Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, 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 47 of the Flying Free Podcast. Happy New Year. It's January 1st today and I'm so glad that you've decided to join us.

Today I have with me Sarah, Kim, Becky, and Rachel, and we are going to be talking about setting

goals and planning for the new year in spite of the fact that we might still be dealing with someone who has

dysfunctional behaviors in our life. So how do you take back control of the things

that you can control while letting go the things that you can't.

That's what we're going to be talking about today, so let's get started.

Okay, welcome to this podcast episode beautiful ladies.

I'm so excited that we can all, there's five of us that got together today.

This is super exciting.

And so what we're to be talking about today is

Okay, those of you who are listening we actually got together before we press the

record button and we were going around talking about what we wanted to share and this is we decided to just

press record because we're gonna we might go all over the place but this is January 1st we want to all wish you a happy new year and we, every single one of the women on this

podcast today have come out of an abusive relationship and are either remarried or are getting remarried.

So we've got three that are remarried and two are engaged. And we have some things that we want to share with you about when we were

in our abuse relationships and how we viewed going into a brand new year.

So we think of the brand new years being,

oh, this is a new chapter in my life.

And on the one hand, you can feel like it's a new chapter of my life

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