Spiritual Health & Recovery ~ Jolene Underwood

Patterns of Spiritual Manipulation & Coercive Control – Daystar Audio Reflections

Mar 27, 2025 | Spiritual Health & Recovery | 0 comments

Discussing Patterns of Spiritual Manipulation & Coercive Control Introduction to Audio Reflection Series Jonathan & Suzy Lamb Meeting with Joni Lamb & Jimmy Evans - Part 1 Jonathan & Suzy Lamb Meeting with Joni Lamb & Jimmy Evans - Part 2 Jonathan Gets Fired When He...

When Forgiveness is the Last Thing You Want to Do

May 28, 2019 | Spiritual Health & Recovery | 7 comments

When you’re wounded, forgiveness is one of the last things you’re excited about doing. You might want to heal your wounded heart, but forgive? Instead, anger surfaces. Indignation appears. Outrage over what’s happened takes center stage. Or, you hide...

When Life Takes You Down, Find A New Way To Live

May 21, 2019 | Spiritual Health & Recovery | 5 comments

When I crashed, I crashed hard. I could barely get out of bed anymore. I thought I needed rest for a day or two to make up for all the activity of fostering multiple children in a unique set up in the country. Those days turned into weeks. Tears lived on the edge of...

How Shame and Humility Get Tangled Up and How to Untie the Knot

May 7, 2019 | Spiritual Health & Recovery | 6 comments

I have the privilege of being tested by my own words. The things I’m compelled to teach about are often the result of past experiences. Even so, God allows me to be tested in the same areas again. I’m faced with these questions often. Do I mean what I say?...

Emotional Healing to Unleash Your Soul {Plus a Podcast}

Dec 1, 2018 | Spiritual Health & Recovery | 9 comments

There have been more days than I can count where I lay in bed struggling to get up again. Heavy sobs fluctuated with numbness. The blankets that covered me a metaphor for the way I felt covered and hidden from a world that moved on without me. Somewhere inside, I...

Does God Care About the Details of Our Lives?

Sep 22, 2018 | Spiritual Health & Recovery | 0 comments

My friend Tammy asked this question a slightly different way, “Is God interested in the details of our lives?” This discussion has come up over the years in different places. Some say God is interested in every single detail, down to the color of clothes...

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When Trying Harder Isn't Helping & You're Tired of Hurting

No matter how hard you try to do the "right" and "good" things, especially as a Christian, sometimes the hard things never end.

It's frustrating and depleting.

You may wonder how to make it through. And why isn't God doing the things you thought he'd do?

Perhaps you're in a season of transition.

You realize you're not the person you thought you'd be. You're not experiencing the "abundant" life you thought you should have by now.

You may look back at your life and wonder, "How did it get this way?" "What happened?" "Why haven't I been able to do (or not do) the things I want to do? Or act the way I want to act with other people?"

You may be feeling exhausted, confused, hurt, and disappointed.

But dealing with all those messy thoughts & feelings seems like too much.

What can you do? Could it ever be different?

It can.

After years of over-serving, people-pleasing, and trying to be a "good" Christian, I bottomed out. In deep pain & utter exhaustion I cried out to God asking for healing, not just for the recent trauma & extreme stress I'd endured, but for the years of fears that held me back from being who I sensed I was designed to be.

It was a scary prayer, so I asked God for courage to face the steps of growth that would be difficult.

Since then, I've experienced a tremendous amount of healing & pursued a lifelong journey of growth.

Today, I feel more fully alive as the person God designed me to be. The journey that began with a prayer in 2013 continues today

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