Helen Thorne

Hope in anxiety: a pastoral perspective

15 May 2023The trouble is that it can be hard to admit to feeling anxious. Often we feel a pressure to “just cope”. We frequently ignore the desperately hard experiences, the biological complexity and, sometimes, the life choices that fuel our anxiety. We live in a fallen world, so it should be no surprise that our relationships, our context, our body and our heart all go deeply and painfully awry. But instead we often merely choose to tell ourselves that there are others in the world worse off than us,…