May 9, 2025

What Lies Are You Believing About Yourself? (Minisode)

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What lies are you believing about yourself?

The words we speak about ourselves carry more weight than we often realize. When we criticize our appearance, question our worth, or doubt the abilities God has given us, we may be repeating messages that do not reflect how God sees us.

In this minisode, I want to pause and reflect on the lies we sometimes tell ourselves—lies about our value, our identity, and our place in God’s story.

It’s easy to let negative thoughts become familiar. Over time, those thoughts can begin to feel like the truth. But when we speak harshly about ourselves, we are often criticizing the very work of the Creator who made us.

As you listen to this reflection, I encourage you to pay attention to the thoughts and words that come to mind about yourself. Are they rooted in truth, or are they shaped by fear, insecurity, or past experiences?

Sometimes the first step toward healing is simply recognizing the lies we’ve been believing and allowing God’s truth to take their place.

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00:00 - Reflecting on Healy Eichard's Episode

00:45 - Repenting for Negative Self-Talk

03:29 - Question to Consider and Mental Health

05:01 - Thanking Active Community Members

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Hey friends, welcome back to another mini-sode.

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What did you think of the episode with Healy Eichard?

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Such a phenomenal woman.

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I cannot sing her praises enough of how much I enjoyed talking to her.

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It really felt like I was in a counseling session.

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She gave me a space to talk and she gave me good wisdom back.

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I am honored that Healy came on the podcast and shared her expertise with all of us, and I don't know how it encouraged you, how it changed you, how it strengthened you, but that conversation really hit me hard in so many different ways, because self-esteem is something that I've lacked for a long time.

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As I was going through the episode you heard it I kept having epiphany after epiphany, realizing things about myself that I was doing wrong, and I mentioned it at the intro to the episode that I had to repent for something, and what I repented for was how I talk about myself in front of my children and in general, because, as she had mentioned, we are made in the image of God.

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We are his children.

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He loves us and we should not be talking like that about ourselves, because he created us.

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He made us good, that it was good when he created us.

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Yes, we have flaws yes, we make mistakes, but overall, we are good creations in his eyes and if we are his children, we have been washed by the blood of the lamb, so we are free from those blemishes.

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He doesn't see them anymore, and that really hit me.

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That really encouraged me and repentance was needed because, being transparent, I am not the nicest to myself.

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When I'm doing something wrong, I'm very negative about it.

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I'm constantly thinking how could I have said or done that better?

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I have extremely negative thoughts about the way I look.

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I mentioned it in the episode and I just needed to repent.

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And perhaps you need to repent for the way that you talk about yourself or think about yourself.

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Maybe you don't say the things out loud, but you know you're thinking them and guess who can hear your thoughts?

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God, which is the one you.

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You're sinning against when you're talking smack about yourself.

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So that really hit me hard.

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It pierced my heart and it hurt, and it's because I can see how my children are starting to say and do things that I don't want them to have this trend.

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So I've put my foot down and I've tried really hard to scale it back and I have had a different outlook on me as a person.

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Yes, if I walk by one of the mirrors we have in our hallway and I see myself in a certain outfit, I might look with a little bit of a cringe because I don't quite look the way I would like to.

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But then I just I don't sit and dwell on it anymore and I don't beat myself up over it.

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I look at where I could fix things.

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I could be working out more.

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I could stop eating certain delicious Taco Bell foods.

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You know, there's ways that I can nip that in the bud so that it's not a problem for me anymore.

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So today's question is what is it that you are telling yourself that is negative, that you need to stop doing Whatever that is?

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Repent and turn away from it and stop doing it.

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And if you aren't sure what that could be, pray and ask God to reveal it to you, and he will, because he loves us and he wants us at our best.

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And you will not be at your best as long as you are speaking lies to yourself.

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So figure out what that lie is that you're telling yourself and fill it with truth.

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Fill it with honesty and vulnerability and reality If you are making poor choices in regards to whatever that negative thing is, then you need to stop doing that too.

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Like I said, with my mouth, I need to stop talking negative about myself in front of my kids or in general, because it does not honor God.

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I am the temple of God.

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You are the temple of God If you have Holy Spirit in you.

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We are His holy temple.

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We should be a good representative of that, and talking smack about ourselves is not a good representative of that.

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So there's your question to mull over.

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Make sure you honestly take a look at this, because this is for your mental health.

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You are not healthy just because you look good on the outside.

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You have to be good on the inside as well, and sometimes getting good on the inside will eventually show up on the outside too.

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So let's work on our mental health and getting right with God so that we can be healthy and redeemed Christians.

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Right with God so that we can be healthy and redeemed Christians.

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Before we go today, I wanted to do a special thank you to some people who have been very active in the Honest Christian Conversations community lately.

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Thank you to Remy Roy, desiree Taylor, kathy Garland, carl Swanback, adam Jameson, jacqueline Withers and Renee Black.

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You all have been such an encouragement to me lately, giving me your feedback on how the episodes have impacted you, giving me your ideas for future topics.

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I'm talking to you, adam.

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Thank you for all the different ideas.

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I will be looking into those for future seasons.

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Thank you for the friendship that I have with you, desiree and Remy.

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Thank you, kathy Garland, for your wisdom in regards to spending time with God.

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You and Carl have been killing it in knowing a lot of that topic and going deeper with God, and I thank you for your insights that you two have been giving us.

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I thank you, renee, for being one of my oldest friends and listening to the podcast, and I'm so glad that the content has been blessing you since you have been going through this grieving process of losing your brother.

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I am so blessed that God is using me and the podcast to speak into your life what he wants you to know.

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And, jacqueline, you have been killing it with sharing the podcast.

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I thank you so much for that.

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Because of you, we have grown the community, because some of your friends have joined the community.

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So I thank you so much for that and keep it up For everyone else who has been in the community and you haven't been active yet.

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Get active, and maybe I will give you a shout out on the podcast sometime too.

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With that, thank you so much for listening to this episode.

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