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Rage can look like “just my personality” until God puts His finger on the real wound. Sara grew up around church, but at home she carried years of verbal and physical abuse that shaped the way she saw herself, trusted people, and handled fear. What followed wasn’t just pain, it was a life pattern: anxiety that stayed unnamed, anger that exploded, and relationships that felt safer to sabotage than to risk. 

We talk through the long road from an early childhood salvation moment to a faith that becomes her own, plus the specific turning points God used to get her attention, including a HeartQuest retreat where a horse, a road, and a patch of thistles became a living metaphor for getting back on track. Sara shares openly about postpartum depression, the sting of church hurt, and what it feels like to be told you can come back when you’re “all better.” 

The healing centerpiece is Celebrate Recovery. If you think CR is only for drugs and alcohol, this conversation will reset that assumption fast. We unpack how CR helps with anger, anxiety, codependency, trauma, abuse, mental health struggles, and the everyday habits that quietly separate us from God. Sara also shares how recovery led to leadership, how she learned to name anxiety, why forgiveness is for your freedom, and how God is now redirecting her toward behavioral health work and counseling. 

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