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When It’s Hard To Keep Writing

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | May 9, 2016 | Brave, Broken and Raw, writing

The truth of it all is this: writing used to come as naturally to me as breathing. I would open a notebook to a fresh page or start a new blog post, only to finish it in half an hour. Here’s my right-now truth: a few months ago, writing became hard for me. This...

I Dare You: Wear One Less Layer

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Apr 22, 2016 | Books, Brave, Broken and Raw

When we’re honest truth tellers and vulnerable story sharers, social media can be used for good. I really believe that’s true. But it’s hard to do, that whole business of letting people see the real, the messy, the not-so-put-together, the hard days...

You Are Not Responsible for Winning

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Mar 31, 2016 | Brave, Devotional, Faith, Fear

(The message of this post? It’s now a tattoo on my foot. So there’s that.) On Monday nights I go to bible study. (I’m sure there’s a lesson in here somewhere about how, without fail, I always remember as I sit in study that I’m missing...

The Thing About Post-Grad

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Feb 16, 2016 | Brave, Even If Not, Fear, Generation Y

I keep finding myself thinking “so this is it.” I wish I could form words around all that sentence holds and the emotions tucked away in just four little words, but I’m discovering that sentence, much like this season, is like reaching out to grab...

The Unmaking

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Feb 5, 2016 | Brave, Broken and Raw, Faith

i. This is where the walls gave way This is demolition day All the debris, and all this dust What is left of what once was Sorting through what goes and what should stay ii. This is the hard work of breaking and also of braking. This is the hard work of sifting and...

Letting God Be Big

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Dec 1, 2015 | Brave, Faith, Fear

Chances are real good that you’ve never even heard her name. Maybe, just possibly, you’ve read her story. She only got a handful of verses but there’s this girl named Huldah who changed Christianity as we know it today. This past spring I spent two...