Breaking Free From Shame | Biblical Truth, Neuroscience & Healing

Welcome to the Rewired for Purpose podcast, where faith meets neuroscience, healing meets identity, and women rise into the fullness of who God created them to be. This is a place where you will learn how to turn your pain into purpose. I'm your host, Rosangela Atte, certified Christian life and brain coach, prophetic voice, mentor, wife, mother, grandmother, and a woman on a mission to help you renew your mind, regulate our nervous system, and break free from the lies that have kept you stuck. My heart is to empower you to walk in your God-given identity And discover your purpose. Welcome to the first episode of season 2 of the Rewire for Purpose podcast. Welcome back, beautiful friends. I am so grateful you are here. This season, we are going to go deeper. We're going to go beneath the surface of behaviors, patterns, fears, and struggles that keep us stuck. And we're looking at what is happening in In our spirit, in our soul, mind, and nervous system, and even in our bodies. Because healing is not just about changing what we do. It's about understanding what we believe, what we have carried, what our body has learned to protect us from, and what God wants to restore in us. And I could not think of a more important way to begin this season than by talking about shame. Shame is one of the quietest prisons. It hides beneath perfectionism, people pleasing, overworking, self-sabotage, isolation, defensiveness, fear of being seen, and the constant feeling that we are never enough. Shame does not simply say, I did something wrong. Shame says, there is something wrong with me. It convinces us to hide from people, To hide from our purpose, and sometimes even hide from God. But that is not the heart of the Father. In this first episode, we are going to look at shame through the lens of scripture and neuroscience. We will talk about what shame does to the spirit, soul, the brain, the nervous system, and our body. We will look at the woman with the issue of blood, a woman who lived for years under physical suffering. Social isolation, and likely deep humiliation, yet encountered a Jesus who did not call her by her condition. He called her daughter. And that is the heart of this episode. Shame may call you by what happened to you, by what you did. Shame may call you rejected, dirty, broken, unworthy, or disqualified, but Jesus calls you by your true name, by your true identity. So take a deep breath, settle your heart, and give yourself permission to be honest. You do not have to hide here. Shame is one of the most painful emotions we can experience because it does not simply tell us that we did something wrong. Shame tells us that something is wrong with us. Guilt says, I made a mistake, but shame says, I am the mistake. Guilt can lead us toward repentance, restoration, and change, but shame drives us into hiding. It is sneaky, it is hidden, and it whispers, don't let anyone see the real you. If people knew you, if people knew what you did, they would reject you. You are too damaged. You should have known better. You will never change, and you are disqualified. And perhaps the most dangerous lie shame tells us is, God is disappointed in you, so you should stay away from him. That is a lie, and that is what the enemy wants us to believe. That is not the Father's voice. God's conviction draws us towards him. Shame drives us away from him. Conviction is specific and redemptive. It says, this behavior is hurting you. Come to me and let me help you change. Shame instead is condemning is vague and it's identity-based. It says you are bad, you are hopeless, you have to hide yourself, nobody will accept you. And today I want to help you identify the voice of shame. I want you to understand what it does to your spirit, your soul, your brain, your nervous system, and your body. And I want you to begin replacing shame with the truth of who you are in Christ. This is not about pretending that our choices do not have consequences, but it's about calling sin— and this is not about calling sin acceptable— it's about understanding that Jesus did not come just to manage our sin. He came to remove our condemnation, to restore our identity, to heal our hearts, and bring us back into the intimate relationship with the Father. Romans 8:1 says, therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. It doesn't say there is less condemnation, temporary condemnation. It says there is no condemnation. What is shame? Shame is a deeply painful emotion connected to how we see ourselves in relation to others. It often involves the fear that we are defective, unworthy, We are unacceptable, we are exposed, and we are going to be rejected. Shame can begin with something we did, something that was done to us, or something we could not control, or something that someone taught us to believe about ourselves. Some of us carry shame because of past choices. Some of us carry shame because we were abused, neglected, abandoned, betrayed, bullied, rejected, or humiliated. Some carry shame about their bodies, about their finances. Some carry shame about divorce, addiction, infertility, mental health struggles, family dysfunction, their childhood, education, or mistakes their children have made. Some carry spiritual shame. They believe they should be stronger. They believe they should pray more. And they believe that mature Christians should never struggle with anxiety, anger, with sin, grief, temptation, or exhaustion. They ask themselves, why am I still