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What happens when you spend years surviving a life you were never meant to stay trapped inside?

In this deeply personal episode of Life’s Deceit™, I sit down with Dr. Jen Hewson, author of Gut Instincts: Listening to the Gut — A Journey of Breaking, Healing, and Returning Home to God, for a conversation about trauma, survival, forgiveness, faith, and finding your way back to yourself.

Dr. Jen takes us back to the little girl who learned far too early what it felt like to be unseen and unwanted. She opens up about growing up around alcoholism and abuse, running away as a teenager, searching for love and belonging, and the years she spent numbing what she had never learned how to heal.

But this conversation is not only about what happened to her.

It is about what happened inside of her because of it.

We talk about the moment survival stops protecting you and starts imprisoning you. We unpack radical forgiveness, the emotions we bury, the ways unresolved pain can affect how we experience our bodies, and why healing sometimes requires us to revisit the parts of ourselves we thought we had already moved beyond.

Dr. Jen also shares how her relationship with God transformed her understanding of her past, her mother, forgiveness, and ultimately herself. Her journey reminds us that healing is not a destination. There can always be another layer, another truth, another part of ourselves asking to be seen.

This episode asks a difficult question:

How much of the life you are living today was built by the version of you who was simply trying to survive yesterday?

This is a conversation about breaking, healing, forgiving, becoming, and choosing what gets carried forward.

Because sometimes finding your way home has nothing to do with a place.

Sometimes, home is the person you were always meant to become.

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