What if everything that broke you open was actually love doing its most important work?

In this episode Lesley goes back to one of the most disruptive seasons of her life, 18 months with no reprieve between them. Marriage, a move, an unexpected pregnancy, a health crisis, a c-section, and a month away from home holding everything alone. And she tells you what she knows now that she couldn't see then.

She also talks about what it means to watch someone you love in the middle of a disruption they didn't ask for, and the particular kind of surrender that requires.

In this episode:

· Why the hardest season of your life might be the one love is with you through the most

· Every major disruption in scripture is an invitation in disguise

· Jesus is disruptive — and that is not a crisis. That is the invitation.

· God never separates from us — we separate from Him

· The difference between believing in something and experiencing something

· Being held in the free fall — forced courage vs. chosen courage

· Why relationship is the single most protective factor against the hard things

Something to sit with:

Where has love been most disruptive in your life — and where, looking back, can you see love in the disruption, even a thread of it?

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Your body responds to rejection as if your life depends on it. Because for thousands of years it did.

In this episode Lesley unpacks why the longing to belong is not a character flaw, it is ancient wiring. Being excluded from the tribe once meant exposure. Death. Your nervous system has not forgotten this, even though the stakes have changed.

She talks about the real cost of performing for belonging, the last box she checked, the name she traded in, and the moment she finally stopped contorting herself to fit a container that was never made for her shape. And she tells you what real belonging actually looks like and where she finally found it.

In this episode:

· Why rejection still feels like survival, and why that is not weakness

· The body keeps score on loneliness the same way it keeps score on trauma

· Belonging is not a want, it is a need God wired into us

· Fitting in vs. true belonging and the cost of confusing the two

· The podcast program, the rebranded name, and the coming home

· Why belonging is what happens when the performing stops

Something to sit with:

When was the last time you performed for belonging — and what did it cost you?

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If this episode met you somewhere real, leaving a five star review helps more women find their way to this space — and that is part of the healing too.

Share this with the one woman in your life who is wandering, wondering, or quietly longing for more. She might not know she's looking for this yet. But you do. 🤍

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The Kindred Journey offers coaching, somatic practices, and educational content for personal growth and healing. Everything shared here is based on personal experience and is for informational and educational purposes only.

This is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for any medical concerns.

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EPISODE 66 | Receiving Who You Were Always Made To Be

Your false identity is not something you chose. It is something that formed around your wounds.

This episode is for every woman who has been living inside a story about herself that was never actually hers. We talk about the false identities most of us carry without realizing it, the thought loops on repeat, the limiting beliefs rooted in scarcity, and why shame is not a character flaw but a lie of the enemy.

Lesley shares the moment she received her own true identity — not in her perfectly prepared quiet time, but at a friend's kitchen table, in community. And she offers a framework for understanding why we lead with the wrong identity, how to recognize the false one, and what it actually means to receive the true one.

In this episode: · Why false identity forms around wounds, not choices · The thought loops that keep us living small and why they are lies · Wrong belief about God → wrong belief about self → wrong behavior · Why true identity is received, not achieved · The moment Lesley heard her own true identity· What it means to stop earning and start receiving

Something to sit with: When someone asks who you are, what do you reach for first? That answer is information. Not judgment. Just a starting place on the way back to the truest thing about you.

Resources mentioned: Living Fearless — Jamie Winship

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