From Striving to Rooted: Amy Romfo on Inner Healing, Identity, and Hearing God in Dreams

In today's episode of Love Letter Faith, Chapple sits down with Amy Romfo—Charleston-based home and lifestyle creator behind The Coastal Oak and co-host of the Under the Oaks Podcast—for a deeply honest conversation about identity, inner healing, and the hidden cost of performance culture. What began as a creative outlet—DIY projects, furniture flips, and documenting a home renovation—quickly grew into a platform. But along the way, striving, comparison, and the pressure to perform began to take root. In this episode, Amy opens up about how those pressures resurfaced deeper wounds, including past trauma and a struggle with an eating disorder—and how an unexpected invitation to a church retreat became a turning point. At a retreat at Church Creek, Amy encountered the Holy Spirit in a way that changed everything. She began learning to recognize God's voice, through scripture, prayer and dreams, and stepped into a season of heart healing. During a time of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting, a vivid dream brought buried pain to the surface—memories of bulimia, shame, and self-hatred—leading Amy to pursue intensive therapy in Colorado. Through heart prayer and EMDR, she revisited a moment of deep despair from her past… but this time, she didn't face it alone. She shares a powerful picture of Jesus meeting her in that memory—lifting her up and speaking truth over her life: You are clean. You are chosen. You are free. You are My masterpiece. Anchored in the truth of Ephesians 2:10, Amy began to replace lies with Scripture and rebuild her identity—not in what she produces, but in who God says she is. This episode is a reminder that healing is possible, that God meets us in our deepest wounds, and that we were never meant to live for performance—but from a place of being deeply known and loved. Follow Chapple here: https://www.instagram.com/chapplechandler/ Follow Love Letter Faith here: https://www.instagram.com/loveletterfaith/ Follow Amy here: https://www.instagram.com/thecoastaloak/  Follow Under the Oaks here: https://www.instagram.com/undertheoakspodcast/