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A listener note before you press play. This conversation includes the loss of a family member to violence.

Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Melissa Turner.

She spent almost eight years as a retail pharmacist. She still dreams about that store. Both drive thru lanes full, a line at the register, two phones ringing, closing time coming, and no way out.

Then came November 30, 2018.

She had gone in early to get everything set before the doors opened. A phone call came. Her sister Katie had been shot and killed by their uncle in their grandmother's house. He killed Katie's boyfriend too.

Five days later they held the funeral on what would have been Katie's twenty sixth birthday. They sang Happy Birthday and then they said goodbye.

She stayed at that job another two and a half years. Almost two years to the day after Katie died, she was at work again when she found out her father had died. Then the pandemic. That was the end of it.

She was angry at God, and she says so plainly. Then came the harder question. How do you come back to Him after you have been mad at Him?

She came back slowly. Her husband pastors their church, and for years her schedule meant she was rarely in it. Once she left the pharmacy she could be there every Sunday. She started a women's Bible study she had always wanted. She started writing again, a couple sentences at a time, a verse and a short prayer.

She built on that.

Now she helps Christian women heal their nervous systems and renew their minds through scripture. She brings the science with her, because she says a woman needs to understand that she is not weak willed. Her nervous system has been running survival for years, and it will choose the familiar hell over the unfamiliar heaven every time until she gives it something new.

The work she does is about capacity. Not reaching a finish line where nothing hurts anymore, but being able to hold joy, grief, disappointment, and anger without collapsing or exploding.

She is honest that she still uses these tools on herself. She describes something that happened just this week that pulled up the old feeling of being forgotten, and she walks through exactly what she did with it.

Her book Rooted in Prayer is in progress, built around the six parts of the Lord's Prayer. She is also co hosting a new podcast for Christian healthcare professionals with Todd Urie of the Pharmacy Podcast Network.

She is offering listeners a free survival mode assessment, about twenty four questions to show where you are and what is running underneath. Find it here,

Connect with Melissa at turnaroundwellness.com, on Instagram at turnaroundwellnessnc, and on Facebook at Turnaround Wellness.

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