Wellness is not selfish. It is stewardship. When you care for yourself, you honor the God who created you. You also strengthen the people you lead. Burnout, resentment, and exhaustion are not signs of devotion. They are signs that parts of your life need gentler care.

Let’s be honest—sometimes it’s not what we say, it’s how we say it. Scripture tells us in Ephesians 4:31, “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, and clamor be put away from you.” The Greek word used here, kraugḗ , means a loud cry or outburst, a kind of emotional uproar. But clamor isn’t always about volume. It is the inner turbulence that spills out through our tone, reactions, and silence. Clamor is what happens when we feel unheard, unappreciated, or misunderstood, and we start responding from...

Pain was never meant to make us colder. It was meant to teach compassion. In this reflection, Issata shares how women can turn their hardships into grace, empathy, and purpose—choosing to lift others rather than judge them.