You’ve been giving, showing up, holding it all together. But somewhere along the way, you stopped noticing how empty you were becoming. This episode of Radical Release is a sacred invitation to shift your focus—to stop fixating on what’s draining you and instead start choosing what restores you.

With scriptures from Philippians 4, Isaiah 58, and Matthew 11, this episode walks you through the divine discipline of receiving without guilt. You’ll learn how to identify what truly pours into you—joy, rest, softness, presence—and how to make space for it as a form of obedience, not indulgence.

If you’ve been living on spiritual fumes, this is your reminder: rest is holy. Peace is a strategy.

You are allowed to be filled.

• What are 3 things that truly pour life back into me—spiritually, emotionally, or physically?

• How often do I intentionally make space for them?

• What is one draining habit or pattern I can say “no” to this week in exchange for restoration?

"God, help me release the guilt of needing joy, rest, love, and softness. Teach me to see rest not as avoidance, but as alignment. Help me protect what pours into me so I can walk in wholeness and not just survival."

I am allowed to rest.
I am allowed to be restored.
I am worthy of what pours into me.
I choose life-giving focus, and I release what drains me in Jesus’ name.

✨ Reflection Prompts:📓 Journal Prompt:💬 Affirmation:

You weren’t created to carry the emotional weight of everyone’s story, opinion, or timeline. But somehow, your soul got stretched thin—watching more than you were ever meant to absorb. This episode marks the first step in the Refocus phase of Radical Release Season 6.

We explore how spiritual exhaustion often starts with visual overload and emotional fixation. What you see becomes what you absorb, and what you absorb begins to shape how you feel, react, and even pray.

Grounded in Psalm 119:37, this episode helps you identify the things stealing your peace and draining your attention—and invites you back into sacred stillness, one shift at a time.

📝 Reflection Prompt:
Name 3 things you gave too much attention to this week.
Ask: “Did this nourish or deplete me?”

✍🏾 Journal Entry:
“God, turn my eyes away from what drains me. I want to see what gives life. Show me where my gaze has been out of alignment, and bring it back to You.”

💬 Affirmation:
“My focus is sacred. I release what drains me. I fix my eyes on what restores me. I give my gaze back to God.”

📖 Key Scripture: Psalm 119:37 – “Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.”

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You survived because you had to.
You fought, you endured, you carried — all in the name of making it through.

But survival was never meant to be your permanent address.
Today, you are being called higher.
Not into more battles... but into peace.
Not into more striving... but into grace.
Not into more proving... but into rest.

In this Radical Release™ episode, we honor the version of you that made it possible for you to be here.
We bless her — without shame, without blame, without apology.
And we invite you to step gently, boldly, and unapologetically into the rest your soul was always destined to know.

You’ll learn:

• Why survival was wisdom, not weakness

• How grace, peace, and rest are divinely connected

• How to create a Soft Life Plan — a personal covenant to choose peace over pressure

• How to release guilt and truly live from a place of wholeness

This isn’t just an episode — it’s a homecoming.
It's a laying down of old armor.
It's a rising into the still waters God has prepared for you.

Rest is your portion.
Peace is your promise.
Grace is your covering.

✨ Free Resource: Download your "Resting in Grace: A Journey Back to Peace" Reflection Journal and Soft Life Plan [link here].

Feeling stuck waiting for closure, validation, or rescue? This episode dives into the hard but healing truth: No one is coming to save you — and that might be your biggest breakthrough yet.

Rooted in Psalm 118:8, this Radical Release™ message will help you shift from external dependence to radical faith. Learn how to stop idolizing human validation, anchor yourself in divine truth, and start doing the spiritual and emotional work that healing requires.

We walk through the difference between refuge and avoidance, deliverance and delay, and how to lean fully on God — not man — for your restoration.

• Why waiting to be saved is a trap that delays your healing

• How to take refuge in God as a strategy, not a hiding place

• The difference between divine help and human dependency

• What it means to truly do the work and walk in faith

  
  

• Psalm 118:8

• Jeremiah 17:5-7

• Psalm 146:3-5

• Hebrews 11:1

• Isaiah 2:22

• Proverbs 29:25

• Philippians 2:12-13

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• Where in your life have you been secretly waiting for someone to save you?
  Write down those areas — then cross them out and write how you can become closer to God in these areas of your life.

