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Healing starts with awareness - Weekly Newsletter with Alexandra

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Your emotions hold the key to your beliefs...

Can I ask you something, Reader?
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When was the last time you let yourself feel—fully, without judgment?
When was the last time you brought awareness to your emotions, your thoughts, your pain… and simply let it be?
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Recently, I made that choice. I chose not to fix, not to flee, but to stay present with myself—with God—in the middle of it all.
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Mother’s Day was especially hard this year. The ache of loss showed up in unexpected ways, and God invited me into parts of my grief I hadn’t fully faced before. It was tender. It was painful. And strangely, Reader… it was freeing.
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Because when I stopped running from what hurt, I found God already there.
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We can’t surrender what we’re unwilling to feel.
We can’t invite God into places we won’t even enter ourselves.
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This week’s podcast episode is about that exact journey—healing from addiction, codependency, and shame. I talk with Kathy Heinen, co-author of "Spiritual Discovery: Seven Principles for Spiritual Growth", about how our coping mechanisms often keep us from true intimacy with God… and how we can begin to break free.
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If you’ve ever:
• Numbed out instead of leaning in
• Lost yourself in trying to keep everyone else happy
• Felt unworthy of love because of the mess you carry
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…this episode is for you.
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Because here’s what’s true:
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You don’t have to earn God’s presence.
You don’t have to fix it all to be held.
Whatever pain you’re in, whatever pattern you’re stuck in—Jesus sees, Jesus knows, and Jesus still chooses you, Reader.
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The invitation is simple and sacred:
Come as you are… and sit loved.
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Let this Scripture wrap around your heart today:
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” —Psalm 34:18
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With love and light,

Alexandra ✗⚬ﾒ𝟶
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Alexandra Alvarez

I am a strategic creative and I partner with passionate, driven and courageous humans who fear their dreams may be too big, but long to leave a great legacy. I help them connect with themselves, their creator and the endless possibilities that are available to them when they look for what ignites, research possibilities and take faithful decisive actions.

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