Standing in Your Truth With Yanni
The podcast "Standing in Your Truth" will feature Yanni and a group of friends engaging in profound and intimate discussions on subjects such as mental health, finances, faith, and strategies for finding motivation during difficult periods. In this space, guests will be invited to share their life journeys, including the challenges they've faced and the obstacles they've overcome. This podcast aims to provide a platform for individuals to share their stories, ensuring that everyone's experiences are acknowledged, valued, and celebrated.
Standing in Your Truth With Yanni
When God Turns Your Pain Into Purpose
What happens when a mother who was told she'd never conceive defies the odds, only to face the devastating loss of a pregnancy and spiral into addiction? In this heart-wrenching yet hopeful episode, guest April Morales bares her soul about her complex journey through motherhood.
April's story begins with a PCOS diagnosis and doctors telling her childbearing would be impossible. When she miraculously conceived at 25, one year into sobriety, it seemed life had turned around. But after having three beautiful children, tragedy struck when she lost a pregnancy at five-and-a-half months. This loss triggered overwhelming grief that led to relapse and separation from her children.
"I thought I did something wrong," April reveals, describing how depression and addiction took everything from her. But this isn't where her story ends. Through raw vulnerability, she shares how therapy, spiritual reconnection, and the unwavering love of her children guided her through recovery and reunion with her family.
What makes this conversation particularly powerful is April's ability to find meaning in her darkest moments. Now, she uses her experiences to support others facing similar struggles. "If you're hearing this for a reason, make contact," she urges listeners who might feel invisible or alone in their pain.
The episode offers profound reflections on community, divine timing, and how being seen can change someone's entire day. April's perspective on motherhood extends beyond biological children to nurturing anyone who crosses our path—a reminder that we all have opportunities to make meaningful connections daily.
Whether you've experienced loss, addiction, or simply moments of feeling completely alone, this conversation offers both comfort and courage. April's journey proves that healing is possible, and sometimes our most painful chapters become the source of hope for others walking similar paths.
Leave a comment sharing how this episode impacted you or reach out if you need prayer or support. Remember: you are loved, you are seen, you are enough.
Standing In Your Truth Podcast with Yanni Thomas
Hello everyone, welcome to Standing In your Truth podcast with your host, yanni. On this podcast you'll hear Yanni, family and friends having open-ended discussions on anything from faith, finances, relationships and how to stay motivated during life's trying times. Make sure to follow on all social media platforms. The social media link is in the bio. Sit back and get ready to enjoy.
Speaker 2:Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Standing in your Truth podcast. I am your host, yonnie. How's it going? I can say, for me personally, today was a day, but it's a day that the lord has made, so I will be glad in it. That's a song, I think, isn't it? I think one of those like old church hymns. Yes, I'm like, I think so. So this is my um last episode for this month, for mother's hood. Oh, mother's hood, motherhood. I don't know why I said mothers. Anyway, because I have multiple women on Into who's, I'm going to allow my last, final wonderful guest to introduce herself.
Speaker 3:Hello, my name is April Morales and I am a child of God.
Speaker 2:Alright, girl Alright. So the first question is what motivates you?
Speaker 3:Other people motivate me. My children motivate me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, I'm doing fine. How do you protect your mental health? Prayer counseling. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Working through counseling, working through some therapy, coping skills that were given to me and keeping a close network of friends. You know I do bible study. I try to surround myself with people that are like minded yeah, that's important.
Speaker 2:If not, they'll definitely bring you down. I know I actually just had my first therapy session today with my new therapist, um. I put myself back into therapy in person. I had an option option to do um virtually again and I was like no something different about being able to sit and for her to see all of my facial expressions and for you to see hers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sure she's probably like reading mine more, because I definitely can give a facial expression, if you know. You know, yes, but all right, well, I'm proud of you for being in therapy, I'm proud of you for starting you. Thank you, girl. Thank you, that's one of the first things she said. She's like oh good, you know, congrats for signing up, and I was like yes, I said I tell my friend all the time, but some of them are like gay.
