Triumph Over Trauma!
Triumph Over Trauma!
Jenvon's Story: How A traumatic attack led to Advocacy and Resilience Pt.1
Have you ever held a piece of your childhood in your hand and felt its weight shape your entire life? That's the story of Jenvon, who joins us on Triumph Over Trauma to reveal how a pencil attack in her youth didn't just leave her with lead in her brain, but also with a powerful legacy of resilience. Together, we explore the harrowing journey from Jenvon's injury to her life of advocacy, highlighting the strength it takes to transform suffering into a force for good. Her story is a moving testament to the truth that God work's everything together for our good.
- What is Trauma? Trauma is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. An emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape, abuse, neglect or natural disaster.
- How to cope with Trauma Talk to a few trusted people, open up about your struggle, seek online support groups, read self-help books or practice small acts of self-care such as meditation, breathwork, yoga and exercise can help you regain some feeling of control.”
- Find a therapist Get Started (betterhelp.com)
Online Psychiatric Medication & Mental Telehealth Services - Rx Anxiety, Depression & Insomnia Treatment | Cerebral - Triumph Over Trauma Scripture: II Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be unto to God, who always causes us to Triumph in Christ....
- Books I'm reading on my healing journey.
- It Didn't Start with You! - How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes who we are, & how to end the cycle. https://a.co/d/f22BoLk
Home Coming- Thema Bryant
https://www.amazon.com/dp/059341831X/ref=cm_sw_r_em_api_i_TE4YHJQ63FA21362FP79
The Body Keeps the Score - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143127748/ref=cm_sw_r_em_api_i_HXH4RMNC329DT7VPQ5WG
2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, who always causes us to Triumph!
other people. I've had a traumatic past. I didn't always realize how those things affected me negatively and how I even carried them into my adult life, and so I wanted to create a space where other people could come and we could have candid conversations on how you identify trauma, how do you navigate it and how you recover from traumatic experiences. If this resonates with you, then join me. I am your host and trauma survivor, ms Eve McNair. Let's get into it. Join me, I am your host and trauma survivor, ms Eve McNair, let's get into it. Hey guys, what's up? Thank you so much for joining us again. At Triumph Over Trauma, the podcast Listen, we are doing a series called your Story. I opened up the opportunity to my.
Speaker 2:TikTok followers to my Instagram and basically for all my social media followers, and the response has been great.
Speaker 1:Today we welcome one of my TikTok followers named Jen Vaughn.
Speaker 2:She has a phenomenal story you don't want to miss, and so stay tuned buckle up, listen.
Speaker 1:this story was so inspiring.
Speaker 2:I mean, I felt like laughing, crying praying, all of the things being so grateful to.
Speaker 1:God for what he has done, not only in her life, but also in mine.
Speaker 2:The story was so good that we literally had to have two interviews. So what seems to be the end of the podcast is actually part one. Stay tuned, make sure you watch to the very I mean listen to the very end, because there are some additional questions that I asked Jen Vaughn. I'm sure all of you will be wondering the same thing when you hear them.
Speaker 1:So thanks so much again for joining us.
Speaker 2:All right. So, jen Vaughn, thank you so much for joining us on the show today. Welcome everybody to Triumphal Trauma the podcast. Much for joining us on the show today. Welcome everybody to try and forward trauma the podcast. We again have a special guest that is joining us today regarding our new series called your story. Jim ben's going to be sharing with us her story. So again, thank you so much, jim, that you're joining us today. Welcome to the show again.
Speaker 2:How are you? How are you feeling? I'm good. I'm feeling great. Today's a nice day, blessed. How are you? I'm doing good. Also, we're gonna go right into our. Hey, let's jump in. Let's jump in.
