100: Finding Wholistic Health and Healing with Jessica Hottle

Jessica Hottle is a wife, author, podcast host of the show, “What’s the Truth?”, and is passionate about helping women to “weigh less emotionally, spiritually, and physically” because then “they aren’t carrying the weight -God is”.

What We Chat about in Today’s Episode:

~Jessica’s testimony of how she came to Christ and has grown in Him

~Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness towards others

~Being wholistically heathy, and how Jessica helps equip women to be that for themselves

~The effects our experiences, traumas, and situations have on every other part of our lives

~What God’s Word has to say about healing physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally

~The problem with normalizing pain to where we don’t address it and instead stay in our mess

~The importance of knowing the Healer and His character

~Equipping women to grow in discernment and be able to sift through the lies and know the truth

~The problem with playing the victim card

~Acknowledging our feelings and emotions, but looking to the truth

~Helping women deal with difficult life stories rather than practicing disassociation and numbing out

~The importance of getting out of a constant fight or flight mode

~The crucial importance of renewing our minds

~Understanding our worth and identity in an age of platform building and social media; how to stop viewing “no”s as rejections

~The importance of hope and walking by faith

~Not basing our identity and worth in what we do

~Taking hard stories and turning them into a story of God’s redemption, goodness, and grace

~And more!

Resources Mentioned

Offer for a free audiobook and 30 day trial membership from Audible: www.audibletrial.com/HomeandHearth

Jessica’s books

Know Your Worth: Conquering Your Past for a Powerful Future by Jessica Hottle

Jessica’s monthly coaching classes

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode–and into a Life of Connection and Joy by Aundi Kolber

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

You are the Girl for the Job: Daring to Believe the God Who Calls You by Jess Connolly

Inspiring Quotes to Remember:

“It’s hard to have a healthy body if you do not have a healthy soul, because the soul is the gateway.”

“If we think of a tree, the ground, the soil that the tree grows out of are our experiences, trauma, and situations. The trunk is formed by those things into thoughts, then the thoughts become the branches of the tree or the feelings, and then the smaller counter-branches are the areas of our lives that those feelings and thoughts are affected by. So, the soil matters, because it affects everything else.”

“The first step to healing our pain is acknowledging that it is there.”

“Jesus isn’t trying to just manage your pain. He is trying to walk through it with you and take your pain away.”

“We need the Healer even more than the healing, because the healing is the bi-product of love, of relationship with the Healer.”

“Acknowledge what you feel, but then ask yourself, ‘What is the truth?'”

“The conviction of our need for more of Jesus is not about condemnation. It’s about a reconciliation and restoration to wholeness.”

“If you do not process through your hard experiences, your nervous system will store all that stress. You have to work through it, not just around it. Otherwise it will negatively impact how you interact with your world.”

“To renew your mind is to know God’s love and character.”

“Who you believe God to be directly affects who you view yourself to be. After all, we are made in His image!”

“When we are in need of patience, we are in need of hope.”

“When you don’t want to share your hard story for the good of others, you are making it all about you.”

“Your past mistakes are not who you are.”

“You are already a daughter of the King, so you are not working to earn that identity, you are not working for a feeling of acceptance, you are not working to prove your worth. You are resting in who God already made you to be, the identity He already accomplished for you, and you work out of that place.”

“Don’t be intimidated by the Bible – that is what the enemy wants.”

Where You Can Find Jessica Online:

Website – Jessica Hottle

Instagram – @jessicahottle

Facebook – Jessica Hottle

Podcast – What’s the Truth?

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