What if the biggest obstacle standing between you and healing isn’t your past? What if it’s the thoughts you’ve been believing about yourself ever since?
Many Christian women who have experienced abortion, a near abortion, or another painful life event genuinely love Jesus. They’ve asked for forgiveness. They’ve returned to church. They’ve tried to move forward. Yet years later, they still find themselves battling shame, guilt, fear, self-condemnation, and a nagging feeling that they are somehow less worthy than everyone around them.
The problem is often not a lack of faith. It’s an agreement with a lie.
Sometimes those lies sound like:
“God forgives other people, but not someone like me.”
“My past has disqualified me.”
“If people knew the truth about me, they would see me differently.”
“I’ll always carry this shame.”
The longer those thoughts replay in our minds, the more they begin to sound like truth.
In this week’s episode of The Worthy Womb Podcast, we’re talking about fasting, but not the type that you may be thinking. We are not discussing fasting from food; we are tackling fasting from negative thoughts. Fasting from self-condemnation. Fasting from the lies that keep us trapped in cycles of striving, hiding, and fear.
Together, we’ll look at two powerful biblical examples and discover why the thoughts we repeatedly agree with often shape the direction of our lives more than we realize.
Most importantly, we’ll discuss how God’s Word gives us a practical path to renew our minds and walk in the freedom Jesus already purchased for us. If you’ve ever struggled to receive God’s love, forgive yourself, or believe that He can still use your life after your past, this episode was recorded with you in mind.
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The Worthy Womb Podcast exists to help women affected by shame, guilt, abortion trauma, and identity wounds exchange religion for relationship and rediscover who they are in Christ.
In this episode, we are taking a closer look at what happens when negative thoughts become louder than what God has already spoken.
We’ll look at Elijah after his victory on Mount Carmel and how one threatening message sent him into fear, hiding, and isolation. We’ll also look at the twelve spies and how the way they saw themselves shaped the way they saw the promise in front of them.
This conversation takes us deeper into my signature WOMB Protocol™, specifically the “O,” which stands for Overcoming the Lie. In previous episodes, we focused on the “W,” Witnessing the Lie, because before we can overcome a lie, we first have to recognize it. If you missed those earlier episodes, you can go back and listen here:
If you have ever felt stuck in shame, fear, guilt, or self-condemnation, this episode will help you begin recognizing the thoughts you have been agreeing with and invite you to start replacing them with the truth of what God says about you.
Some of us know how to fast from food, but we have never learned how to stop feeding the lies. We keep feeding the shame. We keep feeding the fear. We keep feeding the thought that says, “My past has disqualified me.” And the longer that lie plays on repeat, the more it begins to sound like truth.
That is why this episode matters so much.
Your past may explain part of your story, but it does not get to define your identity.
In this episode, we are going to talk about what it looks like to stop partnering with the voice of shame and start agreeing with the voice of your Father. We are going to look at how fear can pull you into hiding, how negative thoughts can shape the way you see yourself, and how God’s truth can begin tearing down what shame has been building in your mind for years.
Remember…
You are not what shame says.
You are not what fear says.
You are not what your past says.
You are who God says you are.
If, after listening, you realize this is something you do not want to keep walking through alone, I would love to link arms with you. I offer a free discovery call where we can talk about where you are, where you feel stuck, and whether one-on-one coaching would be a good fit for you.
Friend, you do not have to keep letting shame preach sermons in your mind. You do not have to keep rehearsing the worst parts of your story like they have the final word. They don’t, Jesus does. If this episode stirred something in you, do not shove it back down and keep marching like you’re fine. Bring it into the light. Let the Lord put His truth where shame has been sitting for far too long.
You are not too far gone.
You are not disqualified.
You are not beyond healing.
You are still His.
And there is still a seat for you on this porch swing.
