We don't grow in the dark, growth happens in the light.

I'm challenging you to come out of hiding, to shed secrets, to step beyond shame.

I'm challenging you to stand in the light of truth.

Why go to therapy because it's defined work?

When you are emotionally healthy, you are more powerful spiritually.

You're now listening to the In the Light podcast hosted by Dr. Anita Phillips.

Hey, hey, hey in the light fam. This is Dr. Anita.

And I am back a little bit late this week for my Monday listening family.

I apologize. I tell you the weekend was so full.

We came off of the final, the grand finale of the Woman Without Art Loosed conference.

I should say the Woman Without Art Loosed movement because for 30 years it has changed the lives of countless women.

And I am one of them and I want to take a minute to honor Bishop T.D. Jakes for birthing such an incredible, incredible movement.

I absolutely love to tell people that I count Woman Without Art Loosed as the truly first mental health movement in the church, particularly in the African American church because it started with Bishop Jakes teaching a Sunday school lesson series to women who had survived sexual abuse.

And nobody was talking about that at church 30 years ago.

I know because I've been in church my whole life and I am more than 30 years old, I promise.

And so really, you know, he was laying the foundation and charting the course for the work that I'm doing now and other therapists who are Christians are having increased opportunities to do now.

So grateful for all that Woman Without Art Loosed has been and the grand finale, homecoming conference in Atlanta was nothing short of extraordinary.

And as the Woman Without Art Loosed movement came to a close, Bishop so powerfully commended us to evolve.

And so we are already in love with the Woman Of All family, which is my family and already in love with Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts, who I adore as a minister and as a person and as a friend.

But I am super excited to watch whatever God is going to do next with Woman Evolve as it also expands to be the umbrella under which the legacy that has been Woman Without Art Loosed comes under.

And it's just, I'm just excited and the weekend was crazy. The speakers, the lineup, oh my gosh, I mean to get to be able to listen to people like Marissa Farrow and Priscilla Shire and Bishop Jackie McCullough and the worship Tasha Cobb was there, Phantasia was there, it was mind blowing so much, so much.

And I just loved every minute of it. Then flew home on Saturday night, tried to stay awake on the plane and do some work but absolutely passed out.

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