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The Fuel blog is Sara's continuation of her personal blog, further documenting her personal struggles with anxiety and depression.
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It Works For You, But Not For Me
Don’t put your faith on me. My best friend and I were talking the other day about my blog. She expressed how some of her friends who have...
Omnio
Jul 6, 20233 min read


Depressions' sister, anxiety.
We view anxiety as situational and not that big of a deal when in reality we underestimate the joy it steals from our everyday life. It...
Omnio
Jul 6, 20233 min read


Summer Pea Salad
Ahh what to eat in the summer. Anyone else struggle with this? I realize in the summer I just try to avoid cooking at all costs. It's not...

Sara Soenen
Jul 6, 20232 min read


Are You Stuck In Guilt or Growing In Grace?
Bad decisions not a bad person. I don’t know about you, but I never associated guilt with anxiety. Have you? I always associated guilt...
Omnio
May 23, 20233 min read


The Fundamental Five. Faith
Finding God in the every day. God is never mentioned in the book of Esther but if you take a step back you can see His hand over the...
Omnio
May 23, 20234 min read


How We Speak to Ourselves Matters
Is your life going how you planned? Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones that has always knew what you wanted to do, graduated college with...
Omnio
May 23, 20233 min read


When Life Hits Do You Fight or Flee?
No more fluff. The past month has been a punch to the gut. Between my knee injury, finding my new normal for working-out, my diet has...
Omnio
May 23, 20233 min read


Anxiety, What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing.
Anxiety comes at the worst time. So often our anxiety completely wrecks us, and whatever we are anxious about hasn’t even happened, or...
Omnio
May 23, 20234 min read


Why grieving matters: How our society embraces celebration but ignores grief.
When Grief Comes not if. Twenty-eight years later I can still remember the day my dad died. Twenty-eight years later I grieved for my dad...

Sara Soenen
May 23, 20232 min read


When your story makes others uncomfortable.
Have you ever shared your story and watched people, grimace, or pull away or worse pick up their phone half way through you sharing the...

Sara Soenen
May 17, 20233 min read


Why boundaries and saying no can reduce your anxiety
Saying yes means more anxiety. What if saying yes to good things, means saying no to the best things? Lysa Terkeurst addressed this...

Sara Soenen
May 9, 20233 min read


PMS, Hormones and Mental Health
The dreaded period. Aunt flo, surfing the crimson tide, Mother Nature’s Gift, or as I’d prefer to call it, EVE! I’m sure you’ve heard...

Sara Soenen
May 3, 20234 min read


Five Simple Ways to Practically Help Someone Who is Grieving.
Last year over eight million people suffered the loss of someone in their immediate family. (http://www.griefspeaks.com/id113.html) Let...

Sara Soenen
Apr 25, 20233 min read


The problem is the pattern and we can break it.
Before my decision to share with you guys my struggles and triumphs in my journey with depression and anxiety, I was working on finding...

Sara Soenen
Apr 19, 20233 min read


Depression: A pruning process instead of a prison sentence.
I could spend hours, days, and page after page about perspective. Our perspective on our life, ourselves, and our struggle with...

Sara Soenen
Apr 11, 20233 min read


In spite of all the awareness why is suicide more prevalent?
The confusion of suicide. This topic is never easy to discuss, is a hard thing to understand, and is always painful. I’m sure I don’t...

Sara Soenen
Apr 4, 20234 min read


Redemption (Testimony Part III)
The good news is after reaching bottom, the only way out is up. I found a job in Salado at a jewelry store and started fresh. My step-dad...
Omnio
Mar 16, 20233 min read


My Testimony Part II
My Testimony Part II If you’re reading this and you haven’t read part I, Here’s a link to part I of my testimony. Before you read this...

Sara Soenen
Mar 8, 20236 min read


My Story...
Part I of III. The most powerful thing about your story is that no one can change it or take it away from you. It is wholly and...
Omnio
Mar 3, 20234 min read


The Battle of Redemption
…Death wrapped its ropes around me; The terrors of the grave overtook me. I saw only trouble and sorrow. Then I called on the name of...

Sara Soenen
May 28, 20226 min read
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