Trauma to Testimony | Healing From Trauma for Christian Women

***********Special Holiday Replay Episode while we are on a break on the podcast. *******The holiday season can bring pressure, emotional triggers, and complicated family dynamics to the surface. In this episode of the Trauma to Testimony podcast, we talk honestly about setting healthy boundaries during the holidays while healing from trauma and growing in our relationship with God. We explore why...

***********Special Holiday Replay Episode while we are on a break on the podcast. ******* The holiday season can bring up sadness, emotional heaviness, and memories we did not expect. In this episode of the Trauma to Testimony podcast, we talk honestly about holiday sadness, self care, and what it looks like to tend to your heart while healing. We share personal experiences, practical self care pr...

****We are on a sabbatical, this is a partial replay episode.**** The holidays can bring old wounds, family tension, and deep emotional triggers to the surface. In this episode of the Trauma to Testimony podcast, we sit down with Christian counselor Chelsea Bailey to talk honestly about forgiveness, boundaries, and healing during the holiday season. Together, we explore what forgiveness really loo...

In this Holiday Heal and Chill Advent episode we slow down together and take a gentle breath during a season that often feels overwhelming. If the holidays bring up grief, loneliness, fear, shame, emotional exhaustion, or old memories, this conversation helps us find rest and grounding in Jesus again. We walk through what it means to behold Jesus in the middle of our holiday season and how the Hol...

In Part 2 of the Holiday Heal and Chill Heart Check series, we go deeper into the emotions that rise during the holiday season and explore what God’s Word says about grief, weariness, loneliness, fear, and discouragement. This episode walks through John 11, Matthew 11, Psalm 25, Isaiah 41, and Psalm 42 to remind you that Jesus understands, God feels what you feel, and the Holy Spirit provides lang...

In Part 1 of our Holiday Heal & Chill series, we’re slowing down together for a gentle but honest Holiday Heart Check . If this season brings up heaviness, old wounds, grief, or quiet emotional tension, you’re not alone, Bestie — we walk through this together. In this episode, we invite God into the places of our hearts that feel tender, overwhelmed, or weighed down. Through Psalm 139:23-24 an...

This special bonus worship session invites us to slow down, breathe deeply, and return to the presence of God with open hearts. Together we walk through a gentle time of teaching, reflection, visualization, and worship, allowing the Holy Spirit to quiet our minds and draw us back to a place of surrender. We reflect on what true worship is, what it is not, and how we can come before God honestly wi...

In this post-fast reflection, we look back on what God revealed over the 40 days of the Returning Daughter Fast and how we can continue living from a place of devotion, surrender, and intimacy with Him. Together we reflect on how God meets us with compassion in our weakness, how Jesus understands every part of our journey, how fasting shifts us from striving to stillness, and how the real transfor...

Welcome to Day 40 of The Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we rejoice in all God has done, all He has restored, and all He is sending us into. As we meditate on 2 Timothy 1:7–8, we remember that God has given us a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. We do not shrink back. We rise as daughters who have returned, been renewed, and are now sent to live boldly for Christ. In this devotion, we...

Welcome to Day 39 of The Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we meditate on Isaiah 61:1–3 and the promise that God exchanges our ashes for beauty, our mourning for joy, and our despair for praise. Even when life feels uncertain, God is still moving, restoring, and redeeming every part of our story for His glory. In this devotion, we reflect on how God’s favor surrounds us even in hard seasons, h...

Welcome to Day 38 of The Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we continue reflecting on Luke 15:20 — the story of the prodigal son — and the truth that even when we feel far from God, His love never leaves us. In this devotion, we’re reminded that God still sees us from a distance, still runs toward us, and still restores our identity, authority, and belonging. As we near the end of this fast, we...

Welcome to Day 37 of The Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we meditate on Luke 15:11–32 and the truth that no matter how far we’ve gone or how long we’ve wrestled, God has never stopped waiting for us. In this devotion, we reflect on the heart of the Father who runs toward His children — not away from them — and how His love dismantles the lie that He has ever left us. As we journey through th...