  Subscribe, rate, and share this episode with someone who’s been putting their peace on pause. It’s time to stop waiting and start healing.

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  🔥 In This Episode, You’ll Learn:📖 Referenced Scriptures:🧘🏾‍♀️ Radical Release Reflection Prompt:

Sometimes God doesn’t shout—He whispers. And if the volume of life is too loud, we miss it.

In this episode of the Radical Release series, we explore the sacred invitation to retreat to your personal Mount Sinai—the quiet place where God's voice becomes clear again. Drawing from biblical moments of solitude and divine encounter, we’ll reflect on why stillness is not weakness, but spiritual strategy.

You’ll hear how Moses, Elijah, Jesus, and even Jonah encountered healing, direction, and presence in sacred stillness—and how you can, too. Whether you’re navigating grief, overwhelm, or just need to hear God again, this episode will guide you toward healing not through more doing, but through intentional pause.

🌿 Plus, stay for the reflection at the end—complete with a journal prompt, affirmation, and a gentle healing practice.

REFLECTION:Today, ask yourself:

• What is one way I’ve been avoiding silence?

• What might God be trying to say that I’ve been too distracted to hear?

• What false belief tells me I have to be busy to be valuable?

Journal Prompt:“God, help me find my Mount Sinai. Let the noise fall away long enough for me to hear what You’ve been trying to tell me. I am listening now.”

Healing practice to try:Use the STOP Skill from DBT: Stop. Take a step back. Observe. Proceed mindfully.Then spend 10 minutes in silent breathing, inviting God into your body, mind, and spirit.Write down anything you sense—even if it’s just peace.

Affirmation:“Stillness is not weakness. It is sacred alignment. And I am safe enough now to be quiet.”

Are you still performing a version of yourself that trauma forced you to become?

In this episode, we explore what it really means to let go of the identity you built in survival mode—and step fully into the one God originally designed. Whether you’ve been the strong one, the fixer, the overachiever, or the emotionally numb protector, this word is for you. God is calling you into authenticity, not performance.

We dive deep into:

• How trauma creates identities that once served us but now limit us

• What it looks like to release roles rooted in pain

• The powerful question Jesus asked in John 5:6: “Do you want to be made well?”

• Why healing isn’t just a process—it’s a decision

• And how to respond to God’s invitation to live as your whole, healed self

  
  

Scriptures referenced:

• John 5:6 – “Do you want to be made well?”

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• This episode will help you radically release the role, reconnect with your real identity, and walk boldly into your healing and purpose.

  
  

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You’ve done everything right. You prayed. You served. You stayed kind.
And still, the pain came.

In this opening episode of Radical Release, we tackle the sacred, unspoken question many believers are afraid to say out loud:

Why do bad things happen to good people?
What do you do when the trauma doesn’t match your theology?
When your faith feels shaken, but your spirit still wants answers?

We’ll talk about:

• How grief, betrayal, and suffering impacted even the most faithful in Scripture

• Why questioning God is not rebellion—it’s relationship

• What to do with the weight of pain that hasn’t been explained or resolved

You are not alone in your ache. And you are not abandoned in your asking.
This episode holds space for your sorrow and your faith to coexist.
Let’s walk through it together—with honesty, with grace, and with God. Includes a gentle reflection + journal prompt to guide your healing.

📝 Journal Prompt (from Bound Reflection):
God, I don’t understand this pain—but I want to invite You into it. Show me that You’re near. Help me carry what feels too heavy alone.

We don’t always talk about the silence. The ache. The seasons where prayers go unanswered and we’re left wondering if God ever showed up at all.

In this first episode of Radical Release, I’m naming something many of us have carried in secret: the spiritual confusion that trauma brings.
If you’ve ever asked, “God, where were You when it all fell apart?”—this episode is for you.

Together, we’ll unpack:

• Why questioning God isn’t a sign of weak faith—it’s a sign of intimacy

• How to look for divine presence in the quiet, overlooked places

• What it means to grieve not only the pain—but the protection that never came

This is a space for honesty, not answers.
And as always: no trauma comparisons, no spiritual performance—just real healing.

🕊️ Reflection prompt included at the end.
🎙️ Listen, breathe, and begin your Radical Release.

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