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10/19/2026

🌿 EPISODE 38: LEAVING WHAT WAS FOR WHAT CAN BE

Sometimes we live in service to an ending we are still trying to create—waiting for someone to change, acknowledge the harm, or give us the love we needed before we can finally find peace.

Today on Compelled Live: Head to Heart, we’ll build on last week’s conversation about healing the original wounds and explore grief as a bridge into what can be.

Releasing those expectations can be deeply painful. When healing feels stalled, we may conclude that we are too messed up to heal, without recognizing the grief involved in letting go of what we hoped would finally make us okay.

Accepting what was and receiving God’s love can bring sadness and pure hope together. His love can reveal how much we needed that was never offered.

Grace is the superpower to the human heart—a grand invitation to be, to feel, to release, and to receive. Jesus welcomes us into the family of God, a home where love, worth, and security are freely offered. Learning to trust that love is deeply personal work.

It’s a new story—one that doesn’t negate what happened, but recycles everything for our good and God’s glory.

🕘 TODAY | 9 AM Pacific / 12 PM Eastern

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10/12/2026

HEALING THE FRACTURED HEART

Some of our deepest pain comes from seasons when we needed love and safety—and neither was available. We learned to keep going, while parts of our experience became compartmentalized, carrying feelings, needs, and beliefs we could not process at the time.

In our upcoming Compelled Live: Head to Heart class, Stephanie Tucker will continue the conversation on healing trauma by exploring the wounded and fractured places that carry our original story.

We’ll look across the different stages of life to recognize where we felt unloved, unsafe, unseen, or alone—and identify what our hearts needed in those moments.

Together, we’ll explore:

• How our life story helps us understand present-day responses
• The wounded places we learned to silence or disconnect from
• The needs for love, safety, acceptance, and belonging beneath survival
• Why healing requires safety, compassion, and time
• Bringing our whole story into the presence and care of Jesus

Your story had a human beginning and a human response—but it’s not the final story. The final story is God’s heart, His grace, and His power entering into what was broken. Jesus is not just a part of our story—He rewrites our story for our good and His glory.

Join us Monday, October 12, at 9 AM Pacific / 12 PM Eastern.

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09/28/2026

🎙️ COMPELLED LIVE: HEAD TO HEART
Episode 35 — The Truth in Triggers - LIVE TODAY!
Triggers can feel like an unwanted intruder that hold us hostage to their relentless control over us. And this becomes even more difficult when our responses are entangled with the triggers with the people close to us. Although learning how survival plays out is important and part of the awareness journey, there comes a point when we have to explore even further – and understand the root that causes the trigger to begin with. Our system is programmed – it only knows whether we are safe or feel insecure or unsafe. And over time, it cannot tell the difference between what’s happening now versus what is trapped in our past memory bank.
Thus, as much as don’t like it, triggers give us a road map. They begin to paint a picture of what we’ve been through and can help begin to unlock the chambers of what’s buried within.
This week, we’re going beyond how we get triggered and how we survive. We’re looking at the why—the original root beneath the response.
This is the remarkable truth of trauma, it is trying to protect us when in actuality we can learn new ways of managing the past hurt and create a culture of love, grace and safety. Is it easy? Not at all. It takes awareness, kindness, regulation tools and deep courage. But there is always a reason for a trigger. And because of that, there is a way to rewire our brain, our heart and our mind!
Join us TODAY Monday at 9:00 AM Pacific / 12:00 PM Eastern.
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Want to catch up with past episodes?
Episode 34 — Justice System of Heaven
https://youtu.be/57pV70H1wdo
Episode 33 — Mother and Father Wounds
https://youtu.be/QJyRP-Ay3b4
Episode 32 — When Broken Is Bo***ge
https://youtu.be/9Xge3iuX1m4
Episode 31 — Costumes of Survival
https://youtu.be/6SF-JV8NO6M
Episode 30 — The Unbelievable Truth
https://youtu.be/ATyCkk8OQIc
Episode 29 — Connection and Protection
https://youtu.be/JXNysgqjyjU
Episode 28 — Formation, Part 1
https://youtu.be/2xZ_vs4Xs2U
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09/26/2026

✨ Jesus has overcome, and through Him, we can overcome too. 🙌

The lies, the fear, the shame, the sadness, and the survival mode that once held us captive do not have the final say. 💔➡️❤️ Jesus came to carry not only the weight of our own mistakes, but also the wounds and pain caused by others.

Through His resurrecting power ✝️⚡, He offers a path to freedom, healing, and transformation. There’s a "snip, snip, snip" ✂️ of every negative influence when we surrender our lives to Him and invite Him into the places that need His touch the most.

🕊️ The breakthrough begins when we simply open the door and say: "Jesus, go ahead. Have it."

He is able to do what we cannot do on our own. 🙏✨

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09/24/2026

✨ Come as you are. ✨

There is a place of safety, love, and acceptance where you don't have to perform, strive, or pretend. God's invitation is simple: "Come exactly as you are and fall into My arms."

💖 He is our protector.
💖 He is our healer.
💖 He is our friend.
💖 He is our Father.
💖 He is our Redeemer.

So often we focus on what we need to do, but the Kingdom of Heaven is not about performance. It is about relationship. An intimate, life-changing relationship with a Father who sees you, knows you, loves you, and gently holds together the broken pieces of your heart. 🙏✨

Today, let yourself rest in His presence. Let yourself be loved. Let yourself be known. ❤️

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✨🙏❤️🕊️💫

09/23/2026

(Reposted from Robert Tucker)

Victory is a choice….

