(Ep. 47) Connecting the Compassion Method™ to Your Faith (Part 3)

What if the truest thing about you — underneath every reaction, every failure, every good deed — is simply that you are, love?In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise bring their three-part faith series to a close. If your true self was created in the image of God, and God is love, then your true self is love — so why don't we act like it? This finale answers that question and, from there, turns to the harder, holier work of actually returning to who you were made to be.After recapping the trilogy — true self as the image of God, the 10 gifts as God's design delivered through earthly parents, and "there are no villains" — Laura and Brian go deeper into being versus doing. They unpack "be still and know that I am God" through the Hebrew word Rafa (to cease, to let go, to show yourself slack), and connect stillness to being okay: clear-minded, tenderhearted, and at peace. Most movingly, they reframe the Garden of Gethsemane as the true climax of the crucifixion story — Jesus modeling how to face emotional pain rather than numb it, asking his friends to simply be with him even though they didn't know how. The finale lands on something both scary and freeing: comforting your own heart is within your control. You get to do this — and you don't have to wait for anyone else to show up and do it for you.In this episode: 🔹 "You are love" — why your true self, made in God's image, is love beneath the pain 🔹 Being vs. doing: why "doing energy" runs out but "being energy" is unlimited 🔹 "Be still and know" — the Hebrew Rafa, and how stillness connects to being okay 🔹 Gethsemane reframed: Jesus facing emotional pain as the real climax of the story 🔹 The scary, freeing truth: comforting your own heart is within your control — you get to do thisThis is the last episode of the three-part faith series — start with the two previous episodes (45 and 46) for the full arc.📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868🔗 Learn more: https://triggeredandtrue.com https://lauraduncan.com