Speaker 2:First. I do like to have a quick word of prayer. Father, I do thank you, I do praise you, I do bless you, I do give you all the glory and all the honor and all the praise. I thank you for jim fun today for joining us. First of all, I thank you for what you have allowed her to come through, how you have been with her, how you've kept her, how you've watched over God, even to this point. We know that there are no coincidences, there's no happenstance in the kingdom of God. So we consider this intentional, we consider this moment by divine purpose. In Jesus name, we pray Amen. All right, let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 2:My first question is describe the time where you've experienced something that you would consider traumatic. So I have had epilepsy now for 35 years. I was stabbed in the eye at six years old by a classmate with a pencil. So the pencil lead cut, of course. Me being stabbed, it broke off, it lodged itself into my eye, moved to the brain and I was diagnosed with epilepsy at six in 1989. Wow, I literally walked into school as a little girl wanting to play with her classmates and came home didn't really understand the experience that was about to change my life. Right, right, I can only imagine. You know, when we talk about trauma, we talk about how it affects us. Sometimes we forget or may be quick to negate the fact that there are physical injuries that happen to us that can also be traumatic to the body, to the mind, to the soul. First of all, I'm so grateful and thankful to God that you survived that. Amen, thank you that you're here today. You look great, you sound great. I mean, I can only imagine that it is through much trial, much tribulation that you're here today. So such testimony. So can you tell me, like, what happened? Was it an accident? I don't know if it was an accident. I have to be honest. I mean I was so young, we were in the class, I mean this is 1989.
Speaker 2:So we were in a classroom setting with desk, construction papers, workbooks, crayons, markers, and my teacher at the time, miss Caldwell, was in the classroom but in a supply closet giving the rest of my peers at the time their workbook assignments. I didn't have. I had two pencils. One of my pencils broke and then I couldn't find one of them. I asked about the little guy, not little guy, but my classmate beside me. His name was Frederick Reginald, and he gave me a pencil but it was not sharpened. So I got up and I remember sharpening the pencil, but by the time I was um coming back, my teacher had already dropped off two pencils for me. Okay, so he I don't understand like why he did it, I just remember him taking the pencil he had. He kind of um stuck his foot out for me to fall and when I turned around he did like that, like a jabbing towards my back and, yeah, my classmates kind of ran. I screamed, he ran to the pain. But by the time she came from out of the supply closet I was in the bathroom looking at myself and pulling the pencil out. So she came in the bathroom, took me to the nurse. The nurse put a gauze on my eye.
Speaker 2:No one calls my parents to let them know what had happened. So when I got off the bus, my mom looks at me like what is wrong with you? She calls my dad, was stationed, we were living in Washington DC, he was in the military and, um, I let my mom know, the best of my ability, at six years old, what happened. And she called my parents. I mean, she called the school. I'm sorry. Her and dad came home early. They both called the school and the only thing they could say is, yes, she had an accident, but we don't know what happened. There was a report of an accident but they, they weren't notified. Wow, yeah, so during this. So that particular day you went through the whole entire day. Was that the beginning of the day? Okay, this was me. I want to say, like after lunchtime, so I was was.
Speaker 2:I went to the nurse, I came back to the classroom with gauze on my eye and I stayed in school the remainder of the day Wow, I did not go home. I just remember having this big piece of gauze on my face, on my eye, and I was in class. I did not go home early. When my mom saw me get off the bus, she was just as shocked as I think at six. I don't even. How do you feel at six when something like that happens to you? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I can imagine you were in pain and you were uncomfortable. Yeah, I was uncomfortable the rest of the day. And once I finally got home, my mom, my parents, called the school. I was taken to the clinic on the Air Force Base where I received 10 stitches above my left eye. No one knew that the pencil I had actually broke and lodged itself in the brain.
Speaker 2:Two weeks later I had my first grandma seizure at home, and my mom is a very spiritual person. She is the one who taught me about God and having a relationship with him. And this particular day, my babysitter at the time told my mom that I was really sleepy. I had slept all day after school and my mom was concerned and she was like okay, you know, I'll make sure I keep an eye on her once she, once we get home. So keep in mind, this is two weeks later after my incident. I get home and my mom is cleaning up, my brother is upstairs and playing Nintendo back in the day and I go upstairs but my mom said this is her story, me reciting her story. She said God told me not to let you go upstairs. Wow. So I remember her telling me lay down on the couch and I was like no, mommy. And she just said lay down, right, I'll be down. She's in the kitchen, I'm mopping. I remember her mopping and she says God told me not to let you go upstairs because I didn't know it was about to happen.
