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When You’re Ready to Begin: First Steps Toward Mental Health After Trauma
If you’re coming out of trauma, whether it’s abuse, loss, betrayal, or the kind of slow erosion that happens when you spend years in surviva
Melissa Saulnier
5 days ago5 min read
The Chess Game of Life: Strategy and the Unseen Hand
Life isn’t only the pieces we can see and the moves we can calculate. There’s an unseen element too, something that defies the formula
Melissa Saulnier
Feb 32 min read
From Nothing to Something: The Stories We Write in the Desert
There is nothing. A blank page. Empty space where a story could be. And then I write. Water in the Desert Suddenly, where there was nothing, there is something. Words that didn’t exist now breathe. A narrative takes shape. What lived only in the formless realm of possibility becomes real, tangible, shareable. The nothing has become something to me, and potentially to many others. This is the quiet miracle of creation, something from nothing, by the simple act of beginning. Bu
Melissa Saulnier
Jan 302 min read
The Distance Between Disrespect and Self-Respect
The pain of needing distance from people who are supposed to love you unconditionally, and who everyone believes do, is a special grief
Melissa Saulnier
Jan 85 min read
Joy and Suffering in the Same Season
Many of us have internalized the idea that feeling good when others feel bad is somehow morally wrong, that joy in the presence of suffering
Melissa Saulnier
Dec 26, 20254 min read
Breaking the Chain: When Only God Can Fix What Generations Couldn’t
The only light in all of this hardship, the only thing that has made the difference, has been that I have felt the presence of God.
Melissa Saulnier
Dec 3, 20256 min read
Choosing to See What Could Be A Christmas Vision of Hope
When I close my eyes and let myself dream without the weight of past disappointments, here’s what I see…I see people loving people.
Melissa Saulnier
Dec 2, 20255 min read
Standing Firm at the Gate
Your new season isn’t just about you. It’s about everyone your obedience will impact, every life you’ll touch, every assignment you’ll fulfi
Melissa Saulnier
Nov 25, 20252 min read
When Thanksgiving Feels Heavy: Finding Light in Dark Seasons
Some years, Thanksgiving doesn’t arrive wrapped in Norman Rockwell scenes and Instagram-perfect gatherings.
Melissa Saulnier
Nov 24, 20254 min read
How Spiritual Resistance Manifests
Not every conflict is spiritual warfare, of course. Sometimes tensions arise because change legitimately affects other people, and they’re p
Melissa Saulnier
Nov 18, 20255 min read
On Fair-Weather Friends and the Art of Quiet Guardedness
My memoir is about my resilience, my faith, my overcoming spirit. It’s about the person I fought to become. And that person has learned to h
Melissa Saulnier
Nov 14, 20254 min read
The Enemy at the Gate
Opposition isn’t random, it’s strategic. The enemy doesn’t waste resources fighting battles that don’t matter. He concentrates his efforts a
Melissa Saulnier
Nov 11, 20252 min read
Tools for My Next Assignment
My old season gave me tools I don’t even realize I’m carrying yet. That job I hated? It taught me systems, processes, or people skills…
Melissa Saulnier
Nov 4, 20252 min read
When You Have to Be Your Own Encourager
Do you need encouragement and don’t know where to look? I understand that feeling more than you might imagine. I don’t have all the answers,
Melissa Saulnier
Nov 3, 20255 min read
The Masterpiece Under Construction
But as you give thanks, remember, you’re not staying there. You’re not meant to build a monument to the old season. You’re meant to extract
Melissa Saulnier
Oct 28, 20252 min read
When You Tell Your Truth Before the Gossips Do: Reclaiming Your Narrative
When you control your own narrative authentically, the gossips lose their ammunition. You’ve already told the truth, on your terms, with the
Melissa Saulnier
Oct 21, 20256 min read
The Hidden Curriculum of Hard Seasons
David’s years fleeing from Saul felt like delay, like injustice, like God had forgotten His promise. But those years forged in David
Melissa Saulnier
Oct 14, 20253 min read
What Was Forged in the Fire
As I prepare to step into my new season, I must learn to look back at the old one with gratitude rather than nostalgia.
Melissa Saulnier
Oct 14, 20253 min read
The Last Day of an Old Season
The question isn’t whether the season is ending. If you’re feeling what you’re feeling, it probably is. The question is whether you’ll have
Melissa Saulnier
Oct 8, 20253 min read
The Whiteboard Around Your Neck: When Others Can't Handle Your Clean Slate
You don't need to defend your clean slate or prove your transformation to people who are determined to keep you in your past. You don't need to convince anyone that your change is real. You don't need permission to walk in the freedom you've been given.
Melissa Saulnier
Sep 27, 20253 min read
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