Built, Not Broken: Faith, Healing and Purpose, with Timmy Ivy

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This is a transparent journey through a real person’s formation process—told in first person, from childhood trauma and survival into identity, authority, and victory in Christ. In each episode, Timothy Ivy shares what he lived through—rejection, fear, instability, and silence—and then walks listeners through how God interrupted those narratives and rebuilt his identity. This is not a highlight reel; it’s the process most people never talk about.

Episodes

  1. 6d ago

    Episode 6: Learning to Set Boundaries | Built, Not Broken

    Timothy Ivy shares why healthy boundaries have become one of the clearest expressions of healing in his life. This conversation explores how early fear, rejection, and dysfunction can shape patterns of over-functioning, people-pleasing, rescuing, and accepting one-sided relationships. Through personal testimony and biblical wisdom, Timothy reflects on the difference between carrying someone’s burden and taking responsibility for their life. This episode is a reminder that love does not require unlimited access, forgiveness does not always require the same closeness, and compassion does not mean absorbing the consequences of someone else’s choices. If you have struggled to say no, felt responsible for everyone around you, or wondered whether protecting your peace makes you selfish, this episode is for you. Healthy limits are not a refusal to love—they are wisdom, stewardship, and evidence that healing is taking root.

  2. Season 1 Trailer

    Choosing Authenticity and Vulnerability for the Kingdom

    Choosing Authenticity and Vulnerability for the Kingdom

  3. Aug 25

    Episode 5: Learning to Rest. | Built, Not Broken

    Episode 5: Learning to Rest In this episode of Built, Not Broken, Timothy Ivy explores what it means to rest after a lifetime of survival, responsibility, and staying on guard. Through a vulnerable childhood memory and a present-day act of faith, he shares how hypervigilance, fear, and self-reliance can make rest feel unfamiliar—even unsafe.

  4. Aug 22

    Episode 4: Learning to Receive. | Built, Not Broken

    In Episode 4 of Built, Not Broken, Timothy Ivy shares what it means to move from surviving alone to learning how to receive. Through personal stories of childhood care, faithful friendships, an iPod gift, and an unexpected act of generosity at a restaurant, this episode explores why love, help, rest, affirmation, and emotional care can feel uncomfortable when self-reliance has been a way of life. This is a conversation about safe relationships, healthy boundaries, the difference between being used and being genuinely cared for, and allowing God to heal the parts of us that learned to carry everything alone. Sometimes receiving is not weakness—it is trust.

  5. Aug 17

    Episode 3: When Truth Starts Changing Your Patterns. | Built, Not Broken

    Episode 3: When Truth Starts Changing Your Patterns. | Built, Not Broken In this episode, Timothy Ivy explores how childhood survival patterns can follow us into adulthood—especially in the ways we handle trust, control, rest, and relationships. What may look like independence on the outside can sometimes be fear, self-protection, and the belief that needing people is unsafe. Timothy shares honestly about learning to carry everything alone, keeping relationships at a distance, and the ways God began confronting the illusion that he had to hold his whole life together by himself. This episode is about letting God’s truth become more than something we know—it becomes instruction that gradually changes how we live, love, receive help, and trust.

  6. Aug 13

    Episode 2: The first cracks in survival mode | Built, Not Broken

    Episode 2 – The First Cracks in Survival Mode In this episode, Timothy Ivy looks at how childhood survival shaped his emotions, nervous system, and relationships, then shows the first ways God began to challenge the lie that he was on his own—through his mother’s transformation, God‑given friendships, and scriptures about God’s presence and adoption. Listeners are invited to recognize where they still live like everything depends on them and begin letting God’s truth confront those patterns.

  7. Aug 11

    Built, Not Broken – Episode 1: When Survival Tries to Define You

    Episode 1 – When Survival Tries to Define You In this opening episode, Timothy Ivy shares how his earliest years were shaped by fear, instability, and rejection, and how those experiences trained him to live in survival mode and believe lies like “I’m not important,” “I don’t belong,” and “I’m on my own.” Through specific memories from childhood and adolescence, he shows how these patterns formed his identity, then holds them up against God’s Word to reveal that what happened was real—but what it tried to say about him was a lie. This episode invites listeners to recognize where survival has been defining their own identity and begin letting God’s truth speak a better word over their story.

  8. Aug 10 ·  Bonus

    When everything demands your attention

    Sharing what’s on my mind today—short thoughts on faith and real life from @TimmyIvy77. Thanks for listening and walking this journey with me.@timmyivy77https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61588719357045

    When everything demands your attention

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This is a transparent journey through a real person’s formation process—told in first person, from childhood trauma and survival into identity, authority, and victory in Christ. In each episode, Timothy Ivy shares what he lived through—rejection, fear, instability, and silence—and then walks listeners through how God interrupted those narratives and rebuilt his identity. This is not a highlight reel; it’s the process most people never talk about.

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