Speaker 2:But what happened was I had my first seizure, and you know this is freaking. I had seen it and my mom had never seen anything like that before. It was scary. So, of course, I was rushed to the hospital, a lot of tests done and the doctors discovered that the pencil lead was still inside of my brain, on the left side of my head the left side of my head, less of my brain and I had to have surgery. Surgery lasted for about seven, six and a six and a half to seven hours and, um, I was in the hospital at walter re almost four months.
Speaker 2:Wow, I know that's a lot, isn't it? I just want to. There's so many points I wanted to park at, I'm just laughing at it. And so you have this surgery, you're hospitalized for four months. Your family is just put into such a transition to now have to care for a child with such a condition, and so the doctors didn't inform your parents that this is something that you will suffer from. So, like at that time, there wasn't really a lot of information about epilepsy, what it does to you. So at that time, once I was diagnosed I mean the surgery was extensive, I had all my hair cut off I remember them telling my parents that I wouldn't live long, that I wouldn't be able to go to high school, college, I would be a vegetable, I would not be able to do things that my peers have done or will do, because this will dampen, this, will take a big priority of my life and has it. Yes, but you know God is good because God, even though the struggle was difficult, but he never left me.
Speaker 2:You know I was able to graduate from high school through the grace of God even by you know, principals telling me I you know when you are in high school and you have a disability and it's invisible people think there's something wrong with you so I had to fight to graduate, even though I was in the class resource classes, as we used to say and everyone in the resource class normally only gets a certificate of attendance when you have a disability.
Speaker 2:But look, I wasn't going for that and neither was my mother, so that's right. The whole two years my sophomore, my junior year, leading up to my senior year, I graduated from college with a diploma. I mean high school with a diploma. I went to college and graduated with a degree in mass communications and I worked. Unfortunately, you know, I'm not working now, but I worked for 15, 16 years doing something that I probably would have never thought that I would be doing, wow, and that was nothing but God covering me, even though the road was rough, it was always there, wow, never left my side. Clearly, I mean, I feel like there had to have been some sort of uh, mental, emotional, you know, physical effects that this had on not only you but your family. Can you speak to that like how? Oh, of course, um, so epilepsy and depression kind of run hand in hand okay, so I.
Speaker 2:I was a person who suffered silently for a really long time with depression and anxiety, not being vocal enough even to tell people that I had epilepsy, because I was embarrassed, I was ashamed, didn't want to be made fun of. I wanted my peers to accept me. Hell, I wanted the boys to like me. Right, right, you know. But now that I'm older, I realized that the steps that I was taking and the way I was moving and I was moving as a depressed person who was suffering inside, suffering, uh, trying to understand herself and understand how does she accept herself with something that isn't going away, right, right. So, um, the mental part was difficult because it took a lot of years of trying to understand, questioning God, like why did you choose me to have this happen to? Emotional, because I am taking medication for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2:The fear of the unknown, having a seizure and being out in public and having people look at you. It's definitely this isn't in a cold, like, imagine I can recall my freshman year of college and being totally embarrassed by my roommate who didn't wanna be my roommate because she thought that I had a cold like epilepsy and she can catch it. Wow, we had a whole. How should I say conference or a meeting about epilepsy? And I just felt embarrassed. So I guess to say to should I say conference or meeting about epilepsy? And I just felt embarrassed. So I guess to say, to answer your question, yes, it came with a lot of emotional. Emotional I don't want to say abuse, but emotional tolerance. How do you?
Speaker 1:deal.
