10 Lessons I Didn’t Ask For: Healing, Boundaries, and Choosing Freedom After a Hard Year

As 2025 comes to a close, I’m sharing 10 lessons I didn’t ask for — but survived, and what I’m intentionally carrying with me into 2026.

This episode is a raw, faith-filled reflection on a year marked by domestic violence recovery, divorce, sick children, hospital nights, grief, and the difficult decision to go no contact with family. It’s about survival, healing that isn’t linear, and learning that boundaries can cost relationships — but save your sanity.

We talk about what it means to choose peace over proximity, how trauma lives in the body, why grief doesn’t follow a timeline, and how motherhood can heal places therapy never reaches. I share scripture-anchored truths about strength, obedience, rest, and learning to let God define the pace of healing.

This episode is for anyone entering the new year feeling tired, broken, unsure, or quietly hopeful. If 2025 stretched you, humbled you, or forced you to lay things down you never planned to release — you are not behind. You are still here.

Freedom doesn’t come all at once.

It comes through small, brave choices — choosing rest, choosing truth, choosing yourself again.

As we step into 2026, I’m choosing intention over urgency, honesty over perfection, and faith over fear — even when hope is still a little fragile.

🎧 If you’re craving healing instead of hustle this year, you’re not alone.