June 25, 2024 • 33 mins
In this episode we dive into the compelling testimony of, Sharon Ann. A survivor of childhood trauma and a military kid, Sharon's story is one of resilience and divine intervention. She recounts her path from a superficial understanding of God to a profound, personal relationship with Him, forged through life's challenges and God's guidance. Sharon shares how her faith grew amidst cultural shocks, educational pursuits, job losses, and the eventual calling to help others heal from their own traumas. Now, as a mentor and coach, she empowers others to transform their pain into purpose. Join us to hear how God's unwavering presence can uplift and transform, even in the most unexpected ways.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He comforts us every time we have trouble, so that we
can comfort others when theyhave trouble.
We can comfort them with thesame comfort that God gives us.
That's what we're going to betalking about today with our
guest Sharon.
You're going to learn a lotabout how God can just reach out
to you right where you are,even when you're not looking for
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him necessarily, and he canpull you up and out of whatever
that situation is that you're in.
Let's just go ahead and diveinto this episode.
This is a new creation podcastwhere we are pointing women
towards victory in Christ, oneJesus story at a time.
I'm Jameis and I am a licensedtrauma therapist.
I'm the owner of Grace AbidesChristian Counseling and I'm
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your host.
Go ahead and follow me onInstagram at Jimmy's the Show
and get ready to hear anotherinspiring faith story.
Hey guys, so it's a real treatto introduce to you today Miss
Sharon Ann, who currentlyresides in Florida.
She holds a certificate inbiblical counseling and theology
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from the International Schoolof Divinity.
She's studied psychology with afocus in marriage and family
counseling.
She's led support groups forsurvivors of sexual abuse,
domestic violence and thosedealing with dissociative
identity disorder.
This episode is going toinspire you so much.
Welcome to the podcast, sharon,thank you.
(01:27):
Thank you glad to be here.
Tell us a little bit about whoyou are and and how you came to
your faith, and just a testimonythat the Lord is laying on your
heart today sure, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I am a Navy child.
I was born in Cuba long enoughto get US A military child.
My dad was in Benavide.
My mom was in a selling spouse,so wherever my dad went she
went.
She usually worked at the baseas a BX or a bank tailor or
bagging groceries.
I normally grew up with nanniesand maids.
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They were my surrogate parents.
I have a brother.
He's older by three years.
Faith and spirituality growingup it was something that was
never really talked about likewe knew god, but it was like the
cardinal version of god whereyou just go out there and you
pray for god, pray to god atmills, or you mention god during
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like christ, like Christmas,thanksgiving holidays.
So for the longest time thatwas my only real definition of
God.
For the most part it was um,portrayed like he was something
you just don't talk about.
He's there but we don'tacknowledge him.
Um.
I didn't come to America fastforward to like 1996 and culture
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shock is a real thing becauseback then everything was like
fresh and new being the oddballout.
I got kicked on with myclassmates a lot and I pretty
much attached myself to whoeverwas around, like I had no sense
of safety when you grew up in amilitary background.
It's like you just attachyourself to whoever is there.
(03:07):
You go from like post to post.
It's like just having friendswho are like not really your
friends, but it's like you don'twant to be alone, so you just
attach yourself to people.
You have no sense of like realsafety or security.
Yeah, and I remember that whenI came to america in order to
have friends, I got involved inwhatever activities I could.
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I'm very introverted, so I tookto creative writing.
So like I was a creativewriting major and a dance minor
and my only understanding forthe longest time when I came to
America of God was a fellowshipof Christian athletes, fca.
So I would get together withpeople before school and we
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would pray at the flagpole anddo a little bible study.
But back then it was like I wasjust going through the motions.
I was living like that doublelife they talk about, like where
before school I was holy, Iprayed with people, I talked to
people.
So when the bell rang it waslike I had no account of who God
was.
I was just going through themotions, living from one day to
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the next.
I graduated high school in 2002.
But back then it was like I hadno goals, no dreams, and I was
living in Florida at the timeand, because of state
standardized testing, I wasalways spot on with the reading
portion of things.
With the math portion, I alwayswas one or two points off.
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That test defined who I was.
I wasn't depressed, um, didn'tknow myself.
I knew of God, so I prayed toGod to help me to go out there
and pass the test.
I'm like God.
If you help me pass this test,show me what comes next, um, and
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to make ends meet.
During that time, while I was inschool, I worked at a
faith-based christian preschool.
How that happened, I have noidea, but it's like god ordained
.
He knew that I needed to bethere and like that was one of
the times where I really saw god.
It's like they're seeing theworld through new eyes.
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So I was able to see the worldthrough their eyes Fresh
experiences, new opportunities.
I was there until about summerof 2005.
And this is where I actuallyhad my real God moment.
As I was in the preschool, Iquestioned I'm like you have
these kids.
They're believing in God eventhough they're so young.
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Is God really real?
Is God different than the Godthat was portrayed to me.
So searching for answers.
I don't know if you rememberback in the day where there was
like Yahoo chat, yahoo messenger.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And then I know I'm showing my picture because
that's unheard of, yes, and Igot online and I ended up in I
kid you, not a Christian chatroom and there was a pastor
there who was familiar with theCalvary Chapel movement.
He worked out of Calvary Chapelin California I think it's like
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Calvary Chapel, antelope Valley, lancaster, that area, yeah.
But he was looking for insightson the sermon entitled Look
who's Talking Now, based afterthe movie of, like John Travolta
and stuff.
So the scripture that was likethe sheep know my voice and I
know them and they follow me.
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I believe that's John, chapter10, verse 27.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, could be wrong.
It is yes, thank you wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It is yes, thank you.
But he was talking about thatverse and he's like well, do you
have a personal relationshipwith God?
Do you know what it means totrust and follow God?
I'm like, no, are you talkingabout the song that says you
know me and to follow hard aftermy truth?
I'm like I know that song but Idon't know that song.
So he was challenging me.
(07:08):
He was asking me obviousquestions and at one point he's
like correct me if I'm wrong.
Do you have a relationship withgod or are you just saying that
I'm like crap, I'm called outon things.
But it turned out to be good,because then he led me to like
the roman road.
He prayed with me.
He led me to calvary chapel ofmovement and that summer it's
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like I compared to god the wayhe should be.