Speaker 2:The mental part was learning how to understand my body with epilepsy, because I was six years old. Now I'm going through life as a teenager or an adult, trying to manage school work, and I also have to manage this big beast called epilepsy. Wow, kudos to you again for this terms. The resilience that I see exuding from you. I can I literally can feel that coming from you, and I know you know they say that the day after a traumatic experience happens, if you wake up, you have survived, right, you have literally survived the event. It's one thing to survive something like that. It's another ordeal to thrive. And it sounds like you've literally turned from a survivor to thriver, with having beat so many of the odds that they said you know were stacked against you, so many things that you supposedly would not have been able to do. I mean, just to make it out of high school, to advocate for yourself, to get your diploma and then to go on to college and work in a field for over a decade speaks volumes. I want you to speak to somebody who may be battling a physical illness, maybe even a mental illness. Speak to the ability to overcome that, to face that, and the tenacity that one may need to have in order to be successful. So the advice that I like to give, I say to myself I say never give up, believe in yourself, because those are things that I did not believe in as a young girl. Believe in yourself. Faith is important, having a support system, being around people who truly love and understand won't judge and learn how to have identity. You know, yes, I do have epilepsy, but I also have an identity outside of that, and you know, but having an outlet like journaling and us in the African-American community, we don't talk more about mental health. Come on Also, go to a therapist. God has created people in this life to help you be the best version of yourself. And I will say this going to therapy and having such a huge diagnosis at a young age, therapy is important. They'll definitely help you with tools to deal with the depression, the anxiety, the everyday life you have to go through living with a chronic illness that's invisible. So I would definitely encourage people to you know, believe in yourself.
Speaker 2:Everybody who has epilepsy or any type of chronic illness suffers differently, but having support is extremely important and everybody may not agree, but you know it took me a long time to realize this was supposed to happen to me. This was supposed to happen to me and it may sound weird, but I say that because there is no one that I believe God would have given me this burden to make into something positive, not just for me, but people who look like me, who are afraid to talk about their chronic illness, to talk about their epilepsy journey, their chronic illness, to talk about their epilepsy journey. He designed my life so. He had already knew when I was born that this was going to happen. It was up to me to figure out how I was going to maneuver, how I was going to figure out the next step, because he never tells us the path. You just have to figure it out. That's the truth. It's there. The path is there. You just have to seek him to know what it is that the purpose is for your life. That's so well said.
Speaker 2:I mean, you said so much. But what I love the most about what you said is sometimes we feel like there's no purpose to our pain and sometimes we wonder how could God allow, you know, such negative, negative things to happen to us? And you know, sometimes there is no straightforward answer. You know the negative, negative things to happen to us and you know, sometimes there is no straightforward answer. You know, the reality is that we live in a broken world and sometimes bad things happen that we are, you know, not in control of, and sometimes it's hard to come to terms with the fact that, if I'm good, how come something bad happened to me? But what I love about what you said is that God was already aware that this would happen to you and it was up to you to find not only purpose but how you could help somebody else. I love the fact that you feel as though it is now sort of your life's mission to advocate for people who have gone through certain things similar to what you have.
Speaker 2:If you had a you growing up, you know where would you have been? What are some of the struggles that you may have been able to negate? But now you, being where you are and having learned what you have, are able to offer that experience to someone else. Such a powerful way to turn around something so painful right. Such a powerful way to turn around what the enemy ultimately meant for Eve. We know that scripture all things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose. Your life is literally an example of God doing just that.
Speaker 2:So many times we can get lost in our pain, we can get lost in our struggle, and not that that's a negative thing, it's a very human experience, because everyone is asking the question in some way, shape or form God, why me? Right, and when I look back at my own life although my traumatic experiences had to do primarily with abuse, right With abandonment, neglect, rejection, rejection more emotional, um, I did, and I did suffer some sexual abuse as well. But what I love about god is he sees all right and he'll literally meet you at the point of me. Yes, absolutely, not only does he see all that, he know all, but he can help everything. There's nothing. There's nothing that you could, there's nothing that you cannot, there's nothing that he cannot. I used to hear the older people say just try God. I'm like well what do?
