Encouragement
- Beauty, Bible, Choose Joy, Coping strategies, Encouragement, faith and psychology, Fighting for Joy, Focusing on Truth, intentionality, Life Battles, Life Storms, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocate, Not Alone, Pursuing health and wholeness, Truth
The act of noticing beauty is a powerful antidote to mental health struggles
The act of noticing beauty is a powerful antidote to mental health struggles.It doesn’t remove the struggles from our life, but it uplifts and brings goodness into the difficult. ❤️ I stopped in my everyday moment to see beauty right there.Flowers still blooming though fall has come.One of my favorite flowers… The purple coneflower What beauty have you found today in your everyday life?Share in the comments ⬇️ This act of noticing beauty in your everyday life is a powerful antidote to mental health struggles. If you haven’t noticed something yet, stop, find something, and comment here. It can be a hot cup of coffee, a smiling face, or anything…
- Bible teaching, Encouragement, Faith, Fear, Focusing on Truth, God’s mighty power, Isaiah, Mental Health, Truth for Today
Truth for Today- Do not fear. God is with you.
DO YOU NEED SOME TRUTH TODAY?I’ve been focused on these words for most of this week…Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)“So do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Let that sink in. God is with me.He will strengthen me.He will help me.He will uphold me. I’ve been weary this week as I’ve been “hard pressed on every side” but God has given me just enough for each day to face each new and different challenge.I’ve leaned into Him and His strength. Thank you Jesus for your gracious…
- Bible teaching, Encouragement, Faith, Fear, Focusing on Truth, God’s mighty power, Isaiah, Mental Health, Truth for Today
Truth for Today- Do not fear. God is with you.
DO YOU NEED SOME TRUTH TODAY?I’ve been focused on these words for most of this week…Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)“So do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Let that sink in. God is with me.He will strengthen me.He will help me.He will uphold me. I’ve been weary this week as I’ve been “hard pressed on every side” but God has given me just enough for each day to face each new and different challenge.I’ve leaned into Him and His strength. Thank you Jesus for your gracious…
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Top 2 Final Book Cover Design Poll- for Amber J. Parker’s Book
This week of July 1st is the vote for the top 2 final designs on my book cover from last week’s poll! Make sure to read my words at the end of this article as well. There’s a drawing for a $10 Starbucks gift card for those who vote and are on my email newsletter. To be entered, read the directions. Last week I revealed the book title: “Battle Forged & Battle Ready”, and you voted on 8 designs. Thank you so much to everyone who voted on the designs and gave feedback. Your insight, opinions, and voting were extremely valuable. It was very close between both of these cover…
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Amber J. Parker’s Book Title Reveal & Book Design Poll- Vote Today!
Hi friends, my book title is: “Battle Forged & Battle Ready”. It is a book to help the primary caregiver of trauma & suicidality navigate the chaos and turmoil of mental health crisis so they can live with improved strength, hope, and resilience. It comes out of our own personal story of my caregiving for my husband through combat trauma and worsening mental crisis. We were in a fight for his life. This book is the one I wished I had back then, and so I am writing it for you, reader, as you fight your own battle for the life of your loved one. I’ve been busy working on…
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New Life & Hope Springing Forth
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness & streams in the wasteland.“ (Isaiah 43:19, NIV). Friend—What new thing are you seeing spring up in your life? After the darkness, trials, adversity, and pain—Can you see any goodness in your life? The glimmer of new things springing forth. I journeyed through the lengthy darkness of night for so long & God finally brought forth newness and light. Hope. The working of redemption in my life. It is a continual work, the growing and bringing forth of newness in my life.The goodness in your life…
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Integrated Faith & EMDR Therapy for Holistic Healing
“There is no shame in mental health therapy, in fact, there is freedom.” Do you believe it? You are brave.You can do hard things. I’ve walked through intensive EMDR therapy to focus on my traumas and emotional pain.I also walked through spiritual healing through a focused Bible study curriculum at the same time in my Christian faith community. The therapist I worked with incorporated my strong Christian faith into our EMDR sessions which was an incredible source of strength for me. It used the strongest weapon I had towards my trauma and emotional pain healing. Through both my study in my faith community and my EMDR therapy, I began to…
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Stop Fighting Fear by Sheer Willpower; Instead Do This.
“Willing ourselves to stop fearing and then shaming ourselves when we do is not the way forward.” -Amber Jeann Parker Can I get an Amen? I believe that consuming fear, a spirit of fear, is from the enemy of your soul, from Satan. It’s one of his plans to take you down, friend. We don’t have the power to fully get rid of it on our own though- through our own sheer willpower.God is the One who can help us though. God is the One who can change and transform us.He gives us His Spirit. His Spirit brings life & peace. Can I tell you— Feeling shame for having fear…
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My First Podcast Guest Interview Released!!
Hi friends, I was a guest on the Unabashed You podcast last month. The episode just released this week, on Tuesday, April 16th, and I encourage you to listen to it wherever you listen to podcasts. The link is below. We take a deep dive into my story, the why behind this website’s name, and how God knew what He was doing when He called me into evidence based medicine as a Physician Assistant so many years ago… I had no idea that my skills, knowledge, and ability to grow, learn, and adapt would be put to the test in such dire circumstances fighting for the life of the most…
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Authentic & Vulnerable
Choose to be authentic & vulnerable in safe community. It is a choice. To enter into being vulnerable. To open up our emotions, fears, insecurities, & stories to other individuals. To allow our authentic self be known. There is risk. Will I be seen, validated, & acknowledged? Or will what I share be dismissed, minimized, judged, or invalidated? Will I be rejected? For true connection & vulnerability, I believe mutual reciprocity of open vulnerability is necessary. Both entering into sharing. Active listening with empathy, compassion, & understanding present Will we give space to each other? To sit in the hard spaces but also the joyous spaces together too. To celebrate…