I had friends for the first time.
I overcame my shyness.
I was talking to people, I gotinvolved in bible studies.
My self-esteem grew so much.
I had self-confidence.
It was like I wasn't that girlwho was living from one day to
the next.
I had goals, I had dreams forthe first time and back then I
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was going through so much trauma.
Then I'm a child abuse survivor.
So back in 2005, I I was tryingto get memories.
I came forward with, like, whathappened to me and God's like
I'm not done with you.
No, sharon, this is just thebeginning, this is just like the
tip of the iceberg.
So he had me do celebraterecovery, which is like
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faith-based recovery out ofchurch, based on the 12 steps,
and through that, like he didmore healing to me, he empowered
me and I'm like god, this isgreat, this is awesome.
He's like no, no, no, I wantyou to pay attention to this
verse.
I'm like what verse?
And it was like james, chapter4, verse 10 humble yourself
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before the lord and he willexalt you.
He's like it's time for you toleave the preschool, it's time
for you to step out of yourcomfort zone.
And I'm like no, I feelcomfortable in this preschool
setting.
He's like no, you're not meantto be here, you're meant to
expand.
So started the temporal, startedgoing out there and doing temp
jobs and I was growing as awhole.
(09:03):
They were no longer made in thepicture.
Family was around full time.
They had settled down.
We were a real family again.
I learned basic life skills.
I was at the same company thenin the temp broad until 2007 so
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a few years.
And then in 2007 we all knowwhat happened.
Like the economy went downunder, yeah, a lot of people
lost their jobs.
I was one of them.
Like I was working for apsychiatric hospital.
It was great.
I started off as a file clerkand worked my way up to
someone's personal assistant andthey were at a point where they
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weren't ready to hire me on.
And then all of a sudden theyfiled chapter seven bankruptcy.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh, my goodness, I went from them hiring me on.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And then a month later it's like I'm sorry, we're
going to have to let you go.
And back then I was like in myearly twenties, a baby baby just
barely making her way in thejob market.
It's like what do I do next?
How do I navigate life?
And it's like God, show me.
You left me in the preschoolenvironment for a reason.
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You grew my faith.
What do I do next?
Where do I go from here?
What's my next train of thought?
And God's like wait, just waiton me.
I'm like I don't want to wait,I need to answer now.
I was like you're not ready forthat answer.
And then that summer was asummer of learning and by August
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I was like I'm going to showyou.
Sharon, you've been preparingyourself as a whole.
Now it's time for you to expandyour education.
So went to Alabama on severalgrants.
I didn't know anybody.
The next town for me was like20 miles away, completely
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isolated, completely deserted,no family around, no support
system.
God was my only lifeline Backthen.
There was like no YouTube, noInstagram, no MIRC and stuff
like that.
It was just we were starting outtechnology-wise, so everything
that I had known was strippedaway from me.
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God was like my only lifeline.
And during the three years Iwas in Alabama, I really knew
God.
I mean, he prepared me, got mypsychology degree, got my
certifications, came back, was ananny to my niece for a few
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years and then in 2013, Ire-entered the job market.
I'm like all right, change ofscenery, change of thought,
change of life process.
I'm older, I'm stronger, I'mwiser.
So this time I started offagain in the medical field and
God drew me.
But then the same thinghappened again Chapter 7,
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bankruptcy with the company.
I'm like great, what do I donow?
And that's when a friend and Istarted a nonprofit, took all my
skills, went out there and justexpanded.
The nonprofit Grew, catered towomen who have like anxiety,
depression, dissociation, and itgot to a point where, in 2018,
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she had a kid and I was left tokeep the business running.
I couldn't do it on my own andI'm like God, I can't do this on
my own.
What do I do?
So?
Another act of faith.
I stepped out and God's likeyou're going to do this on your
own.
What do I do?
So another act of faith.
I stepped out and God's likeyou're going to do this on your
own.
You have the skills, you havethe experience.
Now it's time for you to startyour own company and to give
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back to others, and I've beendoing that ever since.
Now it's like I help women whoare having anxiety, depression,
association, but the twist isthey're working on those things
and they go out there and becometherapists, psychologists and
social workers.
So it's like I get them whenthey're baby babies, when
they're just first navigatingthe life.
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Yeah, that's my story.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's so beautiful, how the Lord.
It's just an example of theLord's Lord.
It's just, it's just an exampleof the Lord's care, um, how he
doesn't waste anything that wego through, and, um, I'm
remembering Joseph, who's like.
You know, you guys, the enemymeant this for evil.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You meant this for evil, but God turned it for good
, exactly and I'm reminded of,like philippians 4, 13, one of
my favorite verses I can do allthings through christ.
He gives me strength, like ourpower is found in him.
Our victories are found in him,and when we least expect it
he's there, like he neverabandons us.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
One child feeds off of the next, one experience
feeds off of the next yeah, Iheard I've heard it said that if
it is not good, then then he isnot done, because god is good
and that doesn't mean that wedon't go through hardship, like
we definitely go throughhardship.
I've been seeing these memesonline about that song.
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That's about throw me into therefiner's fire, lord, and people
be like do I want to sing that?
Because being in that refiner'sfire where he is really
sanctifying you, sometimes ithurts, sometimes it's a little
painful and uncomfortable.
He's growing you and you haveexperience of that, as you have
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shared through the, thetransitions that he walked you
through.
You know the job loss and allof that, like I'm sure that
wasn't terribly fun while youwere going through it no, you're
like right, it wasn't hard.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But it just shows you that sometimes in life there's
doubts and uncertainty, like I'mat a point now where it's like
I'd rather do things scared thanfearful and go out there and
live through the what if?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
thinking yeah, I think about, I don't know.
I've been in Samuel a lot, uh,over the past, I don't know
several weeks or so.
Um, the story, everybody knowsthat, even unbelievers know it,
people who don't really claimthe faith know the story of
David and Goliath and I've beenthinking about you know what
David was?
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Just a boy.
He was like he was not.
He was just very young, a boygoing up against this giant and
you can't help but imagine whatthat may have felt like you know
, but he put his trust in God.
Felt like you know, but he puthis trust in God and it's like
that confident trust in him likeyou were saying, saying in
Philippians, that confidenttrust in God really is
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sufficient.
