The world has been shaping what you believe about yourself since birth - through media, culture, and social media. You've absorbed lies about your body, your worth, your value, and your purpose. Day 10 helps you separate God's truth from the world's lies so you can stop living according to messages that were never true in the first place.

WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT:

• How cultural lies are so normalized you don't even question them
• 7 major cultural lies women over 40 believe (appearance, success, having it all, body shame, more is better, independence, others' opinions)
• Which cultural messages you've believed about your body, success, worth, and purpose
• How to identify lies you've been living by without realizing it
• God's truth vs cultural lies: Scripture that counters each one
• How to replace one cultural lie with biblical truth this week
• Why renewing your mind is the path to freedom

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

• You hate your aging body and believe your worth is decreasing
• You measure your value by productivity and accomplishments
• You feel like you're failing because you can't "do it all"
• You're exhausted from performing, comparing, and keeping up appearances
• You're ready to stop conforming to the world's pattern and live by God's truth

KEY SCRIPTURES:Romans 12:2, 1 Samuel 16:7, Ephesians 2:8-9, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

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The pattern you can't break today might have roots in a wound you received decades ago. The anger, people-pleasing, shame, or control issues aren't random - they're connected to messages you absorbed as a child. Day 9 helps you compassionately examine early wounds that are still shaping your present so you can finally heal them.

WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT:

• Why childhood wounds still affect you even if you had "good parents"
• Messages you absorbed from parents, siblings, peers, teachers, and church
• The difference between explicit and implicit messages about your worth
• What that younger version of you needed to hear but didn't
• How to write a healing letter to your childhood self
• Connecting the dots: How early wounds create current struggles (people-pleasing, perfectionism, control, shame, emotional eating, codependency)
• Reparenting the wounded part of yourself with truth

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

• You're stuck in patterns that don't make logical sense
• You suspect your struggles have roots in childhood but don't know how to address them
• You minimize your childhood pain because "others had it worse"
• You're exhausted from people-pleasing, perfectionism, or trying to earn love
• You're ready to give that younger version of you what she needed

KEY SCRIPTURES:Psalm 147:3

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You've been treating symptoms. The anxiety, the anger, the weight, the comparison. But until you're willing to ask "where did this come from?" you'll keep cycling through the same struggles. Day 8 starts Week 2: Understanding. We're moving from "what's wrong" to "why is this happening?" and asking God to reveal the root beneath the symptom.

WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT:

• Why managing symptoms keeps you stuck in an endless cycle
• How to look at your burden list differently (asking about root causes, not just behaviors)
• Why weight struggles have different roots for different people (food vs. chronic stress vs. safety)
• What questions to ask God about where your struggle really started
• Examples: people-pleasing, control, shame, anger, comparison, anxiety
• Whether you're willing to let God reveal something painful if it leads to healing
• What might come up when God starts showing you the roots (and why it's worth it)

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

• You've tried every strategy to manage your struggles but they keep coming back
• You're tired of treating symptoms and ready to address the source
• You suspect there's something deeper but can't see it on your own
• You're ready to ask God the hard questions about where this started
• You're willing to see something painful if it leads to actual healing

KEY SCRIPTURES:

James 1:5, Psalm 139:23-24

JOIN THE FREE 21-DAY FAITH JOURNEY:The Unshakeable: 21-Day Faith Journey is completely free and designed to help you build unshakeable faith in an unstable world.

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This is for the woman who's tired of the hamster wheel and ready for lasting transformation.

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