And it's really hard to have our reputations go downhill.

It took me years to let go of that.

I really went through a period of deep mourning.

But once I got to that self-acceptance that I am a good person who loves God, who wants to be a follower

of Jesus.

That's not what is shifting for me.

And for others, those things may have shifted for them, and they will come to their self-acceptance

maybe with a different list of things for themselves.

But I finally stopped feeling the need to share my story with so many,

and I just, in some ways, threw up my hands, and I was like, people are just going to misunderstand me.

Hi, I'm Susan Hinkley.

And I am Cynthia Winward.

And this is at last she said it.

We are women of faith discussing complicated things. And the title of today's episode is, Who Deserves to Hear My Story?

This is a question that we get from listeners a lot is how do they know when they should tell what's going on with them and who should they tell?

And so we kind of wanted to talk about it today because it's pretty important when things start getting shifty in your life. It can feel so destabilizing that it's pretty important when things start getting shifting in your life. It can feel so

destabilizing that it's you're looking for something solid to grab onto. It's like when you're in an

earthquake and you want to hit the ground and just hold on. It feels like that sometimes when

things start moving around. So that's what we're going to talk about today.

Well, as someone who grew up in earthquake country, we were always taught like get in a stable

doorway and hold tight. So I feel like that's what women are trying to do. They're trying to grab onto

something that's really firm and hold on. And sometimes they think that will happen

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