Welcome to Day 36 of The Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today, we reflect on Acts 1:8 and the call to live as witnesses of God’s power, grace, and mercy. The same Spirit that filled the early disciples now fills us—equipping us to stand firm, forgive, love, and walk boldly in our testimony. In this devotional, we remember that being a witness is not about performance or platforms—it’s about livin...

Welcome to Day 35 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today, we are learning how to confidently rest in the Lord — to trust His renewal even when we cannot see it yet. Our focus is Revelation 21:5 , where God declares, “Behold, I am making all things new.” In this devotion, we reflect on what it means to rest while God rebuilds, to trust His timing when the process feels long, and to find confi...

Welcome to Day 34 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today, we slow down and talk about what it means to be seated in God’s presence —to release perfection, surrender our striving, and let God meet us in the middle of our emotions. Together, we reflect on how healing and transformation begin when we stop trying to fix everything and simply rest in His presence. Like Job, David, and Moses, we l...

Welcome to Day 33 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today, we’re talking about shifting our perspective — learning to see the hand of God at work in places that don’t look finished yet. So often we focus on what hasn’t bloomed, but God is reminding us that He’s been planting all along. When we pause and look back, we realize God has already gone before us — planting people, opportunities, and...

Welcome to Day 32 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we meditate on 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 and remember that God’s power is made perfect in our weakness. We don’t have to hold it all together; we only have to hold onto Him. Together, we rest in the truth that grace is not earned—it’s given. In our most vulnerable moments, God shows up with love that strengthens, heals, and carries us. We...

Welcome to Day 31 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we sit with Ezekiel 36:26-27 and reflect on how God is giving us a new heart and a new spirit. As we’ve been returning to Him, He’s been trading the places in us that are weary, guarded, and broken for hearts that are soft, responsive, and filled with His Spirit. Together, we remember that healing is not about perfection but about allo...

Dear Healing Besties, As I write this, my heart is tender and reflective and honestly this is so hard if I can be honest. Over the past two weeks, I’ve received some devastating news at the top of last week that has been tough to navigate through and towards the end of the week experienced a personal loss that has deeply impacted me and my family. In this season, I sense the Lord calling me to pau...

Welcome to Day 29 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast . Today we meditate on Romans 12:1-2 and the truth that transformation begins in the mind. God is inviting us to release old thoughts, surrender the patterns that keep us stuck, and allow His Spirit to renew how we see ourselves and the world around us. Together, we slow down to be still before the Father — not striving, not performing, but s...

Welcome to Day 28 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today’s devotional is different. Together, we press into God’s presence with prayer, worship, and declaration. This is a moment of faith, fire, and returning — a time to lay everything before God and believe that something has to shift. In this prayer-led devotion, we cry out for breakthrough, restoration, and renewed faith. We ask God to sh...

Welcome to Day 27 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we meditate on Jeremiah 17:7–8 and reflect on what it means to be planted in God’s presence. When our roots go deep in Him, we learn to trust even in the middle of uncertainty. Together, we are reminded that faith is not shaken by circumstances but strengthened through them. In this heartfelt devotional, we talk about resting at God’s...

Welcome to Day 26 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we meditate on Mark 9:14–29 and reflect on the father who cried out to Jesus, “I believe; help my unbelief.” Together, we are reminded that faith is not about perfection but about honest surrender. There are moments when believing feels hard and prayers seem unanswered, yet God still meets us there. As we walk through this devotion, we...

Welcome to Day 25 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we meditate on Hebrews 11:1 and remember that faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance in what we do not see. In this heartfelt devotional, we slow down to look back and trace the fingerprints of God through our story. Through this reflection, we learn that our faith grows when we remember His faithfulness. The same God wh...

Welcome to Day 24 of the Returning Daughter 40-Day Fast. Today we meditate on Hebrews 11:1 and reflect on what it truly means to have faith — confidence in what we hope for and assurance in what we do not see. In this devotional, Toni Simmons-Husband reminds us that faith is not about proof or perfect circumstances but about trusting God’s heart through every season. Even when life feels uncertain...