Building a Non-Anxious Life

by John Delony

Be honest: Do you still have the cake plate you got for your wedding? You never use cake plates, but you keep it because Aunt Cathy bought it and she may come over one day and start cranking out cakes!

Am I willing to be uncomfortable for one to three years, drive used cars, not go out, and buy little of anything for the chance to be free forever?

Secondary trauma is when your body responds to the steady stream of pain you absorb through proximity to other hurting people.

You should have been believed.

cumulative (think the little insults you endured for years on the bus and on the ballfield that added up to how much you loathe yourself as an adult today).

“What if we lived our lives as though we could never move? Same churches, same neighborhoods, same homes, same jobs. How would we live our lives differently?”