The mindsets and emotions following trauma can be crippling. Fear, shame, feeling not valuable ... and so much more. Over the past year, we have been made painfully aware of rampant sexual assault in the entertainment industry and in politics. Women...

Shame will keep you hidden. The devil does not play fair. He uses things that were said to us—demeaning comments or outright verbal abuse AND he uses experiences that have happened to us—emotional abuse, mental abuses, sexual abuse—all types of...

How do you encourage yourself? I ask a group of young women. Without taking a beat, one answered: I don't! Most people don't. We don't even know HOW! Or think about HOW. Much less what it will accomplish if we do. Strethening ourselves inwardly is an...

What we declare with our mouths makes all the difference. How we posture ourselves in our hearts makes all the difference. Just like the reaction of Joshua and Caleb when they spied out Canaan, you do not have to say what you see. Regardless of what...

We have broken places in our hearts. All of us. You know where they come from: betrayal, rejection, abandon, physical-mental-emotion abuse, words spoken over us that shatter. Many of us tear down ourselves with demeaning words. Then, we make the...

Even with hurdles, roadblocks, detours, and delays! We think delays are a setback. On the contrary, this is a time of lessons—especially in times of transitions. Lessons get you there. Yet often, transitions feel like delays. Right now, many of you...

As a nation, we are experiencing loss. Unexpected, tragic, painful loss. I am talking about school shootings, workplace terrorism, tragedy that strikes from out of the blue. In our lives we experience financial loss, the loss of loved ones, loss of...

You are being transformed from one form into another form. It's called metamorphosis. Like an earthbound, lowly caterpillar being transformed into a beautiful, soaring butterfly.—you are being changed from glory to glory. It is NOT behavior...

Everything we say and do is influenced by how we see ourselves. That's identity—how we see ourselves. Linda Breitman describes how we can see ourselves according to the standards of the world or align ourselves with how God sees us. But how do we do...

How do we dismantle every thought? Pull down strongholds in our minds? We have the mind of Christ, but how do we let this new mind rule and not the influence of our old ways?