Healed by Amanda Grace

Why can past hurts still affect us, even when we love God and trust Him?

 In this episode we explore how biblical healing helps us move beyond emotional wounds, renew our minds, and stop allowing past experiences to define our identity.
Through Scripture and personal reflections, Amanda shares 5 practical steps for bringing pain to God, replacing harmful beliefs with biblical truth, practicing forgiveness, establishing healthy boundaries, and responding differently to old emotional patterns. She also reminds us that healing is a process, and we can extend ourselves grace as God continues His work in us.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

• Be honest with God about your pain without shame or guilt.
• Recognize the beliefs and emotional patterns connected to past wounds.
• Renew your mind with Scripture and embrace your God-given identity.
• Practice forgiveness without minimizing harm or compromising healthy boundaries.
• Break unhealthy patterns and build healthier relationships.
• Give yourself grace as you continue growing and healing.

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Key takeaway: Healing doesn’t mean the past never happened. It means learning to live from God’s truth rather than the fear, shame, and beliefs our pain may have taught us.

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I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
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Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional 

What happens when the fear of being abandoned begins to shape the way you see yourself, love others, and seek validation? 

In this episode, we explore Hagar’s story in Genesis 16 and 21 and the powerful reminder that God sees us even in our loneliest wilderness seasons.

In this Episode, You’ll Learn:

• how to heal abandonment wounds
• break people-pleasing patterns
• rebuild self-worth
• learn to establish healthy boundaries without guilt 
• discover how to stop measuring your value by who stays 
• recognize the difference between love and fear 
• begin healing with faith, compassion, and wisdom

Reflection: 

Where have you been trying to earn love or prove your worth to others?

Remember: You can love people without abandoning yourself. The God who saw Hagar sees you, too.

Support the show

I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
YouTube: @healedbyamandagrace
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Listen to the Healed by Amanda Grace Podcast 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday!  linktr.ee/hurt2healed

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Hurt To Healed: Kindle and Paperback Book

Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional 

In this episode we explore Joseph’s story in Genesis and the powerful reminder that betrayal, rejection, and abandonment do not define your identity or cancel God’s purpose for your life.

Through Joseph’s journey from the pit to the palace, discover how God can work through painful seasons, strengthen your faith, and bring purpose from experiences you never would have chosen. Amanda also shares personal insights on healing, self-worth, forgiveness, and establishing healthy boundaries without becoming bitter.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why other people’s betrayal doesn’t determine your worth.
• How to set healthy boundaries while choosing forgiveness.
• Why God’s presence doesn’t mean a life without pain or waiting.
• How healing can transform your relationships and help you rediscover your voice.
• Why your past can be part of your testimony without defining your future.

Scripture: Genesis 37–50, especially Genesis 50:20.

A reminder for your healing journey: You can acknowledge what hurt you without living in it. Your circumstances may change, people may disappoint you, and healing may take time—but your story isn’t over. You can be betrayed and still be chosen by God.

Support the show

I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
YouTube: @healedbyamandagrace
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Listen to the Healed by Amanda Grace Podcast 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday!  linktr.ee/hurt2healed

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Hurt To Healed: Kindle and Paperback Book

Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional 

Have you ever returned to a familiar place and realized you no longer feel like you belong? 

In this episode, Amanda Grace explores how healing changes our relationships with familiar people, places, and environments—and why outgrowing old patterns can be both painful and freeing.
Through faith, personal reflection, and biblical wisdom, Amanda discusses setting healthy boundaries, navigating the grief of outgrowing relationships, and learning to love people without abandoning yourself. She reminds us that being triggered doesn’t mean we haven’t healed, forgiveness doesn’t require unlimited access, and we don’t have to prove our growth by returning to environments that hurt us.

In this episode, we explore:

• Recognizing old patterns and embracing personal growth
• Loving others while maintaining healthy boundaries
• Navigating the grief of outgrowing people and places
• Trusting God through seasons of change and uncertainty
• Choosing peace over people-pleasing and approval
• Moving forward without letting your past define you

Scripture references: Proverbs 4:23 and Isaiah 43:18–19

You can honor your past without living in it. You can love where you came from without becoming who you were there. 

Your past doesn’t get the final word—God is still working in your story.

