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God Hears Her Podcast

Breaking Free of Shame (Jess Connolly)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Bible, Christianity, Womensbiblestudy, Womensministry, Female, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Society & Culture

4.9 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Guest Bio: Jess Connolly is a woman who wants to leave her generation more in awe of God than she found it. She is passionate about family, God's Word, and seeing women take their place in the Kingdom. She's an author, a church leader, and a coach. Her books include You Are the Girl for the Job, Breaking Free from Body Shame, and her newest release, Tired of Being Tired. Jess is the founder of Go + Tell Gals and helped start She Reads Truth. She and her husband, Nick, planted Bright City Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where they live with their four children.  

 

Show Summary: It can be easy to struggle with body image, feeling like we’re not enough, or feeling exhausted by our day-to-day life. Jess Connolly wants to recharge you and share how to shake off the shame! Join hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they learn how to break free from shame during this God Hears Her conversation. 

 

Notes and Quotes:  

“I had this really strong understanding early on that the Gospel is the best thing about me. That people that had tidier lives still needed God, that the messy parts of my life did not disqualify me from His love, from ministry, from calling, from any of those things.” —Jess Connolly 

 

“I’m thankful for the victory and the vision that pain afforded me.” —Jess Connolly 

 

“If John says, ‘if the Son has set you free, you are free indeed,’ how much of that do I get to experience here on earth? How much of that do I get to experience as it pertains to my body?” —Jess Connolly 

 

“If You created our bodies as good, do we spend the rest of our lives trying to make them good, or can we spend the rest of our lives agreeing that they’re good? If so, what would that look like? What would it look like to stop trying to make my body good and instead just come into alignment with the truth that it already is? That’s what breaking body shame is about for me.” —Jess Connolly 

 

“For many of us, we don’t know where we end and where He begins. We don’t know what we’re responsible for and what He’s responsible for. We’ve somehow bought this lie that we graduate from needing Him—but I don’t want to get over that. I still want to be a girl that acknowledges that I need God.” —Jess Connolly 

 

 

Verses:  

2 Corinthians 12:9 

 

John 20:11-18 – Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene 

 

Luke 8:2 – Jesus healing Mary Magdalene  

 

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0:00.0

And so I just kind of started to ask, if John says, if the son has set you free, you are free indeed, how much of that do I get to experience here on earth?

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You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning

0:22.6

truth that God hears you. Join our community of encouraging one another and learning to

0:28.3

lean on God through scripture, story, and conversation at God hearsher.org. God hears her.

0:36.1

Seek and she will find. So, Aaron, you know how passionate I am about

0:44.6

impacting generation after generation. I mean, I'm old now, and it's not about me like it ever was,

0:50.1

but, you know, it's about passing things down generation to generation so that we create a legacy that continues to live on for Jesus.

0:59.6

And today we're going to be talking with a woman who's just as passionate about that.

1:04.0

She's in a different generation than me.

1:06.1

So that's really cool.

1:07.4

And really specifically wants to talk today with us about struggles that women have

1:12.3

issues being super tired body image eating disorders inadequacy etc but this is who it is

1:18.9

dun dun dun bing you ready yes I am that was a really good setup this is Jess Connolly

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and she is an author and a church leader and a coach. And her books are

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exactly what I just described about helping women break free. One of them's, you were the girl for the

1:38.0

job, one's breaking free from body shame. And her newest one is tired of being tired. She's the founder of Go and Tell Gals. She also

1:46.7

helped start. She reads truth and we've had those gals on with us before. So that's super fun.

1:53.2

So hey, welcome. Jess, we're so glad you're here. Oh, thank you guys. It's my joy to be here.

1:59.1

Thank you so much for your work. And thanks so much for

2:01.6

just inviting me into the conversation. I'm grateful. Jess, I'm so grateful that you so boldly

2:06.9

empower women to learn to love themselves so that they can love their communities. So you just think

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that's really great. Oh, my joy. How did you get to the place where you understood that there's

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