It sometimes takes time to cometo that understanding for
ourself, especially if you know,growing up you weren't solid in
our faith, with someone from anearly age who was speaking the
truth into our lives.
It's very cool to me this partof your story where you know he
tells us to come to him like alittle child and he literally
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puts you in a child's atmosphere.
You know, at this preschool tostart developing you.
That is so beautiful to me.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I know that's awesome too, to start developing you.
That is so beautiful to me.
I know that's awesome too.
When I look back on it I'm likeI was there all along.
He knew it was a classroom fullof two and three year olds, but
even though I was like 20, theywere like two and three years
old.
He knew that I needed to bethere, and it makes me think of
that scripture that saystrainers shouldn't open.
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The right way.
He was training me through theyounger generation so that I can
give to them first before I cangive to myself.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes, that's so beautiful, he's just so gentle
and the best teacher that wecould have.
Tell us a little bit more aboutyou know this work that you're
doing to support others who aredealing with their own mental
health issues, but they theyfeel called to go and serve.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
yeah, um another god moment that started off with
just a promise and god's likeI'll show you in 2005, when I
first began celebrate recovery,as I was saying, I was working
through my own trauma.
I'm a youth survivor from thetime I was 10 until I was 24.
And then I got in CelebrateRecovery.
But during that time I prayedto God.
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I'm like God, if things getbetter, I want to go up there
and get back to others.
I want this to be my mission.
I want others to go up thereand realize that their past
doesn't have to define who theyare.
And I made a promise back thenthat was blindly I'm like I'm
not going to answer this,there's no way I'm going to go
into the mental health field.
(17:52):
And sure enough, I was like I'mgoing to show you that I'm not
going to answer this.
It just started off with thatway.
Like I've always had aninterest in the mental health
field.
I always had an interest in,like neuroscience.
I've always been interested inthat.
Like I love to learn.
Of course, I went to school forthat and afterwards I'm like I
don't just want to like stophere.
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The way that God works, the waythat he orchestrates things.
I love my clients.
Most of them come to me by wayof social media, by way of
social media, by way of LinkedIn.
Yeah, I'm very outgoing nowwith, like, my social media
platforms.
In the past, it was like Iwouldn't share my stuff, I
wouldn't share my story, I wouldkeep things very generic.
(18:35):
Once I started sharing my storyand going public, that's when
people are like I want to hearyour story, I want to know what
you do, I want you to like, helpme, as other people helped you,
and I believe that in themedical field, like, people
learn from example, people learnfrom our stories.
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So, like, here are all thesegraduate students just starting
out.
It's like I'm learning fromthem, but they're also learning
from me.
Like, I struggle withassociation and in most
textbooks I come to find outthat there's only like a chapter
on association.
So it's like I'm teaching them,I'm questioning them.
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Or like I had a sessionyesterday on vulnerability and
it's like how do you bevulnerable with other people?
What do you share withvulnerable in order to be
vulnerable?
What does vulnerability looklike when you're a trauma
survivor?
And little did I know thatsomeone was going out there and
using the same material withtheir clients and they're like
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you taught me.
I had no idea what I was goingto go into the session with with
this kid, but I was able to useyour examples that you used to
empower me, empower someone else.
So I'm not sure if that answersyour question, but it just
shows me like where I'm at, yeah, and that is so beautiful
because I I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't remember where it is, but there's a
scripture that says that wecomfort others with that same
comfort that God comforted uswith.
We go out and then we comfortothers and like that's how that
cycle of healing and growth justkeeps producing, like that's
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how the kingdom of God justkeeps growing, like he forms us
to be able to help each other,and it's like we don't even
always know how what we're doingis benefiting someone else, but
God does and he just uses itall exactly like right now.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
As we go into summer, I look at like where I was two
years ago, 2018, with some of myclients and it's like now
they're graduating and I'm leftwith the thought of did I impact
their life?
Did I teach them the skillsthey need to be an effective
therapist?
Do they really benefit fromtheir time with me?
And I know I can't go out thereand do that thinking, but it's
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like I care about these peoplebecause I had them when they
were babies babies.
It's like I care about thesepeople because I had them when
they were babies babies.
It's like it's hard when youlike work in this environment
because once they graduate, it'slike you lose contact with them
.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You don't know what's going to happen after that, and
that's hard, but at the sametime, it's rewarding oh,
absolutely yeah, and as atherapist myself, I could
definitely attest it's like you,you, when you're working with
someone, I mean it's so intimate, working with their innermost
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thoughts, working with the fears, and that's where you really
just have to trust God, you know.
But yeah, for anyone wondering,we do think about our clients
after you guys move on, andthat's a good thing, I think
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that's just, you know, that'sjust the love of God flowing
through us and that's beautiful,right, yeah, us, and that's
beautiful, right, yeah.
Well, I appreciate you forsharing this, a really powerful
testimony of how god took youfrom a little baby and all the
trauma that you had even gonethrough, and he just redeemed
all of it.
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And now you're, you're reallystanding in the gap for others.
It's, it's very hopeful.
Your testimony is so.
It's so hopeful because I thinkyou know, I know trauma tries
to come on and break you downand tell you you're not worth it
and you'll never be be goodenough, and especially things
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like sexual trauma.
There is something just sosneaky and insidious about a
sexual trauma that can reallymake women feel so worthless,
and just the lies that it tellsyou, you know, like, oh,
nobody's ever gonna love you.
You'll never be good enough,but you.
Your testimony really doesspeak to hope that there is
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light and God can save you.
Your story does not end at yourtrauma.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Exactly, and I think it's either you stay stuck in it
, you stay stagnant, you believea lie, you believe the threat,
you go up there and you don'tknow what I should have thinking
, or eventually you get to apoint where you say enough is
enough and you move forward andyou rise to success.
You're like enough is enough.
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I'd rather take back my power.
And what happens happens then,remain stagnant and that's where
it was with me, like, I believe, eliza, he's going to come
after me.
I'm going to grow up in childprotection services, I won't see
my family and after livingthose lives for so long and
being in fear and having a stateof hypervigilance, it was like
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no, there has to be somethingbetter.
There has to be something morethan this.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Right now I am just so led toask you this question.