struggling with this? Why haven't I healed yet? Why can't I trust God? Why am I like this? What is wrong with me? Even the healing journey itself can become another source of shame. And shame often develops when a painful experience becomes attached to our identity. When we begin to identify with our mistakes or with what happened to us, and instead of concluding that something painful happened to us, we conclude that this happened because there is something wrong with me. A child is emotionally neglected, and they think that they must not be worth noticing. A spouse is betrayed and thinks I was not enough. I didn't do enough. A woman is abused and she thinks that she's dirty, that she deserved it. A person makes a serious mistake and they think that they're permanently disqualified, that they can never be redeemed from that. When prayers are unanswered, we tend to think that God does not love us. Shame takes an experience and turns it into an identity. But the experience is not the identity. The wound is not our identity. The Diagnosis or the failure is not our identity. What happened to you may explain some of your patterns, but it does not have to be who you are. It does not have authority over you. Only the one who created you has the authority to define you. We must distinguish shame from conviction because many Christians have confused condemnation with holiness. Some of us believe that the worse they feel about themselves, the more repentant they must be. But self-hatred is not repentance. That is what the enemy wants us to believe. Punishing ourselves is not repentance. Reliving that failure in your mind and in your body is not repentance. And rejecting yourself, who you are, does not make you more holy. Real repentance means changing our mind, turning towards God, agreeing with His truth, receiving His forgiveness, and choosing a new direction. 2 Corinthians 7:10 says, godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. Godly sorrow then produces movement. It moves us towards the truth. It moves us towards our responsibility. It moves us toward reconciliation and transformation. Worldly sorrow keeps us trapped in ourselves. It keeps us stuck, and it keeps us From moving forward towards what God has for us, and it causes us to obsess over our failures without receiving the grace to change. Conviction says, you lied, bring it into the light and make it right. But shame says, you are a liar and no one will ever trust you. Conviction says, you crossed a boundary and hurt someone. Shame says, you destroyed that relationship. Conviction addresses our actions while preserving our God-given identity, but shame attacks our identity and leaves us feeling powerless to change, and it separates us from God, from his love, from receiving what he has for us. God corrects us without stripping our identity from us. Hebrews 12 teaches us that God disciplines those he loves. His correction is evidence of intimacy and a relationship, not of His rejection. It's just like a healthy parent, right? When we correct our children, we can say, what you did was wrong, without having to say, you are worthless. The action does not make you less lovable. We know that God is a better Father than any human being could be. Shame entered the human experience in Genesis 3. Before sin, Genesis 2:25 says that Adam and Eve were naked and felt no shame. They were fully known and completely unafraid. There was no fear of being exposed. They didn't have to hide. They didn't have to perform. They didn't need to manage how they appeared. But after they sinned, everything changed. They became aware of their nakedness. They covered themselves. Then when they heard God walking in the garden, they hid from him. And God asked Adam, where are you? He wasn't just asking Adam where his geographical location was. He knew exactly where Adam was. It was more of a relational question. Adam, where have you gone? Why are you hiding from me? What happened to the intimacy that we shared? Adam answered, I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid. There is a progression, you know. Adam felt exposed, then he felt afraid and ashamed, then he hid. That is still the cycle of shame today. Exposure, fear, hiding. Because shame says, cover yourself, control your narrative, do not admit what happened, appear strong. Keep serving, producing, smiling, and performing so no one notices the pain that you're hiding underneath. But God comes looking for us in our hiding places, and that is because He wants to restore us, not because He wants to expose us. He even made garments for Adam and Eve because the coverings that they created themselves were not enough. So God covered them Himself. See, what we use to cover our pain All the survival mechanisms, the mindsets, all the things we do and we say, the ways we want to appear are not enough because we are just covering our shame. But God comes to completely strip it from us. He takes it away. He sets us free because like the Word said, there is no condemnation in those who are in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord! Human beings have been creating fig leaves, coverings, ever since Genesis. Our perfectionism, people pleasing, our religious performance, our overworking, control, humor, isolation— these are all types of coverings. These are all metaphorical fig leaves that we created within ourselves in order to, to protect ourselves from feeling. Pain, but they might work, you know, for a time or in a moment, but they're not lasting. Healing only comes from