Category: Hope & Faith

There’s a moment after a layoff that doesn’t make it into the “transition resources” packet, the one with the smiling stock photo hikers and the…

View More The Ghosted Goodbye: When Your Layoff Also Comes With a Complimentary Social Disappearing Act

We talk about “positive energy” like it’s a light switch you can flip the second your calendar invite loads. Like your nervous system is supposed…

View More Positive Energy Is Not an Extension Cord: A Survival Guide for People Who’ve Been Human Power Banks at Work

There’s a sentence floating around corporate America that sounds harmless until it hits you square in the chest: “We’ve made your role redundant.” Redundant. As…

View More “We’ve Made Your Role Redundant”: A Corporate Fairytale About Feelings, Free Bagels, and the People Who Somehow Kept Their Jobs Anyway

There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing nothing, but from doing everything and still feeling like you’re standing perfectly still. You…

View More Getting Back Up: The Job Hunt Where You Learn to Walk While the Floor Is Still Moving

There’s a special kind of spiritual maturity you develop during a job search, and it’s not the kind they teach in Sunday school with flannel…

View More Job Hunting With God: When Heaven Says “We’ll Circle Back” and You Pretend That’s Comforting

By the time the year starts packing its bags, it always tries to leave like a polite guest at a party it absolutely caused. It…

View More The Year-End Performance Review Nobody Asked For

After applying to what felt like every job on the internet—including one listing for a Junior Happiness Strategist that somehow required twelve years of experience,…

View More I Went to Church Instead of Applying for Jobs. God Didn’t Give Me a Job. He Gave Me Something Better.

Life is loud. Not the kind of loud you expect at a concert or in a crowded restaurant — but the kind of noise that…

View More When God Isn’t in the Notifications

There’s a strange kind of silence the morning after you lose your job. It’s not restful or peaceful. It’s disorienting. Like your body wakes up…

View More Getting Back Up After Job Loss: The Grief, the Grit, and the Glimmer of What Comes Next.

She told me she misses who she used to be. The words came out somewhere between a laugh and a sigh. You know that sound—the…

View More Becoming Her Again: A Letter to the One Who Feels Lost After Losing a Job.

There are people who handle stress like monks on a mountain. They meditate. They breathe deeply. They sip tea that tastes like quiet confidence and…

View More Heaven’s Hiring Process — When God Becomes the Hiring Manager

Every prayer sounds a little different when you’re unemployed. You stop saying things like, “Thy will be done,” and start whispering, “Lord, can Thy will…

View More Faith, Caffeine, and the Fine Print of God’s Timing