#119: Broken is What Happened to Me, Not Who I Am | Stacey
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After her parents divorced, my guest felt abandoned and badly hoped it was all a dream that she could just wake up from. Dealing with all the brokenness that followed led her down a path of feeling stuck and thinking her brokenness defined her.  Thankfully, she realized that “‘broken’ is what happened to me, not who I am.” In this episode, we touch on that and more: How just having the pain of your parents’ divorce validated is incredibly helpful and often the first step of healingThe many emotional problems she’s had to battle, including anxiety, depression, anger, self-hate, control, and lonelinessThe tendency in people like us to allow fear to hold us back and cause us to play it safe, but how healing can free us from fear Share Your Story View Restored’s Resources Shownotes
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