Who I Choose to be, is the New Me!
March 10, 2022
Hosted by Dr. Veirdre Jackson
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Rick Warren has a quote, “We are the product of our past but we don’t have to be a prisoner to it.” Regardless of what has happened to us we don’t have to be shackled to it and allow it to define us. But let’s be honest life can be overwhelming; and even when we are confident and competent in our abilities and skills to achieve success with joy and gratitude, we can still attest to the reality that sometimes, life still gets hard. And if we don’t stay alert to what we believe to be true, we can become chained to lies, tricks, and skeems designed to distort our value and worth in the middle of our story- sabotaging the potential for our ending. Letting go of our chains (thoughts/hurts/ lies/ narratives) is essential to becoming everything God has called us to be. Sometimes, letting go is difficult because we don’t physically see the chains, so we deny them or ignore them because they are too difficult to acknowledge or confront. In the title for our show Zohnette Sligh shares an expression “who I choose to be”...choice denotes that there are alternatives for our paths. Join us for a conversation of how creativity, adventure and vulnerability can unlock chains and open doorways to purpose and true identity.
Living Strong: The Flip Side of Adversity
Thursday at 2 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel
Resilience isn’t about bouncing back, but bouncing forward. Living Strong: The Flip Side of Adversity brings powerful stories and fearless conversations from experts in the field of business, relationships, emotional, physical and mental health, and faith-based communities together to give practical insight on how there is always a flip side to every story. Each episode creates a brave space that combines proven lessons from neuroscience, powerful tools from authentic connection, key principles from life lessons, and practical promises from faith-based insights. Trauma, toxic stress, broken habits and hurting hearts don’t define destiny, but peace isn’t passive. It requires an exchange. To create a flip and access peace in the middle of the pieces, you are challenged to make an exchange of the lies that have kept you mentally hostage in basement moments for a Steps of Growth framework, which cultivates a shift toward growth planning and forward movement.
Dr. Veirdre Jackson
Dr. Veirdre Jackson is a woman pursuing her purpose and passion, to share her belief that she has survived her pain to be love and light for others on their journey to walk out their promise and live abundantly. As an author, speaker, veteran educator, trauma trainer, business consultant and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience, she has connected with thousands of men and women from around the country, cultivated leaders, forged community- based initiatives, built ministry teams and implemented relationship-based programs that deeply impact communities, organizations and individuals from the inside out. Her gift for turning complex concepts into practical approaches for healing shows up in her first book, 16 Principles for Abundant Living, which is a foundational guide for women’s empowerment. In her book and video series, Fearless Conversations with a Limitless God, women and men tackle breaking the cycle of toxic thoughts that keep individuals in hiding places.
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