Sometimes it’s like we are all pulling each other over the finish line!
The end of the school year is loud.
It’s filled with permission slips, class parties, end-of-year gifts, finals, field days, and calendar chaos. It’s also filled with a quiet ache—a subtle exhaustion only moms seem to recognize. One season closes, another begins—and somehow, you’re expected to hold it all together.
In a world that often tells us to push past pain and "keep it together," many Christians quietly struggle with internal fragmentation—dissociation, emotional numbness, and lingering shame. These inner realities are not signs of spiritual failure, but indicators of deeper wounds that need gentle, Christ-centered healing.
Books like Boundaries for the Soul by Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller and The Soul of Shame by Dr. Curt Thompson offer powerful frameworks for understanding these struggles in light of God’s redemptive love. Together with Scripture, they paint a hopeful picture: God not only sees our hidden pain but invites us into a journey of integration and renewal.
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