35: Learning to Trust Again with Stacie Taylor

In Episode 35 of The IMbetween Podcast, Daniel and Christina Im interview Stacie Taylor about how to trust again after courageously leaving an abusive relationship. 

In This Episode, You Will Hear About:

• How to trust again after being deeply hurt
• How to help your kids trust again
• The importance of learning to forgive yourself
• How God can use your brokenness and make it beautiful

Resources Mentioned During the Episode:

• Broken, Wounded, Healed: A Story of God’s Redemption by Stacie Taylor
• Stacie Taylor’s website 
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• Psalms 46:10: “Be still and know that I am God.”
• Jeremiah 29:11 – “‘For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future.”

Quotables:

• “When you are in an abusive relationship, there is a lot of fear. You don’t know what is going to happen. You live in fear.” – Stacie Taylor
• “He just had this control over me.” – Stacie Taylor
• “I want to encourage you to keep doing what you are doing because God sees you.”
• “Through our friendship, I saw Jesus in him; I felt an unconditional love through our friendship.” – Stacie Taylor
• “Of course I had a desire to find love again, but I felt too ashamed to even ask God for this.” – Stacie Taylor
• “I knew whatever choice I made, it was going to be what God desired for me and not what I desired for myself.” – Stacie Taylor
• “When he asked me out, I was terrified. But, I knew he had a relationship with God and we both shared the same desire to live out God’s plans for our lives.” – Stacie Taylor
• “I had never experienced this type of unconditional love through a person. He was showing me Jesus.” – Stacie Taylor
• “The closer my relationship with Jesus became, the more I found I could trust God’s protection over me.” – Stacie Taylor
• “Even though God had provided for me, He still had to prove to me over and over that He was going to care for me and protect us.” – Stacie Taylor
• “I believe my kids watching my interactions with Brant gave them a sense of security.” – Stacie Taylor
• “A women’s heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him to find her first.” – Maya Angelou
• “You have to forgive yourself.” – Stacie Taylor
• “I have allowed God to take my brokenness and turn it into something beautiful.” – Stacie Taylor
• “There is no place that God cannot redeem.”

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Meet Stacie Taylor:

As a survivor of domestic violence, Stacie reveals her story of brokenness and her ultimate healing through her faith in Jesus Christ. Through her story, she hopes to not only raise awareness of domestic violence, but also to reveal the complete power of our Heavenly Father. Her desire is to tell the world of the GREATEST LOVE, Jesus.