Liberate Your Story Podcast Jessicah Travis

Freeing our femininity becomes a work of self-love and self-care. But it is also a work of liberation.

Are you a victim of your beliefs or a creator of them?

And how do we all experience the same world differently? We take in the same information and expect that we will all have the same conclusion or belief...but we don't. How can we feel so far apart on issues that seem so easy, so obvious? And how can we live in the same house and still have differing views on life?

Your experience of the world is powerful! You are forming your beliefs and strategies with every new experience. This episode is going to dive right into how your beautiful mind works to create a reality for you. Get ready...you're going to see how much agency you have over all of it. Let's explore the how and the why.

Submission was the teaching/mandate/calling we got in Purity Culture AFTER the alter. I'm not holding back on this one because my experience in the evangelical church was truly vile. AND...even if yours wasn't, you may have held some level of this oppressive belief.

I absolutely hate what this belief has done to both women and men. And I was responsible for perpetuating its hurtful agenda.

I was a teen in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. I was a committed member of Purity Culture. I could have been a poster child for the movement if there had been one other than Joshua Harris. Purity Culture suited me in more ways than I understood back then. It was safe and actionable. It had outcomes and it felt really good to be good.

Here’s the thing though. I have spent over 27 years recovering and healing from it. It wrecked me. And not in a holy and good kind of way. It stole from me. It stole my femininity, my sexuality, my wholeness. It created in me a human on a mission to destroy and bury a part of who I was.

Who are you allowed to be? We have influences throughout our lives that embed, or hardwire, ideologies into our social and coping skills. We learn who we are allowed to be without engaging in the experience of rejection. We learn morally through faith systems (culture and beliefs) what is acceptable to remain “in” or “holy”. These are powerful forces in our minds, aren’t they?
But what if you could untangle yourself from the presupposed hardwiring and have the confidence to be you without care of the repercussion?
Would you want that? Would you do it? Would you free your identity?

I’m going to challenge you in this episode to unravel a very powerful word in the religious world that most likely will have created strategies for how you live or lived your life. This word is Sovereign.