And Now For Something Completely Different

This is something new: Faith Integrates Pt 2... and this time we gon' get funky

A year ago today I jetted off to the other side of the world on a dream adventure, and today I'm sharing my new adventure with you! 

I'm not going anywhere, surprise! However, I am hanging out my shingle, and boy is this a twisty-turn I didn't, or couldn't (or wouldn't) see coming. Here's the tea:

What: Faith Integrates has morphed from being a tool to just help me on my own road to wholeness, and is now also a resource ready to directly support you in becoming more of who you are, and less of who you aren't! True story, the journey of self-discovery and growth can be really, really hard, and sometimes we need a companion who knows the terrain and isn't afraid of the monsters, someone who can cheer us on because they see what’s possible, and also how far we've come. My goal is to assist you in: 

• relieving chronic pain and other physical issues

• identifying and releasing any old stories of shame and fear

• resolving generational and religious trauma

• growing into greater alignment with the truth of who you are created to be (loved, valued, joyful, empowered)

Where: Browse my website and services here: https://integratewithfaith.squarespace.com

When: I take appointments Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

How: All appointments will be over the phone or zoom.

Why: This is the next step for me in doing what God created me to do, and I am so excited! Here's a bit of back story, and I mean waaaay back:

If we were to take a trip back in time to meet little Faith, you would see plenty of interests she had that are just as apparent now as they were then. Some of these include:

- shoe shopping
- deep conversations
- NOT doing math
- absurd humor
- reading
- singing
- arguing about ideas
- organizing things and imagining/creating better systems
- being engrossed in understanding who and how God is 
- observing the behaviors of the people around her
- noticing patterns in relationships and situations and explaining them, as well
as their likely outcomes
- constantly wanting to figure out what it takes for people to exist in healthy, loving relationships with those around them*

Over my whole life these things have remained constant, but after I got married and became a parent, my interest in understanding God and relationships became more of an obsession. Knowing what God says about us and how that Truth affects our lives – and on the flip side knowing what causes trauma in us and how THAT affects our lives – has been my hyper-fixation lo these many years. I have read and studied, and attended classes and seminars. I've been confronted with my own demons and habits of self-betrayal. I've had to learn how to feel, and to take responsibility for my actions and the future they were projected to create. I've had to make micro and macro shifts in my beliefs and behaviors. I've come face-to-face with the overwhelming darkness in myself, and the infinitely superior, infinitely more powerful light of love in which God holds me, the unthwartable (it's a word now) objective of which is not only my own restoration, but also the restoration of all of his most favorite creation (that's peoples), by every means necessary. Pursuing these things hasn't been easy, but it's been liberating and transformative and so, so satisfying.

All of this has culminated in a two-fold passion: to grow into the fullness of my self as God sees me – complete, and completely loved and valued, powerful, peaceful, and lacking nothing – and to invite others into the same thing, and support them in their journey toward it. Despite the difficulty, it is absolutely worth it because we are worth it. You are worth it.

The valleys are real, but the mountaintops are waiting. 
So, do you want to go adventuring with me?

"...not that I've already made it, or have already attained perfection, but I persevere in this adventure so that I might catch the one who has captivated me. Listen fam, I'm still in the process of owning this life and truth, but one thing I'm practicing: healing and integrating what lies behind and eagerly working to reach what's ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God: my wholeness in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:12-14, if they'd been written by Faith instead of Paul.

*However for the record I was not nice to my little sister pretty much until we were teenagers. It's amazing how opposing interests and actions can co-exist. But we've worked it out, and our friendship is one of the best things God's ever given me. Muchos credit to her for my new logo, and helping me make my business website beautiful and functional! Thanks, Patience!