About Me: Choose Joy In the Midst
Hi friend!
Welcome to Choose Joy In the Midst, a place focused on faith and resiliency in hardship and mental health struggles. I’m Amber J. Parker, an integrated faith & EMDR trauma healing advocate, Physician Assistant, & Jesus follower. I am a writer, speaker, podcast guest, and author.
My book “The Forgotten Caregiver of Mental Crisis” will be published Nov. 25th 2025. Read more about the book over on my author website: amberjparker.com
I am also a wife and a mom to a bustling, energetic family. I love life and adventure and always pushing toward new life-giving pursuits. We are an active family and love doing life and adventures together.
My unique perspective as a Physician Assistant, trauma caregiver, and trauma survivor lends a multi-dimensional view on trauma healing. I am passionate about bringing awareness to mental illness and the integration of faith and psychotherapy (mental health therapy) for healing. I am a strong advocate of EMDR, a body-focused psychotherapy, for trauma healing and other emotional pain.
This blog arose out of the suffering and significant battles for life I have faced as a caregiver for multiple life-threatening diagnoses. To Choose Joy In the Midst was a call toward life. To not ignore or dismiss the suffering and hardships I faced but to not allow them to overtake me. It is a choice to continually fight for truth and goodness when the circumstance and battle you are in is anything but good. It is a continual pursuit to fight for small moments of beauty, truth, and blessing in your life.
This desire and calling to redeem the pain and struggle brought forth words to share with you about the difficult and good things the Lord has taught me– in order to encourage you along your path– to not give up, to grab ahold of goodness, life, & healing through the power found in Jesus and also through psychology… in order to find strength, hope, and joy! My prayer is that my faith-based and psychology-based content will help encourage and empower you to live your life with more resilience and be able to fight your life battles from a place of strength!❤️
My continual desire and pursuit is to rise above the hardships and run hard after life. Life, abundantly. I will continue to laugh, to pursue activities that bring joy and fulfillment, to travel to beautiful places and gaze on God’s creation and find peace & deep satisfaction…
I will continue to grow– as a person & in my faith and relationship with Jesus Christ… and hopefully, I will spur others on to do likewise…
I’m glad you are here. And I can’t wait to share with you, friend. Thanks for hanging out with me and pursuing truth and goodness and joy along with me.
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You are not alone in your battle, friend.
~ Amber J. Parker