What would you tell to someonewho is carrying around the
weight of their own sexualtrauma history that they are
still stuck in that fear abouttelling.
They're still stuck in thatfear about getting help.
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They're still stuck in thatplace where all the fears are
just talking to them.
If I speak up, you know he'llkill me.
If I speak up, the X, y, z.
What would you tell someone whois living in that place?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
That is a very good question.
First off, feelings aren't justfeelings, they're not facts.
Um, you have a right to feelthe way you do, but not to dwell
into it too much, not to likesit in it for so long to let
yourself feel what you need tofeel and then pick yourself back
up.
I would encourage them to likepray, study the scriptures and
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trust in God as if he was yourbest friend.
God can change you from theinside out.
Don't be afraid to ask for help.
Sometimes the threats are justthere to satisfy them.
They won't act upon them.
You just have to take the risksometimes to do things scared,
to do things that are hard.
It was scared for me when Iwent out there and I asked for
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the help because I figured thewhat ifs, but it's like I knew
that they were just there tosilence me, that he wouldn't act
upon them.
And once I went out there and Igot the help, I need things
transformed.
So don't be afraid to ask forhelp and don't be afraid to
trust in God like he's your bestfriend, because he will give
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you the answers.
He will supply the answers.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yes, amen, that is so true.
And another question, to thatpoint of trusting God like he is
your best friend because he is.
He is such a friend.
He is the best friend we couldhave for someone just starting
out who didn't know him ordidn't know how to approach the
lord, didn't even know what thatmeans, lord.
(26:11):
You know a lot of people comeinto christianity.
They don't know what this stuffmeans.
Like what would you tell themabout jesus?
What would you tell them abouthow to know God as your friend,
like?
I guess what I'm asking issometimes like people can get in
their head about it.
Do I need to?
Does that mean I have to go tochurch every Sunday and that's
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how I get this?
Like what?
What just practical applicationadvice would you give someone
who wanted to find God, like,know him the way that you're
describing him?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
for the longest time I didn't go to church.
Like for the longest time Ididn't go to church for me, like
church was in my heart as longas I went out there and I
believed in God and I just likestudy the scriptures.
To me that was church and Igrew firsthand through that.
So like, yes, I did get saved.
(27:09):
Yes, I did experience theCalvary Chapel movement, but
there were times there where Iquestioned God.
It's like sometimes, you knowthose times it was like all I
could do was just open up theBible and whatever I was going
through that day to study thosescriptures and to me that was
church.
So, for example, god, are youhere today?
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I don't feel like going tochurch.
I would just open up a kidbible and say that day I was
struggling with doubt.
I would study scriptures ondoubt.
I'd be like like this isscripture on doubt, how does it
apply to me?
And that was my form of churchthat day.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It's like really just building relationship with him
outside of the four walls of thechurch building, and that's.
You know we are the church.
You know you spend time in theword of God.
You understand these things.
We are the temple of the HolySpirit, we are the church and he
does.
He does tell us to gather likedon't forsake gathering.
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But you bring up the point thatI think a lot of people can
miss sometimes, which is youknow it's about a relationship.
You do get to ask him questionsand he does speak to you.
You know he will.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
He will unpack the scriptures for you, and that's a
great place to start or even ahome fellowship, just getting
together with a bunch of peopleand saying, hey, can I pray for
you, or I'm experiencing this.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
That's the form of church too.
Yeah, finding your communityright.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But thank you so much for sharing all of this.
I just know that it's going tobless so many who hear this
message.
I would like to ask, if you'recomfortable, would you pray for
our listeners?
However, the Lord is leadingyou to do that.
Would you just close us outwith a prayer?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yes, absolutely, lord God.
I just want to thank you forthis time with my sister in
Christ.
Lord God, just thank you forthis discussion as a whole.
Lord God, thank you for goingout there and just blessing our
time together.
Thank you also for the audience, lord God, thank you for
anybody out there who'slistening to this.
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Lord God, for those who have apersonal relationship with you
and those who don't.
Lord God, I just pray that thispodcast will be used to go out
there, Lord God, and just toimpact the lives of other people
, to impact you, lord God, forpeople to see, lord God, that
you have the power to turnanybody's pain into purpose.
You have the power to turnanybody's story into your honor
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and your glory.
Lord God, just thank you somuch for everything as a whole.
Lord god, we love you.
We thank you so much, lord god,and we thank you for touching
the lives of each one here andeach one that's going to be
listening to this podcast nowand in the future.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
In your name, amen amen and would you let us know,
because I'm sure somebody outthere is wondering how can our
listeners find you or your workif they want to connect more in
the future?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
So, yes, you can find me on Linktree and then the
backslash symbol, sharonunderscore A.
So Linktree, the backslashsymbol, sharon underscore A, and
on Linktree you'll find myYouTube, my Instagram.
I recently started a podcast,too, on Podbean.
(30:51):
I'm 12 episodes in, and thenthere's also my calendar link.
I go out there and offer anywomen struggling with any issue
a one-hour complimentary callwhere I just pour into you and
help you through any hurt, habitand hang-up you may experience.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Wonderful, and so what I'll do?
I will include the links to allof this somewhere in the show
notes of this episode so thatit's easy to find.
Yeah, and in the meantime, justthank you so much.
This was so wonderful, thankyou.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Thank you everyone that's a wrap for this episode.
Hey, if something that youheard today is really tugging on
your heart and you want toreturn to Jesus, or you want to
even come to him for the veryfirst time, I want to help you
do that, because he makes it sosimple.
He says that it's just a simpleconfession with the mouth that
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Jesus Christ is Lord.
He makes it so easy for us hedied once and for all, that all
of our sin would be removed andthat we could call ourselves the
righteousness of God in Christ.
You can say something likeFather, I'm coming to you now.
I believe that Jesus Christ isLord, I believe he's the Son of
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God and I repent.
I just simply turn away fromthe direction I was going.
I turn fully into you.
I submit to you.
Lord, be Lord of my life.
If you have said that prayer forthe first time, welcome to the
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God bless you.
Thank you, the body of Christneeds you.
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He comforts us every time we have trouble, so that we
can comfort others when theyhave trouble.
We can comfort them with thesame comfort that God gives us.
That's what we're going to betalking about today with our
guest Sharon.
