TRA.Perspective

Viewing life from a lens other than our own takes effort. What could we see if we approach the concept of beauty from a different perspective?

Healing? Hope? Love?

My name is T. Renee Albracht. I am a hospital chaplain and ordained elder with the Church of the Nazarene.

I live with mental illness – specifically depression, anxiety, and what has been defined as COVID-PTSD that blossomed after three years of everything I saw and experienced during the pandemic. I love my job and am good at what I do, but if I am not careful and diligent, I can easily morph back into that lost, lonely, isolated, and insecure little girl whenever I take off my ministry cape (I don’t really wear a cape, but that would be cool). Personal self-care is a daily and sometimes moment-by-moment battle.

Some of my pandemic self-care techniques included television. I love true crime documentaries and docuseries, but when my anxiety is high, I enjoy watching reruns of The Good Witch and Hallmark Christmas movies. I also enjoy listening to and playing music – especially Bon Jovi, exercise, massages, solitude, nature, my therapist, my pets, journaling, prayer, reading, and writing fictional stories. I LOVE escapism. It helps to turn my problems into someone else’s problems for a while. Writing gives me breathing room and often leads to personal insight and healing in ways nothing else can. I still employ many of the self-care techniques I developed during the pandemic.

I created TRA.Perspective as a way to share one of my self-care techniques – my writing. I hope my stories bring you as much joy (and healing) as they brought to me.