God. God doesn't just want to cover us. He wants to remove the shame underneath all these survival mechanisms. Let's talk about what happens in our brains when we feel shame. You know, we know that rejection hurts. Our heart can feel like it's broken, right? We feel crushed. Being humiliated is painful. And these are not just expressions. Research suggests that social rejection, humiliation, and shame can engage some of the same brain systems involved in the distressing or, or emotional components of physical pain. Threat and the unpleasantness associated with Physical pain. Shame and social rejection are not the same as physical injury, but they can share parts of the brain's distress and pain processing networks. And this helps explain why shame can feel physically painful. You know, you may feel a tightening in your chest, a pit in your stomach, a heat in your face, a lump in your throat, a desire to completely disappear, nausea, tension in your shoulders. Man, have I ever felt those. I have felt all of these and they are not pleasant. You literally want to disappear. You want the earth to just swallow you in those moments. These are embodied emotional experiences and our brain interprets social belonging as important for survival. We are relational creatures, especially in childhood. You know, our physical and emotional survival depends on connection with our caregivers. And when belonging feels threatened, the nervous system may respond as though something dangerous is happening. This helps us understand why public humiliation, rejection, criticism, and exposure can produce such intense reaction. Your body may mobilize to fight or flee. You may become defensive, argumentative, angry, or desperate to explain yourself. Some people may shut down. You know, you become quiet, you dissociate, you feel numb, you avoid people, you can't think clearly, you apologize excessively, and you accept the blame without even defending yourself, even though it wasn't your fault. You become whatever the other person wants so they will not reject you. These are all survival responses. I want you to understand this. This is not because you are weak or you are broken or not normal. These are all survival mechanisms, responses that your brain has created in order to protect you from further pain. You know, the feeling of being socially evaluated, like people are judging you, rejecting you, or negatively evaluating you, it can feel really stressful in your body and activates the same systems that stress activates. It changes Cortisol, the heart rate. Cortisol is the stress hormone, but it could be helpful when we need to respond to a challenge. The problem is not that the body has a stress response. The problem develops when we repeatedly feel threatened and struggle to return to safety. Chronic shame can keep a person scanning for evidence that they are about to be exposed, judged, or rejected. So you are always on alert. It's like you walk into a room and you wonder, do I belong here? You might share an idea or say something and immediately regret speaking. You post something online and repeatedly check how people responded. If someone offers constructive criticism, you take it as, I'm a failure, because shame makes feedback feel like a threat to your identity. And this can contribute to so many problems, chronic stress, sleep disruption, digestive difficulties, muscle tension, fatigue, and difficulty with concentration. These physical symptoms can have many causes. So feeling ashamed has effects on our soul, and our emotions can also influence our body. It could cause inflammation, which can cause a lot of different sickness. This is why healing often requires more than just knowing Bible verse intellectually. You know the verse, there's no condemnation in Christ, but your body still prepares for punishment every time you make a mistake. You know that God loves you, but it's really hard for you to feel that love. That's why Romans 12:2 says that we need to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. Renewal is a process and involves repeatedly replacing an old pathway with a new one. Shame can affect the way we think, the way we react, the way we respond, the way we behave, and that in turn can also affect our life, the way we interact with people, our relationship, the way we relate with our co-workers, the way we relate to God, and it could create this life that we don't want and that we might end up hating just because We are unable to let go of that shame because over time, repeated thoughts can become so familiar that we will automatically default to them. The brain becomes efficient at thinking the thoughts it has frequently practiced. And this is one dimension of neuroplasticity, the nervous system's capacity to change in response to repeated experience. Neuroplasticity is hopeful because it means that patterns can be strengthened, but patterns can also be changed. You're not condemned to remain in the same state, to think in the same way forever. You can learn to notice the shame without agreeing with it. You can pause, regulate your body, examine your thought, take the thought captive just like the word says, and bring it before God and replace it with his truth. This is how we are transformed by the renewing of our mind. Now, how does shame interfere spiritually? Shame interferes with intimacy. It makes it hard for us to receive God's love and God's acceptance. It makes it hard for us to abide in God's safe presence. As human beings, we need healthy emotional attachments. In order to create these healthy emotional attachments, we need to be in the presence of a calm and safe person and caregiver, and God is the one. Especially if we have grown up with emotionally unavailable parents, it makes it really hard to look at God and to relate to God as a safe place because we tend to look at God with the same lens as we look at our parents. And so if a parent is impossible to please, we might imagine that God is impossible to please. If authority figures humiliate us, we may expect God to humiliate us. If love was withdrawn when we made mistakes, we may believe that God withdraws His presence, His love, when we struggle. But spiritual disciplines were never meant to purchase God's affection. These are ways of responding to a love that has already been given. 