You're going to learn a lotabout how God can just reach out
to you right where you are,even when you're not looking for
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him necessarily, and he canpull you up and out of whatever
that situation is that you're in.
Let's just go ahead and diveinto this episode.
This is a new creation podcastwhere we are pointing women
towards victory in Christ, oneJesus story at a time.
I'm Jameis and I am a licensedtrauma therapist.
I'm the owner of Grace AbidesChristian Counseling and I'm
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your host.
Go ahead and follow me onInstagram at Jimmy's the Show
and get ready to hear anotherinspiring faith story.
Hey guys, so it's a real treatto introduce to you today Miss
Sharon Ann, who currentlyresides in Florida.
She holds a certificate inbiblical counseling and theology
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from the International Schoolof Divinity.
She's studied psychology with afocus in marriage and family
counseling.
She's led support groups forsurvivors of sexual abuse,
domestic violence and thosedealing with dissociative
identity disorder.
This episode is going toinspire you so much.
Welcome to the podcast, sharon,thank you.
(01:27):
Thank you glad to be here.
Tell us a little bit about whoyou are and and how you came to
your faith, and just a testimonythat the Lord is laying on your
heart today sure, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I am a Navy child.
I was born in Cuba long enoughto get US A military child.
My dad was in Benavide.
My mom was in a selling spouse,so wherever my dad went she
went.
She usually worked at the baseas a BX or a bank tailor or
bagging groceries.
I normally grew up with nanniesand maids.
(02:00):
They were my surrogate parents.
I have a brother.
He's older by three years.
Faith and spirituality growingup it was something that was
never really talked about likewe knew god, but it was like the
cardinal version of god whereyou just go out there and you
pray for god, pray to god atmills, or you mention god during
(02:22):
like christ, like Christmas,thanksgiving holidays.
So for the longest time thatwas my only real definition of
God.
For the most part it was um,portrayed like he was something
you just don't talk about.
He's there but we don'tacknowledge him.
Um.
I didn't come to America fastforward to like 1996 and culture
(02:44):
shock is a real thing becauseback then everything was like
fresh and new being the oddballout.
I got kicked on with myclassmates a lot and I pretty
much attached myself to whoeverwas around, like I had no sense
of safety when you grew up in amilitary background.
It's like you just attachyourself to whoever is there.
(03:07):
You go from like post to post.
It's like just having friendswho are like not really your
friends, but it's like you don'twant to be alone, so you just
attach yourself to people.
You have no sense of like realsafety or security.
Yeah, and I remember that whenI came to america in order to
have friends, I got involved inwhatever activities I could.
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I'm very introverted, so I tookto creative writing.
So like I was a creativewriting major and a dance minor
and my only understanding forthe longest time when I came to
America of God was a fellowshipof Christian athletes, fca.
So I would get together withpeople before school and we
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would pray at the flagpole anddo a little bible study.
But back then it was like I wasjust going through the motions.
I was living like that doublelife they talk about, like where
before school I was holy, Iprayed with people, I talked to
people.
So when the bell rang it waslike I had no account of who God
was.
I was just going through themotions, living from one day to
(04:17):
the next.
I graduated high school in 2002.
But back then it was like I hadno goals, no dreams, and I was
living in Florida at the timeand, because of state
standardized testing, I wasalways spot on with the reading
portion of things.
With the math portion, I alwayswas one or two points off.
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That test defined who I was.
I wasn't depressed, um, didn'tknow myself.
I knew of God, so I prayed toGod to help me to go out there
and pass the test.
I'm like God.
If you help me pass this test,show me what comes next, um, and
(05:02):
to make ends meet.
During that time, while I was inschool, I worked at a
faith-based christian preschool.
How that happened, I have noidea, but it's like god ordained
.
He knew that I needed to bethere and like that was one of
the times where I really saw god.
It's like they're seeing theworld through new eyes.
(05:22):
So I was able to see the worldthrough their eyes Fresh
experiences, new opportunities.
I was there until about summerof 2005.
And this is where I actuallyhad my real God moment.
As I was in the preschool, Iquestioned I'm like you have
these kids.
They're believing in God eventhough they're so young.
(05:44):
Is God really real?
Is God different than the Godthat was portrayed to me.
So searching for answers.
I don't know if you rememberback in the day where there was
like Yahoo chat, yahoo messenger.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And then I know I'm showing my picture because
that's unheard of, yes, and Igot online and I ended up in I
kid you, not a Christian chatroom and there was a pastor
there who was familiar with theCalvary Chapel movement.
He worked out of Calvary Chapelin California I think it's like
(06:19):
Calvary Chapel, antelope Valley, lancaster, that area, yeah.
But he was looking for insightson the sermon entitled Look
who's Talking Now, based afterthe movie of, like John Travolta
and stuff.
So the scripture that was likethe sheep know my voice and I
know them and they follow me.
(06:39):
I believe that's John, chapter10, verse 27.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, could be wrong.
It is yes, thank you wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It is yes, thank you.
But he was talking about thatverse and he's like well, do you
have a personal relationshipwith God?
Do you know what it means totrust and follow God?
I'm like, no, are you talkingabout the song that says you
know me and to follow hard aftermy truth?
I'm like I know that song but Idon't know that song.
So he was challenging me.
(07:08):
He was asking me obviousquestions and at one point he's
like correct me if I'm wrong.
Do you have a relationship withgod or are you just saying that
I'm like crap, I'm called outon things.
But it turned out to be good,because then he led me to like
the roman road.
He prayed with me.
He led me to calvary chapel ofmovement and that summer it's
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like I compared to god the wayhe should be.
I had friends for the first time.
I overcame my shyness.
I was talking to people, I gotinvolved in bible studies.
My self-esteem grew so much.
I had self-confidence.
It was like I wasn't that girlwho was living from one day to
the next.
I had goals, I had dreams forthe first time and back then I
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was going through so much trauma.
Then I'm a child abuse survivor.
So back in 2005, I I was tryingto get memories.
I came forward with, like, whathappened to me and God's like
I'm not done with you.
No, sharon, this is just thebeginning, this is just like the
tip of the iceberg.
