Writer’s Growth

by Laura Joy Palma
Author & Mental Health Advocate

Two-Hour Tuesdays
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 a memoir about embracing all the parts of ourselves—including the broken ones, available now on Amazon.

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A Beautiful Bruised Capture

I superglued my heel shut last week. I didn’t plan to write that first sentence, but it’s where everything else starts, so I’ll begin there. Six days ago, I was standing out on the shoals before dawn, ankle-deep in water I know well, framing a sailboat moored past the shallows with her mast running straight…

Another Sunrise

Tomorrow could be an ending or a beginning, and I won’t know until I’m in the room. But I’ve learned this summer: sometimes the beautiful and the hard are the same light.

Grace, Mercy, and Power

He showed me His grace at the sunrise, His mercy at the sunset, and on the last night of summer, in a storm full of lightning, He showed me His power.