If there is a breadth of life left, there is hope…. and help is available. Don’t wait until it’s too late! 🙏🏻

“I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life…”
Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door…”
Revelation 3:20 (KJV)

Thank you Jesus for providing a way out. Lord, please pull back the vail and let those still spiritually blind… see You for who You really are. Let them experience you! ❤

09/17/2026

Our earliest relationships shape how we experience love, safety, connection—and often how we perceive God. When a mother or father could not provide the nurture, protection, affirmation, or attachment we needed, those wounds can remain active inside us long after childhood has ended.

In this class, we explore the mother and father wound through the Inner House model. We look at how unmet needs in the basement form distorted beliefs, how those beliefs develop into survival strategies on the middle floor, and how unresolved trauma can continue affecting our relationships, reactions, identity, and image of God.

But we are not merely products of what happened to us.

God does not ask us to deny our pain, excuse harmful behavior, or remain in toxic relationship systems. He invites us to face the truth of what happened while refusing to remain bound to blame, bitterness, shame, or the need for another person to change before we can heal.

In this teaching, you will learn:

• How mother and father wounds shape attachment and identity
• Why the nervous system can mistake familiarity for safety
• How childhood trauma continues cycling through adult relationships
• The difference between the wounded orphan and the survival strategies built around that pain
• Why awareness is necessary—but awareness alone is not healing
• How unresolved trauma can distort our perception of God
• Why healthy boundaries and honoring our parents are not mutually exclusive
• How guilt and shame keep both wounded children and regretful parents trapped
• Why we do not need another person’s apology or acknowledgment in order to become free
• How connection with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit begins restoring what human relationships could not provide

Your parents may have influenced your human formation, but they do not have the final authority over your identity. You are not your trauma. You are not your worst moment of survival. You are not permanently defined by what someone gave—or failed to give—you.

You are a chosen child of God, invited out of survival and into the safety, love, belonging, and freedom of His Kingdom.

“Even if my father and mother abandon me, the LORD will hold me close.” —Psalm 27:10 NLT

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09/15/2026

✨ The gift of choice is one of the greatest gifts God has given us. ✨

🙌 Every day, we have the opportunity to choose life, freedom, and God's ways over fear, control, and self-reliance.

🌿 True surrender begins when we release the need to manage, fix, or control ourselves and others and instead give God jurisdiction over what He's entrusted to us. While that sounds simple, it's often the battle of a lifetime because surrender requires us to let go. 🤲💙

🕊️ When we live from Heaven's boundaries, we stop trying to force people into our perspective. We release the burden of fixing others and trust God to work in their hearts.

⚖️ Healthy boundaries mean allowing others the dignity of choice and the responsibility of experiencing the consequences of their decisions. That's not a lack of love. It's wisdom rooted in trust and freedom.

❤️ Freedom comes when we stop carrying responsibilities that belong to God and others, and instead walk in the peace that comes from surrendering control to Him.

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09/14/2026

How we carry and manage the pain of our past matters more than we could ever imagine. It is the pathway to freedom or the pathway to retaining pain as a way of life.

In a culture where human justice often takes center stage, we can unknowingly partner with a lie—the belief that holding tightly to the injustice will somehow make things right. But that agreement can cause us to retain our trauma rather than become free from it.

There is certainly a level of justice that is necessary, especially when deep violation or physical harm has occurred. That is one reason we have a court system in America. But I am talking about what happens within our hearts when we remain consumed by the question, “But was it fair?”

There are vital keys to Kingdom Living that help us understand why our agreements matter—and why the way we continue to view and carry our past hurts matters.

Trauma can keep us living in the fear, guilt, and shame of the past because our system believes the threat has never been resolved. It is as though the case has remained open and we never received closure. As a result, we may continue reacting and surviving as though the harm is still happening.

Not all of us are holding on to anger toward others. Some of us have chosen to blame ourselves. We spend our lives trapped in self-hatred and self-punishment—and honestly, this can be even more damaging.

It is all a lie—and it is keeping you from freedom!

Today, we will talk about how forgiveness helps us release the past without denying its impact, excusing what happened, or pretending that justice does not matter. Forgiveness opens the door for us to begin moving toward genuine healing and freedom.

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09/12/2026

✨ Self-hatred is not humility. Self-derogation is not spirituality. God's love tells a completely different story. ✨

❤️ Too many people have believed the lie that thinking poorly of themselves is somehow godly. But the truth is, there is absolutely no benefit in self-hatred, self-rejection, or self-derogatory thinking. None. 🚫

📖 The entire New Testament is a revelation of God's incredible love for you. A perfect, unmerited love that reaches into every part of your life and invites your heart, mind, body, and soul under its healing influence. ✝️✨

🌿 God created you for love. Not just to experience it occasionally, but to live from it at the deepest level of your being. Every part of who you are was designed to be nourished, aligned, and restored through His love. ❤️‍🩹

🙌 When we embrace God's perspective of us, we begin to reject the lies of shame, self-rejection, and unworthiness. We stop agreeing with what the enemy says about us and start agreeing with what God says about us.

💙 You were never created to live under the weight of self-hatred. You were created to be transformed by the perfect love of the Father.

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