Have you ever known there was more in you, but for some reason, you keep holding yourself back?

You know God has given you gifts. You know there are things you’re capable of doing. You may even have opportunities right in front of you, but something inside keeps telling you that you’re not quite good enough, ready enough, talented enough, or whatever enough.

I know that feeling.

In this episode, I’m sharing something I’ve been recognizing in my own life through my relationship with music and singing. I’ve been singing practically my whole life, and yet somewhere along the way, I started believing that other people were better than me. No one necessarily told me that. It was a story I told myself, believed, and eventually started living from.

And that story did more than affect how I saw my talent. It affected the opportunities I was willing to accept. I actually auditioned for a lead role in high school, got the part, and turned it down because being in the background felt safer than being seen.

Sometimes what keeps us from becoming who God created us to be isn’t what’s happening around us. It’s what’s happening within us.

The lies we’ve believed. The wounds we’ve buried. And the tactics we’ve learned to protect ourselves that may have once felt safe, but are now keeping us small.

This episode is about beginning to recognize those patterns and asking whether the identity you’ve been living from is actually who you are, or simply who you learned to be.

Because maybe you really are enough. Maybe you really do have enough. And maybe God really has created you for more.

Life Work

Identify three things:

One lie you’ve been telling yourself.
One wound you’ve been hiding.
One tactic you’ve been using to protect yourself that may no longer be serving you.

Then see if you can find the thread connecting them.

What have they caused you to believe about who you are? And what might change if you started believing that you really are enough, you really do have enough, and God has actually created you for more?