This Ordinary Girl Maria Elizabeth

It feels so good to once again be recording for this podcast. I really did not want to abandon it but I needed to make sure that what I was doing was pleasing to God and it wasn't so I had to take a step back. I am excited to share life from a Christian perspective and to offer encouragement on your walk with God. 

Hey girl,  Happy Friday! It bugged me so much that I hadn't done a video sharing my faith in Christ and so here it is. Though I was surely all over the place I hope this offered some insight into ways that our society makes Christianity seem horrible and oppressive but is in fact that exact opposite. I hope it inspires you to get to know Christ and experience His true love for yourself. I know what it's like to walk in brokenness and to buy into the lies that our culture feeds us about what liberation looks like: it looks like less clothes because somehow that is empowering to us females, to be reduced to nothing but our bodies, it looks like materialism; because that expensive bag will somehow make you a better person, it's that relationship; which needs to be goals and exist all over instagram so others can think you're happy though inside you are so miserable. I know what the trauma is like, the horrible things you didn't deserve to happen to you, but they did. I know the loneliness and the way that it is hard to believe that anyone could ever understand how desperately alone and terrified you are, I know it too well.  

I did everything I was supposed to according to the world to feel better, andI didn't. The more I gave into what was supposed to make me feel good and feel more liberated, the more I walked into my own brokenness and my own bondage. Just because something feels good to the flesh doesn't make it good to the soul. It's in the same way that junk food tastes so good but it so harmful. Living out your faith and your life with Christ won't always feel good, you will be convicted of things that you need to change, and your flesh will fight that because all we want is to feel good. But God doesn't convict us of things because He wants us to feel bad- it's because He wants us to walk out of the brokenness and into real freedom. It's hard because naturally we will desire things that go against what God wants for us, but God gives us strength and walks with us every step of the way.  

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Hey girl, 
Sometimes we look around at the world around us and we feel so isolated in what we are going through, like no one else in the world is going through the same thing- or like they can't understand. I don't know about you but for me it's like that with my anxiety. Because anxiety isn't something that people can outwardly see, I feel like they think it isn't as bad as it is or simply don't understand it all together. While I don't know what someone else's anxiety may feel like or don't know what your own individual battle with it looks like, I wanted to share my experience dealing with it; in the hopes that it will shed some light that you aren't alone in it. Maybe people make you feel like it isn't as bad as you are making it seem, or maybe they have never experienced it themselves- I hope that this in some small ways will help. I'm right there with you, going through it as well. Praying that we all learn to cope with it as best as we could. I wish I could give each and everyone of you a hug and tell you that everything will be okay- but this is as close to that as I can get. 

Thanks so much for listening to this weeks episode of this ordinary girl, I am so happy to have you around. Please don't forget to share and leave a review (if you're using apple podcast) to listen to this, so that we can reach other girls. 

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Hey girl, 
I am all for looking for the best in others but there has to be a point where we draw the line, right? Especially when dating, it's important that we look for good qualities in the other person but still keeps our eyes open to things that might not be so good. We're talking about red flags. Sometimes we are so into the other person, or so in love that we can't always see them, I'm here to help by sharing with you things that for me are total red flags when I'm dating someone. 
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Hey girl!

We're continuing on with our relationship series and this week we are talking about starting over in a relationship. Being in a new relationship is great, you get all the love and the butterflies- but what i we take a step back and before diving into that next relationship we take the time to really get to know someone better? That's what this episode is all about, why dating is important before getting into a relationship with someone.



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-Maria Elizabeth

Hey girl,

Breaking up isn’t fun- but sadly it happens to all of us, what’s important is learning to continue on with your life afterward without rebounding and getting someone else into the mix of our own confused emotions. In this episode we talk about everything from learning to heal and accept the ending of a relationship to new beginnings being single. Please don’t forget to leave a review and share so our podcast can continue to grow and reach amazing listeners like you!

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- Maria Elizabeth