Grace Granted by LaToyaJ

I hope you're sitting for this. Your season has something to say.

Some seasons don't come with a timeline. They come with an invitation. Grace Granted is a podcast for the woman who is in the in-between. Not lost, but not yet where she knows she's going. She's the go getter who quietly carries the weight of a growth season that doesn't always look like growth from the outside. This is the show that gives her language for what she's living. Every episode is a conversation about the necessary but sometimes uncomfortable work of waiting without losing yourself in the process.

Episodes

  1. Aug 28

    Thriving after Survival

    Hey!! [FIRST NAME GOES HERE] There are some shows that entertain you and then you have those that make you look at your own life. That happened to me when I rewatched The Chi. I connected with a lot of the storylines but for this particular conversation, I want to lean more into Tiff's. Tiff spent so much of the series searching for love, connection, security, identity, and a place where she could finally feel chosen. And the more I watched, the more I realized that some of her decisions weren’t simply about what she wanted.  Emmett said something to her at the end of season 8 that got to me: “I’m sorry for all the things you had to survive.” Sometimes we need that. Not someone to excuse every decision we’ve made or to tell us everything we did was right but just to acknowledge the fact that we made decisions based on what we knew and what we had at the time.  There is a difference between understanding your survival and allowing your survival to define you forever. You may have had to become strong because you weren't supported. You may have chased relationships because you were longing for connection. You may have overworked because productivity made you feel valuable. You may have built, achieved, performed, and accomplished because you were trying to prove something to yourself or to someone else. But what if that isn't the end of your story? What if you can thrive after survival? That's what I talk about in this week's blog. I go deeper into Tiff's story and the lessons The Chi taught me about connection, authenticity, identity, the power of our surroundings, and actually, what it means to stop living from the hand we were dealt. Just know that your background isn't the end of your story. Not even your decisions and what happened to you. You survived. Now it's time to ask a different question: What would it look like for you to thrive? Read the full reflection and sit with this one.  → Read: Thriving After Survival​

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Some seasons don't come with a timeline. They come with an invitation. Grace Granted is a podcast for the woman who is in the in-between. Not lost, but not yet where she knows she's going. She's the go getter who quietly carries the weight of a growth season that doesn't always look like growth from the outside. This is the show that gives her language for what she's living. Every episode is a conversation about the necessary but sometimes uncomfortable work of waiting without losing yourself in the process.