Important Information
Life can feel heavy at times, especially when anxiety, burnout, or emotional pressure begins to cloud the mind. This page offers simple, supportive resources created to help you understand what you’re feeling — and remind you that peace is possible.
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These tools don’t replace professional help, but they’re here to guide you gently toward clarity, hope, and spiritual grounding as you learn to let go.
Immediate Support
If you or someone you know needs help right now, please reach out to these trusted services:
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These external resources offer professional care. The Let Go campaign is faith-based and creative, and does not replace clinical support.
Understanding Anxiety
Anxiety can feel like a constant heaviness — racing thoughts, tension in the body, or a sense of worry that doesn’t fully go away. It often shows up quietly, building over time until even simple moments feel overwhelming.
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But anxiety is not a personal failure. It’s your mind trying to protect you, even when it feels exhausting. Faith can offer support here too — pausing to pray, breathe, or sit with God’s peace can bring gentle grounding when life feels unsettled.
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Simple practices like talking to someone you trust, slowing your pace, spending time outside, or seeking professional or pastoral help can create space to breathe again and feel less alone.
Understanding Depression
Depression can feel like a deep heaviness, a quiet weight that makes everyday moments feel harder than they should. It can look like sadness, numbness, exhaustion, or even feeling disconnected from the world around you. If you’ve been feeling this way, you are not weak, broken, or alone. Many people walk through this experience, and healing is possible.
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Faith can offer a sense of grounding during these seasons. Gentle practices like prayer, worship, journaling, and speaking with someone you trust can help reopen your heart to hope. Depression doesn’t mean God is distant; in fact, Scripture reminds us that He is “close to the brokenhearted” (Psalm 34:18).
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Small steps towards connection, rest, and support can make a meaningful difference. And reaching out for professional help is a sign of courage, not defeat.
Understanding Emotional Burnout
Emotional burnout happens when you’ve been carrying too much for too long. It can feel like exhaustion, emptiness, overwhelm, or disconnect, even when everything looks “fine” on the outside. Burnout isn’t weakness; it’s a sign your mind, body, and spirit are asking for rest and renewal.
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Faith can gently support this healing. Moments of stillness, prayer, worship, or simply breathing in God’s presence can bring calm and clarity. Scripture reminds us that rest is sacred, a place where God restores what feels depleted.
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Small steps like journaling, talking to someone you trust, being in nature, or reaching out for pastoral or professional help can begin to lighten the weight you’ve been carrying alone.
Faith and Healing
Spiritual practices — like prayer, surrender, worship, and connection to community — have been shown to help many people navigate depression, anxiety, and emotional strain (Koenig, 2012; Lucchetti et al., 2021).
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Here, faith isn’t used as a “quick fix”, but as a source of grounding, comfort, and hope. You don’t have to carry everything alone. Healing is a journey, and your spirit matters too.
Let Go Guides/Resources (Coming Soon)
The Let Go Guides are simple, faith-grounded practices designed to help young people slow down, release emotional weight, and reconnect with God’s peace. Each guide is written to be gentle, approachable, and easy to follow — whether someone is overwhelmed, anxious, or just needing a moment of stillness. These aren’t clinical instructions or heavy theological teachings, but small steps that invite reflection, comfort, and support in a way that feels soft, safe, and spiritually grounding.
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Every guide blends emotional care with faith practices like prayer, stillness, breathwork, and surrender. They are created to complement, not replace, professional mental-health resources, offering a spiritual pathway to peace alongside practical strategies. The goal is to provide young people with quick, calming tools they can use anywhere: in their room, at church, during a stressful day, or in moments when they feel far from God.
Below are the first guides designed for the campaign:
Letting Go Through Prayer
A gentle prayer routine for moments of heaviness, encouraging honesty with God, surrender, and simple words anyone can pray when they don’t know what to say.
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Breathing With Scripture
A calm breath-prayer practice paired with short scriptures about peace, comfort, and rest, helping the body unwind while the heart meditates on truth.
Coming Soon..
How to Support a Friend in Faith
A quick guide for encouraging, checking in, or praying for someone who may be struggling, written to help young people care for each other with confidence and sensitivity.
Coming Soon..
Steps to Releasing Overwhelm
A short reflection exercise that helps identify emotional weight and slowly surrender it to God through journaling, prayer, or silence.
Coming Soon..
When You Don’t Feel Okay
A compassionate reminder with grounding steps, helping someone re-centre, find safety, and remember they are not alone, even in difficult moments.
Coming Soon..