Banish Anxiety in 12 Minutes Every Day

August 29, 2019February 14, 2023Posted by Steve Blaising8 Comments

Nothing rattles anxiety like a sudden illness.

Especially when you don’t know what it is.

It was a happy uneventful day on February 24, 2019.

Suddenly, every nerve in my body lit up like a July 4th sparkler.

My body flared like a fireworks show!

Pain shots and tingling in my feet, hands, face and lips and it didn’t stop.

No anxiety like Neuropathy — Neuropathy lights up nerves like a fireworks show/Steve Blaising

Think I was anxious?

Do I have diabetes?
Parkinson’s?
Guillain-Barre syndrome?

Of course, the next step is to Google all the symptoms and diagnose yourself with every possible disease known and unknown to mankind.

In my case, it was Neuropathy.

But, I discovered a three step formula that led to healing.

Tags: Anxiety

When Despair Overwhelms Your Heart with Darkness

August 26, 2019June 21, 2024Posted by Steve Blaising8 Comments

I could see the despair dripping with the bloody gash across his forehead as he sat wearily across from me in the sheriff’s office.

Less than 12 hours earlier, Trey drove a ski boat with his girlfriend high speed into my dock just before midnight.

Despair leads to tragedy — Dock as I found it the morning after late night crash.

They were lucky to be alive.

shipwrecked despair — Chaise loungers thrown from point of impact

The sheriff arrived searching for dead bodies.

And then his phone rang with news someone found the boat, so he ran off instructing me to stay there.

Hours later he called and asked me to come meet the survivors at his office.

I quickly googled the young man only to learn he had studied at Harvard and MIT.

He was a Fellow of the Trinity Forum Academy in Osprey Point, Maryland.

Only the brightest and most promising undergraduates are accepted each year for a nine month program to study “life’s greatest questions, in the context of faith.”

Why did such a promising young man drive his dad’s ski boat high speed into a completely out-of-the-way location on a lake he knew better than any school subject?

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