Steadfast Sanity

Where broken becomes beautiful

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  • Why I’m Still Talking

    The Christmas Letter This year, I sent out my first Christmas letter. That might not sound like much. People do it all the time. But if you know anything about my story—about how life smacked me in the face the moment I left my parents’ house and handed me a bill I had no idea Read more

  • When Your Gut Knows What Your Heart Won’t Accept

    When Your Gut Knows What Your Heart Won’t Accept Sometimes the most devastating betrayals come not from enemies, but from the people who convince you they’re your closest allies. I was sitting in that dimly lit restaurant, watching Eugenia’s mouth move as she laid out evidence with receipts and screenshots, when I realized I’d been Read more

  • The Still Small Voice: How Truth Cut Through Deception

    Blueprints in the Wilderness: The Karen and Albert Story Legal Disclaimer: The following is my retelling of events from my perspective and memory. Names have been changed for privacy. Any mention of companies, including Mattress Firm, reflects solely my individual experience and should not be construed as representative of the company as a whole. The Read more

  • Blueprints in the Wilderness: Part Two

    The Journey to Peace “Though He slay me, yet I will trust in Him.” – Job 13:15 Chapter 4: The Great Surrender When everything false is finally stripped away When Tim left, it wasn’t just another heartbreak—it was the final blow that sent me crashing back into nothingness. Everything I thought I had rebuilt, every Read more

  • The Y.W.A.M Diaries: When Hope Became Survival

    Blog posts from inside the system, 2013-2014 Picture, if you will, a young woman sitting at her laptop in the summer of 2013, her fingers dancing across keys with the kind of unbridled enthusiasm that only comes from believing you’re exactly where God wants you to be. She writes with exclamation points scattered like confetti, Read more

  • The Y.W.A.M Chapter: How One Experience Shaped a Decade

    A journey from self-blame to self-truth An Introduction Recently, someone asked me to share my Y.W.A.M (Youth With A Mission) story. I started to tell it casually, the way you might mention any difficult chapter from your past, but I quickly realized the story was too long, too layered, too important to be compressed into Read more

  • Intro: Square Pegs and Sacred Truths

    Welcome to Steadfast Sanity Where ancient wisdom meets modern truth A Note from Rachael Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome to my corner of the internet—a place I’ve named with intention and deep meaning: Steadfast Sanity. Perhaps you knew me from my old blog, “Rachael Around The World,” where I documented my missionary adventures with the wide-eyed Read more