Speaker 2:Some of them are like you're doing what and I'm like you don't understand how that would really, it really releases you, gives you that safe place it does and also helps you grow. Yes, so uh, what advice would you give your younger self cling?
Speaker 3:to god, learn to trust him. Yeah, outside of this, this world because that was one of my biggest battles was learning how to trust, especially that we put a hymn on it. With the experiences I've had in my life, it was very hard to trust Him, and so I had to kind of change my view and put a different picture. It's still him, but it had to be a softer, kinder spirit to him, and that was probably my biggest one.
Speaker 2:Okay, wow, that's a different view. I've heard from how other people have broken that down. What is one moment in your life that has really shaped your life or made a huge impact? My children.
Speaker 3:They have, I was told I could never have them. Yeah, so the first time I found out I was pregnant, it was a complete flip of everything I believed about myself and what I was worthy of being blessed with. Yeah and so, yes, the birth of my children.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:And also the loss of a child?
Speaker 2:Yes, we're going to get into that. What is your mindset when you're told no, or the door shuts.
Speaker 3:It wasn't meant for me. Okay, it wasn't meant for me, so we're gonna look for another door. Yeah, it's just a different path. It's not made for everybody, yeah okay, all righty.
Speaker 2:So, like I said earlier, obviously this is um about motherhood. So, if you don't mind sharing with us your journey of motherhood and what does it look like for you?
Speaker 3:For me, it's been a series of different feelings on that topic. When I was younger, I was diagnosed with PCOS. Yes, so I was told that I could never have a chance of conceiving a child. Yeah, and so I watched my sisters both, uh, have their children and clung to them and loved on them like they were my own. But I was always left with that just yearning and that sadness that that was something I was never gonna have. You know, yeah, um, by the grace of God, that is not true.
Speaker 3:And I found myself pregnant for the first time. I was 25 years old and had a year, clean and sober, and I was just ecstatic. You know, it was another flip of the switch. It was scary because I had never experienced it. I was scared because they told me it would never happen. So I was so protective of the entire pregnancy. Every little thing, every little bump just scared me. Yeah, but we got through that and I have an amazing son today because I have two beautiful daughters, even after they told me again I would have slim to no chance of ever conceiving again. After each one of them, I tell you, god has the final say for sure. Oh, he does. And you know, I've gotten to the communication I have with him today. I think when I give him any of my plans I can actually hear that big belly laugh.
Speaker 3:Now like that's what you think's gonna happen sure, that's what you think yeah, so, uh, it's just, it's been a series.
Speaker 3:I can't really say one impact. There's just been so many different impacts where I feel like my life has shifted into a completely new direction, and, of course, motherhood was one of them. The other one was, well, I had a miscarriage in 2013. And so that was very devastating, you know it. My motherhood changed then, you know, because I had a mourning inside of me that I had never felt before Very hard to cope. Back then I didn't have therapy.
Speaker 3:Uh, I had to let go of the things that were working for me to help me stay sober, and so, mentally, I started backtracking in the way I thought about myself, you know, I thought I did something wrong. I did, I thought I wasn't worthy. Um, he was punishing me all those old, you know and so it allowed it to let me fall back into relapse, you know. And so, in doing that, it changed again. You know, I strived hard to cling to God, but the depression was so heavy that I just didn't know how to live without the depression, and so the drugs helped me cope, or so I believe.
