139 | The Body-Spirit Connection: When You’re in Survival Mode During Affair Recovery
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This episode discusses the spirit-body mismatch experienced during affair recovery and the importance of body-based healing.
🌊 Curious about the Encounter Retreat? Email me RETREAT and let’s chat! (PS- You get 6 months in the Rooted Community for free! 🤭) You prayed about it. You made the decision. You posted Scripture every day for 90 days. And then your phone buzzed. And you answered. If you've ever watched yourself do something you hated (in slow motion, knowing better, unable to stop) this episode is for you. Not because something is wrong with you. Because your body was in survival mode. And your body needed help that willpower could not provide. Today I'm talking about the spirit-body mismatch that so many women in affair recovery experience and why faith alone doesn't calm the nervous system, why God works through the body not around it, and what body-based healing actually looks like in real life. We explore: Romans 7:18-19 and what Paul's experience of doing what he didn't want to do tells us about the nervous system Why willpower fails under stress, and the neuroscience that explains what was actually happening when you kept going back The Incarnation: God sent a body because He heals through the body 1 Corinthians 6, why sexual sin is specifically a bodily matter, and why that makes your…
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