So he had me do celebraterecovery, which is like
(08:17):
faith-based recovery out ofchurch, based on the 12 steps,
and through that, like he didmore healing to me, he empowered
me and I'm like god, this isgreat, this is awesome.
He's like no, no, no, I wantyou to pay attention to this
verse.
I'm like what verse?
And it was like james, chapter4, verse 10 humble yourself
(08:41):
before the lord and he willexalt you.
He's like it's time for you toleave the preschool, it's time
for you to step out of yourcomfort zone.
And I'm like no, I feelcomfortable in this preschool
setting.
He's like no, you're not meantto be here, you're meant to
expand.
So started the temporal, startedgoing out there and doing temp
jobs and I was growing as awhole.
(09:03):
They were no longer made in thepicture.
Family was around full time.
They had settled down.
We were a real family again.
I learned basic life skills.
I was at the same company thenin the temp broad until 2007 so
(09:24):
a few years.
And then in 2007 we all knowwhat happened.
Like the economy went downunder, yeah, a lot of people
lost their jobs.
I was one of them.
Like I was working for apsychiatric hospital.
It was great.
I started off as a file clerkand worked my way up to
someone's personal assistant andthey were at a point where they
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weren't ready to hire me on.
And then all of a sudden theyfiled chapter seven bankruptcy.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh, my goodness, I went from them hiring me on.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And then a month later it's like I'm sorry, we're
going to have to let you go.
And back then I was like in myearly twenties, a baby baby just
barely making her way in thejob market.
It's like what do I do next?
How do I navigate life?
And it's like God, show me.
You left me in the preschoolenvironment for a reason.
(10:20):
You grew my faith.
What do I do next?
Where do I go from here?
What's my next train of thought?
And God's like wait, just waiton me.
I'm like I don't want to wait,I need to answer now.
I was like you're not ready forthat answer.
And then that summer was asummer of learning and by August
(10:42):
I was like I'm going to showyou.
Sharon, you've been preparingyourself as a whole.
Now it's time for you to expandyour education.
So went to Alabama on severalgrants.
I didn't know anybody.
The next town for me was like20 miles away, completely
(11:03):
isolated, completely deserted,no family around, no support
system.
God was my only lifeline Backthen.
There was like no YouTube, noInstagram, no MIRC and stuff
like that.
It was just we were starting outtechnology-wise, so everything
that I had known was strippedaway from me.
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God was like my only lifeline.
And during the three years Iwas in Alabama, I really knew
God.
I mean, he prepared me, got mypsychology degree, got my
certifications, came back, was ananny to my niece for a few
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years and then in 2013, Ire-entered the job market.
I'm like all right, change ofscenery, change of thought,
change of life process.
I'm older, I'm stronger, I'mwiser.
So this time I started offagain in the medical field and
God drew me.
But then the same thinghappened again Chapter 7,
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bankruptcy with the company.
I'm like great, what do I donow?
And that's when a friend and Istarted a nonprofit, took all my
skills, went out there and justexpanded.
The nonprofit Grew, catered towomen who have like anxiety,
depression, dissociation, and itgot to a point where, in 2018,
(12:33):
she had a kid and I was left tokeep the business running.
I couldn't do it on my own andI'm like God, I can't do this on
my own.
What do I do?
So?
Another act of faith.
I stepped out and God's likeyou're going to do this on your
own.
What do I do?
So another act of faith.
I stepped out and God's likeyou're going to do this on your
own.
You have the skills, you havethe experience.
Now it's time for you to startyour own company and to give
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back to others, and I've beendoing that ever since.
Now it's like I help women whoare having anxiety, depression,
association, but the twist isthey're working on those things
and they go out there and becometherapists, psychologists and
social workers.
So it's like I get them whenthey're baby babies, when
they're just first navigatingthe life.
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Yeah, that's my story.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's so beautiful, how the Lord.
It's just an example of theLord's Lord.
It's just, it's just an exampleof the Lord's care, um, how he
doesn't waste anything that wego through, and, um, I'm
remembering Joseph, who's like.
You know, you guys, the enemymeant this for evil.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You meant this for evil, but God turned it for good
, exactly and I'm reminded of,like philippians 4, 13, one of
my favorite verses I can do allthings through christ.
He gives me strength, like ourpower is found in him.
Our victories are found in him,and when we least expect it
he's there, like he neverabandons us.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
One child feeds off of the next, one experience
feeds off of the next yeah, Iheard I've heard it said that if
it is not good, then then he isnot done, because god is good
and that doesn't mean that wedon't go through hardship, like
we definitely go throughhardship.
I've been seeing these memesonline about that song.
(14:25):
That's about throw me into therefiner's fire, lord, and people
be like do I want to sing that?
Because being in that refiner'sfire where he is really
sanctifying you, sometimes ithurts, sometimes it's a little
painful and uncomfortable.
He's growing you and you haveexperience of that, as you have
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shared through the, thetransitions that he walked you
through.
You know the job loss and allof that, like I'm sure that
wasn't terribly fun while youwere going through it no, you're
like right, it wasn't hard.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But it just shows you that sometimes in life there's
doubts and uncertainty, like I'mat a point now where it's like
I'd rather do things scared thanfearful and go out there and
live through the what if?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
thinking yeah, I think about, I don't know.
I've been in Samuel a lot, uh,over the past, I don't know
several weeks or so.
Um, the story, everybody knowsthat, even unbelievers know it,
people who don't really claimthe faith know the story of
David and Goliath and I've beenthinking about you know what
David was?
(15:32):
Just a boy.
He was like he was not.
He was just very young, a boygoing up against this giant and
you can't help but imagine whatthat may have felt like you know
, but he put his trust in God.
Felt like you know, but he puthis trust in God and it's like
that confident trust in him likeyou were saying, saying in
Philippians, that confidenttrust in God really is
(15:55):
sufficient.
It sometimes takes time to cometo that understanding for
ourself, especially if you know,growing up you weren't solid in
our faith, with someone from anearly age who was speaking the
truth into our lives.
It's very cool to me this partof your story where you know he
tells us to come to him like alittle child and he literally
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puts you in a child's atmosphere.
You know, at this preschool tostart developing you.
That is so beautiful to me.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I know that's awesome too, to start developing you.
That is so beautiful to me.
I know that's awesome too.
When I look back on it I'm likeI was there all along.
