Category: Faith

How should I launch?

Jul 9, 2025

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NicoleHerronWrites

in anxiety, author, Book Launch, characters, church, cognitive distortions, Cosmic Smash Book, creativity, Faith, hiding, imposter syndrome, journaling, mental health, perfectionism, planning, self promotion, social anxiety, TEP3, triggers, vulnerability, writing

I’ve had a few people ask me when my book will be released and I have given vague answers because I haven’t picked a specific date, so yesterday in the coaching call I asked Sage how I should go about choosing one. Which became much more emotional than I expected. It’s hard enough to think…
Lent 2025

Mar 11, 2025

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, church, cognitive distortions, exposure therapy, Faith, hiding, journaling, Lent2025, perfectionism, shame, social anxiety, vulnerability

I’ve never really been one to give something up for Lent. It wasn’t something my family did as Presbyterians. Though my mother liked to say that she gave up cooking for Lent and never started back up. The topic of fasting was discussed in the sermon on Ash Wednesday last week, but not in the…
On the road to better health

Feb 13, 2025

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, chronic illness, defective, exercise, Faith, family, friendship, health anxiety, introvert, intuition, journaling, lessons, people-pleasing, perfectionism, shame, social anxiety, Tarot

I’m taking a 5 day class with Sage Adderly called “Chaos is Canceled.” Each day we’ve been taking a step towards calming the chaos and making a plan for our goals. I have been struggling with what goal to plan for. I’ve had the goal of writing my book for some time, but I actually…
Intuition and Tarot

Jan 14, 2025

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, Faith, friendship, INFJ, introvert, intuition, journaling, people-pleasing, personality, routine, shame, social anxiety, Tarot, vulnerability, work, writing

I’ve recently been tapping into my intuition more and realizing that my brain knows more than I allow it to realize. My cognitive distortions try to lead me to believe that I’m unable to do or know certain things. But through both my investigation of INFJ personality characteristics and the use of Cosmic Smash-booking (CSB)…
Why?

Nov 6, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, church, Faith, family, grief, introvert, journaling, medication, vulnerability, writing

I have a lot of whys going through my head today.
Leadership Anxiety

Oct 20, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, church, Faith, journaling, parenting, social anxiety, vulnerability

Back in August, I had approached my pastor about an LBGBTQIA+ Parenting course that I had seen being offered by a prominent women’s study leader. I told her I’d love to do the course, but not alone. She proposed that we meet and discuss options along with the associate pastor. On September 4th we met.…
Prayer Answered?

Aug 20, 2024

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Niki Herron

in aging, anxiety, exercise, extrovert, Faith, friendship, INFJ, introvert, journaling, social anxiety

Yesterday I wrote about feeling lonely and missing having a close friend and how hard it is to meet new people. Now, I’ve written about that on more than one occasion with no change, but if you look close enough, you can almost always find God’s hands in your life. I’ve been attending a water…
ADHD Advantage?

Aug 12, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, church, cognitive distortions, Faith, journaling, perfectionism, shame, social anxiety, strengths

I’ve never been diagnosed, but I am fairly certain I have ADHD. After observing my children prior to and after their diagnosis, doing research to learn more about it, and noticing my own “ferrari brain” at work, I have little doubt. Like many females, I’ve been able to mask it and I don’t have the…
New Year Prayer

Jan 3, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, Faith, hope, journaling, social anxiety

Not gonna lie, 2023 was a tough year. Between my physical health struggles, one of my best friends battling cancer, the death of my grandmother-in-law, the diagnosis of breast cancer in my aunt-in law, my aunt’s ICU stay, my husband’s roller coaster of job stress, diagnosing my kids with ADHD and anxiety, and struggling with my…
Granny

Sep 19, 2023

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Niki Herron

in Faith, family, journaling

When I met my husband in 1995 he had not talked to his father or that side of the family for years. He held a lot of anger about what felt like abandonment to him, which is understandable. I remember there being quite a bit of bitterness when he talked about them. However, not long…