A Harmonious Life w/ Tatianna Merritt

Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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W.E. could either hope for a well-balanced life or truly achieve one! Here to share with our listeners how to maintain harmony is guest co-host Tatianna Merritt. As a wife, mom of four, content creator, and influencer, she tells of the constant need to retreat and seek peace through Christ. Our girl SJR kept it real and said even the "good" things threaten to distract us from who W.E. have the potential of becoming & Sis, W.E. felt that for somebody! Tuning into this episode will have you hanging onto individuality and prioritizing your faith, so go ahead & get into it! This show is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/EVOLVE and get on your way to being your best self!

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0:00.0	God can't bless who you pretend to be or who you compare yourself to.
0:04.6	He can only bless you and the lane that was created for you.
0:08.7	I feel that for somebody.
0:12.1	You don't need no edge entity. You need boundaries. What? I don't need your likes. I don't need your elevation.
0:19.0	All I need is a God fighting for me that's there all things, all things.
0:25.0	All things.
0:27.0	Child.
0:29.0	Girl, listen, one of the things that I'd be struggling with I don't know if you struggle with them is trying to be consistently balanced in every area of my life
0:39.5	If I'm working out I'm not eating right if I'm eating right I'm not right. If things are good with the husband, the kids are falling apart.
0:46.0	Things are good with the kids. The husband is like, girl, where are you? I haven't seen you in forever.
0:50.0	Where's the girl that I met in 2014? I lost her. I don't know where she is.
0:53.7	Work, all of the different things that I am balancing often make me feel like I don't know
0:58.6	where to start. I don't know how to start. I don't know if I even have what it takes. And yet I take a deep breath and I remind
1:06.4	myself that consistency is achievable as long as I have my priorities in check, which means that I had to learn that putting myself as a priority
1:16.7	is not a betrayal to my priorities.
1:19.6	Oftentimes we are so busy trying to figure out what to prioritize that we don't even
1:23.7	consider that we need to be prioritized first. I remember the first time I
1:29.1	ever took a staycation. So my husband has this tea time that he goes on and it's a moment where he goes he recalibrates
1:36.5	He gets into the presence of God he spends time by himself. He's an only child until he needs time to himself to recalibrate. I wasn't an only child but I need time
1:45.2	to myself in order to recalibrate. I'm gonna be honest with you. The first time I told him I was going on
1:50.2	this vacation I was really jumping fly.
1:52.8	I was really trying to be like, you know what,
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