Steadfast Sanity

Where broken becomes beautiful

Y.W.A.M

  • The raw, unfiltered entry from June 29, 2014 This is the final piece of my Y.W.A.M story—the blog post I wrote roughly 5-8 months after leaving the program. I’ve shared my processed reflections in previous posts, but this is the raw, unfiltered entry exactly as my 18-year-old self wrote it in 2014. Reading it now, Read more

  • 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

  • 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