Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the Flying Free

podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 125 of the Flying Free Podcast.

If you're new to this podcast, I want to warmly welcome you.

You may want to hit the subscribe button so you don't miss our weekly

episode we put these out every Tuesday's and I will continue to do that every

week without fail unless I croak and in that case they will stop coming. But until then, I will

keep providing this resource for you. And for those of you who have been listening for a long time,

welcome back. You know how much I love and appreciate you, how much

I enjoy reading your reviews and getting your questions. You are the lifeblood of this ministry,

and just by listening, you are changing the world. Did you know that?

You might be thinking that's impossible that if you're a woman stuck in an abusive relationship

and you can barely help yourself let alone help anyone else that

that's just not possible. But that's just the way we see things in the natural

world. That's how the natural world makes sense to us.

Human beings have collectively agreed that what we can see and prove and taste and touch and experience

that those are the real substance of things.

That's one of the reasons that spiritual and emotional abuse are so tricky. You can't see, prove, taste, touch, or experience those types of abuse if you aren't living in an abusive relationship and even those who are living

in abuse are unable to see it most of the time due to how they've been programmed to

believe it's actually normal or even godly.

You guys, I took a break from reading the Bible for a while,

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