Speaker 2:they even mean.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. Like you know, you hear these sayings from your grandmothers, from your aunties. You know, just try God. You've tried everything else. Just try God, just try God. And I'm literally at the point where I'm trying to okay, well, let me see what you want to do about this. I'm just, I'm so grateful to hear such a testimony, just to be witnessed to what is a modern day miracle.
Speaker 2:I've read scripture in the Bible where Jesus literally healed epilepsy and some people were healed instantly, right. And when I first started to give God these areas of trauma and abuse and pain and how they had affected me mentally, emotionally, spiritually, I'm like God, let me get one of those instant miracles. You know what I mean. Like, do for me what you did for some of those person over there. But then I remember reading another scripture that said and some were healed as they went right, as they went about their lives, as they went about testifying, as they went about living, as they went about seeking god. And you know, some people could think like, well, I mean well, I gotta keep going right. But someone needs to be able to look at jevon's life and say, wow, if she canvere, if God can keep her past beyond the doctor's expectations. You know past beyond what the enemy said. What happened to her? That he could do the same thing for me? Absolutely. This is why stories like yours are important.
Speaker 2:When you talk about the healing part, it's funny because I'm 41, but I've had hundreds, hundreds of seizures, probably thousands. But when I seeked him in the way of, I need understanding, I need purpose, I need to figure out what it is that you are. You have me here, for Epidemia of epilepsy came, and also with that came nine months seizure free. Seeking him allowed me to, you know, figure out a better regimen that I probably didn't have five, ten years ago. And now that I am understanding my body, understanding my epilepsy, I am almost to my year mark. Epilepsy. I am almost to my year mark and I'm this short of God allowing me, keeping me lower, just almost. Yeah, when I tell you I have not been a year a seizure free in decades. Wow, so what type of regimen.
Speaker 2:I heard you say that there's some things that change for you, um, with these milestones. But what did you do? I heard you say that there are some things that changed for you with these milestones, but what did you do Like? Are there things that you did regarding your diet, things that you did regarding your spiritual practices? What did you do that you feel like has helped you maintain such a long time in lapsing?
Speaker 2:One thing was when I noticed, working almost two years ago, that my cognitive skills had dropped with epilepsy and I knew that it was time for me to stop working. And I feel like God. The bad things that were happening were surfaced around, like employment and work, but I was very. I didn't want to listen. I was working and still trying to push through. Once I finally had the word from my doctor that I no longer needed to work. That was a big um, that I started eating healthier.
Speaker 2:I really, really focused on a healthy lifestyle living with epilepsy. You know my eating habits changed. I go to the gym. I really try to stick to. When I say a regimen, I mean taking my medication at the same time, not missing the dose, making sure that I'm getting enough sleep, keeping my stress to a bare minimum. You know, having a support system like my support group that I have meet once a month because, dealing with epilepsy even though I may not be having seizures, I'm still dealing with a whole bunch of other stuff. So I think it's important for you to have a healthy lifestyle dealing with any type of chronic illness. If you want to be here longer, you have to take care of your body.
Speaker 2:You know, this body is for rent. But while I'm renting the body, I at least want to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to. Amen, wow, you said something so powerful. This body is for rent, right, it's not ours to own, but while we're in it, while we're living in this physical body, we've got to take care of it. I like what you said because it reminds me of something that God gave me earlier in this year.
Speaker 2:Uh, in terms of self care, you know, sometimes we think that self care is just getting our hair and nails done, right, maybe just have a ball and do a little show, right? It is so much more than that. Yeah, I mean. Now the attitude around, around self care has changed to evolve to the point where I think self care involves soul care, right, taking care of your mind, body and soul, of the of the total man.
