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This Would Be a Good Week to Get Sick

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:March 1, 2022
  • Post category:Healing
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“This would be a good week to get sick.” I distinctly remember saying those words as I drove to church one Sunday morning. I was ticking through all the events…

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Read more about the article What Energizes Me? Anxiety or Love?
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What Energizes Me? Anxiety or Love?

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:February 17, 2022
  • Post category:Faith/Healing
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Anxiety often wakes me up in the morning (not to mention in the middle of the night). My concern over the to-do list and my unspoken fear about what will…

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Anticipating Joy

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:January 31, 2022
  • Post category:Family/Parenting
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“Anxiety is anticipated terror. Hope is anticipated joy.” I heard theologian Jürgen Moltmann say this to fellow theologian Miroslav Volf on a podcast a long time ago.  For some reason,…

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When Pain Remains

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 9, 2021
  • Post category:Healing
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A few weeks ago, I had a mild panic attack. My neck and shoulder had been hurting all day. But all of a sudden, the pain became almost unbearable. I…

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Read more about the article What Is Not Mine to Carry?
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What Is Not Mine to Carry?

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 6, 2021
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My shoulder started to hurt the day our kids went back to school after Thanksgiving break. I hadn’t done anything to injure it. Not even a round of pushups. It…

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Tired of Myself, but God Is Not Tired of Me

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:July 15, 2021
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I make the same mistakes, commit the same sins, turn back to the same unhelpful habits over and over again.  For me, these repetitive issues come under three banners. There’s…

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AJB Recommends: Podcasts Processing the Election

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:November 13, 2020
  • Post category:AJB Recommends/Current Events/Faith
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On election day, I felt as if a band of pain had stretched itself above my eyes and across my forehead. It wouldn’t go away. I drank water. Ate potato…

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How Beauty Brings Peace, How Peace Brings Beauty

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:October 22, 2020
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William took these photos the other day as a part of a year-long project he’s doing at school where he’s planning to learn how to identify local trees and plants…

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Entrusting vs. Letting Go

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:September 21, 2020
  • Post category:Faith/Uncategorized
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I used to think about “giving over” parts of my life to God as letting go. I saw my hand clutching tightly to various aspects of my self—work, family, food,…

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S3 E10 | Anxiety, Affluence, and Identity with Niro Feliciano

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:September 1, 2020
  • Post category:Faith/Family/Parenting/Podcast/Privilege and Race
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In an achievement-oriented culture, how do we risk vulnerability in order to move toward personal and racial healing? Cognitive therapist Niro Feliciano talks with Amy Julia about the complexities of…

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