Jenna Gettys

“Our grief is as individual as our lives.”[3] You’re not meant to hit each stage and check the experience off a list; you’re charting a new map of your life by living into it.”
― Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

“If we don’t deal with our trauma or our sadness or our anger, it begins to deal with us. If we don’t allow ourselves to feel our feelings, they have a habit of peeking around the corners of our lives, breaking in at unexpected moments. Trauma or disruption or betrayal manifests differently for each of us—rage, anger, self-harm, self-neglect, frenzy, numbing, posturing, spiritual bypassing…Or in that particular instance, nightmares.”
― Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

“We are often discipled in hiding or suppressing anger, rather than feeling it, so when the full force of our anger manifests, yes, it is scary for us and those around us, but that’s only because we haven’t learned the strength and healing that’s possible on the other side of our anger. As author Glennon Doyle writes, “Anger delivers our boundaries to us.”[4]”
― Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

“Trying to control people and situations doesn’t calm your fears. It amplifies them. Any psychologist will tell you, the more you try to control something you can’t, the more anxious and stressed out you become.”
― Mel Robbins, The Let Them Theory