Speaker 2:And where I come from, how I grew up, and even in my generation and the generations that raised me, I never saw self-care played out in front of me. I never. It was not important or um exemplify how important. Rest is, grace. Uh, eating, you know, or exercise, was never a thing. And we grew. I grew up in a generation, or from the generation where it was work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work and you don't really take time to think. I look at my mom. Even though my mom is retired, she's always on the go. I don't think she knows anything about self-care because her generation didn't talk about no self-care. It was I'm a wife, I have kids, I have to work, I come home, I cook, I clean, I make sure my kids are my husband. There was no time for self care. But we live in a generation now where self-care is important and it's a priority for you to take care of self first, exactly.
Speaker 2:And there's a scripture in the Bible that says I wish above all that thou were prospered and be in good health even as your soul prospers. And when I first had heard that scripture and read that scripture, I'm thinking like oh, prosperity, you know God will bless me. You know what I mean Materialistically, right. But the Bible says, says I wish above all things that you were prospered even as your soul prospered. That's your mind, that's your emotions, right. That's your breathing. And we forget all of those things, right, and we tend to negate, especially if, again, you come from a background where that's not exemplified before you.
Speaker 2:I remember even having conversations with my therapist feeling like if I had not worked myself to I was exhausted, that I didn't deserve to rest Right, I didn't deserve to take a minute, because what had I done to earn this Right? But but the Bible speaks up and I can only you know I heavily believe in scripture because that's literally what gets me through. But the Bible speaks of and I can only, you know I heavily rely on scripture because that's literally what gets me through. But the Bible speaks of rest not only being a commandment, but a birthright right. It's not something that you need to learn, he likes. Even the Lord rested on the seventh day, right, and not that he was resting because he was tired, but because it was good what he had done. And you are good enough to rest right. And I had to literally accept the fact that I'm good enough to rest. I don't have to. It's mine, it's my birthright, it's something that belongs to me, something that I must do and need to to take care of.
Speaker 2:You spoke about therapy. You spoke about your diet. You spoke about exercise, your stress levels. I consider those what is part of a toolkit, and in this toolkit there are certain tools that we need for certain things. Like you wouldn't use a hammer where a screwdriver is needed, right, each of the things that you spoke about that are in your toolkit help you have that success, that success, help you prosper as your soul prospers.
Speaker 2:And I think it's important, like you said, in our community, black and brown communities and in communities at large, where there has been this stigma regarding therapy, regarding rest, regarding taking care of yourself right, especially when you are a wife and a mother, it's like, oh well, I can't rest, I have to take care of all responsibilities. So, um, we, we have to begin to, like as you are, begin to dismantle that narrative, right, begin to dismantle that. Um, that suggestion that that rest is earned. Right, that self-care is something that you only do once a month right, you literally need to be in the practice of self-care should be something that you implement in your day. It should be everything amen, amen, wow, so powerful.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm just thinking about all of the things that you said and how you have adapted and how you have not allowed the enemy to tell a story for you, but you've literally allowed the power of God to come in your life in such a way where you are rewriting your story right again, I'm reminded of scripture that says you know, all things will work together for the good. Right, it's literally working for your good, with the enemy meant for bad. And although we sometimes, again, can't always answer the question of why we can answer the question or the statement, we can make a statement that says however, or but Although that is, god has met me here, because reality is that things will happen. The bible says in this life you will have trouble, right, you know the um, what people see.
Speaker 2:The representation I have presented to people took a long time. That in between. I was depressed and my anxiety, I didn't know. I didn't know what you're buying.
Speaker 2:You know school was difficult being in college. I didn't graduate in four years like everyone else, due to my epilepsy. I was in college for five, six years. Okay, I had seizures and thank God, I graduated, but it was not easy.
Speaker 2:You know, I loved working, but working was a stress. I had a lot of seizures I had. I lost jobs due to my epilepsy. We fired and let go because I was told I was a liability and you know that builds on your self-esteem and all you want to do is fit in with the rest of your peers but you're being fired. It's nothing that I can control, so you know, but I say that to say, like you just said, but god, amen, amen, wow, powerful, literally so powerful. Uh, you did speak to. You know how it affects you, how it has affected you emotionally. I can only imagine the isolation, uh, the rejection, um, from not only your peers but even from professionals who don't understand, uh, the illness, that don't understand how it. You know what type of toll it has on the body, on the mind, and so I'm grateful for your platform.
