by Jennifer Leigh | May 10, 2017 | Coping Skills |
I grew up expecting that I’d get married and live happily ever after, but my marriage ended before happily ever after arrived. I expected that I’d become a best-selling author, but my books never made the New York Times list. I expected to fall in love...
by Jennifer Leigh | Apr 20, 2017 | Spiritual Journey |
I’ve always been a runner. Not the jogging type, the get-the-hell-away-from-emotional-pain type. I panicked in a lot of situations — my heart rate would go through the roof as my mouth dried up like a prune, making it difficult to talk, and my legs turned to...
by Jennifer Leigh | May 27, 2015 | Spiritual Journey |
When I was at my worst after I cold turkeyed from over half a milligram of the benzodiazepine, Clonazepam, I felt that God was nowhere to be found. I felt wooden, hollow, void of anything good, whole, or loving. I felt utterly broken, shattered. My soul was sundered....