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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Cheryl Killily.

In 2019 she walked into a worship service in Wisconsin and left baptized the same night. She had not planned it. She did not even have dry clothes with her. She just knew she had to go up.

She thought God was about to restore her marriage.

A year later her husband of eighteen years asked for a divorce.

She got angry at God. Then she looked back at that night and understood. The baptism was not a promise about her marriage. It was God getting her ready for what was coming.

What came next was a lot. Her son left for college a thousand miles away and she lived alone for the first time at fifty. God called her to move to St. Louis, and she resisted it. Obeying meant closing the personal training studio she had built and loved.

She went. She did the healing work first. Therapy, journaling, long walks outside where the only voice was God's.

Then she built something.

Cheryl now leads a Facebook community of around 6,100 women and runs a sixteen week program called The Divorce Recovery Roadmap. She has taken 44 women through it so far. Her framework is called ACT. Acknowledge where you are and stop saying you are fine when you are not. Choose who you are becoming, with God. Today, because you do not need a five year plan. You need the next right step.

In this conversation she talks about the difference between speaking from your scars and bleeding on people from an open wound. She talks about showing up online without the perfect hair and the list of credentials, and why her women lean in harder when she is real. And she shares the question she asks God on the mornings she does not want to get out of bed. Who needs my gifts today.

Connect with Cheryl at changinglaneswellness.com and on Instagram at Changing Lanes Wellness.

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