Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
✨ WATCH THIS if you’re a divorced Christian woman trying to rebuild your identity, shut down your inner critic, and finally trust yourself again.
Let’s be honest: if your self-worth has been chewed up by toxic theology, people-pleasing, or emotionally abusive relationships, you’re not alone. In this episode, I’m joined by three powerhouse women, Barb, Diana, and Lisa, and we’re diving deep into:
✅ Why self-love is not selfish (even if your church made you think it was)
✅ How to shut down that nasty inner bully with compassion, not shame
✅ What IFS (Internal Family Systems) is and how it can totally transform your healing journey
✅ The tiny ways you can start trusting yourself again, even if you're scared or stuck
✅ What real spiritual healing looks like (spoiler: no more suffering for gold stars in heaven)
Whether you’ve been divorced for 8 days or 8 years, this episode will help you come home to the most important relationship of your life: the one you have with YOU. 💗
📚Feel like a hot mess after divorce? My 5-Day Workshop (flyingfreenow.com/five-day-workshop/) will teach you a mind-shift tool to help you learn a powerful way to manage your thoughts and emotions in order to navigate adult decisions with clarity and peace.
Related Resources:
👹 Listen to my book, All the Scary Little Gods, for FREE (community.flyingfreesisterhood.com/Get-Audiobook)
🚀 Flying Higher (https://joinflyinghigher.com) is my private mentorship program for Christian women pursuing increased confidence, emotional management, relational health and empowered self-development.
🎧 Check out Diana’s website and listen to The Renew Your Mind Podcast (dianaswillinger.com/renew-your-mind-podcast/)
⭐ Connect with Barb on her website, Integrative Coaching for Life (integrativecoachingforlife.com/)
📒 Read the full show notes at flyingfreenow.com/dcw211
#ChristianDivorce #SelfLoveIsNotSelfish #IFS #FlyingHigher #ReligiousTraumaRecovery #WomenHealing #NatalieHoffman #EmotionalAbuseRecovery #ChristianWomenHealing
✨ WATCH THIS if you’re a divorced Christian woman trying to rebuild your identity, shut down your inner critic, and finally trust yourself again.
Let’s be honest: if your self-worth has been chewed up by toxic theology, people-pleasing, or emotionally abusive relationships, you’re not alone. In this episode, I’m joined by three powerhouse women, Barb, Diana, and Lisa, and we’re diving deep into:
✅ Why self-love is not selfish (even if your church made you think it was)
✅ How to shut down that nasty inner bully with compassion, not shame
✅ What IFS (Internal Family Systems) is and how it can totally transform your healing journey
✅ The tiny ways you can start trusting yourself again, even if you're scared or stuck
✅ What real spiritual healing looks like (spoiler: no more suffering for gold stars in heaven)
Whether you’ve been divorced for 8 days or 8 years, this episode will help you come home to the most important relationship of your life: the one you have with YOU. 💗
📚Feel like a hot mess after divorce? My 5-Day Workshop (flyingfreenow.com/five-day-workshop/) will teach you a mind-shift tool to help you learn a powerful way to manage your thoughts and emotions in order to navigate adult decisions with clarity and peace.
Related Resources:
👹 Listen to my book, All the Scary Little Gods, for FREE (community.flyingfreesisterhood.com/Get-Audiobook)
🚀 Flying Higher (https://joinflyinghigher.com) is my private mentorship program for Christian women pursuing increased confidence, emotional management, relational health and empowered self-development.
🎧 Check out Diana’s website and listen to The Renew Your Mind Podcast (dianaswillinger.com/renew-your-mind-podcast/)
⭐ Connect with Barb on her website, Integrative Coaching for Life (integrativecoachingforlife.com/)
📒 Read the full show notes at flyingfreenow.com/dcw211
#ChristianDivorce #SelfLoveIsNotSelfish #IFS #FlyingHigher #ReligiousTraumaRecovery #WomenHealing #NatalieHoffman #EmotionalAbuseRecovery #ChristianWomenHealing
![Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Abuse in a Christian Home - Emotional Abuse 101 | Part 8 [363]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l8BPcmOfo7Y/mqdefault.jpg "Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Abuse in a Christian Home - Emotional Abuse 101 | Part 8 [363]
How do you actually break free from emotional and spiritual abuse in your Christian home?
Most Christian women stay stuck because nobody tells them the truth: breaking free requires three specific stages.
In this episode, youll find out why you keep falling for the honeymoon phase trap, what you need to do first before anything else, and why writing everything down literally saves your sanity. This isnt feel-good advice. This is the actual path thousands of women have walked to get out and stay out.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Stage One is safety. Learn what that looks like.
- The abuse cycle speeds up over time: Tension builds, he explodes, then comes the honeymoon where hes suddenly the man you married. Research shows this cycle gets faster and more violent the longer you stay.
- Write everything down: Keep a detailed abuse log with dates, quotes, and screenshots. This counters his gaslighting and becomes essential evidence down the road.
- Youre in the cycle too: When you feel hopeful after his apology, youre caught in the honeymoon trap. Recognizing why you go back to the “hope drug” will be key to your ultimate freedom.
- Real freedom is peace without dread: Its waking up without calculating how hell react to your existence. Its making choices without permission. Its living as yourself instead of his idea of who you should be
🎙️ Watch the rest of this Emotional Abuse 101 series (as it comes out) here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBdUxnQhFcrRs8AQvGns4fzSm8x6yuluR
Get Today’s Free Resource:
🎁 I want to give you a free gift. It’s the audio version of my book, All the Scary Little Gods. It’s my own story of getting out after over two decades. You can listen to it FREE by going to scarylittlegods.com
I will also send you my weekly Hope Letters for Christian women in emotionally and spiritually abusive marriages.")
