THE BLOG
This blog is the love child of my left and right brain, where chaos and calm happily coexist.
I share real stories and experiences to inspire personal growth, faith, happiness, and purposeful living.
Earlier this week, I woke up in the middle of the night with horrible anxiety. 
Like, really, really bad.
This hadn’t happened to me in a while, and I was hoping I’d be able to shake it off and go back to sleep — but no such luck. The longer I lay there, the louder that ugly...
“Christie, honey, there’s someone here to pick up your Jeep,”
I was staying with my aunt at the time, and she’d just come back to her guest bedroom to inform me that someone was in her front yard to repossess my vehicle.
“I tried to talk to him to see if there was...
Several years ago, after months of countless and frustrating doctor’s visits, my husband, Steve, was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called CISP (Chronic Immune Sensory Polyradiculopathy).
CISP is a rare disorder in which the body attacks the myelin sheaths of the peripheral nerves. To...
“She called y’all mistakes.”
That’s what my daughter and son were told I had said about them.
When I first heard this, I was so angry I’m pretty sure you could see the steam coming out of my ears and the nails spitting out of my mouth! And when I say...
When I was 14 years old, I dreamed of being a mom one day.
I pictured a little brown-haired, blue-eyed girl, and a blonde-haired blue-eyed boy, and day-dreamed in depth about holding them, loving them and watching them grow. I even picked out the name of my daughter. I prayed that God would one...