Support the show

I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
YouTube: @healedbyamandagrace
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Listen to the Healed by Amanda Grace Podcast 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday!  linktr.ee/hurt2healed

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Looking for Amanda’s book on Amazon?:
Hurt To Healed: Kindle and Paperback Book

Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional 

What happens when rejection makes you question your worth?

In this episode of Healed by Amanda Grace, we look at the story of David and the powerful reminder that being overlooked by people does not mean you are overlooked by God. David wasn’t even invited into the room when Samuel came to choose Israel’s next king—yet God had already chosen him.

Amanda shares from her own healing journey and explores how rejection can become an identity, causing us to chase validation, change who we are, or feel the need to prove our worth. Through David’s story, we’re reminded that God sees the heart, works through hidden seasons, and can use even painful experiences as part of our story.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• Understanding the difference between experiencing rejection and being rejected
• Why you don’t have to convince people to see your value
• How David’s wilderness and “cave season” prepared him for his calling
• Learning to stop chasing people who have chosen not to have access to you
• Trusting God when a closed door feels like rejection
• Letting go of people-pleasing and the need for validation
• Finding your identity in God rather than in other people’s approval
• Remembering that your rejection is not your destination

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Support the show

I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
YouTube: @healedbyamandagrace
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Listen to the Healed by Amanda Grace Podcast 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday!  linktr.ee/hurt2healed

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Looking for Amanda’s book on Amazon?:
Hurt To Healed: Kindle and Paperback Book

Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional 

What if your season of singleness isn’t about waiting for someone to find you—but about allowing God to prepare you?

In this episode of Healed by Amanda Grace, we explore why preparing for marriage starts with becoming emotionally, spiritually, and relationally healthy. A godly relationship isn’t built simply on attraction or chemistry—it requires wisdom, communication, boundaries, discernment, healing, and two people who are willing to grow.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why you should prepare to be a spouse, not just find one
• How unresolved wounds and past relationship patterns can affect future relationships
• Healing abandonment, rejection, insecurity, and people-pleasing
• Building a secure identity rooted in God rather than another person
• Recognizing the difference between healthy love and familiar dysfunction
• Why red flags shouldn’t be spiritualized or excused
• Establishing boundaries and knowing your non-negotiables before marriage
• Becoming the kind of person you’re praying for
• Why singleness is not a season of being incomplete or “on pause”
• Praying for discernment and wisdom, not just a spouse
• Learning to recognize healthy love without confusing anxiety for chemistry
• Why your future spouse is not your Savior—God is

Support the show

I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
YouTube: @healedbyamandagrace
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Listen to the Healed by Amanda Grace Podcast 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday!  linktr.ee/hurt2healed

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Looking for Amanda’s book on Amazon?:
Hurt To Healed: Kindle and Paperback Book

Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional 

What if the world’s definition of confidence, freedom, happiness, and “following your heart” is pulling you away from God?

In this episode, we explore biblical righteousness, cultural influence, relationships, purity, forgiveness, pride, waiting on God, and what it really means to live differently as a follower of Jesus.

This isn’t about judging the world—it’s about examining our own hearts and asking: Am I becoming more like Jesus?

Discover how to renew your mind, resist cultural pressure, walk in obedience, and trust God’s ways even when they go against the culture around you.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why “follow your heart” isn’t always biblical wisdom
• The difference between happiness, holiness, and obedience
• Healthy boundaries vs. selfishness
• Biblical perspectives on relationships and purity
• Why waiting on God can be part of His preparation
• Forgiveness without abandoning healthy boundaries
• Confidence vs. pride and humility
• Why success, money, appearance, and status shouldn’t define your identity
• Choosing relationships that help you grow toward God
• The difference between cultural “truth” and biblical truth
• Why Christianity calls us to transformation—not perfection
• How culture, social media, entertainment, and relationships shape us
• What biblical freedom looks like when our desires no longer control us
• Practical ways to live faithfully in a culture moving in a different direction

Reflection Questions:

1. Where have I allowed culture to influence me more than Scripture?
2. What is God asking me to surrender?
3. What would change if I truly lived as though God’s Word were my highest authority?

Support the show

I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
YouTube: @healedbyamandagrace
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Listen to the Healed by Amanda Grace Podcast 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday!  linktr.ee/hurt2healed

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Looking for Amanda’s book on Amazon?:
Hurt To Healed: Kindle and Paperback Book

Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional 

Have you ever wondered if your past, mistakes, wounds, or insecurities make you unworthy of being used by God?

