Jennie Allen's Blog
November 21, 2025
If you are feeling anxious...this is for you.
I want to talk about something familiar to all of us right now: anxiety. Humans weren’t meant to carry what we’re carrying. Most people before us didn’t know the news of the whole world every day. We do. Every hard thing, everywhere, and our brains are exhausted.
This summer was one of the hardest seasons Zac and I have ever walked through. I had chest pain I thought was my heart, and our cardiologist friend looked at me and said, “Jennie, you’re anxious.” And he was right. My body was affected by how my mind was living. That moment was a red flag. I called my counselor, reached out to friends who pray for us, and things began to shift.
Forty million people are diagnosed with anxiety, and that number is far lower than reality. You’ve seen it in your kids, your friends, your campus. And I don’t want us to just accept this as “how it is.” I want us to be people who fight well.
2 Corinthians 10:5, taking every thought captive, began my healing as a college student struggling with an eating disorder, and it still matters today.
Please hear this: you are not alone. My counselor Kurt Thompson always says, “Trauma isn’t so much what happens to you - it’s if you feel alone in what happens to you.” So much anxiety falls away because we feel known, because we share it, because we bring people close.
God draws near to you when you feel afraid or alone. He gives wisdom, courage, and comfort. You don’t have to hide. You can fight back, and He will help you.
You’re loved. You’re seen. You don’t have to carry this alone.
With love,
Jennie
This summer was one of the hardest seasons Zac and I have ever walked through. I had chest pain I thought was my heart, and our cardiologist friend looked at me and said, “Jennie, you’re anxious.” And he was right. My body was affected by how my mind was living. That moment was a red flag. I called my counselor, reached out to friends who pray for us, and things began to shift.
Forty million people are diagnosed with anxiety, and that number is far lower than reality. You’ve seen it in your kids, your friends, your campus. And I don’t want us to just accept this as “how it is.” I want us to be people who fight well.
2 Corinthians 10:5, taking every thought captive, began my healing as a college student struggling with an eating disorder, and it still matters today.
Please hear this: you are not alone. My counselor Kurt Thompson always says, “Trauma isn’t so much what happens to you - it’s if you feel alone in what happens to you.” So much anxiety falls away because we feel known, because we share it, because we bring people close.
God draws near to you when you feel afraid or alone. He gives wisdom, courage, and comfort. You don’t have to hide. You can fight back, and He will help you.
You’re loved. You’re seen. You don’t have to carry this alone.
With love,
Jennie
November 17, 2025
A Relationship Reminder...
Zac and I recently recorded a podcast episode together, and it brought up so many memories of our story - the messy beginning, the hard years, and the grace of where we are now.
We’ve been married about 28 years…I think. We honestly forgot. But we’ve lived a lot of life: four kids, long-distance dating, getting married at twenty, a honeymoon Jeep with a hole in the floor, and those early years that were honestly so hard. I remember sitting on the floor in a fancy dress on our honeymoon thinking, What have I done? I don’t even know this guy.
And it didn’t magically get better. We had the same fight over and over - me feeling invisible and missed, him shutting down and going inward. One morning after another night of that cycle, everything changed. We did two full years of weekly counseling. I got help. He got help. And slowly, God rebuilt us.
Today? He’s my best friend. I still think about our first date getting stuck in Branson traffic, both of us reading My Utmost for His Highest, and feeling like the Holy Spirit was playing ping pong with our conversation. When we hugged at the end before he drove me home, I thought, We fit. I still think that.
So if you’re in a hard season - dating, engaged, or deep into marriage - don’t give up too fast. Those years are taxing. They require everything. But I said it in the episode, and I mean it: I’m just so glad we didn’t quit when it was hard.
With love,
Jennie
We’ve been married about 28 years…I think. We honestly forgot. But we’ve lived a lot of life: four kids, long-distance dating, getting married at twenty, a honeymoon Jeep with a hole in the floor, and those early years that were honestly so hard. I remember sitting on the floor in a fancy dress on our honeymoon thinking, What have I done? I don’t even know this guy.
And it didn’t magically get better. We had the same fight over and over - me feeling invisible and missed, him shutting down and going inward. One morning after another night of that cycle, everything changed. We did two full years of weekly counseling. I got help. He got help. And slowly, God rebuilt us.
Today? He’s my best friend. I still think about our first date getting stuck in Branson traffic, both of us reading My Utmost for His Highest, and feeling like the Holy Spirit was playing ping pong with our conversation. When we hugged at the end before he drove me home, I thought, We fit. I still think that.
So if you’re in a hard season - dating, engaged, or deep into marriage - don’t give up too fast. Those years are taxing. They require everything. But I said it in the episode, and I mean it: I’m just so glad we didn’t quit when it was hard.
With love,
Jennie
