by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 6, 2026 | healing, Hearing God's voice
CBB 11/6/26 From the Director’s note in the playbill for the current ASF production. “Fences,” by August Wilson. “The Maxson yard is not simply a backyard. It is a place where generations wrestle over what must be preserved, what must be repaired, and what must...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 31, 2026 | healing, memories, Uncategorized
Voluntarily Face What Haunts You “If you have a memory that is older than about eighteen months, and it haunts you and comes up involuntarily, it produces a stress reaction. What does that mean as far as your nervous system is concerned? As far as your body is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 6, 2025 | healing, Ministry
“If we cared more about the source of a person’s pain than their reaction to it, we might have a better chance at speaking truth to the lies, light to the darkness, and Christ to the evil.” Copied from an observed Twitter post.
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 9, 2025 | Mental Health, mind, self care, self worth, spiritual growth, Teaching, Uncategorized
“My therapist told me something that hit harder than I expected: She said: “People-pleasing isn’t really about pleasing others. It’s about controlling their perception of you.” And then she looked at me and said: “It’s what happens when fear starts driving—fear of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 30, 2025 | Ministry, self-awareness, spiritual formation, Teaching, Titus 2 Partnership, Twelve Step recovery
“Do you struggle with the distance between what you thought would be and what is? Disappointment is sometimes God‘s way of leading you home. It is not proof that God is withholding something good from you. Disappointment can be a gift from God that feels nothing like...
