The Living Story: A Podcast for Women Ready to Heal, Become, and Believe.
Rewrite the story you're telling yourself and discover the one God is writing.
The Living Story is a podcast for women who feel like something is missing in their healing, their identity, or the story they have been told about who they are.
Hosted by Tennille Martinez, a teacher, storyteller, and woman of faith.
Each episode weaves together scripture, personal reflection, and honest spiritual insight to explore the moments when life feels confusing, painful, or unfinished and how faith, even the smallest, most uncertain kind, can meet you right there.
Whether you are new to faith and still figuring out what you believe, or you have been walking with God for years and need a space to go deeper, there is a chapter here for you.
From healing after heartbreak to understanding your worth, trusting your purpose, and becoming the woman you were created to be, The Living Story is for any woman ready to stop surviving her story and start living it.
If you are searching for a podcast about faith, healing, identity, and becoming, welcome. The chapters you least understand are often the ones that change everything.
You don't just read stories. You are one.
The Living Story: A Podcast for Women Ready to Heal, Become, and Believe.
S3 E9 | Overcoming Perfectionism in Work, Relationships, and Faith
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Perfectionism promises peace but leaves us exhausted.
In this episode of The Living Story, I share the quiet ways perfectionism shows up in our lives at work, in relationships, and in our faith, and how to finally let it go.
Through the sharp precision of Lessons in Chemistry’s Elizabeth Zott, the striving of Martha in Luke 10, the résumé of Paul, and the failure of Peter, we discover why God never asked us to be flawless, only faithful.
I also share personal stories from my classroom, my church kitchen, and this very podcast, where I struggled with trying to get everything “just right.”
If you have ever carried the weight of other people’s emotions, felt pressure to prove your worth, or hidden your “in-progress” self, this conversation is for you.
By the end, you will walk away with:
✅ Practical journal prompts to expose perfectionist lies
✅ Reflection steps to release what is not yours to carry
✅ Encouragement to choose presence over performance
It is time to stop striving for perfection and start resting in God’s presence.
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