Speaker 2:I believe you called it Epitome of Epilepsy my nonprofit organization. It's a nonprofit organization and what do you do with the organization? How are you spreading the word? My nonprofit organization we focus on the black and brown community, where epilepsy is just not talked about enough. We are diagnosed more with epilepsy than any other race. Wow, yeah, sudden unexpected death syndrome. In epilepsy, african-americans are hit harder than any other race. So what we do? We do a lot of events like GALA's and epilepsy awareness walks, but we also put out a lot of information. We do first lot of events like GALAs and epilepsy awareness walks, but we also put out a lot of information. We do first aid seizure training. We also do a lot of conferences and panel discussions surfaced around epilepsy awareness and this year we're teaming up with the HBCU to have our first health seminar and to try to implement epilepsy first day seizure training there with VCU.
Speaker 2:So I'm just really excited to not just talk about epilepsy but talk about chronic illnesses in general and the different ways that they look. So we really are. This is we're going on five years and I'm just really excited. Five years and we are just pushing, pushing through. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2:I heard you say that right now that you're not working, and it may not be on a traditional job or traditional occupation that we would like to glorify or such, but you're literally doing your life's work, literally. And who better to exemplify, who better to represent a category like that than you? Right, amazing, amazing. Again, your story reminds me of another scripture, I think it's Jeremiah 29, and 11 says I know the thoughts that think towards your thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you an expected and a hope in the future. Right, nobody but God could have taken such a tragedy and literally given you such a purpose um, to help others. Um, and that's what we call to do. That's what we have. Yeah, we are, yeah, yeah's what we are. Yeah, we are, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so many of us negate our pain.
Speaker 2:We don't want to talk about that, you know.
Speaker 2:We don't want to get diving to that. That's why I love this series that we're doing. I think it's going to help people to dig deep, right and to identify the areas where you are in pain, where you have been in pain because somebody else's stuff. You just never know how God can come alongside you, come alongside you in your pain and your darkness and all of the things that you've gone through and say even that I'll use, even that I can use. Like he literally wastes nothing right, nothing at all. Amazing, amazing, truly amazing. Well, jambon, I guess I'm inspired by your story. I'm inspired by your persistency. I'm so inspired by what you were doing, how you literally become such a voice, an advocate for people all over the world, whether they fall through something physically, mentally, emotionally. I mean, you've been affected in so many different ways, but yet you know you are not only surviving what you've experienced, but thriving it, and so hats off to you for everything that you've done, everything that God has done. Such a beautiful person, literally inside out.
Speaker 2:I would never imagine that. I mean, I know, I can only imagine that half the story has been told right Like we could probably be here all day like child. We could, we definitely could. We definitely could Stories.
Speaker 2:Oh Jesus, baby, it's amazing, though, to look at you. I mean the glory of God, such a beautiful essence, just a beautiful spirit all about you. It's amazing, it's amazing. I wish you the same. Yeah, certainly, I wish you nothing but the best. Regarding your nonprofit, I pray that God even enlarges your territory, takes it even put on where it is today. I pray because of what you're doing is for the kingdom right, and it's to help people. That's true ministry. That's true ministry. It's true ministry. It's true ministry. Thank you so much. You're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 1:Okay, guys, that is it for part one. I know I said that part two would be connected, but I decided to divvy it up just to make it a little bit more digestible. So again, stay tuned for part two, which will be uploaded uh, should be about a day after you, guys hear this one, guys, with that being said, perhaps you have a story that you'd like to share.
Speaker 1:Maybe you have a question you'd like to ask. Maybe you would like to inform someone else of how to triumph over the trauma that you are or have transitioned from. We'd like to hear from you. Please get a hold of me. I am Miss Eve on all of my socials Facebook, instagram and TikTok. Message me and I will connect with you so that we can hear from you. Until then, remember now thanks. Be unto God, who always causes us to triumph. Be well, thank you.