1 John 4:19 says, we love because He loved us first. This is unconditional love. We do not obey God so that He will love us. We obey Him out of our love for Him, our trust for Him. And because His love is transforming us. James 5:16 says, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. This does not mean that we should expose our deepest wounds to unsafe people. You know, we need to have boundaries, we need to have wisdom, but secrecy gives shame room to grow. It gives shame opportunity to dig deep roots, thinking that we are the only ones, that nobody understands us, that we have to deal with things alone. That's what shame makes us believe. This is what the enemy wants because he wants to isolate us so that the lies become louder when we are isolated. But healing often begins when we allow safe, mature, trustworthy people to see us without abandoning ourselves. Now, how does shame affect our soul, our mind, our emotions? Shame fills our minds, our thoughts with accusations that we are not enough, that we are dirty, that we will always be behind, that we will never heal. We will never move forward, and we've repeated them for so long that they begin to sound like our own voice. But that doesn't mean that they're true. A lie can become familiar without being true. 2 Corinthians 10:5 tells us to take the thoughts captive and make them obedient to Christ. Taking a thought captive means that we stop allowing the thoughts to enter our minds as unquestioned authorities. We have to examine them. Where did this thought come from? What is it connected to? What kind of emotion am I feeling when this thought comes in? Is it what God says about me? Is it what the Word says about me? And we need to replace that thought with a truth from the Word of God. Shame paralyzes your decision-making. You hesitate, you procrastinate, you overthink, you want to be perfect, have all your ducks in a row before you move. And this can also cause disobedience because You want everything perfect before you move, and that you tend to disobey what God is calling you to do. Because God, He always gives us the next step. He might show us a glimpse of what the finish line might look like, but He doesn't show us the whole thing. Now, the woman with the issue of blood, her story appears in Matthew 9, Mark 5, and Luke 8. She had been bleeding for 12 years. She had suffered greatly under the care of many physicians. She had spent all her money, and instead of improving, she had grown worse. 12 years of physical suffering, emotional suffering, psychological suffering, disappointment, trying other treatments, hoping that that time would be different, that it would work. She was losing her strength, watching her finances disappear, having to explain what was wrong, and she was isolated from people. She wasn't able to worship in public. She wasn't able to walk with other people. It doesn't say if she had a family, but if she did, she could not sit with them and have a relationship with them because Leviticus 15 says that ongoing bleeding created a condition of ritual impurity. That doesn't mean that she was sinful, but it affected physical contact and participation in ordinary religious and community life. And because of this, it is Reasonable to infer that this woman could have experienced isolation and stigma, embarrassment, for sure shame. The word doesn't tell us what she felt exactly, but if we put ourselves in her shoes, we can easily come to the conclusion that she felt all of these emotions, and her physical condition clearly placed her in a socially vulnerable position. She needed to be comforted, she needed people around her, and she wasn't even able to To have that. Then she heard about this man, this rabbi, this man that went around healing, and she truly believed with all her heart that that was her chance, her last opportunity. And she probably wore a cloak. She hid herself in public because if they saw her, they would've said something. They probably would've sent her away. And she got through the crowd and she said to herself, if I touch the hem of his garment, if I just touch his clothes, I will be healed. And Jesus felt somebody touch Him in a different way. In fact, when He asked, who touched Me? The disciples said, Jesus, there are hundreds of people around You pressing on You. Everybody's touching You. How do we know who touched You? What do You mean? But Jesus felt power come out of Him. Her faith placed a demand on that power, on that anointing, and She pulled out that healing from Jesus, and Jesus felt virtue come out of Him. And when He turned around, He didn't say, how dare you touch Me? You should have told Me what you had. You should have said that you were impure. He called her daughter. He called her