Today, on The Girl Defined Show, we are talking about the popular idea, something that a lot of you have heard of.

It's a secular, the idea of secular manifestation and girl-bossing, and how this whole movement, this whole idea, although it sounds really good,

it's not actually helping us as a society or helping us as Christian women.

And so today, on the show, I'm going to take a deep dive with my friend and popular podcast and a new author, Tara Sun.

And if you've ever heard, like, think about it.

If you've ever heard a phrase, like, you are the author of your story or create your own path, create your own destiny.

These things, they do sound really good and really compelling.

But today, we're going to unpack why they're actually completely unbiblical and completely unhelpful.

So instead of believing these lies that you can control your life, we're going to unpack what God actually says about really important things like knowing God's plan for your life.

How to find it, how to trust Him, and how to make big and small life decisions while trusting God and staying surrender to Him.

Tara, welcome to the Girl to Find Show.

Thank you so much, Chris. And I've been looking forward to this.

I love you guys so much. And I think this is going to be a perfect conversation because I know you guys will show.

And it's just a really cool God thing that it's going to fit if we talk about identity and womanhood and finding freedom in God.

So thanks for having me here.

Girl, it is our privilege and our honor to have you. And I love your new book.

So for those of you who don't know, I said in the intro, Tara, is a new author of an amazing new book that just released recently called Surrender Your Story.

Ditch the myth of control and discover freedom in trusting Christ.

And I love this. It is a near and dear to my heart kind of topic because, as you know, our most recent book was not part of the plan.

Trusting God with the twist in terms of your story. So similar themes throughout each of our books of like, how do we actually trust God?

How do we know His will for our lives? How do we surrender those unfathomable longings or the really hard things that we're walking through?

And I know you've had your story. I've had mine. And so this is a topic that not only the two of us really resonate with.

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