Speaker 3:You know, at the end of that, it took everything. Yeah, you know, it took everything. I was separated from my children and motherhood changed again. Yeah, it was pretty bittersweet, you know. It's been a long seven years, almost eight years now A journey that has humbled me a lot. Yeah, it took me to a place where the only thing I had to cling to was God. Yeah, and I had those cling to was God. Yeah, and I had those choices I had in one hand to continue on the path that I was on and end up jail, prison or in hospitals or dead.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Right and on the other hand, I could take that step in the opposite direction and make an attempt to at least get a relationship back with my kids. Um, earn not their love because they loved me through all of it, you know, but um, earn that confidence in me again where they felt safe with me, where they weren't scared that I was just not going to come home or that I wasn't going to return or I was going to go back out there. That's a that was my biggest fear that they would always be scared that I was going to go back. So it's been like I said.
Speaker 3:Um, cps was involved and through CPS I got introduced to therapy. I got introduced to PermiaCare here in Odessa and they helped me get through transition, through the beginning stages. I fought the medication because I have an addict's mind, you know, and so the medication scared me a lot, you know. You can buy most of that stuff on the streets and I was not wanting to go back to that mindset, you know. So I finally found a doctor that was willing to go slow with me and I was honest with him. I wasn't used to being honest.
Speaker 2:It was more like I don't really want you to know how I'm thinking and feeling, because you might fit me for a jacket how I'm thinking and feeling, because you might fit me for a jacket, or how did that feel when you um were able to be honest with someone and actually kind of let them into your thinking it?
Speaker 3:was such a relief. It really was, because I think the one we like to the most is ourselves. Yeah, and as long as we keep these words, we think it's our shield. And when all reality you know, everybody sees that I looked like I was dying. You know, I went from very healthy to 100 pounds lighter and I'm seeing pictures now you can see like I was dying. I was slowly dying, and so when I think about what my kids saw when they looked at me. Oh man, it was very eye opening.
Speaker 3:So this was the first time I'd been in Calston before, because you know, if you have a mind, a life like mine, they tend to send you there a lot. Yes, and I always had that mindset that, okay, you could kind of tell when the counselors are, you know, just giving you out of a workbook, yeah, and it was like, oh, they're not going to listen to me, so I'll just I know the other side of it, I'll just tell them what they want to hear you know Right.
Speaker 3:And sure enough, you know, three months, I'm good, signed off, you know. She has no problem, she's overcame, you know. The only one was it was a lie, you know. And so I ended up still with the same issues as the first time I was in my addiction before I even had children.
Speaker 3:Yeah, having to face those same issues, you know, and it was like man, you don't realize, you just get so comfortable with it there, whether it's good for you or not, that you don't realize how heavy that stuff gets and how much it um changes the way you react to people and situations, you know. So I got very reclusive and I didn't want to share with anybody, I didn't want to talk with anybody, so I literally went into my first uh, therapy okay, real therapy appointment, bawling my eyes out, crying all the way up there. And her first question, of course, is how are you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the lady asked me that today and I said well.
Speaker 3:Well, and I actually had the nerve right to tell her I'm fine, like I'm fine, and she was like it does not match what's going on with you. Sure, you're fine, because I was to the point where I wanted change and was scared of it at the same time. Yeah, and so it was just like I was on eggshells. I did not know how to react to me going in there and telling the truth finally, yeah, so it was now. I think it's hilarious, you know, and I see that counselor and she still laughs at me oh really, yes, but it was just so mind-blowing, the simple things that she showed me. Yeah, just to kind of reprogram how I saw situations, and it was like I never thought about it, like it's so simple and just repeating right until, just like the bad things that we think about ourselves, we program them in there over and over and over again.
Speaker 3:Well, if we can just work through them one at a time, I can finally say I can look in the mirror today and I love what I see.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I can see it in other people's eyes when I meet them and when I'm talking to them.
Speaker 1:It's like they really like me.
