melie·williams
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A blog about resilience, neuroscience, and finding God in the hard places.

Faith & Prayer

Wait, let me just…

I say “Wait, let me just…” to God more than I’d like to admit. Peter and Andrew dropped their nets mid-cast. Here’s why “first” is so hard for us, and one small step out of it.

Resilience

Building resilience before the storm hits

Four practical ways to build resilience before life hands you a dumpster fire: anchoring in truth, understanding your brain, building practices early, and letting yourself be known.

Resilience

What it means to be a Resilience Strategist

Why "resilience strategist" isn't a title I chose so much as one I grew into, and what the work actually looks like at the intersection of neuroscience and faith.

Rest

The power of rest

A layoff landed two years after my divorce, and I saw that "go, go, go" had become my escape. Why I'm learning to treat rest as activity that fuels the soul, not giving up.

Healing

Don't let rejection win

Ordinary memories keep ambushing me without warning. Here are the lies rejection tells, and how I'm choosing resilience over rejection, one truth at a time.

Faith & Prayer

When the answer is no

I read a hard verse at the end of a hard season. Praying for clarity, and sitting with an answer that isn't the one I wanted.

Starting Over

Pack my things and go

Walking back through a house that no longer feels like mine, taking inventory of everything that's changed, and what's left at 3am when the day is over.

Starting Over

Moving day

The night before I packed up my former home: living at my parents' house mid-divorce and mid-pandemic, and the verse I clung to before the drive.