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When a traumatic memory is replayed—through a flashback, a trigger, or intense rumination—the brain’s threat-detection center (the amygdala) fires similarly to how it did during the original event, causing your nervous system to flood with stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol. Get off the merry-go-round. Let your Heavenly Father carry it. by @sydametz

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7 days ago

PTL cuz the camera roll really be like this by @sydametz

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a month ago

I’m kidding New York is chill by @sydametz

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2 months ago

“DON’T”…roll the window down or you’ll turn into a pillar of salt… I’m conflating two recent schools of thought. by @sydametz

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2 months ago

Consider the birds… consider the Lillies. {Matt. 6:26-30}
I am loving living each day for THAT DAY. Watching God provide just what I need for THAT DAY. Laughing when it gets as ridiculous as this because I get to trust and see how it’ll work out and what I learn this time. “Give us this day our daily bread” today I got from point A to point B. Not the way I thought but this was more fun anyway. by @sydametz

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3 months ago

I think about all the change I’m watching go on around me and then I just have that one deftones song stuck in my head 🌷 by @sydametz

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4 months ago

It’s happened a few times: I stop and think of all the ways this girl has been 👏🏼 there 👏🏼 for 👏🏼 me 👏🏼 and I tear up. Seriously overwhelmed and I’m like “HOW CAN I EXPRESS THIS??” This post helps me do that in a tiny way. I think few people are so blessed in life to have someone who really shares their joys with them and bears their burdens with them. How many times have I said something like: “last night I dreamed that… xyz” and she legit is like “So did I”. The question “what does this remind you of?” is asked just for fun because we will always have the same answer. The depths of my heart are understood by her. And I realize that is a massive bonus to this life. When we’re apart she’s wondering how my day is going- but bro, she’s got her own problems like WHAT?? How can she juggle her family, work AND me? When no one gets it- she does. She has never gotten tired of me talking about the same bs. She takes my calls at all hours. She both admires me and calls me out. If I’m up to no good and need a hand- she’ll pull up with 3 kids no questions asked. I could cry for how grateful. And she inspires me. I love the person she is. I can’t look away sometimes- no joke. She’s gorgeous. Inside and out. A rock. A doer. Brave. Calm. And fun! Any moment, she’ll either hit me with a reality check or a zinger- you never know. And I’m the lucky one that gets to be her bestie. Y’all can get wrecked. Happy b-day love 🐥 (Also, she will only kind of like this song.) by @sydametz

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4 months ago

A win is a win alright. Next stuff’ll be better 😤 …and bigger. by @sydametz

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5 months ago

…just do it. Shia LaBeouf said so. taken in El Salvador by @sydametz

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6 months ago

Regresé a mi país- where my family really became family. 🇸🇻 taken in El Salvador, San Salvador by @sydametz

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6 months ago

*cliche “I never do posts like this” disclaimer*

There is a picture in this experience that has been painted for me. There are lessons that will go with me till I’m old. It starts with 3 words: Love, Forgivness, and Grace.
Does this heart have some walls up now? Yep. But I don’t take back the genuine love I gave.
Will I ever again choose to give my trust back to someone who has already proven to be untrustworthy? No. But I am proud of how I chose to forgive.
Will I ever again overlook red flags in a relationship in the name of patience? Nope! But I don’t regret the abundance of grace I offered.

It took a love I thought would kill me some days and it took mistakes that caused deep heartache for the lessons to sink in. Some of them are practical, but the biggest one is this: I now understand on a more personal level who JESUS is. I have a tiny taste of how He treats us when we don’t deserve it- with love, forgiveness, and grace- and how often we (me included) treat Him when we turn around and exploit or betray that. I didn’t expect to be saying, “Father forgive me for ever making you feel anything like this. Thank you for how deeply you love me” in the midst of my shock, but that is the lesson. It took a couple years for it to play out, but that is the picture painted. And I’ll take more lessons. Bring it. I am clay in The Potters hands. This is the point of life!! And THAT truth is the only reason I share this.

And look! He is faithful to restore. He doesn’t waste anything. He has brought me so many new people and opportunities. Beauty from ashes.

I’ve put this verse in a caption before. It was as true then as it is now:
Isaiah 43:18-19
“Don’t think about the past anymore, behold I am doing a new thing, it is beginning to happen even now, do you not perceive it?” by @sydametz

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7 months ago

Stars in my eyes for all this. Also y’all have no idea how many times I’ve listened to this song. by @sydametz

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9 months ago