Speaker 3:They really like being around me. They're not just playing, they're not faking. So when my kids hug me and tell me that they're proud of me.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh yeah, because they've gotten to see so many different sides of me, and I think they were the first ones I was finally honest with, you know, because I sat them down and told them they knew me in recovery. They, they knew we had been addicts but had never lived it, if that makes sense, you know. So them seeing it at the end was, um, I'm sure, heartbreaking for them. And you know you don't understand that, the why's in it, especially for young kids, you know. But they kept on loving me and encouraging me and they never gave up on me. Hmm, so that has shifted to where I can. I can feel that I am good, like my decisions are okay. You know, it was for the best of them, for the best for me, to be able to grow and they've gotten to watch that journey and so I can gratefully say my kids know god today because they've seen him in action. There is no doubt that they have seen that. They have seen him in action through, through our lives.
Speaker 3:You know, and it's lives that we've lived together and grown together and uh.
Speaker 3:So as much as it hurt to go through those experiences, I am grateful for them because I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be sitting here sharing, I'd be holed up, you know, probably still in my depression, yeah, hovering over them, and you know what I mean. And, um, I'm grateful today that god can use every one of us, like even my kids, you know, talking to other kids in foster care that see no hope, sometimes with their parents, and they can say just keep praying, you know. And uh, look my mom, my mom went through that too, and be able to share that with somebody, because our foster care system is so full of kids that feel unloved, yeah, and without hope, and so to be able to share not not just my story for parents, but their story with them, with the children, oh man, I'm blessed and and they're truly, truly, just a blessing.
Speaker 3:They really are.
Speaker 2:Y'all are being hope carriers. Yes, I love that.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to show you I intend to hope a live church.
Speaker 2:Okay, and Pastor Cliff, maybe it at least had to be a month ago, maybe two months, but part of his sermons he was telling like to go out in the world and be um carriers of hope. Yes, so I just it's funny how that how he?
Speaker 3:works around it. I'm like okay, lord, thanks yeah, because he does bring everything back around. He really does.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no I, I'm telling you god is in the details he is. I mean down to the fact of when I was looking at doing this mini series on motherhood and sitting down and having conversations with moms on what their journey through motherhood looks like. Mom, like I wanted the mom where you know their journey is not quote-unquote normal. I had my aunt on where you know she had kids later. I think she actually had kids around the same age as you, if not a little bit older, um, she, but she's also now a grandmother. So just that journey.
Speaker 2:Um, I had my friend on last week and you know she was, um, she's a first responder's wife, so sometimes her she doesn't always have her husband um, they're present, so sometimes she has to occupy, almost like she's a single mom, but she's not um, but just balancing that out and ask, answering all the uh little ones questions. So, but then I was like, what about the moms with, like, not just struggle but have even lost their little one? Yeah, when this holiday comes up, like, how do you navigate that space? It is it's been.
Speaker 3:That's still a journey. Yeah, I have just recently started being able to talk about it without just fully going on into a crying session, you know, and I think it's just we never forget. Yeah, you know I don't think I'm alone in that, that. I have had the opportunity to talk to a lot of women that. But since it happened, you know what I mean it opened doors to that conversation with other women and for me it was like just so heartbreaking to the point that it's like that's all I could think about. You know, and I'm not the only one that lost them, you know, because I I was five and a half months pregnant, so my kids had already been listening to my belly. They've been feeling the kicking they they had, and you, my husband, at the time, we had already embraced this child into our lives. So, coming home from the hospital after emotionally getting drained ourselves, it was just devastating that we had to tell our three children that their brother wasn't going to come. You're okay.
Speaker 2:You're okay. Well, I'm proud of you for being able to speak about it to let other women know you're not in this alone. No, never.
Speaker 3:And I think that was one of the biggest things that a lot of the mothers that I talked to that experienced this. It was like the older generation they would just take the baby away and not let their mother have closure. Yeah, Now with my son we had two hours. Then we got to hold him, we got to baptize him and we got to give him back to the Lord. They were precious moments.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I couldn't imagine how hard it'd be to act like the baby never existed. Yeah, no, as soon as you know there is nothing that's going to stop your heart from just automatically loving. Yeah, it doesn't matter if you're four weeks, if you're, you know all the way to the end it's. But a lot of women suffer alone and the fathers get pulled out of that. Like you know, they experience it too. It's a loss for both parents, that's true. And, like I said, when you've got children it's a family affair, and so it doesn't just stop with the mom, but sometimes they do. They just shut down because if you think about it it tears you up, and if you don't, you feel guilty and I mean like I couldn't even talk as soon as the thought was there, it was broke. Just break down, you know. But now I mean getting as close as I have to God.