daughter with one word. He reinstated her identity, and He publicly declared that she was clean and she belonged to Him. Hallelujah! That word daughter means an heir, to the inheritance, part of the household, as if he was her father. And he said, your faith has healed you. Go in peace. You are free from your suffering, daughter. Hallelujah! He called her by her identity. You know, he didn't say, you had bleeding, you've been healed. No, he said, daughter, your faith has healed you. He brought her into the light and he restored her publicly. He allowed the community that may have known her by her condition to hear him call her daughter. Her body was healed when she touched him, but something deeper happened when he spoke to her. He restored her dignity. He restored her belonging. He gave her the peace. Hallelujah! A peace that points toward wholeness, well-being, and restoration. She didn't just need healing from the bleeding. She didn't just need the bleeding to stop. She needed to know that she was accepted, that she belonged That she could return to her normal life, that she was not repulsive to God. And I know that so many of you need to hear the same thing today. God is not disgusted by your wounds, by your mistakes, by your sins, by your brokenness. Some of us have lived as though we must become clean enough to approach Jesus, but she approached Him while she was still bleeding. See, we don't need to be perfect before we come to God. The Holy Spirit will convict us. God says, just come as you are. And He will purify us. He will heal us. Hallelujah! An essential part of healing from shame is giving it all to Jesus. Give Him our all— our shame, our sin, our unforgiveness, our bitterness, our loneliness, everything in us that we are ashamed of, everything in us that is not aligned with Him. We give it to Him and He will bring us out of hiding. Psalm 139 says, Search me, O God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. David was willing to be known. He wasn't ashamed. We don't have to impress God. There's nothing that we can do that can impress Him. He just wants to be close to us. He just wants intimacy with us, a relationship with us. He wants to bless us. He wants our obedience. Jesus understands rejection. He understands false accusation. He understands public humiliation. He understands betrayal. He understands what it feels like for people to misunderstand you and judge you because he went through it all. So you don't have to explain yourself to him. He knows exactly what's going on in you and why when we don't even understand. And he is ready to heal you from the inside out. Let me give you some practical steps, a practical process. We're going to use 5 steps: recognize, regulate, reveal, Replace, reconnect. When you begin to feel shame, ask yourself, what just happened? What am I believing about myself? What am I feeling in my body? What do I want to do right now? Now, shame may sound like, I am so stupid. I can't believe I did that. I said that. I just want to disappear. I'm a terrible mother. I'm a terrible Christian, or I'm too broken for God to use me. And instead of immediately agreeing with that thought and submitting to it, just say, I am noticing shame, not, I am shameful. There's a difference there. One describes the emotion that is a passing emotion that is passing through your system, and the other declares an identity. Instead, try saying, I'm experiencing shame, but shame is not my identity. My body feels threatened, but I'm safe in the present moment. Then you regulate. Now, before trying to reason your way out of shame, help your body experience safety. Place both feet on the floor. Look around the room. Name 5 things you see. Feel the support of the chair beneath you. Relax your jaw. Lower your shoulders. Place one hand over your heart and one over your abdomen and breathe gently. Do not force an enormous breath if that makes you lightheaded. Allow the exhale to become slightly slower and longer than your inhale. You could inhale for 4 counts and exhale for 6, adjusting the rhythm to what feels comfortable. And then say, I am here. I'm not back there in that moment. I am present. This moment is painful, but I'm not powerless. Jesus is with me in this moment. I don't have to solve everything while my body feels threatened. Step 3, reveal. Bring the shame into safe relationship. First, reveal it to God. Tell him the whole truth. Then when appropriate, speak with a trustworthy person. Then step four, you replace that thought. If the thought is I am disqualified, the truth is God's calling is rooted in His grace, and repentance allows me to walk forward with humility and wisdom. If the thought is my body is disgusting, the truth is my body has carried me through pain, and it deserves care, dignity, and honor. If the lie is I should have been healed by now. The truth is healing is a process and God is present in the process. If the lie is I made a mistake and I am a failure, the truth is I made a mistake. I can take responsibility, learn, repair what I can, and choose differently. And if the enemy is saying that God is ashamed of you, the truth is that Jesus endured shame to bring you near. You are invited to approach the throne of grace with confidence. Step five. You reconnect. Shame tells you to withdraw, but healing requires reconnection with your body, safe people, meaningful activities, your voice, a healthy community, but especially and most importantly, God's presence. One thing I want to talk about is that shame can be reinforced in