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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


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


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 Loneliness of Victory: Why Your Biggest Wins Often Go Uncelebrated
Your victory matters. Your growth matters. Your courage matters. And if no one else is noticing, then be the first to stand up and applaud t
Melissa Saulnier
Sep 2, 20255 min read


Coffee Shop and Dinner Conversations: My Quiet Approach To Powerful Ministry
The women I’m called to reach are often barely surviving. They don’t need someone shouting at them about their potential, they need someone
Melissa Saulnier
Aug 29, 20253 min read


The Sacred Work of Self-Forgiveness: When You Made Things Worse
You’re facing the brutal reality that many of us must confront: while you were absolutely a victim of abuse, you also recognize that your ow
Melissa Saulnier
Aug 28, 20255 min read
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