Speaker 3:Death is a transition, you know, and I believe with my full heart that I will meet him again. You know, and it was an experience Of. Of course, you don't wish it on anybody, right? But uh, you can get through it. You know, you don't ever forget. You always remember the day. You always think what would they look like you know, and you look at your other children. It's like, well, you know, you know they already had the same nose, they, they already had the you know and what. So you're in wonder about them but, still grateful.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That, you know, even if it was just for that short time, it brought me to a whole new, one of those big things that changed my life, and it didn't look good at the beginning, but it was a blessing, because it brought me so much closer to God, to to having relationship with other people, to being able to relate to other people, to see that, you know, I felt so alone in those times, yeah, and whether it was in my sadness, in my addiction, in my, I always felt very alone and I wouldn't.
Speaker 3:So I try not to allow anybody around me to feel alone, if that makes sense it does If. I noticed that person because I was that quiet person that, yes, I was always smiling but wouldn't make a big impression.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you, just I was in the mix and we're made to be set apart, we're made to stand out, and so if our story and testimony can help somebody else find that little bit of hope that you know what I can get through this, then I will share it Every opportunity I get. Wow, wow, it's good, it is very good telling god is good and it's just.
Speaker 2:It's amazing to me that the details that he shows up, like the way he shows up for your life and then turns around it shows up for my life and his showing up may look a little different from your showing up, because he kind of meets you where you're at and I'm like sometimes I'm always like dude, that's like you're amazing, because I mean I don't have kids but I know like obviously my mom she has three, but there's well, there's more than three of us. But anyway, to be able to parent different kids and meet them where they're at, I can, I know that's just because I've heard, but just how god can meet all of us where we're at.
Speaker 3:And I'll tell you what Just because you don't have children does not mean you don't have a mother's heart. Oh, because I will tell you me, before I had children, I was mothering everybody. Yeah, you know, I even got grown-ups that call me mom still, because it's just that heart that he gives us. Yeah, and it really is. It's like you will mother any child around you and you will give them the love like they were yours. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You really do, I definitely. It's one of those things where, like Erin and I have had conversations about this. But we're not pressing for kids. We don't have them right now, but any kid that's in our presence we do love on like they're our own. Yes, we pour into, we answer our phone, we help, support, whatever it may be. I'm always saying you know the auntie, uncle that does all the extra.
Speaker 3:Mother, mom second and then you really are, because I'll tell you what my relationship with my aunt is. The same way. It's like you get close, it takes a village, and that is not a lie, because you, we come together as a community to help the children, the, the women, the, the men, whoever's struggling. That's what we're supposed to do. Yeah, you know, and that's where I think we do. We lack a lot, because sometimes we let people pass us by and we know and we can see, and we just walk away because we're scared to ask. And I mean just to ask catch, you know, make eye contact and just let them know. We're scared to ask, yeah, and I mean just to ask catch it, you know, make eye contact and just let them know they're seen. It makes such a difference. It does, yes, and so it's. You can make a difference. One person can make a difference, yeah, and one person's life, yeah, and one right after another.
Speaker 2:So even at the grocery store. Kind of goes back to planting the seed. Yes, my issue was I wanted to plant the seed and water the plant, and I had to realize sometimes it's more about just planting the seed. It is, and God will allow people to water it, but just plant it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's going to take a group of people to nourish and grow that tree. I had an issue.
Speaker 2:I had to plant the seed water it, trim it.
