Category: Identity & Healing
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From Church Hurt to Covenant: I Survived Religion
Honestly… it’s not even “church hurt” at this point. It’s the story of how God found me underneath religion, performance, abandonment, confusion, survival mode, and disappointment and still said: “Live.” I left church at 19. I was told I could no longer attend Wednesday Bible Studies—only Sundays. At 18, I had rejoined the church even…
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Chosen: The Difference Between Being Called and Responding
For most of my life, I believed being “chosen” meant your life would be harder than everyone else’s. I was taught — directly and indirectly — that the more suffering you endured, the more “chosen” you were by God. The phrase “God’s strongest soldiers” was often used to explain trauma, family dysfunction, abandonment, rejection, and…