In this episode of Healed by Amanda Grace, we’re going deeper into shame, healing, purpose, and the lies that tell us we’re disqualified. Your past does not have the final say, and being unfinished does not mean being unusable.

Amanda shares her own journey of learning to see her younger self with compassion, understand how unresolved wounds can impact purpose, and recognize that God can redeem even the parts of our stories we wish we could erase.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn :

• Why your past does not disqualify you from being used by God
• How childhood wounds can shape the way you see yourself and your purpose
• The difference between being perfect and being surrendered
• How God can redeem painful experiences without minimizing the pain
• Why your healing journey can become someone else’s hope
• How to stop letting shame write the next chapter of your life
• Why you don’t have to be fully healed or have everything figured out to say yes to God

Reflection Question:

What part of my past have I allowed to disqualify me?

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Support the show

I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
YouTube: @healedbyamandagrace
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Listen to the Healed by Amanda Grace Podcast 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday!  linktr.ee/hurt2healed

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Looking for Amanda’s book on Amazon?:
Hurt To Healed: Kindle and Paperback Book

Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional 

What do you do when your life doesn’t look the way you thought it would?

In this episode, we dive into the story of Ruth and explore what it means to trust God through loss, grief, healing, rejection, waiting, and uncertainty.

Ruth’s story reminds us that we don’t need to know the entire plan to take the next step. Sometimes faith looks like simply keeping walking—even when we can’t see what God is doing.

In this Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Finding faith after loss and disappointment
• Healing from childhood wounds and old patterns
• Learning that your worth doesn’t come from other people’s approval
• Setting healthy boundaries without guilt
• How healing changes the way we approach relationships
• Trusting God’s timing instead of comparing our journey
• Learning to live fully while we wait for what’s next
• How God can use our pain as part of our testimony
• Remembering that you are not what happened to you
• Trusting God with the chapters of your story you cannot yet see
• If you’re grieving a relationship, your past, a dream, a version of yourself, or the life you thought you would have by now, this episode is for you.

Your story is not over. Keep walking. Keep healing. Keep trusting.

“Where you go I will go… Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” — Ruth 1:16

Support the show

I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
YouTube: @healedbyamandagrace
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Listen to the Healed by Amanda Grace Podcast 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday!  linktr.ee/hurt2healed

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Looking for Amanda’s book on Amazon?:
Hurt To Healed: Kindle and Paperback Book

Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional 

Have you ever walked away from a conversation thinking, “That’s not what I meant—why did it come out like that?”

In this episode, we’re talking honestly about communication, conflict, emotional wounds, and what happens when unresolved hurt begins shaping the way we relate to others.

Communication isn’t simply about finding the perfect words.

But healing changes communication.

Together, we’ll explore how God can transform the heart behind our conversations so that we can respond with wisdom instead of reacting from pain, listen instead of preparing our defense, and pursue peace without losing ourselves in the process.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn: 

• Why communication begins in the heart—not with the perfect words
• How past wounds can shape the way we interpret other people
• The difference between reacting and responding
• James 1:19 and God’s blueprint for healthy communication
• Why listening is one of the greatest gifts we can give someone
• The power of pausing before responding emotionally
• How silence can sometimes be an act of wisdom rather than weakness
• Why you don't have to defend yourself in every conversation
• What to do when reconciliation isn't possible
• How healthy boundaries can coexist with love and forgiveness
• Learning to release what you cannot control and trust God with the outcome
• A prayer for healing, wisdom, peace, and healthier relationships

A Question to Take With You:

What’s one conversation this week that you can approach differently?

Maybe it means listening a little longer, apologizing without defending yourself, pausing before sending that text, or bringing a wounded part of your heart to God instead of expecting another person to heal it.

Small, Spirit-led choices can transform relationships over time.

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Support the show

I am not a licensed therapist, please do not substitute this podcast for professional advice. I am just sharing my experiences and what helped me in my healing journey! See you in the next episode 🙂

Follow Amanda:
IG: @amandac_24
TikTok: @healedbyamandagrace
YouTube: @healedbyamandagrace
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Listen to the Healed by Amanda Grace Podcast 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday!  linktr.ee/hurt2healed

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Looking for Amanda’s book on Amazon?:
Hurt To Healed: Kindle and Paperback Book

Ready To Start Your Transformation?: 21-Day Christian Devotional