religious environments. Some people were taught that questions meant being rebellious, that feeling emotions was not the Christian way, it was a weakness, that mental health struggles were a lack of faith, that women having a voice was pride and rebellion, that rest was laziness, and saying no was selfishness. But Jesus created disciples by correcting them and restoring them. He corrected them in love and he restored them. When Peter denied Jesus 3 times after the resurrection, Jesus did not permanently label Peter a denier. He restored Peter through relationship and responsibility. Do you love me? He asked him 3 times. Then feed my sheep. He addressed the wound and recommissioned the man. And because he denied Jesus 3 times, he had to ask him 3 times, do you love me? Isn't that incredible? Religious shame says That if you failed, you gotta sit down forever. You're disqualified from being used by God. And that is a complete lie. Jesus's redemptive grace says that you failed. Let me restore you, mature you, teach you how to carry responsibility differently. And this might be a process of crushing, wilderness, pruning. It's painful, but Jesus does it in love. He doesn't waste our mistakes and our failures. When we surrender to Him, one important thing to do is to change your language. Don't identify with your failures, with your mistakes. Just use words like "I experience a setback" instead of "I'm broken." There are wounded places in me that God is healing. Instead of saying "I am an anxious person," just say "My nervous system has learned anxiety, and I'm learning safety in Jesus." Instead of saying "I am terrible at relationships," just say. I have relational patterns I need to understand and change. Language matters more than you think because the way you describe yourself shapes what you believe is possible. And the word is full of verses about the power of the tongue and the power of speech and speaking things and asking the Lord. So our voice is our greatest weapon. And also keeping a trigger journal is very important. You can write what happened, what you felt in your body, what did shame say about me, what did I want to do, what is a more truthful interpretation, what would a responsible response look like, which scripture can I use to counteract that lie. And when you find yourself falling short or making mistakes, instead of self-punishment, write or ask yourself, do I need to apologize? Do I need to correct something? Do I need to replace something? Do I need to seek professional help? Do I need to establish boundaries? Ask the Lord what it is that you need to change or do, and He will tell you. Meditate on the Scripture. Read it slowly. Anything that speaks about identity, write it down, pray over it, declare those truths in your life and about you. Everything that the Word says about who we are, and do not Rush your healing and do not feel ashamed about taking time to heal because it does take time and everybody is different. Hallelujah. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I bring before you every person listening to the sound of my voice. You see the moments they have never spoken about, the memories that still cause their bodies to tighten, the words that were spoken over them, the lies, the rejection, the abuse. The abandonment. You see the failures replaying in their minds. You see the secrets they fear that will make them unlovable. Lord, you have not turned away from them. Your voice is truthful and loving. Your voice corrects and loves. Your voice leads towards repentance but does not destroy our identity. I break agreement with every lie spoken through abuse, betrayal, rejection, bullying, spiritual manipulation, family dysfunction, personal failure. In the name of Jesus, we declare that the blood of Jesus speaks a better word. Jesus, meet each listener as you met the woman with the issue of blood. God, call their identity forth. Re-establish them, Lord. Re-instate their identity, God. Meet them in the place where they have felt depleted. Meet them in the place where they have spent their strength trying to fix themselves. Meet them in the place where disappointment has lasted longer than what they expected, God, because we know that hope deferred makes the heart sick. Lord, meet them in the place where they have felt isolated, unclean, untouchable, unworthy, God. We know that you have made us worthy, that the blood of Jesus has done it all. God, call them daughters. Let them hear you call them daughters, that they belong to you. Let them Hear them call them sons, Lord. Restore their dignity, their identity, their purpose, their belonging. May they have this deep intimacy with You, God, so that they know beyond a shadow of a doubt who they are in You and who You are to them, Lord Jesus. I ask all of this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen and amen. Thank you so much for listening to the Rewired for Purpose podcast today. I'm so grateful you spent this time with me. Remember, you were made for greatness. You were chosen for such a time as this. No matter what season you're in, pressing or blooming, God's purpose for your life is still unfolding, and His joy is your strength. If you're ready to discover your God-given purpose and walk in true healing and freedom, I would love to walk with you and guide you through the process. You can learn more about my coaching and resources at www. Www.theshiftheracoaching.com. Until next time, stay rooted, stay joyful, and keep rewiring your mind for the purpose God designed you for.