Share The Struggle Blog

RESOURCES, ENCOURAGEMENT AND MORE

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Each week we bring you resources, insights, and stories that illuminate the path to mental and spiritual flourishing, guiding you on your journey towards wholeness and healing.

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Biblical Tools for Anxiety: Scripture and Prayer Practices That Calm

When anxiety takes over, it’s easy to feel like your faith is failing. But Scripture doesn’t shame anxious hearts—it meets them with compassion. This gospel-centered guide introduces biblical tools for anxiety that help you breathe, reframe, and reconnect with truth. Learn how practices like breath prayer, lament, and surrender can quiet your thoughts and center your soul. You’re not broken. You’re overwhelmed—and God sees you. Peace starts here.

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Conflict Coaching: Biblical Strategies for Resolving Tension

Conflict is inevitable—but chaos isn’t. This guide introduces conflict coaching: a gospel-centered approach to navigating tension with wisdom, clarity, and peace. Whether you shut down, blow up, or avoid confrontation altogether, this blog helps you practice healthy boundaries, honest communication, and Christlike reconciliation. You don’t have to be stuck in the same patterns. There’s a better way to relate—with truth, love, and courage.

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Grief Coaching: Faith Practices That Help You Carry Loss

Grief isn’t something to fix—it’s something to carry. This blog explores how grief coaching supports Christians walking through loss with honesty, grace, and gospel hope. Whether you're mourning a person, a dream, or a season of life, you’ll learn spiritual practices and gentle rhythms that bring light into dark places. Jesus doesn’t hurry your healing. He joins you in it.

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Christian Mentor: Why Every Believer Needs Guidance

Spiritual growth was never meant to be a solo journey. A Christian mentor walks beside you—not to fix you, but to help you see God more clearly, live more freely, and grow more deeply in Christ. This blog explains why mentorship matters, what it looks like, and how it helps every believer—especially in confusing or stagnant seasons. If your soul longs for guidance, this could be your next faithful step.

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Christian Shame vs Conviction: How to Walk Free in the Gospel

You love Jesus—but still feel like you’re not enough. This blog exposes the difference between Christian shame and Holy Spirit conviction, offering a gospel-centered path toward healing. Shame tells you to hide. Conviction calls you home. If you’ve carried the weight of “never measuring up,” learn how to break free through Scripture, honest reflection, and safe community. You are not your past. You are God’s beloved.

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Biblical Counseling vs Therapy: What’s Right for You?

You don’t need to choose between faith and emotional health. Biblical counseling brings both together—anchoring your struggles in gospel truth while honoring your story with compassion. Whether you’re navigating grief, anxiety, trauma, or relational tension, this approach offers more than advice—it offers hope. Grounded in Scripture and led by the Holy Spirit, biblical counseling is a path toward healing that doesn’t ignore pain, but walks through it with Jesus.

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Christian Purpose Coach: Clarify Calling, Identity, and Faith

You feel called—but unclear. Passion is stirring, but direction feels foggy. A Christian purpose coach helps you move from confusion to clarity through gospel-centered discovery. This isn’t about hustle or hype. It’s about uncovering your God-given wiring, naming what matters, and taking small faithful steps rooted in grace. Purpose isn’t just what you do—it’s who you’re becoming in Christ.

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Gospel Identity Coaching: Discovering Who You Really Are

You know the “right” answers—but inside, you still feel like you're not enough. Gospel identity coaching helps you move those truths from head to heart. Through Scripture, reflection, and Spirit-led conversation, you’ll learn how to shed false labels and stand firm in who Christ says you are. If shame has shaped your story, this is the journey back to freedom, one truth at a time.

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Coaching Women in Faith: Overcoming Shame, Building Purpose

You love Jesus, but shame still whispers, “You’re not enough.” Coaching women in faith offers more than goal-setting—it offers a sacred space to lay down lies and rise up in gospel truth. Whether you’re healing from your past or finding your next step, this journey helps you replace hustle with grace, performance with presence, and shame with purpose. You’re not too broken. You’re becoming.

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