From Survival to Legacy: A Single Mother's Journey of Faith, Healing, and Hope

In this powerful and deeply moving episode of Mother's Corner on Radio Cape Pulpit, host Barbara Jaftha welcomes back Gloria Veal a devoted mother, community activist, business leader, and minister who shares her extraordinary journey from survival to legacy. Gloria opens up about her painful past, marked by trauma, injustice, and brokenness, and how she chose not to become bitter but better. She reflects on her childhood, being compared to her older sister, feeling like an outsider, and wrestling with low self-esteem and a poor self-image. The conversation takes a profound turn as Gloria discusses the importance of healing and spiritual restoration for single mothers. She emphasizes that brokenness often leads to poor, emotional decisions that can cause deep damage to our children. Gloria challenges mothers to seek healing, to forgive, and to surrender their wounds to God so they can become doorways of opportunity rather than doormats. She also shares how finding her identity in Christ crying out "Abba Father" in church transformed her life and gave her a place of belonging. Anchored in the theme of From Survival to Legacy, this episode encourages single mothers to understand that God makes no junk, that He is available to heal and restore, and that He can redeem even the most painful memories. Gloria also introduces her new healing and deliverance platform, Parakritus, launched to bring inner spiritual healing to the broken, the lost, and the unchurched on the Cape Flats.