We all carry expectations — of love, marriage, family, purpose, and the life we thought we’d be living by now. But what happens when reality doesn’t match the picture you prayed for? What happens when the timeline you built in your head collapses beneath your feet? For many of us, disappointment has been one of […]
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A Spiritual Reset Before the Year Ends As this year winds down, many of us are carrying weights we never planned to pick up. Between government changes, financial strain, personal losses, and family disruptions, our hearts have absorbed more than we talk about. And just like we detox our hair, our bodies, and even our
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When it comes to finding identity and confidence, today’s teens are facing pressures like never before. Social media, peer expectations, family standards, and society’s constant comparisons can make it hard to truly know who you are. That’s what makes voices like Jamesia Nicholson so important. In this episode of the IBAJ Podcast, we sit down
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“True healing begins when the mind, body, and spirit learn to work together again.” This October on It’s Been a Journey, we explored what it really means to recover — not just survive — after life-altering pain.The Mind, Body, & Spirit Recovery Series brought together three powerful stories of trauma, faith, and transformation: Each story
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Family… this one is personal and powerful.On this episode of It’s Been a Journey, we sit down with LaShawn Poole, a woman whose story reminds us that healing doesn’t always start with an answer — sometimes it begins with a question. For LaShawn, that question was born in middle school:“Who is my dad?” It was
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By Shenelle Ball-Green, host of It’s Been a Journey Podcast When Healing Goes Deeper Than the Mind Healing isn’t just about moving on — it’s about retraining the body, renewing the mind, and restoring the spirit.For years, I thought freedom came with the end of a marriage or the closing of a painful chapter. But
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Guest Brandon Fisher Family, let me first encourage you — no matter where you are or what you’ve been through, God still has a plan for your life. Sometimes what should have taken us out becomes the very thing that wakes us up. If you’re reading this and carrying pain in your body or your
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By Shenelle Ball-Green, Host It’s Been a Journey Podcast Have you ever realized that sometimes the greatest prison isn’t around you—it’s within you? Over the past few weeks on the It’s Been a Journey Podcast, we’ve taken a hard, honest walk through what it means to hold ourselves hostage. We dug deep into the stories
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Shenelle Ball-Green, Host It’s Been a Journey Podcast Climax of the Holding Yourself Hostage Series with Prophetess Sharon Robinson-Thomas) Family, lean in. Over these past weeks we’ve taken a hard, honest walk through our personal Egypts. We’ve named the chains, we’ve called out the comfort zones that felt safe but kept us small, and we’ve
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By Shenelle Ball-Green Host It’s Been a Journey Podcast We’re still walking through our series Holding Yourself Hostage. Tonight’s episode is Breaking Emotional Chains — From Bondage to Promise. Here’s the truth: when God delivered the Children of Israel from Egypt, the chains on their wrists were gone, but the chains in their hearts and
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