Speaker 3:You have complete control over the little thing I am not. God at all. So let me stop. The only thing I got myself into was very bad situations and made a lot of mistakes. Same, I don't trust my decisions. I trust God a little bit more than my own, you know. So when he leads me and puts opportunity in front of me like this, then as much as my brain is saying no, inside it's like okay, yeah, yeah, I'll do it. Because it's not what I would normally do see, so it has to be God.
Speaker 2:Which is funny, because I was like in my head what?
Speaker 1:was that Monday you?
Speaker 2:guys came right. I think it was Monday.
Speaker 3:I think so, or was it Friday? I think it was.
Speaker 2:Friday. Yeah. So I was like God, just it really was the Holy Spirit talking to me. He was like, look, this is what I want and it just has something to do with a mother that dealt with the loss. And I was like I don't know if that's kind of like such a sensitive topic, yes, and I wasn't going to be like hey, did you lose it? That's just not. And then just happened to walk in and then I think I mentioned the podcast first and I said this is great. And I said I've wanted this topic and you were like, oh, I've gone through that yeah, and that's when God like starts throwing
Speaker 1:stuff out of my mouth and he's like stop it.
Speaker 3:You know I was like what?
Speaker 2:and I was like oh yeah, no, I said you're the one I've been waiting on, didn't know, and I sure didn't know where God was taking me that day, you know it was like he brought me full circle.
Speaker 3:No to eight years ago yeah, he did, and so I think it was just one of those divine interventions. Yeah, and if you look for him, you'll see him everywhere. Oh, won't you?
Speaker 2:yes, and it's crazy because, like I think, sometimes we we often stomp on the, the little one, the little intervention. In a little way, god shows you that he's present. But those matter too.
Speaker 3:Yes, all of them do yeah and I'm like for us.
Speaker 2:I know we pray at night. It's always like thank you, god for allowing us to make it back home to our beds. The amount of especially car accidents that happen here is wild.
Speaker 3:It is, and it is so scary and it is, um, it is so scary. And being on where God's got me as far as a job, it just amazes me. You know what I mean? How lonely people are, how our neighbors, like we don't know. I still remember one time my son I guess we didn't have cable back then, you know. So we're watching those old time shows right, and I don't know if you saw it on TV. I don't know why he asked this question, but he was like Mom, why don't we take a basket of bread to our neighbors? Like we don't even know our neighbors, like why don't we take them a basket of bread? And I was like where did that come from? You know, but back in other days you knew your neighbors, yeah, I definitely don't know mine.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's like where did all that go? Like we're so separated that it is as a community, as brothers and sisters in Christ. It's like we're meant to be there for one another and we just got to step into it sometimes and be open. It's like I said, simple as a smile hey, how are you today? You can ask me that question. Like I said, you might get a different reaction. Either I'll be bawling or God will start introducing all kinds of stuff Like where did that come?
Speaker 2:from. Why are we here?
Speaker 3:That's a real answer though it is. It is and it's like okay, well, it all counts. Yeah, every single, every moment you know, every single, every moment you know it's um, we can make a difference in every, in a moment's time. No, just like those big impacts just being seen, it, um, it helps, because I remember being invisible for so long, like it, and I believed that I did not matter, yeah, that my pain did not matter, yeah, that my pain did not matter, that, and it was a complete lie. A complete lie. But when we just walk next to people and not ask a basic question like how are you? Yeah, it could change their whole day. You know, it could. You just don't know. But are we willing to try?
Speaker 2:That's like I told you that story. It was Friday, for for sure you guys came by because I know this. I told you this story when I was talking to a community partner, the female um, and this was obviously before mother's day. But I said, happy mother's day. And she's like, do you have a second? And I said, yeah, I think that's another.
