<p>Where did DROWNING IN SHALLOW and ENCOURAGED with Janelle come from? Learn a bit about your host and writer, Janelle, and the place her own encouragement stems from. Shallow platitudes can cause us to feel like we're drowning in difficulty all alone. But knowing we don't have to minimize the storm to find true hope, grants relief to be honest, and truly need Emmanuel.</p>

Conversation 2: Asking others, "How do you do it?"

Dissatisfied with cheap definitions of "positive thinking" in the face of struggle, Janelle seeks a richer, truer encouragement from the Lord. One that doesn't minimize the blows of pain we experience, and seeks to find lasting and true hope in God. Taking "optimistic" bows off of trouble, and unwrapping pain to see where God really is in the face of heartache.