Hey Girls, We hope you can join us for our 6th annual Anchored In Love Conference Saturday, October 26th at Rock Church in San Diego. Learn more HERE.
WonderfullyMadeSeptember 30, 2019
"Do I believe God because he's not changing me. He's not making my miracle wish come true to make me look like everybody else and I think that was a really hard time and luckily I was still proven wrong and went from seeing my whole situation or my appearance…
WonderfullyMadeSeptember 22, 2019
By Melissa MaimoneI’ve battled anxiety and depression for most of my life. It has come and gone through the years, but like cobwebs that show up in the corners of my house, the darkness always returns. I hated being depressed. I fought it. I felt deep shame about it. This…
WonderfullyMadeJune 3, 2019
By Kate MerrickIt seems more and more, as we live in the digital age, there is a counterfeit for every real thing. We stare at screens instead of looking out windows at meadows and mountains. We envy other people’s pictures, though they’re often filtered and angled so they portray something…
WonderfullyMadeMay 9, 2019
Hey Ladies, I just wanted to invite you to be encouraged by an awesome online event our friend Bethany Hamilton is hosting soon. Bethany is on a mission to help equip young women to live Unstoppable lives so that they can crush self-doubt, overcome the obstacles, live confidently, and value…
WonderfullyMadeApril 25, 2019
By Allie Marie Smith I paused today to think about the irony of this day - that it is called "Good Friday." "Bloody Friday" seems a little more fitting. Our natural, physical selves wonder how anything "good" can come from such a day: "They brought Jesus to the place called…
WonderfullyMadeApril 19, 2019
By Aimee Piersma Isn’t it amazing how we can have a closet full of clothing and still feel we have have nothing to wear? How many hours have we spent in our lifetimes, staring at overwhelming options. We have stories for every piece...reasons we love them, reasons we don’t wear…
WonderfullyMadeMarch 5, 2019
By Arielle Estoria When I was younger, I remember attending a girls retreat where my mom was the leader. At this retreat she read a book to the group, “The Princess and the Kiss” was about a princess who on her 16th birthday received a gift- her first kiss. The…
WonderfullyMadeFebruary 15, 2019
Article and photograph by Allie Marie Smith In high school, you could say I suffered from a bit of social anxiety. At the grocery store checkout line, upon signing my receipt, my right hand would shake and I wasn’t able to look the clerk in the eye. In conversation with…
WonderfullyMadeJanuary 13, 2019
Let's be honest. This little app can easily consume our every spare moment if we let it. It is designed to be highly addictive and to keep you consuming its content for as long as possible which ultimately results in more advertising dollars for Facebook (which has owned Instagram since…
WonderfullyMadeSeptember 22, 2018
By Allie Marie Smith Photo by Chlesea Steller September 9th - 15th, 2018 is Suicide Prevention Week. When it comes to dark days and nights I get it. I never wanted to die, but I wanted the agonizing pain to end. Part of major depression at its worst is believing…
WonderfullyMadeSeptember 9, 2018
By Aimee Piersma Photography by Allie Marie Smith All this rain is worth it when I see a rainbow. This morning I made sure my girls saw it. Birdie glimpsed it before she ran off to class. Jellybean had more time. She said with awe, “That’s the first real rainbow…
WonderfullyMadeAugust 22, 2018
By Arielle Estoria I want to meet him while reading a book in the corner of a coffee shop somewhere. Or maybe we’ll unexpectedly brush shoulders as we both enter onto a subway car and an Adele soundtrack will be playing in the background. .As the slow song begins to…
WonderfullyMadeAugust 14, 2018
If you joined me for Part 1, you heard some of my story while also learning that our brains can heal despite any traumas we’ve suffered. I love that hope is real and healing is possible. Today I’m giving you specific ways to lead someone you love through the maze…
WonderfullyMadeAugust 10, 2018
By Dr. Michelle Watson I’m so honored that you’re here for Part 1 of a two-part series. These two blogs are designed to help you navigate this delicate, yet intense topic should you find yourself walking this journey with a hurting friend or a struggling daughter. I trust that my…
WonderfullyMadeAugust 1, 2018
By Arielle Estoria || There is something about this season that is just as frustrating as it is beautiful. It is the point in our lives where we decide to either sit and twiddle our thumbs waiting for someone to come along and give our lives purpose and excitement or…
WonderfullyMadeJuly 17, 2018
There's quite a body-positive movement on social media these days. Girls and women of all shapes, sizes and colors are posting swimsuit or lingerie photos of themselves and in the captions, sharing about their relationship with their body image in the name of body-positivity. It is a beautiful sight to…
WonderfullyMadeJuly 3, 2018
"I didn't feel loved. I didn't feel valued or worthy. I had such a warped idea of what a father was. And here everyone calls God their father and I remember thinking if God is a good God why did he allow all this stuff to happen to me?" Portrayed…
WonderfullyMadeMay 24, 2018
Kate Merrick is an author, speaker, pastor’s wife, mama of a teen and a toddler, surfer, and part-time cowgirl. She has been married to Britt for 19 years and they live in Carpinteria, California, where they founded the Reality family of churches. In 2013 she endured the death of her…
WonderfullyMadeJanuary 28, 2018