by Dr. Teressa | 19 Dec 2025 | Encouragement
When the Story in Our Head Is Not the Full Story As I was preparing for my daughter’s birthday a few weeks ago, I felt down because I thought I wasn’t doing enough with her. I was really feeling horrible and told myself 12 months have gone by and I haven’t done a...
by Dr. Teressa | 5 Dec 2025 | Encouragement
As we come to the close of another year, I have been thinking about how often we talk about leaving a job, a role, or an environment better than we found it. We care about improving the spaces we touch. We care about lifting what is around us. But I started asking...
by Dr. Teressa | 14 Nov 2025 | Encouragement
Read Philippians 1:3–11 A message for the person who is trying to begin again Over the past few months, I have been sharing about beginning again and continuing when things get hard. Today, I want to bring you into a part of my story, because it speaks to the same...
by Dr. Teressa | 31 Oct 2025 | Encouragement, Productivity
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what it means to Begin Again—to let go of perfection and start fresh with God. Since then, that message has stayed on my heart. Because beginning again is not just about starting, it’s also about continuing. Earlier this year, I...
by Dr. Teressa | 16 Oct 2025 | Encouragement
I’ve been sitting with this phrase for over a year now: Begin again. Not just as a cute saying, but as a charge from the Lord, permission to start fresh without shame. For a long time, I believed that starting over meant something had gone wrong. That if I didn’t get...
