Episode 213 Drop the Armor with Christine Jewell (Part 1)

John talks with Christine Jewell — author of Drop the Armor: Release the Past, Ignite Your Faith, and Unlock an Extraordinary Life, host of the Breaking Chains Podcast, certified executive coach, holistic health coach, entrepreneur, speaker, wife, and mom. Listen to this episode to learn more:  [00:00] - Intro and Christine's bio [01:37] - Christine's backstory [03:23] - Past incidents that impacted Christine's view on love and relationships [12:21] - Christine's journey of healing and learning to trust again [15:41] - The car engine analogy for inner healing and personal growth [17:00] - Surrendering to the process of forgiveness and personal growth [18:46] - The hardest part of Christine's forgiveness journey [20:56] - Learning to be gentle and kind to yourself [22:05] - What is soul in science? [25:33] - Pain is a warning sign not to be feared or ignored [27:25] - Understanding neuroscience for relationships and well-being [29:45] - Feeling like a machine due to repetition [30:51] - The need for pattern interruption in relationships and creativity [36:12] - A typical date night for Christine and her husband NOTABLE QUOTES: "If we don't slow down and heal the wounds of our past and the brokenness of our heartaches and do that in our journey, we're just going to keep repeating it in a different outfit." "I'm no longer operating from this old identity. I'm stepping into the new skin." "Our words can build a man up and establish his kingdom with him, or they can just cut the feet right out from his vision." "We need each other. We were created for relationships with each other." "I do not believe that we were put on this earth to be in struggle, strife, and pressure cookers. We still get to experience pain between workflows, but we're designed to operate in a state of flow." "Nobody wants to be in pain. But the reality of it is that pain is actually designed to wake us up. Something wrong is happening. And this is your warning: fix it." "The brain is looking for things more complicated, or to make things more complicated, but the body is just the opposite. The body wants the path of least resistance." "We just repeat. We remember our bodies repeating what it remembers. And so you need to give it new memories every single day if we want something to shift." "A lot of our suffering that's really unnecessary is from repeating the familiar." "Are we renewing every single day? Or are we just repeating what's familiar?" PODCAST MENTIONED: 5 Conversations to Unify Your Marriage! with Mark Jewell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FAfzyMD6_4)  USEFUL RESOURCES: https://www.thechristinejewell.com https://www.instagram.com/thechristinejewell https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-jewell-9361612a/ https://www.facebook.com/thechristinejewell https://www.youtube.com/@christinejewell Breaking Chains Podcast (https://pod.link/1579338652) Drop the Armor: Release the Past, Ignite Your Faith, and Unlock an Extraordinary Life (https://a.co/d/2fbPUwg) CONNECT WITH JOHN Website - https://thejohnhulen.com     Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/johnhulen     Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/johnhulen     Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/johnhulen     LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhulen     YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLX_NchE8lisC4NL2GciIWA     EPISODE CREDITS Intro and Outro music provided by Jeff Scheetz - https://jeffscheetz.com/