Journey Together
Thoughtful articles on faith, healing, emotional wellbeing, and wholehearted living.
What If What You Believe Isn't What You Think?
What if the beliefs shaping your life aren't the ones you consciously hold? We often think of belief as something we choose, declare or know to be true. But what about the beliefs formed long before we were aware of them?
The Part You Never Knew You Played
Sometimes people come into our lives, walk alongside us for a season, and leave without ever knowing the part they played in our transformation. A chance encounter after eight years reminded me that some of the most significant moments in our journey aren't always recognised until much later. And sometimes, what stays with us isn't the friendship itself, but what it quietly awakened within us.
To the Friends Who Once Felt Like Home
Some friendships never really leave us, even when life takes us in different directions. A personal reflection on two extraordinary friendships, unconditional love, faith, the things we couldn't see, and the bittersweet joy of watching people we once held close finally find their happiness.
The Art of Being: Have We Overlooked the Meaning of Presence?
What happens when familiar words take on a deeper meaning? Through my studies in somatic trauma-informed therapy, I've found myself recognising echoes of scripture in the modern language of presence, awareness, emotional maturity and freedom.
The Garden, the Serpent and the Stories We Carry
This may seem an unusual connection, but the garden story has me pondering how we see AI. How much comes from what is actually there, and how much from the stories we have been told? A reflection on knowledge, assumed motives and making space for God’s guidance.
When Faith Becomes a Burden: Have We Forgotten How to Hold the Hurting?
An old memory surfaced while I was standing in the shower a younger version of me desperately asking my church for help to understand my anger. It led me somewhere much deeper: into questions about faith, trauma, shame, the nervous system and the burdens we sometimes unknowingly place on people in the name of God.
The Space Between Blame and Responsibility
What if responsibility was never meant to equal blame? Sometimes we justify, defend, hide or freeze before we’ve even had the chance to ask what part belongs to us. A reflection on protective patterns, accountability, faith and the power of creating a pause where we can respond differently.
The Caterpillar, the Butterfly, and the Journey of Becoming
We often want to get to the butterfly, the healed, changed or transformed version of ourselves. But there is something important in the space between who we were and who we are becoming. This is a reflection on growth, transformation and allowing the journey to unfold in its own time.
When the Created Tries to Become the Creator
AI isn't the villain. Perhaps the greater question is what happens when humanity becomes so impressed by what we create that we forget the One who created us. From the Tower of Babel to artificial intelligence, the technology may have changed, but has the human pattern changed at all?
The Time Has Come The Walrus Said.. Part 2 - The Story they were told
At 16, I thought I was escaping something I feared. What I didn't know was that while I was trying to find my place in a new life, a different story about why I had left was being told to the people I loved. I would spend years trying to atone, make up and prove that I belonged
Coming Over the Next Wave
I know this wave. The irrational fears, the sudden change, the feeling that the child in front of you is somehow not quite themselves. We first met PANDAS in 2016, when our eight-year-old changed almost overnight. Years later, after believing those days were behind us, some familiar signs have returned.
The Time Has Come, the Walrus Said…
Some stories aren't kept silent because we have forgotten them. Sometimes we stay silent because telling our story also exposes the stories and choices of others. For years I carried that weight. But there comes a point when staying silent costs too much.
What If We’ve Been Fighting the Fire the Wrong Way?….
Something clicked for me this week. Nutrition, inflammation, the unconscious, signalling pathways things I had been looking at separately suddenly became one map. And it left me asking: what if we have been using fire retardant when what we really need is an extinguisher?
Overwhelm: When It Feels Like I’m Being Swept Out to Sea
I know my children are not broken. I know their strengths, their gifts and the incredible ways they experience the world. But I am also learning that loving them exactly as they are doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to grieve, feel overwhelmed or admit how lonely it can sometimes be to stand between two different worlds. This is the part of autism parenting I don’t think we talk about enough.
Thoughts hold Weight
We understand that words hold weight. Once spoken, written or acted upon, they can influence ourselves and others. But what about the thoughts that never leave our mouths? Before a thought becomes a sentence, our body and subconscious may already be receiving, interpreting and responding to information. Perhaps our thoughts begin to hold weight long before anyone else hears them
When Belonging Isn’t the Same as Becoming
What if belonging to a faith community isn’t the same as being transformed by it? Through the story of Lydia, the idea of the collective field and an embodied understanding of faith, I explore the moment belief moves beyond something we know or belong to and becomes something we recognise, experience and live from within.
Finding God in the Winter Seasons
We all experience seasons we'd rather avoid. Whether it's uncertainty, grief, waiting, or simply feeling overwhelmed, it's easy to want the season to end. In this personal reflection, I share how God has been teaching me to stop striving, embrace the pause, and discover that healing isn't found in controlling life's outcomes, but in learning to trust Him.
When Labels Become Identities
Diagnoses, personality types and archetypes can help us understand ourselves but what happens when they become our identity? This thought-provoking article explores Carl Jung's archetypes through a Christian lens, reflecting on why Jesus used parables and metaphors to reveal the heart.
Did They Hear David's Heart?
What if we've been reading the Psalms without fully hearing David's heart? Language carries more than words it carries culture, emotion and lived experience.
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