Hey there fruitful garden,

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of the effects of abuse - please skip this episode if you are not in a space to listen to a traumatic story at this time. If you have experienced spiritual, emotional, or physical abuse - you may want to skip this episode. Specifically Intimate Partner Violence - if you are seeking support to leave a dangerous environment contact this hotline:

Call 1-800-799-SAFE, TEXT “START” to 88788

Find more support suggestions here: IPV Website

In this episode, I share my personal experience on how I took the initiative to no longer live as a victim after surviving various forms of abuse. Saying no to the normalization of dysfunction can be extremely challenging and feel almost impossible. Choosing to live like you deserve a good life - can feel too exhausting to even consider. I share my story on the steps - I had to take to begin making rest my new normal.

Here I process:

* a psychological term that causes us to feel trapped,

* distinguishing the difference between harm vs love,

* identifying how God cares and sees us in our struggle to accept love &

* how rationalization can keep us stuck if we aren’t seeing the full story/perspective truthfully.

Stay tuned to the end of this episode for some affirmations and a biblical example of how we can miss out on what we want - because we aren’t seeing things properly.

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