This week Kathy Koon and Kyndal Kearns sit down with Elyse Miller to talk about dealing with anxiety in the middle of balancing her job. Elyse not only shares her spiritual journey with us, but she also shares her work and family journey through this battle of anxiety. Elyse shares how important it is to seek help, have community, and not let anxiety define us.
Show Notes
Kathy Koon and Kyndal Kearns sit down with Elyse Miller to talk about dealing with anxiety in the middle of balancing her job and her family. Elyse makes Jesus, church, and community a top priority for her family. Elyse found out that she struggles with anxiety about 3 years ago. She got help and realized that her anxiety and OCD would overtake her and make her question who she was. During this time, Elyse felt so distant from God. At this point in her life, she felt so focused on her anxiety, fear, and OCD that she would beg God to take everything away, instead of truly connecting with God. Elyse talks about how important it is to focus on truth, and not to feed the fears. She expresses how you have to go through the valleys. Sometimes you will fall to your knees, but you have to run toward the truth and know that you aren't in the valley forever. Journaling truly helped Elyse realize when those fears would overtake her, and when she needed to breathe and focus on the truth. Elyse shares how important it is to have community, seek help, pray, and not to “own” her anxiety. What does it mean to not let your anxiety define you? For Elyse it means to say “Sometimes anxiety tries to come my way, but it's not what defines me. I’m a child of God and this is just a thing that's been thrown my way right now.” Kyndal speaks on how we need that community for those messy things because even when Jesus was here on earth he had community to walk with him through the good but also through the messy things. Elyse wants to share with women who are struggling with anxiety to seek help, journal, and to let God mold you through this struggle. She encourages listeners to stay strong during the storm, hold on, and know that you will get through it. She encourages the working woman or the busy mom to make time for themselves in the midst of the busy days. Elyse explains how important it is to take care of yourself so that you will be the best version of you that you can be in every aspect of your life. What steps are you taking to prioritize yourself? To prioritize God? How are you not allowing your anxiety overtake you?
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“As You Go” is a podcast meant to encourage and disciple women who are daily trying to follow Jesus while balancing all of the things in their lives like work, family, and mental and physical health. Discipleship is about moving forward and this podcast hopes to walk with you, “As You Go.”