Mental Health

Do you cry yourself to sleep each night like I do?

If you didn’t know me well, you probably wouldnā€™t be able to tell that I have been struggling with depression, anxiety and a combination of anorexiaĀ and bulimia for most of my life....

Discipleship

Don’t numb the pain

Sigmund Freud once proposed that the mind seeks to avoid pain and findĀ pleasure. In this life, we will get our hearts get broken. People might say mean things to us. Something or someone beloved...

Mental Health

It is okay to be not okay

Have you ever felt a pain so great that it pounds through every fibre of your being? I have. My mind goes back to one night some years back when Iā€™d gone to see a volunteer counsellor in one of the...

Mental Health

Why are you crying?

Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white,Ā seated where Jesusā€™ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot....

Real Life, Real People

The boy who’s always been picked on ā€“ and the God who picked me

I’ve always been bullied. Growing up, I felt no one understood me. I always felt that my parents favoured other people. At least, to my young mind it looked that way ā€“ it seemed they always...

Movies & TV

The longest day in the world

Death. You know this feeling according toĀ what you’ve been through. The death of a person. The death of a dream. The death of hope. I admit I probably havenā€™t experienced great tragedy...

Mental Health

Mocked and molested, I attempted suicide again and again. But now I truly live

When I wasĀ 9, I wasĀ molested by my uncle. I was silenced; told not to lie. “Kids will be kids,” they said. When I was 11, I finally stood up to my uncle. I shouted at him to ā€œF***...

Real Life, Real People

I saw the light: How I learnt to drown out my woes in worship

About 3 years ago, I woke up barely able to see a thing. There was a sliver of light coming in from my left eye, and nothing through the right eye. The blood vessels in both my eyes had burstĀ that...

Real Life, Real People

THIR.ST TALKS: I know an amazing woman

Weā€™ve all heard stories about amazing women ā€“ but how often do we hear these stories from the mouths of men? Thir.st went behind the scenes withĀ five suchĀ women who have incredible stories of...