Ever leave a therapy session feeling completely exhausted, emotionally exposed, or wondering, “Is this even working?” 🛋️💔
You entered this journey looking for an immediate exhale, but instead, it feels like the volume on your emotions just got turned up.
Here is the truth: Feeling worse does not mean you are failing. It means the deep work is beginning.
True healing doesn’t unfold at the speed of light—it unfolds at the speed of safety. It is a layered, non-linear journey of cleaning out old wounds so they can finally heal cleanly from the inside out. In this powerful episode, we peel back the curtain on the invisible signs of emotional growth and dismantle the biggest myths about mental health, faith, and progress.
What We’re Breaking Down in This Episode:
- The “Feeling Worse” Paradox: Why hitting emotional resistance and uncovering hidden patterns (like using distractions to escape feelings of inadequacy) is actually a sign of profound momentum.
- Faith & Therapy: How to navigate the spiritual tension of vulnerability and embrace the truth that seeking support doesn’t mean your faith is weak—it clarifies it.
- The Myth of the Finish Line: Why healing isn’t a race to a perfect destination, but a sustainable practice of becoming more honest and compassionate with yourself.
- Between-Session Care: Practical grounding exercises to soothe your nervous system when the emotional heavy-lifting follows you home.
Progress isn’t always loud. Sometimes, it’s just a quiet pause before you react, a boundary you finally set, or the grace you give yourself to rest.
Are you ready to stop rushing your process and trust your pace?
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author or the edition of the magazine that I read. The article was talking about how as believers we tend to have unrealistic expectations of what our emotions should be in determined situations. I think the saddest part about it, is that we permeate this culture of unrealistic expectations when we attempt to provide support to someone in distress.
overwhelmed. I kept praying God’s peace. I surrounded myself with my accountability support people. I finally came to the conclusion that this was the test becoming a testimony. The testimony is that every single thing that looked impossible on Monday was resolved without my intervention and in ways that only God could have shown himself. The fact that I cried and was frustrated doesn’t mean that I didn’t know that God had it in his hand and was going to deal with it. I didn’t’ doubt it for a minute. I just had a bulk of emotions; I recognized them as such and treated them as such.
Have you ever heard that we are affected by things, people and places? The results can be both negative and positive and sometimes without our conscious acknowledgement. We live our life day by day and our life gets transformed for good or bad and it’s not until we make a pause that we realize how far we’ve gone; either towards our purpose or away from it.
until one day someone who I was in a relationship with and I were having a phone conversation. It was more an argument. He got quiet and said. “I bet your hair is up” and when I touched my hair, he was right. This same individual had a fist fight with his brother. I was called by a neighbor who couldn’t pulled them apart. I asked to be placed on the phone with my boyfriend and announced that I was on my way. When I made it to his place the guys were in separate rooms, I talked to “my guy” and started asking questions about the fight, he kept staring at me in silence. Finally he said,” I’m not talking to you until your hair comes down” I started laughing and pulled the clip off. This was over five years ago.
It is terrible that as a people we have to be watchful even with those who we have been conditioned to trust, namely men and women who claim to come in the name of God. Sex scandals have not been exclusive to the Catholic Church, many preachers and pastors have fallen short of the grace and those things have become public. It is always disappointing. I think part of the disappointment comes from forgetting these individuals are merely men and women. We have the tendency to elevate their position because of the part they play in our communities, social settings and the body of Christ. The reality is that yes, their responsibility is to lead and teach us about the Lord, but their humanity doesn’t leave with their calling. Actually, as Christians we need to pray harder for our leaders because their attacks and strongholds are often as large as their calling.
know that this is a requirement of the commitment they have made. If sex was the driving force then priests having relations with Nuns or other secular adults would be just as, if not more, prevalent. The truth is pedophilia, rape, and sexual abuse is not sexually driven. They are driven by a deeper disturbance; it’s about control and power more than the sex itself.
Naty Matos 