You’d think I’d have it all figured out.

I don’t.

Turns out, the hardest person to convince is still my own anxious brain.

I’ve spent much of my life writing about faith, surrender, anxiety, and the strange things we do when we’re trying to make ourselves feel safe. More recently, that curiosity has taken me somewhere I didn’t expect: into the brain itself.

Because apparently, self-protection isn’t only something we do spiritually. Our brains and bodies do it too.

So this has become a place where I explore both.

In GodGirl, I’m a confessional theologian in the wild, testing what I believe where theology gets difficult: in actual life. I write about surrender, control, anxiety, grace, relationships, and what happens when trusting God requires us to release something we desperately want to manage.

In The Overprotective Brain, I explore the science of protection: how the brain learns danger, why it sometimes keeps protecting us after the danger has passed, and how that can affect pain, anxiety, attention, behavior, and the way we live.

One is explicitly Christian. The other isn’t.

But underneath them is a question I keep asking:

What happens when the things meant to protect us start keeping us from living?

That question has taken me into theology, neuroscience, psychology, chronic pain, relationships, fear, control, and some uncomfortable corners of my own life.

I’m still testing all of it in the field.

If your brain won’t stop protecting you, your soul won’t stop trying to control things, or you’re simply curious about why human beings do what we do, pull up a chair.

Welcome to the experiment.