He knew it was a classroom fullof two and three year olds, but
even though I was like 20, theywere like two and three years
old.
He knew that I needed to bethere, and it makes me think of
that scripture that saystrainers shouldn't open.
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The right way.
He was training me through theyounger generation so that I can
give to them first before I cangive to myself.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes, that's so beautiful, he's just so gentle
and the best teacher that wecould have.
Tell us a little bit more aboutyou know this work that you're
doing to support others who aredealing with their own mental
health issues, but they theyfeel called to go and serve.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
yeah, um another god moment that started off with
just a promise and god's likeI'll show you in 2005, when I
first began celebrate recovery,as I was saying, I was working
through my own trauma.
I'm a youth survivor from thetime I was 10 until I was 24.
And then I got in CelebrateRecovery.
But during that time I prayedto God.
(17:31):
I'm like God, if things getbetter, I want to go up there
and get back to others.
I want this to be my mission.
I want others to go up thereand realize that their past
doesn't have to define who theyare.
And I made a promise back thenthat was blindly I'm like I'm
not going to answer this,there's no way I'm going to go
into the mental health field.
(17:52):
And sure enough, I was like I'mgoing to show you that I'm not
going to answer this.
It just started off with thatway.
Like I've always had aninterest in the mental health
field.
I always had an interest in,like neuroscience.
I've always been interested inthat.
Like I love to learn.
Of course, I went to school forthat and afterwards I'm like I
don't just want to like stophere.
(18:13):
The way that God works, the waythat he orchestrates things.
I love my clients.
Most of them come to me by wayof social media, by way of
social media, by way of LinkedIn.
Yeah, I'm very outgoing nowwith, like, my social media
platforms.
In the past, it was like Iwouldn't share my stuff, I
wouldn't share my story, I wouldkeep things very generic.
(18:35):
Once I started sharing my storyand going public, that's when
people are like I want to hearyour story, I want to know what
you do, I want you to like, helpme, as other people helped you,
and I believe that in themedical field, like, people
learn from example, people learnfrom our stories.
(18:55):
So, like, here are all thesegraduate students just starting
out.
It's like I'm learning fromthem, but they're also learning
from me.
Like, I struggle withassociation and in most
textbooks I come to find outthat there's only like a chapter
on association.
So it's like I'm teaching them,I'm questioning them.
(19:16):
Or like I had a sessionyesterday on vulnerability and
it's like how do you bevulnerable with other people?
What do you share withvulnerable in order to be
vulnerable?
What does vulnerability looklike when you're a trauma
survivor?
And little did I know thatsomeone was going out there and
using the same material withtheir clients and they're like
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you taught me.
I had no idea what I was goingto go into the session with with
this kid, but I was able to useyour examples that you used to
empower me, empower someone else.
So I'm not sure if that answersyour question, but it just
shows me like where I'm at, yeah, and that is so beautiful
because I I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't remember where it is, but there's a
scripture that says that wecomfort others with that same
comfort that God comforted uswith.
We go out and then we comfortothers and like that's how that
cycle of healing and growth justkeeps producing, like that's
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how the kingdom of God justkeeps growing, like he forms us
to be able to help each other,and it's like we don't even
always know how what we're doingis benefiting someone else, but
God does and he just uses itall exactly like right now.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
As we go into summer, I look at like where I was two
years ago, 2018, with some of myclients and it's like now
they're graduating and I'm leftwith the thought of did I impact
their life?
Did I teach them the skillsthey need to be an effective
therapist?
Do they really benefit fromtheir time with me?
And I know I can't go out thereand do that thinking, but it's
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like I care about these peoplebecause I had them when they
were babies babies.
It's like I care about thesepeople because I had them when
they were babies babies.
It's like it's hard when youlike work in this environment
because once they graduate, it'slike you lose contact with them
.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You don't know what's going to happen after that, and
that's hard, but at the sametime, it's rewarding oh,
absolutely yeah, and as atherapist myself, I could
definitely attest it's like you,you, when you're working with
someone, I mean it's so intimate, working with their innermost
(21:32):
thoughts, working with the fears, and that's where you really
just have to trust God, you know.
But yeah, for anyone wondering,we do think about our clients
after you guys move on, andthat's a good thing, I think
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that's just, you know, that'sjust the love of God flowing
through us and that's beautiful,right, yeah, us, and that's
beautiful, right, yeah.
Well, I appreciate you forsharing this, a really powerful
testimony of how god took youfrom a little baby and all the
trauma that you had even gonethrough, and he just redeemed
all of it.
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And now you're, you're reallystanding in the gap for others.
It's, it's very hopeful.
Your testimony is so.
It's so hopeful because I thinkyou know, I know trauma tries
to come on and break you downand tell you you're not worth it
and you'll never be be goodenough, and especially things
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like sexual trauma.
There is something just sosneaky and insidious about a
sexual trauma that can reallymake women feel so worthless,
and just the lies that it tellsyou, you know, like, oh,
nobody's ever gonna love you.
You'll never be good enough,but you.
Your testimony really doesspeak to hope that there is
(23:01):
light and God can save you.
Your story does not end at yourtrauma.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Exactly, and I think it's either you stay stuck in it
, you stay stagnant, you believea lie, you believe the threat,
you go up there and you don'tknow what I should have thinking
, or eventually you get to apoint where you say enough is
enough and you move forward andyou rise to success.
You're like enough is enough.
(23:29):
I'd rather take back my power.
And what happens happens then,remain stagnant and that's where
it was with me, like, I believe, eliza, he's going to come
after me.
I'm going to grow up in childprotection services, I won't see
my family and after livingthose lives for so long and
being in fear and having a stateof hypervigilance, it was like
(23:51):
no, there has to be somethingbetter.
There has to be something morethan this.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Right now I am just so led toask you this question.
What would you tell to someonewho is carrying around the
weight of their own sexualtrauma history that they are
still stuck in that fear abouttelling.
They're still stuck in thatfear about getting help.
(24:19):
They're still stuck in thatplace where all the fears are
just talking to them.
If I speak up, you know he'llkill me.
If I speak up, the X, y, z.
What would you tell someone whois living in that place?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
That is a very good question.
First off, feelings aren't justfeelings, they're not facts.
