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    Practical Application of “The Princess, the Dragon, and the King” Part 4

    March 17, 2025 - By 

    This week I am wrapping up my series on my journey through depression with the final portion of my conference talk. In this part, I focus on truths and practices anyone can make part of their lives in order to lessen and/or relieve emotional distress. Of course, I am not a doctor or health professional, and my counsel here is not to be taken as healthcare advice. I simply aim to encourage anyone struggling with similar things as I did by sharing my story and the steps that have helped me personally. So, what can I tell you that will…

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    “The Princess, the Dragon, and the King” Part 3 – The Allegory Explained

    March 10, 2025 - By 

    This week I am sharing the next part of my conference talk given in 2023. In this part of the series, I will explain the allegory I posted previously and describe my personal struggles with postpartum depression and anxiety. I have redacted some of the names to protect my family’s privacy, but otherwise, this is all as it was originally delivered. This is my story, and although couched in the form of a fairy tale allegory, it is all true. If you’ve heard my testimony of salvation, you know that I was raised in a Christian home, had a good…

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    Part 2 of “The Princess, The Dragon, and The King: An Allegory”

    March 3, 2025 - By 

    I am back again this week with the second part of the story I began last week. This installment will wrap up the allegory section from my talk, but next week I will share the meaning of the allegory and my personal story. So stay tuned for the rest of the series over the coming weeks! If you missed Part 1, you can read that here. Driven to the deep dungeons of the castle, in almost complete darkness, the princess found light in a tiny corner of her heart that the monster had not managed to poison. In desperation she…

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    “The Princess, the Dragon, and the King: An Allegory,” Part 1

    February 26, 2025 - By 

    This week, I am beginning a series of posts that are taken from a conference talk I gave at my church in the fall of 2023. I have been wanting to share this story here ever since giving it as a talk, but at the time I didn’t even have access to the blog because of some backend issues with my server! Now that I am back and writing again, I decided it was finally time to share this with all of you here. Since this is a rather lengthy story, though, I am breaking it up into several installments.…