Recovering Perfectionist
I could name this blog category many things. Over the last year, it has become about far more than just recovering from perfectionism, although that's still a huge aspect. These posts also chronicle my journey away from legalism, self-guilt, self-doubt, lack of boundaries, and hardcore "fundamental" Christianity. I'm a work in progress and recovery has not been easy.
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what is “legalism”?
After some prayerful consideration of the objective and direction of this series, I feel that it is necessary to share what I mean when I use the term "legalism." When I was living…
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some self-observations about legalism
I was driving with a new friend back from the park, and we were discussing our religious backgrounds and some of the standards that we used to follow when we were growing up.…
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Dealing with online guilt, jealousy, and self-doubt
You aren't quite sure how to identify it, but you feel it. When your online friend announces she's switching to cloth diapers, entering a 5K, planning a home birth, sending off a book…
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Earning God’s love
For four years of marriage, I based how good of a wife I was on my performance. ...I stopped singing and shook my head at the irony, as I realized that this problem…
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My slow journey away from attachment parenting
Attachment parenting didn’t work for me. And, probably more importantly, attachment parenting didn’t work for my firstborn son. Here is our story: Honestly, it started before he was even born…with his tendency for…
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Harmful Courtship Teachings: the Myth of the Construction Paper Heart
I’m currently a 25-year-old married woman and mother of one. This morning my son woke up at 5:45, but was scared to enter the hallway because the hall night-light was broken. He crawled…
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How I’ve grown and changed in 2012 {Top 12 posts of 2012}
2012 What a year! That’s the only way I can think to start this post. I had no idea what I was getting into at the beginning of last year. All I knew…
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Leave it all behind… {What God did through PWOCI}
Note: If you have not read my post from earlier this week, Embracing Grace: My PWOC Story, please do so before reading this post. It really gives some more insight and background into what…
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How PWOC Changed My Life and Taught Me to Embrace Grace
I’m sitting in front of my computer almost on the verge of tears…tears of joy, tears of awe at both the goodness of God and the miraculous power of His timing of events…
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Real mom
Toward the end of the summer, I started reading a great book on motherhood called Beyond Bathtime. I won’t go into a lengthy review in this post, other than to say it’s definitely…