Speaker 2:It's just me, you know being me. And um, she was like I. I have a little one that's um, has disabilities, and she doesn't know one day from another and she will never be able to tell me happy mother's day. Yeah, so you saying those words, words. You don't know how much that really meant to me and how god just used you just then and I said I actually think for a second I was like, oh, I said well, ma'am, happy mother's day because I didn't.
Speaker 2:I didn't know what to say you just give them a big hug and I was like, oh, and I was like, well, I said thank you for everything that you do for her, because I I've um been a business manager for an icf facility that helps take care of um individuals that have disabilities, so I know what that's like yes um so I just meant you know, told her thank you and happy mother's day again and she was like I think she said like god bless you and I was like thank you, same to you and phone call ended.
Speaker 3:But I was like oh, that's when god just uses you as a channel. It's like flip flip and it's like, okay, you don't know what's going on yet but you're part of it.
Speaker 2:I just called her. I think I actually called her. She didn't answer. I left the voicemail.
Speaker 3:She called me back yeah, and just as simple as that.
Speaker 2:Yeah and changed her whole day, for the day lasted a hot maybe five minutes. Yeah, maybe yes.
Speaker 3:So yeah, it's like you said, it takes a little time it does, and and the impact, though, on yours might have been not such a big deal yeah, on hers, though, yeah, it's probably life-changing yeah, I promise you, I was like I'm not really speechless that often, but when she said that I was like oh yeah, you know what to say, but you're right.
Speaker 2:Well, is there anything else um that you have for us, any more encouragement that you want to leave um the guests with listeners?
Speaker 3:with us have a guest the listeners well, just that, if you fall into any of the categories you know that I mentioned today, know that you're not alone, yeah, um, know that there's somewhere or someone. All you've got to do is look up, look up. You know, when we're in those places, we have a tendency of looking at the ground, yeah, and sometimes we miss the people that God puts in front of us. We just need to look up, if not seek out. I don't like a body of Christ, you know. It doesn't matter which one.
Speaker 3:We're all connected through the love of God, and so ask questions. You know, if you're hearing this for a reason, then you know, make contact if you can. In some way we've got resources. You know, we'll pray with you, we'll pray for you. I try to keep that constantly in my prayers. Anything I've been through, you know, we'll pray with you, we'll pray for you. I try to keep that constantly in my prayers. Anything I've been through, you know, any kind of abuse, any kind of addiction, and because I remember those moments were my darkest moments and so I call out to them just to give it a chance. You know God will introduce you to somebody that will show you something different. He works through us, yeah, and so find a way, make a decision. That was my first thing. Make a decision that you want something different and ask god, you know hey you want to come party with me?
Speaker 2:you know, hey, I like to go back you. You wanna come party with me?
Speaker 3:I'll tell you what because he, he will definitely take you on a mind-blowing experience hey, that is the truth.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 3:I've never heard that like that but you're 100 correct yeah, I mean the lifestyles I lived. It was I got myself involved in so many things to want to change the way I felt. Try God the best one and he will definitely change how you feel and he can bring you out. It might take some time, but it is completely worth it wow.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you again for coming on and sharing your journey for those that are listening. I just wanted to end with you're loved, you're seen. You end with you're loved, you're seen, you're enough, you're wanted, you're valued. And, like she mentioned, you know, if you really reach out, you can message me, dm me and we'll get you where you need to be. If you need prayer, you can always reach out to me. I can either pray with you over the phone or in person. If you're somewhere close, or just want to just send a request in, that's fine too. I can pray for you. Just say thank you. Thank you, lord, for allowing us to see this day and thank you, lord, for allowing these listeners to listen. And with that note, I say bye.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening to another episode of standing in and with that note, I say bye, bye. Thank you for listening to another episode of Standing in your Truth with Yanni. And if no one told you today, you are loved, you are beautiful, you are needed and you matter, be sure to follow on Facebook at Standing in your Truth Podcast with Yanni. Also on Instagram Talks with Yanni. Also on Instagram Talks with Yanni.
