Self Sabotage: From Ruin to Redemption - Hide Grief and Stay Busy // Pastor Jon Larson

If your goal is to stay isolated, overwhelmed and spiritually stuck, start here: Hide Your Struggles – Pretend You’re Fine and Never Confess or Seek Help. Wear a mask. Keep everything polished on the outside while your heart quality breaks on the inside. Avoid vulnerability at all costs. Let pride or guilt keep you quiet. Tell yourself you don’t need help and believe the lie that admitting weakness is failure. Keep your prayers polished, distant and superficial. Build walls around your heart by refusing to be real with God and assume that He only wants the cleaned-up version of you. Let the fear of judgement, rejection and what others may think keep you from being honest. Hide behind smiles and surface-level conversations answering, “I’m fine” while silently falling apart. When life gets hard, withdraw, isolate yourself, avoid community, stop showing up and keep people at a distance. Tell yourself no one would understand and that you don’t need help. Stay busy enough that you don’t have to deal with what’s really going on. Hiding may feel safer for a moment, but it only deepens the hurt and postpones healing.