Finding Calm within the Chaos

A Journey of Faith and Peace

  • Mental Illness Is Not a Reflection of Your Faith

    There is a quiet fear many faithful Latter-day Saints carry but rarely say out loud: If my faith were stronger, I wouldn’t feel like this. When anxiety won’t settle, when depression lingers despite prayer, when trauma responses interrupt daily life, it’s easy to assume something is spiritually wrong. We wonder if we are missing a…

  • Finding God When Your Thoughts Won’t Be Quiet

    There are seasons when your thoughts won’t slow down long enough for peace to land. You kneel to pray and your mind races ahead of you. You open the scriptures and reread the same verse five times without absorbing a word. You want to feel calm, faithful, centered—but instead you feel overstimulated, scattered, or painfully…

  • The Pain of Being Misunderstood in Church

    And How to Survive It Without Losing Yourself Being misunderstood hurts anywhere — but being misunderstood in church can cut especially deep. Church is supposed to be a place of belonging.Of safety.Of shared faith. So when people misunderstand your mental health, trauma responses, boundaries, or quiet faith, it can feel like betrayal. You might hear:…

  • Learning to Receive Ministering Without Shame

    When Needing Help Feels Like Failure For many of us, receiving ministering is harder than giving it. We’re taught to serve.To show up.To be strong.To endure. So when we are the ones who need help — emotionally, mentally, spiritually — shame often creeps in. You might think: If that sounds familiar, I want to say…

  • Ministering When You’re Running on Empty

    When Love Has to Look Smaller Than You Planned Ministering is meant to be an act of love — but when you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, depressed, or barely holding yourself together, it can feel like another weight you’re failing to carry. You might think: If that’s where you are, I want you to hear this clearly:…

  • Christmas, Church, and Mental Health

    When the Season of Light Feels Overwhelming Christmas is supposed to be joyful. That’s what we’re told.That’s what the hymns say.That’s what the church lessons emphasize. But for many of us, Christmas doesn’t feel peaceful — it feels loud, heavy, and emotionally exhausting. If you struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, BPD, dissociation,…

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Why I Started this Amazing Blog

Finding Calm within the Chaos: Letting God’s light guide us through Chaos

I started Finding Calm Within the Chaos because I was tired of pretending that peace only exists when life behaves.

For a long time, my world felt loud—inside and out. Trauma, mental illness, faith questions, grief, parenting, relationships, and the constant effort of just staying upright all collided at once. I kept hearing messages—spoken and unspoken—that calm should look tidy, faithful people shouldn’t struggle this much, and healing should be linear if you’re “doing it right.” None of that matched my reality.

So I began searching for something more honest.

Not the kind of calm that ignores pain or rushes past it—but the kind that can sit with chaos, name it, and still breathe. The kind of steadiness that doesn’t require perfection. The kind of faith that can hold doubt. The kind of hope that shows up even when you don’t feel strong.

This blog exists for people who are still standing in the middle of the storm.

It’s for those navigating mental health challenges alongside spirituality. For those surviving suicidal seasons and still choosing to wake up. For those living with complex inner worlds, learning how to listen to themselves with compassion instead of shame. For those who love deeply, grieve deeply, and sometimes feel like they’re too much—or not enough—at the same time.

I write because I believe calm isn’t the absence of chaos.
It’s learning how to anchor yourself within it.

Here you’ll find reflections on faith and trauma, tools for emotional regulation, gentle practices for grounding, and honest conversations about what it means to heal in real life—not Instagram life. Some days the posts will be quiet and steady. Other days they’ll be raw and unpolished. Both belong here.

If you’re exhausted, questioning, healing, surviving, or simply trying to make it through another day—you are not alone.

This space was created to remind us that even in the mess, even in the noise, even in the dark, calm is still possible.

Sometimes it looks like a deep breath.
Sometimes it looks like boundaries.
Sometimes it looks like staying.

Welcome to Finding Calm Within the Chaos.