Overcoming Chaos Through Faith and Purpose
How do you rebuild a life when chaos has been the norm for as long as you can remember?
In this episode of Honest Christian Conversations, I sit down with Erik Allen to talk about faith, addiction, and what it looks like to pursue purpose after years of instability. Erik’s story isn’t a highlight reel; it’s an honest journey through brokenness, hard decisions, and the slow work of transformation.
We talk about the tension many people feel between wanting change and not knowing where to start. Erik shares how faith became more than a belief for him — it became a daily practice that reshaped his priorities, his family life, and his understanding of leadership.
This conversation explores questions many of us wrestle with quietly:
How do you pursue faith when life feels overwhelming?
What does spiritual leadership actually look like in everyday life?
And how does purpose begin to take shape after seasons of chaos?
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Wife. Mother of five. Podcaster. Fiction Novelist
Ana is the host of the Honest Christian Conversations podcast and a prodigal saved by God’s unending grace.
She grew up in a legalistic Christian home where asking questions often felt wrong. In her early twenties, overwhelmed by confusion and hurt, she walked away from her faith. Yet even then, God’s love never stopped pursuing her. At thirty years old—and after a painful second divorce—He brought her back to himself, and she has never looked back.
As Ana returned to Christ, she began rebuilding her faith from the ground up and asked the questions she once feared to ask. Along that journey, she discovered inconsistencies, misplaced teachings, and even lies woven into the Christianity she grew up with. Instead of destroying her faith, this only deepened it. Out of that discovery, she founded Honest Christian Conversations. Ana's heart is to help others navigate the same tension she once lived with: wanting to know the real Jesus while sorting through the noise of deceptive teachings, spiritual manipulation, and “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Everything she creates flows from gratitude for the God who rescued her, restored her, and continues to shape her into who He intended her to be.
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