Five daughters and a daughter-in-law in the house, a social enterprise run by an all-female staff serving predominantly female students, and Nepali girls from incredibly hard backgrounds living with us… you can imagine that these days my conversations revolve heavily around feelings, feelings about feelings, feelings we thought we were done feeling, appropriate ways to express our feelings, and how what we said or did may have made someone else feel what they’re feeling. In the midst of it all, I’ve come to normalize addressing our negative thoughts…

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦.
𝘐’𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘵.
𝘐’𝘮 𝘶𝘨𝘭𝘺.
𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥.
𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.
𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦.
𝘐’𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩.
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.
𝘐’𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦.

We’ve all had them.

Taking these thoughts captive is a discipline and a spiritual practice that requires intentionality, awareness, and grace. And the more that we practice, the quicker we become at replacing the thoughts, and eventually, the less frequent they occur. When recently opening up about the negative thoughts we struggle with, the honesty and venerability was beautiful and deeply encouraging. Hearing the girls speak truth over one another was powerful, and as we walked through the steps of replacing those thoughts, they were comforted to realize that there is no shortage of truth to cling to.
Interested in walking through the steps with your daughters, Bible study, etc., 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘! This Workbook and Journal will lead you through understanding and identifying negative thoughts, getting to the root of them, uncovering lies you might be believing, replacing those lies with the Word of God, and releasing the thoughts and lies to God in order to move forward in grace and truth.