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11/12/2023

This was the most life changing week of my life! Murray Method level 2 completed 🙌🏻 I connected with some of the most incredible, brilliant people I’ve ever met, I was challenged, I learned so much, and I had the unbelievable privilege of sitting under the teaching of Marilynn Murray herself! What an honor and joy it was to attend this training 🤍

10/14/2023

Humans are wired for connection! One vital step in producing meaningful, satisfying relationships is building a solid foundation of trust. Trust starts with empathy. Seeking to truly know someone and understand them is key to building trust. If you’re feeling misunderstood, invalidated, or seeing a lack of reciprocity in a relationship, it may be a good time to evaluate the aspect of trust within the relationship. It always helps to process with a trusted friend or counselor! May your relationships be rich in trust and your hearts full with connection and intimacy 🙏🏻🤍

09/09/2023

Repression of feelings affects our minds as well as our bodies. I encourage you today to think about finding some safe spaces to open up your pain and take a look at it. Baby step by baby step, hand in hand, with a safe person, whether that’s a trusted counselor or a dear (safe) friend. Your feelings deserve to be heard, understood, and validated. You were created to be seen, known, and loved 🤍

07/25/2023

Cultivating safety in relationships is fundamental to healing and growth. We cannot do life alone! If you are interested in finding someone to walk you through cultivating safety and trust and making deep, authentic connections I would be honored to journey alongside you 🤍

04/29/2023

Have you ever thought about how everyone has locks on their doors? Even people who live in the safest neighborhoods in the country still have locks on their doors. Why? Because everyone needs basic boundaries to protect themselves.

You get to decide who has access to your home. You get to decide what hours of the day you prefer your doors to be locked. You have full control over the lock on your door.

In the same way, every person needs emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial boundaries. These are meant to protect us from harm, burnout, negative consequences, and many other things. Even the best things need boundaries around them in order to keep them good!

If someone kicked in your door and broke your lock, the alarm would go off to notify you that there’s an intruder. Similarly, your body will alert you when someone kicks through a boundary you have. It is important to become aware of these feelings when they come up, so you know what you want to allow and not allow. When you know where your boundaries fall, you can appropriately communicate with people about what you are willing to tolerate and what you are not willing to tolerate.

For example: if my husband were to start yelling at me, my internal alarm system would go off. I would then say something like “I can’t hear you when you speak to me that way and I’m not willing to stay in the room while you’re yelling. I’m going to walk outside and do some deep breathing. I’m willing to resume this conversation when you can communicate what you need without yelling.”

It’s really hard work to establish boundaries and have the support needed to uphold them! I would love to be the one to support you on your journey of learning to love and care for yourself, because you’re worth it! You can message me here or go to www.olivetreeministries.net for more info 🤍🤍

04/19/2023

God has always loved us SO much that it was worth it.

The Father dug His hands into the dirt to form man in His image because it was worth it to Him.

Jesus Christ endured the agony of the cross on our behalf because it was worth it to Him.

The Holy Spirit was sent to dwell in us and bear with us in all things because it was worth it to Him.

God knows all things and He is sovereign over all things. He knew we would reject Him. He knew we would doubt Him. He knew we would try to replace Him. He knew all these things… yet it was worth it to Him.

Beloved, rest in this. It is absolute truth that God loves you with such fierce love, that nothing you could ever do makes you not worth it to Him. His love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres 🤍

04/11/2023

To become your best self, you need safe people in your life. Regardless of how independent you feel, no one can thrive fully without healthy relationships. God has designed us to need other people.

04/08/2023

If we do not realize what we are responsible for and what we are NOT responsible for, we can suffer from symptoms like over-responsibility. We will not carry our own load (Gal. 6:5), because we are too busy carrying the load of others. In this typical codependent behavior, we feel so responsible for others that we do not deal with our own pain and life.

04/07/2023

Let’s say I have a friend who needs to borrow 50 dollars from me, but I only have 5 dollars. I cannot give them the full 50 dollars, all I can give is 5. Even if I desperately want to give my friend that 50 dollars, I can only access and give what I have ownership of.

The same concept applies emotionally:

You cannot give someone more love than you have for yourself. You cannot give someone more compassion than you have for yourself. You cannot give someone more care than you give yourself. You can give people love, compassion, respect, care and so on, but only to the degree that you have ownership over these things in your own life.

How can you love someone in their brokenness if you do not love yourself despite your brokenness?

How can you truly care for someone else when you have not tended to your own needs first?

How can you have grace and compassion on someone else when you condemn and shame yourself every time you fall short?

When we pull all of the compassion, grace, love, respect, and care out of our emotional toolbox and we use it to mend other people while we neglect ourselves, we are not actually being any of the things we truly desire to be. Why? Because, in essence, we are handing people fake 50 dollars bills.

The more you neglect yourself and give out what you do not already possess, the easier it becomes to burnout and become resentful of everyone you are giving to.

This would be a good time to gently examine yourself and see where you may be trying to give people things that you don’t have. Again, be gentle with yourself; you are doing the best you can with what you have! It’s okay to be where you’re at, just don’t stay there forever 🤍

I would love to walk with you on your journey towards self-awareness and growth! Please feel free to reach out on social media or visit www.olivetreeministries.com to connect with me.

Let’s walk together on this journey towards taking ownership of the things we need and want in our own lives so we have more to give 🤍

04/04/2023

When you build a fence around your yard, you don't build it to figure out the boundaries of your neighbor's yard so that you can dictate how he should behave. You build it around your own yard so that you can maintain control of what happens to your own property. Boundaries do the same.

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321 W McKnight Drive
Murfreesboro, TN
37129

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http://www.olivetreeministries.net/

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