A reader asked if I would write more about grief. What unfolded over the course of our private exchanges was one of the most layered grief stories I have encountered – not because her experience is unusual, but because it is far more common than anyone talks about. This post is for her. And I suspect it is for more of you than any one of us might realize.
Science and Spirituality | Body and Mind: Let the Tide Come In
Most of us were only ever taught to manage things. To perform okay. To say “I’m fine” on autopilot until we actually believed it, or at least stopped questioning it. But the body keeps an honest record of everything our mouths agreed to leave behind…
The psychological and the spiritual aren’t competing systems. Together they create a full circuit, either feeding or starving us. The longest-process things on the list of human emotions aren’t longer because they’re more powerful. They’re longer because someone kept interrupting the process.
Eventually, we have to allow the tide to come in.
Sunday Sessions | You’re Not Overthinking: Discernment, Pattern Recognition, and the Mantle You Carry
The world has a word for people who see too much. Overthinker. Anxious. Too sensitive. But somewhere along the way, a lot of us learned to second-guess the very thing God was sharpening in us. The “problem” is pattern recognition, and it’s only a problem for people who don’t have any skill in it. Discernment is pattern recognition under anointing. And the weight you’ve been feeling? That’s not a crisis. Scripture calls it a mantle. God does not press people He does not intend to use.
The Battle Within, The Rest Beyond | Spiritual Foundations for Healing
Healing is hard because it is a constant battle between your inner child, who is scared and just wants safety; your inner teenager, who is angry and just wants justice; and your current self, who is tired and just wants peace. In my experience, the only true solution to that battle is to surrender it to God and allow Him to work in your life, on His terms and in His time.
Science & Spirituality | Surrender Is Not Powerlessness: What Your Brain and Your Bible Both Know About Anger
Being pissed off feels powerful. But psychologically and spiritually, it’s a trap. Here’s what your brain and your Bible both know about anger, resentment, and why surrender is the most powerful thing you can do.
Jane Fonda’s Wounds Drive Her Activism. What Drives Yours? | Daily Bread
It has come to my attention that many in the younger generations are confused about Jane Fonda’s recent statements on the Iran strikes. They’re not asking hard questions. They’re following and supporting them blindly. From the crow’s nest, I’d like to sound a warning: that’s a mistake. If you’d like to see things from thatContinueContinue reading “Jane Fonda’s Wounds Drive Her Activism. What Drives Yours? | Daily Bread”
Dear Christians | It’s Not About A Building.
It is not about what you do in a building. It is holiness in secret, not performance in public. It’s about who you are when no one is watching.
The Psychology of Political Conviction: Why Facts Often Fail to Change Minds
It’s been quite a while since I’ve shared a psychology-related write-up. Recently, I saw a clip of liberal commentary that prompted a realization: even many otherwise balanced, reasonable people don’t fully understand what’s happening in the psyches of those on the radical ends of the political spectrum. And this phenomenon is not confined to oneContinueContinue reading “The Psychology of Political Conviction: Why Facts Often Fail to Change Minds”
When Compromise Becomes Complicity: Why Speaking Truth Is No Longer Optional
I saw a post recently about Susan Rice advocating for reeducation camps for those who haven’t adopted her worldview. Why this approach? Because persuasion has failed. When you can’t convince people through reason or evidence, the next step becomes force. This reveals something crucial about the current moment: we are witnessing the breakdown of sharedContinueContinue reading “When Compromise Becomes Complicity: Why Speaking Truth Is No Longer Optional”
Authenticity Unveiled | The Moral and Psychological Breakdown in Radical Left Ideology
I continue to notice an alarming contradiction playing out over and over again. In this post, I attempt to examine that contradiction, and peel apart its layers. A Contradiction in Moral Focus It was the recent release of more detailed Epstein files that led me to a full conscious awareness of the contradiction in moralContinueContinue reading “Authenticity Unveiled | The Moral and Psychological Breakdown in Radical Left Ideology”