Dr. Tabatha Barber describes how trauma created an identity of defeat, leading to depression and self-sabotage like canceling meetings and avoiding projects. She frames the internal negative messages as spiritual opposition and explains how to recognize and fight back against them.
That makes total sense to me. And what I realized was what he did was he would give me this spirit of depression and just speak death over me, like, oh, you can't possibly do it, and just whisper things in my ear. And so I would cancel myself out. I would cancel meetings. I would not reach out to people. I would, you know, think about projects and not do them. And so the devil didn't even have to do a lot of work. I did a lot of it myself because I had this identity of defeat from my past traumas.
