S15.5 Ep271: Am I Too Broken to Be Loved? Stuck in Self-Sabotage and Shame | Chris Cook

Heart of Dating

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Relationships

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today’s episode features Chris Cook opening up about grief, rejection, and his journey with chronic illness, sharing how God brought redemption, healing, and deeper identity through the hardest seasons of his life—and how all of it shaped his dating story. Join School of Dating here! https://www.heartofdating.com/the-school-of-dating Join Basics of Dating! The 6-Week Program for the Christian single feeling stuck, anxious, or healing from heartbreak. https://www.heartofdating.com/basics-of-dating Love Heart of Dating Podcast? Want to support us AND be a part of the fam? Join us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/heartofdating Subscribe to our YouTube channel here! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ1PswEXEyeSddMmOSiRKGw Crushing on a cutie? Download this FREE Resource on how to show interest: https://www.heartofdating.com/resource/how-to-show-interest Want to further your dating knowledge? Check out our ultimate dating library! https://www.heartofdating.com/resource/ultimate-dating-library Kait wrote a book! Snag Thank You For Rejecting Me on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3E59cLQ Want to meet some epic Christian Singles? Join our huge HOD Family on FB! https://www.facebook.com/groups/heartofdatingpodcast Come hang with us on the gram: http://instagram.com/heartofdating http://instagram.com/kaitness https://www.instagram.com/jjtomlin/?hl=en . . . . . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.1	Mom died November 21st, 2012.
1:12.5	Nine months later, I was diagnosed with relapsing, remitting multiple sclerosis.
1:17.6	And that was like getting kicked while I was down.
1:20.9	Rejection didn't just hurt me.
1:22.7	It trained me.
1:23.6	To keep my expectations low, to stay emotionally guarded.
1:30.1	And for a long time, I didn't even recognize how much of that was influencing my dating life. When we're hypervigilant and overly
1:35.6	cautious, not from a spirit of wisdom, but from a spirit of fear, when that's not healed,
1:42.5	that becomes self-protection dressed up as wisdom.
1:46.5	None of us move through life without scars.
1:50.9	And if we allow the power of the Holy Spirit to invade our stories, those scars will tell
1:57.5	a story of his redemption and his healing.
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