Journey To Judah: (Part 2) Supportive Saturday & Living in Limbo
I barely slept as I was so terrified of labor re starting before my energy returned but nothing happened that night and morning came with...
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Carissa Gobble
Nov 20, 20212 min read
Parenting In a Divisive Culture
Sometimes motherhood feels like a war. A war with our internal mindsets of did we make the right choice, are we doing enough, are WE...
Carissa Gobble
Nov 2, 20212 min read
Journey to Judah Part 1: False Labor Friday
In the darkness of Sept 4th at 3am I lay on my bed relaxing through & surrendering to each contraction. My midwife arrived & observed an...
Carissa Gobble
Nov 5, 20202 min read
Election Chaos Response
Yesterday & election night was rough. It felt like this roller coaster of ups & downs of hope & anxiety & a huge draw to constantly check...
Carissa Gobble
Oct 18, 20202 min read
Try Again Tomorrow: Succumbing to Disappointment
Last night I went to bed with every intention of waking up with hope to tackle the day despite the disappointments I was hit with....
Carissa Gobble
Oct 8, 20201 min read
A Waterfall That Cascades Over Doubt
You can rant as much as you want but the truth is still there. It wins your heart every time. You are mine and I am yours. Always have...
Carissa Gobble
Oct 2, 20202 min read
Giving Away Our Energy To Things We Can't Control
How much of your mental and emotional energy do you give to things or people you can’t control? It surprises me still how often and how...
Carissa Gobble
Jul 8, 20202 min read
Grief Means It Meant Something
“Part of the reason women are so tired is because we are spending so much energy trying to ‘keep it together’. So much energy devoted to...
Carissa Gobble
Jun 10, 20202 min read
Internal Isolation: A Coping Habit
Isolation.... Emotional Mental. Physical. Social.... There’s lots of forms. There’s the, act like everything’s fine, while you meltdown...
Carissa Gobble
Mar 28, 20202 min read
Grieve The Little Losses
Make sure you’re taking time to grieve. Grieve loss. All of us have lost something in the middle of this pandemic. Whether it’s our...
Carissa Gobble
Mar 8, 20201 min read
Hope After Fear
The seas connect us all. Not just all of the spread out continents but just the fact they are made up of water, our physical bodies’...
Carissa Gobble
Mar 3, 20201 min read
Pre-Grieving: A TCK Coping Mechanism
(Excerpt from I’m from Earth?) "Although I didn’t understand it as I was going through it, I was pre-grieving a future loss of dear...
Carissa Gobble
Feb 26, 20201 min read
Rocky Terrain of Trauma Triggers
It’s hard. Like trying to navigate rocky terrain. Get off balance and you can have a nasty fall. Processing trauma can be like that. It...
Carissa Gobble
Jan 19, 20201 min read
You Get A CHOICE In Healing Trauma
What’s beautiful is that with the trauma healing process YOU GET A CHOICE. You didn’t really have choices in the trauma that occurred but...
Carissa Gobble
Sep 26, 20192 min read
Grace In the Healing Process
Us overachievers need to give ourselves grace! I’m especially learning to give my younger self grace. Working through some really...
Carissa Gobble
Sep 22, 20191 min read
Healing From Emotional Trauma In Layers
Working through layers of trauma is exhausting... Just when you think you’ve processed one piece and move on, a timely situation...
Carissa Gobble
Sep 19, 20192 min read
Shipwreck Return from Southeast Asia
When I came back from 8 years in Asia in 2009 across the Pacific Ocean it felt like a shipwreck. Like we’d emotionally barely survived...
Carissa Gobble
Jul 31, 20191 min read
Community Help In Healing
Community... I used to crave it... Then I was terrified of it... Then I gave God permission to let me be hurt by it again if it was the...
Carissa Gobble
Jul 18, 20191 min read
War Of The Mind: 2 Lies Moms Believe & The Truth
The biggest battlefield in parenting is the mind. Two truths I struggle to walk out daily: Lie: Being a mom means I sacrifice me and my...
Carissa Gobble
Mar 3, 20192 min read
Goodbye Size 2! These Hips Are No Longer Meant For You!
"Get your body back" reads sooooo many headlines in our society today. But guess what. I don't want to go back. I'm not that "Me"...
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