Heather MacFadyen is the founder of the Don’t Mom Alone podcast and the Not Alone Community. She supports and mentors a large community of women and moms, encouraging others to come out of isolation and move toward community. Heather is full of insight and uses real-life stories to convey deep truths about who God is and what He wants to do in our lives.
What we chat about:
The rebranding of her podcast and the creation of podcast clubs
The need for real life community and hugs
Pulling away from friends and staying behind closing doors because of fear of judgment and not having it all together
The promises of the Holy Spirit
Believing the truth of who God says you are
How God prepared her before the hard would come
Discipleship and the book “The Fogotten God” by Francis Chan
Studying about the work of the Holy Spirit
Believing a lie and the confession of that
A defining moment in Heather’s life that healed her from the inside out
How we do all the things to make things right with God
Organic food, home-ade clothes, homeschooling and a lovely home
Still…things deep in her soul that were blocking me from hearing who God said she is
The lies of weakness and fear that the enemy had placed on her
The freedom and release of those lies that came through prayer
Praying with women in her home and how that came back to bless her when she was needing support
How God healed many layers within Heather before her mother had breast cancer and her father died of cancer
Working through a 12-step recovery program
Dealing with beliefs, feelings, and thought patterns in a healthy way
Coping mechanisms that we use to deal with and process through emotions
Worry is when you believe that God is going to get it wrong and bitterness is when you believe God got it wrong
Bitterness in believing that God got it wrong with her father’s death
How the enemy tried to reinforce the lie that God got it wrong…again
Confessing and uprooting the anger that was tied to that lie
How the root of bitterness had rotted her health and her ability to feel like herself
Our tendency to think we know what is right for other people and how it disrupts our relationships
Releasing to others to make their own decisions
The grief process and the realization that someone is really gone
The roles that our dads had in our lives
Taking the pieces of our parents and moving beyond
Suggestions for people who try to isolate
Feel the feelings, recognize the predominant emotion, and meet with someone to talk through those feelings
Seek professional help…”There is no shame in that game”
Counselors can provide an outside perspective and see what relationships need healing or direction
Finding more information and studying more about the healing that God has promised through the power of the Holy Spirit
All truth is God’s truth so we don’t have to be afraid of doctors and psycologists.
Healing available if we simply bring things to God and confession is such a huge part of that
He just wants us to agree with Him about what is blocking us.
Ask God “Where did this start? What did I start believing in that memory?”
Confessing that we have believed the lie that we are not safe and that we are responsible to protect myself from here on out
The enemy uses tradegy as an open door to bring in Satan’s lie that takes root. We operate from it in how we interact in relationships.
Be committed to self-awareness, confession, and allow the Holy Spirit to be the transforming piece
Missionary training called Novo
Opening your eyes to see people like God sees them
If we are trapped in the junk that the enemy placed in our lives, we are not free to to do the things that God is calling us to do
Deal with the junk, clear the way, and do the work that God that God has called you to do
Believe that God still speaks today
Questions to ask to deciphering if it is the Holy Spirit…
Is it encouraging, is it comforting, is it strengthening, is it kind, is it tender? Probably God.
Is it condemning and negative? It is probably the enemy.
Trusting that the Holy Spirit is the go between to us to hear God’s heart for us
Fleeting thoughts in our mind that we line up with Scripture to determine if we are hearing from God
The encouragement of the personal words that were given to Heather and her friends when they committed their time to hearing from God
God is still speaking in our hearts and using people and using our voices
How Heather processes other people’s opinions and the sources that she is listening to
Letting close friends be the mirror and release others to have their own opinion
Waking up and going to God first and using that as the identifier
Story in Max Lucado’s book about the Wemmicks
The kindness of the gentleness of the maker
The word that God has given Heather for 2019
Stop trying and start trying. The One that made you has something that He wants you to walk into
Healing because of our belief and our ability to go to God and ask for Him to help us with our unbelief
God promises us that he will want through things with us with a healed heart or a healing heart
If you read through the gospels in the Bible, it is the same Jesus
Invite Jesus in and ask God to show you where He was when the hard things happened
He is always kind and gentle and present and He is available to us
Links mentioned:
The Wonderful World of Wemmecks by Max Lucado
The Fogotten God by Francis Chan
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