Hi! I’m Alyssa,
Welcome to my blog Living LimitLyss (get it? *wink wink*), I’m glad you’re here!
I wanted to share a little bit about myself and what I desire for this blog to become.
So, make yourself comfortable because I talk a lot 😅.
Why I Started This Christian Faith Blog
So, why did I start this blog and name it what I did?
Well, first and foremost, I did this simply because God wanted me to. He laid it on my heart and set up desirable circumstances and conditions for it to be doable for me.
I was simply obedient, albeit hesitantly and kind of begrudgingly, but obedient nonetheless.
I had actually been wanting to start a blog for some time. And I even came up with a blog idea with my mom called “Simply Family,” but don’t bother looking it up because we didn’t get farther than the name (and an email).
My mom backed out *coughs* Chump! *coughs again* (mhm sorry something was in my throat 😁) so I backed off from the idea of blogging.
Then she encouraged me to start a blog of my own, and though the idea was appealing, I just wasn’t in a place in my life yet where I was ever going to decide to tackle something like that on my own.
I did, however, come up with the name of my very own faith blog, “LivingLimitLyss.”
Huh, it was almost as if God placed that name in my heart as a foreshadowing of what was to come. Weird.
My Struggle With Anxiety, Isolation, and Fear
Fast forward about three or four years, and I’m truly upset about how my life has gone between then and now.
You see, I’ve struggled with my weight, anxiety, depression, and insecurity since I was a child, but it got significantly worse after I left brick and mortar public school and started doing online schooling (which is different than homeschooling).
I became more isolated than I’d ever been in my whole life, and I was only 12 years old.
I stayed doing online schooling for 7 years, and each year I had a goal to lose weight, conquer anxiety, and re-attend in-person school, but every year I failed to do just that.
Even worse, my weight increased, my anxiety increased, my depression increased, and my insecurities increased every single year.
As a matter of fact, my anxiety had gotten so bad due to my isolation (like, I was practically a hermit) that I had developed an anxiety disorder that caused me to have panic attacks about leaving the house.
I would panic about going to church, running errands (if I had to get out of the car), and even going to the movie theater terrified me.
I was so anxious that I had to be drugged to go to the dentist!
My anxiety even prevented me from going to therapy for quite a while because I was too anxious to make the appointment phone call 🤦🏽♀️.
God Met Me in My Lowest Season
God worked in me, however, and I was finally able to do “Christian” counseling through our medical plan.
I say “Christian” counseling because my counselor, though helpful, wasn’t as Christianly as I expected her to be (she recommended I listen to Lizzo and called her a good role model for young plus-size women lol).
I’ll admit, however, that as unorthodox as she was, God knew what He was doing because even though, spiritually, she wasn’t the most mature, her no-nonsense attitude was what I needed.
She didn’t let me make excuses for myself, and despite everything she said to me being things I’d already heard over and over again before, mostly by my own mother, I was finally hearing it because it was coming from her.
I went to counseling for about a year, and she did put me on a mild anxiety medication, which I took for the majority of that year.
I eventually stopped going to counseling because she practically said that if I wasn’t willing to make the next step, then all these sessions were doing was just going over the same things again.
Although I don’t think a counselor should ever say something like that to their patient, due to who I am, I decided she was right, and I didn’t need her anymore.
She had said everything I needed to hear, and the season for counseling had come to an end.
This is another reason I believe wholeheartedly that God orchestrated our counseling sessions because had she been my sister’s (a very mature Christian) counselor, my sister would’ve walked out probably in the middle of the first session 😂.
I was ready to tackle the next season of my life, and everything else that happened throughout the last year had prepared me for it.
My Salvation and Spiritual Breakthrough
I had officially been saved!
I even remember the exact moment because I literally came out of my room and told my mother that I literally felt a veil being lifted from over my eyes, and I had felt enlightened (as Hippie as that sounds, it was the perfect word for it lol).
Shortly after being saved, and while I was still in counseling, I had started Bible studies with my sister, and they were amazing and truly helped propel my faith forward.
Then, just as it had been about a year since I had left counseling, one day I felt no need for my anxiety medication anymore. So I told my mom I was coming off of it because I didn’t feel any anxiety at all.
Then she laughed and said “well that’s because of the medication lol,” and I said “well yeah but there is something else… I feel like God has taken it away.”
So I got off my medication (with full support from my mother, btw) and sure enough, even after being completely weaned off, my anxiety was gone!
It was awesome! (and a moment I come back to in seasons of doubt)
Now that’s not to say I never felt anxiety again, but it never ever plagued and stunted me as it had for so many years.
I was, in fact, free from it.
However, my life circumstances at this point were not very conducive to taking too many new steps despite this breakthrough.
For example, I was 20 with no job, no car nor driver’s license, or any other form of transportation because our second car had broken down, oh and… no social life.
I was free of the anxiety that held me back for so long, but now, circumstances out of my control were holding me back.
But God is good, and He helped me formulate a plan.
Stepping Into a LimitLyss Life With Christ
I decided I was going to dedicate all my time to my health mentally, physically, and spiritually, as I literally had all day, every day to work on it.
My only other responsibility was to take care of my English Mastiff (her name is Mouse), and she was pretty easy despite her size and affinity for being terrified of everything (she really lives up to her name).
So that’s what I did, and it took two years to really come to the end of myself and surrender everything to God so that real change could take place, but it happened.
Eventually.
So now I’m 22 years old, still no money, no job, no driver’s license, and no social life, a literal shut-in for going on 10 years now, but I was the happiest and spiritually healthiest I’d ever been!
That’s when God placed the blessing of this blog back on my heart, and he led me to a free in-depth blogging course that even offered a special discount on the hosting platform.
So I took my leap of faith, completely terrified, and then I procrastinated lol.
Whoops. What can you do?! I’m only human!
God was faithful to me, though, and very patient. I had seen everything he’d done in my life so far, including even leading me to find and follow the holistic teachings of Barbara O’Neill and lose 50lbs!
So even as much as I strayed, I inevitably came back to Him and got back on track this time to stay the course.
Even as I’m writing this, I’m in the midst of transformation, and it’s still scary, and my flesh still wants to stop me or limit me if you will.
But God keeps me trudging forward, affliction produces endurance and endurance produces proven character and proven character produces hope (Romans 5:3-4).
So, that’s what I’m currently doing, I’m pushing forward past all the fear and self-doubt of my flesh and I’m fixing my mind on the truth of God which is that my spirit is meant for holy and righteous things.
And I’m meant to live in God’s limitlessness.
Writing this, I haven’t even published my blog yet (it’s 06/09/25 as of right now), but I’m confident in where God is taking me, and I’ve made the CHOICE to stay OBEDIENT because I know it will lead me out of this darkness I’ve sat in for 10+ years.
My whole blog is going to be about stepping into the limitlyss potential you have with Christ in your heart and how exactly I’m stepping into my calling of being a limitlyss child of God.
My Prayer
My hope and prayer is that this blog will find all who need it and, through my experiences and unique outlook on life, will positively impact everyone it comes in contact with in some way or another.
I pray that God works in all your lives just as I know He has worked in mine. I pray that as you join me in my faith journey to a limitless life, that you are transformed by His love in a way nobody and nothing can ever possibly take from you.
I ask our Father to continue equipping me each day to be a spiritual leader for this growing community and to shield me from the enemy’s attacks on my purpose and passion.
Lastly, I thank God for everything He has done for my family and me, and all I know He will continue to do, as well as all the wonderful blessings and transformation I know He will accomplish within this community.
In Jesus’ mighty and limitless name,
Amen!
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