DOING IT SCARED: Finding Light in the Darkness

By Lexia Crawford and Karen Anderson

DOING IT SCARED: Finding Light in the Darkness

12-Week Journey Through Fear Depression and Self-Doubt

Self-help journaling workbook about overall healing and facing our fears to seek wholeness and wellness. We explore common challenges that hinder us from being our best self, such as mental health and wellness brough

• Language: English
• Publisher: Boutique Life Productions
• Release date: Jul 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781087896618

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It took 45 years to birth the story of Preparation, Pain, Perseverance, and ultimate PEACE!

Welcome to weeks 1-4 of our 12-week journey to healing and wholeness; mentally and emotionally. Each week starts with a trial or instance from the PAST that pertains to how we live our life today (PRESENT). You will read something from my life and past in hopes of seeing yourself in the writing and challenge yourself to dig deep and work on healing or overcoming past trauma.

There are pages for you to journal and work through your own experiences in relation to my journey and healing work. Finally, each section will conclude with a basic project checklist to help you push past your issue(s) that are holding you back or hindering you from moving forward to the present moment and realize the joy in the NOW!

WEEK 1

Is this normal?

Do other people think like me?

Am I sad or DEPRESSED?

What is causing this feeling?

Is this real or all in my head?

I FEEL SAD

I FEEL LOST

I FEEL ANXIOUS

I FEEL IRRITATED

I FEEL DIFFERENT

No one gets me, not even me. What is this unrecognizable feeling of despair and heaviness I feel?

[1974-1984] INTRODUCTION

My mom and dad were just teens when they met and had me. They were young adults when they separated; I believe I was in third grade by then. My mom and I left town one day, my dad later followed us but didn’t stay long. By my fifth grade, he was gone for good; and I didn’t know why, didn’t get an explanation, and no one bothered to ask how I felt or how it affected me. I had to accept it, suck it up, and go with the flow…as we often do in life.

We don’t deal with issues that hurt or cause pain; we do our best to accept them and move on. We push the pain down deep, so deep that we can no longer see it or feel it. Sometimes we plan to deal with it eventually, but usually, we never come back to it. Life goes on, we move on, in pain, in sorrow, in grief.

Unresolved grief, pain, issues do not go away. They lie dormant impacting other areas of our lives such as our physical well-being. If we don’t face the pain, all of that emotion goes to our cellular level wreaking havoc on our bodies causing sicknesses such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. There’s research to support it. Depression in its mildest form is a sadness which is a common response to grief. However, when it becomes debilitating and affecting our functionality, depression can become a mental illness/disorder if untreated. Some of us are genetically prone to depression. There’s also a spiritual aspect as well i.e the spirit of depression which can be demonic and strives to restrain the person in that state.

Tonya Cunningham

Ph.D of Religious Philosophy in Pastoral Psychology

Speaker/Author/Coach/Grief Educator

Tonya Cunningham Ministries

www.tonyacministries.com

There IS life after loss; it’s just a different one

WEEK 2

I appear strong and confident outside, but the act is wearing me out

Who is this person in the mirror?

Me?