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gracelife707 · 4 years
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One of my biggest mental health battles is struggling with suicidal thoughts. I have attempted suicide in the past and God was merciful and blessed me with my brother in my time of need. But even now days I struggle with this utter despair and hopelessness. My mom got me this bracelet a few days ago. It’s a simple bracelet with yellow strands and part of the profit of these bracelets goes to suicide prevention and awareness. This is important to me because of my own trials. I’m blessed I have an amazing support system and I have friends all over the world who love me and pray for me. I have this beautiful blog and I’m so excited to grow GraceLife and partner with shalom ministries really soon. But not everyone out there has that support that hope. I challenge you today to find someone and make them smile. It can be by sending a gif through text or by mailing a card to them. It can be with a hug or a silly Snapchat. You never know how you will impact their life. #challengethestigma #makesomeonesmile #mentalhealthawareness #suicideprevention #suicideawarness #suicidepreventionawareness #suicidepreventionandawareness #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #christianmentalhealthblogger #christianmentalhealth #christianmentalhealthwarrior #mentalhealthadvocate #newday #saynotosuicide #nosuicide #projectsemicolon #suiciderates #endthestigmaofmentalhealth #mentalhealthishealth #mental #health #bold #puravidabracelets #endsuicide #affordablementalhealthcare #christianmentalhealthawareness #christianmentalhealth #bekind #endthestigmaaroundsuicide #suicideisnottheanswer https://www.instagram.com/p/CC6dD5TDxqK/?igshid=dpgrc21s89zb
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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@challengingthestigma posted this a few days ago and I just had to take this and speak to it. As someone who attempted and survived - this statement is so true. It can be so easy to assume that just because they are moving forward and appear to have moved forward does not mean they are okay or stable on their own. I just lost my counselor this week due to different circumstances. He gave me instructions to talk to my friends and family and ask them questions. But mostly he told me to ask my brother, the person I probably look up to the most and seek approval from, what changes and growth he has seen. For the simple reason I can’t see it myself. This is causing me to feel lower than my new normal. Point is everyone needs support especially those who attempted and now are trying to find a new normal for themselves. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCyNxFvDKvz/?igshid=13pv49bpkj8yc
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Wow oh wow! So context - Jesus is walking in a huge crowd of people. He is on His way to heal a little girl who is very sick on the verge of death. In the midst of this huge crowd Jesus feels a woman who is sick touch Him and she is healed. He stops to speak with her and while he is tell her something a messenger comes to say the little girl has died. The man who came to Jesus was going to grieve because “it was too late”. Jesus him not to be afraid but to believe. This spoke to me as someone who has felt like I was to far gone or it was too late for a miracle, I am reminded that God is not limited by our understanding or our situation. Sometimes it is as simple as have peace in knowing God has got you and believing that He will do what He has said. #mentalhealth #mentalhealth #mental #health #blog #blogger #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthblogger #mentalhealthadvocate #advocate #depression #anxiety #suicideprevention #suicideawarness #newpost #dream #writing #christiansandmentalhealth #photos #mentalhealthmatters #depressionhelp #depressionawareness #anxietyawareness #anxietysupport #panicattack #panicdisorder #Godisgood #smile #new #day #newday https://www.instagram.com/p/CCE4LWWDyZO/?igshid=12d4rl7tu251x
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Blog post... actually a lot of blog posts have been posted but I haven’t paid attention because I needed a break. But this one resonated with me once again this morning. Link to my blog in the description. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBin3YXDs0T/?igshid=1xby2aym2qbwg
