#82 When You Look Fine on the Outside but Know Something Isn’t Right Inside

She Rises: Faith, Freedom and Order for Christian Women · Oct 14, 2026 · 30m

For years, much of my life looked perfectly ordinary from the outside.

I was married, raising children, managing a home, going to church and getting on with what needed doing.

Inside, things felt very different.

My body ached. My mind was foggy. Ordinary jobs became overwhelming. I sometimes cried while folding laundry or pushing the hoover around the lounge, yet because I was still functioning I kept telling myself I simply needed to cope better.

Different diagnoses and treatments helped different parts of the picture, but I still had the sense that nobody — including me — quite understood…