by Laura Joy Ramos
Author & Mental Health Advocate
Fearfully, Wonderfully, and Bipolar-ly Made
Welcome to My Journey
This is where I share my unfiltered journey through mental health, faith, and finding purpose in the beautiful mess of being human. I’m Laura Joy, author of an upcoming memoir about embracing all the parts of ourselves—including the broken ones.
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When the Light Returns: Finding Hope for SAD
The same God who designed the sun’s predictable arc across the seasons also designed me—a creature who needs light to thrive. He built the solution into creation itself: the promise that darkness never gets the final word. Even at its peak on the Winter Solstice, the night immediately begins to lose ground. The light always…
When the Sun Returns (Inside and Out)
Four mornings in a row, I showed up at the pier to see nothing. But I wasn’t really seeing nothing, was I? I was witnessing God’s faithfulness in the fog. This morning, after four days of grey, pink threaded through purple across the water. The sun rose today, outside and inside. God is faithful like…
After the Epic
Sunday’s sunrise looked just like that epic one from weeks ago—same impossible oranges, same fire painted across the water. I, however, was different. This time, I wasn’t anticipating disaster but processing triumph. God had to prove that when I finally stepped back from the conductor’s podium, He could orchestrate something more beautiful than my rigid…
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