In this solo episode, Marissa explores the tension between receiving correction, hearing other people's perspectives, and staying true to who God created you to be. How do you know when criticism is meant to refine you versus when it's pressuring you to perform for others? How do you hear perspectives from people whose lifestyles, beliefs, and choices differ from your own without becoming judgmental or compromising your convictions?

Marissa unpacks the often-misunderstood phrase "Judge not," discussing what the Bible actually teaches about discernment, self-examination, correction, and love. She reflects on her own journey with people-pleasing, identity, and learning how to listen openly while remaining rooted in truth.

In this episode we open the world of the past and the wrestle that is requires to confront of versions of ourselves that hinders where we're going. This episode is a raw conversation about masking, identity loss, emotional numbness and reclaiming the parts of ourselves we hide.

Before revisiting old relationships I'm taking the time to sit down with the parts of myself that I abandoned and love the process of becoming whole.

This episode The hood that raised me, is an honest, reflective, look at how the environment I grew up in shaped the way I see people, conflict, loyalty, and connection. In this episode we explore and unpack the unspoke rules of survival normalized in our neighborhoods. The toughness, the detachments, the revolving- door friendships and hos vulnerability was never modeled, only avoided. This episode is a perspective–shifting conversation about unlearning what survival taught, healing what childhood normalized, and redefining what true friendship and vulnerability looks like.

Hood Morning! Today's message we are discussing the tension between wanting to grow and what growth actually feels like. Buckle up. Tap in we in diving in heavy and taking the stigmas off of the messiness of growth!!!!