Um, you have a right to feelthe way you do, but not to dwell
into it too much, not to likesit in it for so long to let
yourself feel what you need tofeel and then pick yourself back
up.
I would encourage them to likepray, study the scriptures and
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trust in God as if he was yourbest friend.
God can change you from theinside out.
Don't be afraid to ask for help.
Sometimes the threats are justthere to satisfy them.
They won't act upon them.
You just have to take the risksometimes to do things scared,
to do things that are hard.
It was scared for me when Iwent out there and I asked for
(25:27):
the help because I figured thewhat ifs, but it's like I knew
that they were just there tosilence me, that he wouldn't act
upon them.
And once I went out there and Igot the help, I need things
transformed.
So don't be afraid to ask forhelp and don't be afraid to
trust in God like he's your bestfriend, because he will give
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you the answers.
He will supply the answers.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yes, amen, that is so true.
And another question, to thatpoint of trusting God like he is
your best friend because he is.
He is such a friend.
He is the best friend we couldhave for someone just starting
out who didn't know him ordidn't know how to approach the
lord, didn't even know what thatmeans, lord.
(26:11):
You know a lot of people comeinto christianity.
They don't know what this stuffmeans.
Like what would you tell themabout jesus?
What would you tell them abouthow to know God as your friend,
like?
I guess what I'm asking issometimes like people can get in
their head about it.
Do I need to?
Does that mean I have to go tochurch every Sunday and that's
(26:33):
how I get this?
Like what?
What just practical applicationadvice would you give someone
who wanted to find God, like,know him the way that you're
describing him?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
for the longest time I didn't go to church.
Like for the longest time Ididn't go to church for me, like
church was in my heart as longas I went out there and I
believed in God and I just likestudy the scriptures.
To me that was church and Igrew firsthand through that.
So like, yes, I did get saved.
(27:09):
Yes, I did experience theCalvary Chapel movement, but
there were times there where Iquestioned God.
It's like sometimes, you knowthose times it was like all I
could do was just open up theBible and whatever I was going
through that day to study thosescriptures and to me that was
church.
So, for example, god, are youhere today?
(27:32):
I don't feel like going tochurch.
I would just open up a kidbible and say that day I was
struggling with doubt.
I would study scriptures ondoubt.
I'd be like like this isscripture on doubt, how does it
apply to me?
And that was my form of churchthat day.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It's like really just building relationship with him
outside of the four walls of thechurch building, and that's.
You know we are the church.
You know you spend time in theword of God.
You understand these things.
We are the temple of the HolySpirit, we are the church and he
does.
He does tell us to gather likedon't forsake gathering.
(28:15):
But you bring up the point thatI think a lot of people can
miss sometimes, which is youknow it's about a relationship.
You do get to ask him questionsand he does speak to you.
You know he will.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
He will unpack the scriptures for you, and that's a
great place to start or even ahome fellowship, just getting
together with a bunch of peopleand saying, hey, can I pray for
you, or I'm experiencing this.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
That's the form of church too.
Yeah, finding your communityright.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But thank you so much for sharing all of this.
I just know that it's going tobless so many who hear this
message.
I would like to ask, if you'recomfortable, would you pray for
our listeners?
However, the Lord is leadingyou to do that.
Would you just close us outwith a prayer?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yes, absolutely, lord God.
I just want to thank you forthis time with my sister in
Christ.
Lord God, just thank you forthis discussion as a whole.
Lord God, thank you for goingout there and just blessing our
time together.
Thank you also for the audience, lord God, thank you for
anybody out there who'slistening to this.
(29:33):
Lord God, for those who have apersonal relationship with you
and those who don't.
Lord God, I just pray that thispodcast will be used to go out
there, Lord God, and just toimpact the lives of other people
, to impact you, lord God, forpeople to see, lord God, that
you have the power to turnanybody's pain into purpose.
You have the power to turnanybody's story into your honor
(29:56):
and your glory.
Lord God, just thank you somuch for everything as a whole.
Lord god, we love you.
We thank you so much, lord god,and we thank you for touching
the lives of each one here andeach one that's going to be
listening to this podcast nowand in the future.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
In your name, amen amen and would you let us know,
because I'm sure somebody outthere is wondering how can our
listeners find you or your workif they want to connect more in
the future?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
So, yes, you can find me on Linktree and then the
backslash symbol, sharonunderscore A.
So Linktree, the backslashsymbol, sharon underscore A, and
on Linktree you'll find myYouTube, my Instagram.
I recently started a podcast,too, on Podbean.
(30:51):
I'm 12 episodes in, and thenthere's also my calendar link.
I go out there and offer anywomen struggling with any issue
a one-hour complimentary callwhere I just pour into you and
help you through any hurt, habitand hang-up you may experience.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Wonderful, and so what I'll do?
I will include the links to allof this somewhere in the show
notes of this episode so thatit's easy to find.
Yeah, and in the meantime, justthank you so much.
This was so wonderful, thankyou.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Thank you everyone that's a wrap for this episode.
Hey, if something that youheard today is really tugging on
your heart and you want toreturn to Jesus, or you want to
even come to him for the veryfirst time, I want to help you
do that, because he makes it sosimple.
He says that it's just a simpleconfession with the mouth that
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Jesus Christ is Lord.
He makes it so easy for us hedied once and for all, that all
of our sin would be removed andthat we could call ourselves the
righteousness of God in Christ.
You can say something likeFather, I'm coming to you now.
I believe that Jesus Christ isLord, I believe he's the Son of
(32:13):
God and I repent.
I just simply turn away fromthe direction I was going.
I turn fully into you.
I submit to you.
Lord, be Lord of my life.
If you have said that prayer forthe first time, welcome to the
family.
If you are recommitting yourlife to Christ Jesus, guess what
(32:33):
God bless you.
Thank you, the body of Christneeds you.
And if you are just listeningthrough, guess what God bless
you.
Thank you, the body of Christneeds you.
And if you are just listeningthrough, guess what the Lord
loves you.
Thank you so much for tuning inand listen.
Go ahead and follow me onInstagram at Jamis Lachelle.
It's the best way to keep upwith the podcast, and if you
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want to be on the podcast, justgo to a new creation podcastcom.
Until we meet again, may theLord bless you and keep you.
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