Chapter 2: From Betrayal to Peace - Part I

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Betrayal cuts deep - it shakes our trust, our identity and sometimes our faith. In this episode with our first guest of the season, Shayona Funches, she shares her story about being betrayed by someone close and how that moment led her into deeper spiritual intimacy and delving deeper into learning about spiritual gifts. This is a story about leaning into God, not away from Him, when everything feels broken. If you ever questioned where God was in your pain, this one is for you.

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STORYTELLHER Deborah Kevin As a child, I was abandoned by my mother. This left an indelible mark on my worthiness: if my own mother didn’t want me, what could I be worth? I lived with this subconscious belief clouding my life’s experiences for decades.Not that you would have known any of this if you’d met me back then. I hustled, doing great work behind the scenes, and made my bosses and colleagues look wonderful—as long as they didn’t notice me, I was happy. Or at least happy enough.It was in this energy and with these beliefs that I attracted a husband who abused me. One day, I found myself behind three locked doors and on the telephone with 911 as my then-husband crashed around downstairs, tossing furniture and throwing crockery. How had I gotten to this point? I didn’t know, but I vowed at that moment to escape—and finally dug into the trauma that had brought me to that low point.As I wrote and spoke about my trauma, something incredible happened: extreme healing. Leaning into the worst moments of my li

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This episode was published on May 3, 2025.

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Betrayal cuts deep - it shakes our trust, our identity and sometimes our faith. In this episode with our first guest of the season, Shayona Funches, she shares her story about being betrayed by someone close and how that moment led her into deeper...

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