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Feeling like you can’t do anything? Make your bed or wash that dish in the sink. Did you do it? You just proved yourself wrong. And i don’t care if that took you five hours to make your bed or if it’s right before bed or if the blanket it’s too perfectly straight. The point is you made your bed. You did something today. You. The person sitting there feeling worthless feeling like they can’t do it just did it. So proud! You got this, you can do this, and maybe you can’t do it by yourself, that’s okay. God doesn’t call us to do it by ourselves. He calls us to do our best and trust in Him. Be still and know that He is God. He loves you even if all you could do today was survive ❤️ #mentalhealth #mentalhealth #mental #health #blog #blogger #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthblogger #mentalhealthadvocate #advocate #depression #anxiety #suicideprevention #suicideawarness #newpost #dream #writing #christiansandmentalhealth #photos #mentalhealthmatters #depressionhelp #depressionawareness #anxietyawareness #anxietysupport #panicattack #panicdisorder #Godisgood #smile #new #day #newday https://www.instagram.com/p/CBf7upDDrkR/?igshid=1qhhbb6vcj0ak
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Reposting something I saw today. When you yell at a child what happens? They break down and cry right? Do they get the task done quicker? Not at all. In fact all production stops. That’s why teachers are told to never yell in their classrooms. So why do we yell at ourselves like it’s going to increase our productivity or anything else? Because we are a self critical people. We have a certain amount of pride that we have to be a certain way. Must have a specific GPA. Must have a bf or gf by a certain age or we are failing as a normal human being. Let me ask you. What is normal? Who defines what a normal human is? Who defines that you aren’t measuring up? Who set the stakes for life? I never read in the Bible that you had to be in a relationship by 21 or that you needed to hold a GPA of 4.0 It’s nice to have that stuff. But not necessary and definitely not mandated by God. Take a break. Let yourself take it slow for a day. I promise your life won’t go to crumbs if you take a few hours to just rest 💗 #mentalhealth #mentalhealth #mental #health #blog #blogger #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthblogger #mentalhealthadvocate #advocate #depression #anxiety #suicideprevention #suicideawarness #newpost #dream #writing #christiansandmentalhealth #photos #mentalhealthmatters #depressionhelp #depressionawareness #anxietyawareness #anxietysupport #panicattack #panicdisorder #Godisgood #smile #new #day #newday https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTZNaGDToe/?igshid=190rq9pila0qw
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Imma shoot straight here - I hate trying to keep up with my Instagram account. Posting regularly is exhausting. Yet I love watching all the cute animal videos I can find on here and sharing silly memes with my besties. I love the DMs because it allows me to talk to my friends who live further north. I hate trying to make the perfect account feed though. (Anyone relate?) that being said I also hate that I feel the need to reach perfection. I’m not 100% sure what I want to post or when or if I want a theme or something. Soooo I leave it in God’s hands and try to be the light where I can. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBI_j_ljqjZ/?igshid=zlt6r67t2q1c
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Let’s stand and be Jesus to those around us. See a family who has been effected by the riots? Bring them food or offer to help clean up. See a business that’s struggling because of Covid or breaking in/ looting. Support them. Instead of blacking my account out today I’m going to shine the light of Jesus. @landn started #createchange and I think it’s so awesome. Let’s in this time of darkness #bethelight. Let’s be Jesus Let’s create change. Get off our phones and really do something to help people. #blacklivesmatter #christiansandmentalhealth #depression #createchange #belikejesus #worktowardschange #blackouttuesday #blackouttuesday⚫️✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #standforjustice #godlylove #belight #helpeachother #peaceful #change #usa https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8KYlhj8TI/?igshid=1nkh8bj7thgte
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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This is a lake not far from my home. You see how far out the water is? It’s not supposed to be that low. You see that patch of dark green icky grass stuff? That’s supposed to be submerged in water. I was able to walk in the lake where I would normally had been treading water. I had to laugh though. As I was walking on the bone dry sand that was once under the water I started to feel nervous. Now normally I’d be nervous out that far because I can’t see the bottom with the water there because it’s dark and silty and gators like being in it. Now it was dry. My stomach churned as I inevitably walked up the incline bank on the side. Two things came to mind. 1) it much have felt like that when Moses and the Israelites were crossing through the Red Sea. Only they had walls of water on either side of them touring above them. (2) I thought about how much the lake reminded me of