Subscribers! Hello and welcome! First and foremost, thank you for being here. I hope you all are having a beautiful week so far. I thought I’d stop by for a quick update.

We’re currently past the halfway mark of Giselle. She is writing out wonderfully, but some parts of her are hard for me to push through. Can I be honest? When God placed this book on my heart, I fought with it for a while. Seriously, I ran. I started chapter one and then closed my laptop for months… Knowing that He wanted me to be open and honest about my testimonies had me terrified. Which meant bringing the deepest, the messiest, the most embarrassing parts of myself to the light. I really had to dig deep and understand that I am not my own. That the weakness that I felt in me was for His glory. His time to shine. Today, I had to pause my writing session a couple of times to invite God in again and again. Reading over what I wrote for this chapter had me almost in disbelief that I’ve gone through so much. I was heartbroken all over again for the girl that I once was. I will say that looking over childhood trauma has helped me constantly realize that healing comes in waves. So does anger and forgiveness. Some days being worse than others, and plenty of times I didn’t want to get out of bed or look in the mirror.

I’m saying this all to say: Today was TOUGH. Writing this chapter stung some of those old wounds, but I shed no tears this time. God reminded me that I can visit those places and still rest in His peace. I pray that when you visit whatever wound, hurt, or trauma that has you constantly looking back, you come to the realization that you can touch it and not be burned anymore. You can walk through fire and not smell like smoke. Your pain has a purpose.

— Jeremiah 29:11 ESV. For I know the plan I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.