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Jennifer Power
Dec 29, 20204 min read
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Updates & Offerings for 2021
It has now been 3 months since I was certified as a yoga teacher, and I am excited to share with you my yoga class updates & offerings...
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Jennifer Power
Nov 10, 20206 min read
Losing My Faith, Finding Myself
I am to be most pitied among men, for God has seen fit to give me the gift of faith then take it away. Now hope and love remain, but what...
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Jennifer Power
Oct 26, 20205 min read
One Christ-Follower Defends Her Support of the Democratic Party: Racism
How can I be a follower of Christ and have my views align more with the political Left than the Right? Through a series of essays, I have...
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Jennifer Power
Oct 20, 20208 min read
One Christ-Follower Defends Her Support of the Democratic Party: Immigration
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the...
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Jennifer Power
Oct 16, 20203 min read
Follow Up to Post about LGBTQ+ Support
It has been suggested that my recent commentary on human sexuality is me attempting to set myself up as God, opens the door for the...
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Jennifer Power
Oct 15, 20207 min read
One Christ-Follower Defends Her Support of the Democratic Party: LGBTQ+
I do not believe absolute truth about God can be known conclusively. While such truths likely exist, I do not believe we can know them...
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Jennifer Power
Oct 9, 20207 min read
One Christ-Follower Defends Her Support of the Democratic Party: Social Services
My reasons for aligning more with the Democratic Party are both lack of alignment with the Republican Party and alignment with the...
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Jennifer Power
Oct 6, 20208 min read
One Christ-Follower Defends Her Support of the Democratic Party: Abortion
After my recent post publicly stating my support of Democratic candidate Joe Biden, I have been asked to explain why I, a follower of...
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Jennifer Power
Oct 2, 20205 min read
I Voted Third-Party Four Years Ago & I Will Not Do It Again
When I heard Donald Trump was running for president, I honestly believed it was a joke. A publicity stunt. A way to get attention. When I...
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Jennifer Power
Sep 21, 20202 min read
A Letter to My Friends
To my friends, Many of you will not understand this next step in my journey. You may already be confused or troubled by what I have been...
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Jennifer Power
Sep 11, 20204 min read
Finding Freedom to be Me
In a podcast the other day, I heard it said it is important to be willing to be polarizing - to speak out of who you truly are rather...
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Jennifer Power
Jul 10, 20204 min read
Can Fullness of Life be Found in the Dark?
“Releasing attachment reduces burn-out.” It seems the only way to learn this lesson is the hard way. I learned this lesson the hard way....
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Jennifer Power
Jul 3, 20204 min read
A Space to Heal
Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, Florida, provides shelter from the cold for hundreds of manatees each winter. Our family had the...
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Jennifer Power
Jun 19, 20204 min read
Searching for a Signal: Practices for When Uncertainty Leaves You Drained
I lay in bed in the middle of a Sunday afternoon, trying to stay awake as my daughter tells me a story. I slept, in and out of...
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Jennifer Power
Jun 12, 20202 min read
I'll Stay: A Free Form Poem
Sometimes, if I allow the dust to settle and become fully present to the moment poetic words arise. Sometimes I am able to write them...
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Jennifer Power
Jun 5, 20206 min read
What OCD Cost My Faith
I used to believe I had been given the spiritual gift of faith. Such surety at such a young age must have been a gift from the divine. I...
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Jennifer Power
May 29, 20205 min read
Seeing My OCD Pattern
(This is a continuation of the story Waking Up to OCD) Walking the tourist strip of a small college town with family, a sense of urgency...
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Jennifer Power
May 22, 20208 min read
Waking Up to OCD
For thirty-six years, I had no idea I had been battling #anxiety and #OCD. I always thought I was self-aware and introspective. I wonder...
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Jennifer Power
May 15, 20206 min read
Rewriting My Story in Light of OCD
The stories we tell ourselves are powerful. It is my desire to make faith stories of the inner struggle with #OCD and #anxiety more...
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Jennifer Power
May 10, 20205 min read
The Illusion of Certainty: Living a Life of Faith with Anxiety
This is my story of the light within and the illusionary shadows keeping the true land out of view. Maybe parts of my story intersect...
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