anxiety. I knew nothing could happen to me. The lake can’t rise that quickly and even if it could I’m a strong swimmer. I could handle it. But there was an invisible threat that just made me reconsider being out where I normally wouldn’t swim. Now I love swimming and in a pool I’m there for hours. Even in the ocean. But lakes, with gators, nah fam. I think though that sometimes we brush all anxiety off. It’s not all bad. In a way we need anxiety in small time appropriate doses. Anxiety can help us know when we are in a truly dangerous situation. That being said - don’t be so quick to say anxiety is bad. Give yourself a moment to feel, understanding. Trust God and take it one day at a time. https://www.instagram.com/p/CA1rhdsDt3W/?igshid=1kcv6w1vbelb7
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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I was diagnosed with bad asthma when I 9. It was a scary time for me because I would wake up not being able to breath. This verse brought me peace in a time in my life I couldn’t depend on myself for breath. What’s a verse that has brought you peace in uncertain times? https://www.instagram.com/p/CAA8UxXDR5u/?igshid=1ptrlybpocm9i
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Loving my journaling Bible. I am able to capture my thoughts in art as well as traditional notes depending on what I’m reading and the notes I have. The book of Ruth is packed full of so many notes there wouldn’t be room to draw. But here I have written my notes in a journal and drew my major thoughts out. Sad that school starts Monday because I’ll have to make sure I get my homework done before I annotate and write and draw. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3D7QHDrR_/?igshid=1f88apw7lfiv2
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Studying what it means to be a virtuous women with a friend! No better way to spend quarantine!!! 🐣🌻💗🌵🐠 https://www.instagram.com/p/B_k1pbmjdg3/?igshid=dan7w7dlwk6
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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I talk a lot about being open and vulnerable and my thoughts are also so scattered. I am not clear and concise with my words or thoughts or posts. My account is all over the place and I’m a hot mess most the time. We’re this post is going I really don’t know. I’m not actually sure where I was headed in the first place. So glad God has grace for us all the time because I need it. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_fZNyODOtF/?igshid=1ob19wcshuso2
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Sometimes putting our faith in God is a challenge. Speaking up when we desperately want to stay quiet is hard. Especially when it’s on a hard topic. GraceLife is my place to talk mental health and faith. In person I have no issue talking about my faith. I’m very vocal. Mental health? Not at all. I’m terrified. Because it’s all to close to me. But here. Behind a screen where no name is attached... I can be honest and raw and real. GraceLife is a nameless faceless account. A few lives here and there but other than that - I’m not showing my face because if I do - I’ll never speak up. GraceLife is something I know I am supposed to do. Talk faith and mental health together. Ruth was the perfect study for me yesterday because Ruth put her faith in God. I’m sure it was a challenge. I’m sure it wasn’t always easy to trust God. But she did and that faith was rewarded with redemption. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_WE-O7D-nT/?igshid=ozrvtv88hqea
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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I don’t always annotate my Bible like this but when I do... well it looks like that! Looking at the book of Ruth is such an amazing example of what a godly young woman looks like. And just like us Ruth was not a Jew. Yet she is included in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. More thoughts on Ruth to come, but for now I encourage you to go and read these 4 beautiful chapters. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_SqcVzjOm7/?igshid=1dpg66ivsl3jp
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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It’s noon and I am just now getting up. I am pretty sure I was up till 4. But I don’t really know since my mom found me on the couch at 5. I am really starting to hate this. No schedule no work no way to hang with friends. I mean I at least want to option to say I’d rather stay home. I’m getting really tired of quarantine. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-95ZFSjQV2/?igshid=jtmx79rfmvg4
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gracelife707 · 4 years
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Perspective is everything https://www.instagram.com/p/B-7psYLDOey/?igshid=8mujjceoskfa
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