Ep 22: The Boldness Season: Breaking Fear & Stepping Into Your Calling

have you been sensing a stirring to step out? Maybe there is a dream, a message, or a mission rising up inside your heart, but something has been holding you back.

Today, Amy is talking about breaking up with fear to uncover hidden beliefs that have kept you stuck and remind you what God says about your voice!

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Transcript

 Hi friend. I am Amy Charbonneau and welcome to Department 88, a space for Christian women who are ready to rise, heal and walk in the fullness of who God created him to be. Around here, we talk about everything about renewing the mind, healing from past wounds, and stepping boldly into your God given purpose and destiny. If you've been feeling stuck, stirred, or just plain spiritually hungry, I would love to invite you to take my spiritual season's quiz. In about a minute, you'll discover the season you're in and get your next steps, plus a custom video series I created just for you. You can take that quiz at the link in the description below, and I will be walking with you every step of the way. So today we're diving into the boldness season. Last week we talked about the healing season. Today it's about boldness. Maybe you've been sensing a stirring to step out. Maybe there's a dream in your heart, a message or mission rising up within you. But something is holding you back. Today we're going to break fear off your life. We're going to talk about my own boldness journey. Uncover hidden beliefs that kept me stuck, that might be keeping you stuck, and remind you of what God says about your voice, your purpose, and your authority. Let's jump in together. The season of boldness was personal for me, and I'm going to talk about it from stepping into this role as a neuro coach. Okay? I had a business. Um, I still have a business of awaken Joy skincare products, and my husband and I had done awaken Joy Spice Company. He wrote a cookbook, and I helped him through that process. Um, and then I created a perfume line. Actually, that one I haven't launched to the world yet, but I have a brand new perfume label called Alabaster Jar. All of those things are terrifying. Okay. And when I decided, um, I wanted to take this journey of being a neuro coach, I also felt terrified. Like, how am I going to help people? Because I'm the kind of person who, when I say I'm going to do something, I want to do it with excellence. Okay. Um, so I was terrified of adding neuro coaching to my business model. Not just of failure, but of success. I had to overcome the fear of visibility and putting myself out there because it's vulnerable to talk about these things and a broader global context that you have no control over on the internet. Okay, in small groups, and I've led small groups for decades. I love that, and I'm totally open and transparent. It's easy in those groups. But when it comes to doing a podcast, like when God told me to start the podcast, I'm like, oh, I don't want to. But neuro coaching helped me overcome the limiting beliefs that I had about it, so that I found the courage and the confidence to begin. I discovered deeply hidden beliefs that I didn't know were there, and those beliefs were running the show. You know, things even like, well, if I'm successful, then people will judge me. If I shine, I'll be rejected. And those things came from old wounds. Where times in my life. Where I let myself just be me. And then I was criticized or condemned or judge or people spoke harshly about my personality to me. And I began to diminish myself to make sure that others felt better. And those things, patterns repeated over time along with sorrow. You know, a lot of emotions attached to the thoughts that I was having about that, that I'm too much, you know. All of it began to really suppress me and form these beliefs that I can't put myself out there. Hopefully you're not like that, but maybe some of you are. And I want to say you're not alone. Okay? When those beliefs surface. I cried a lot. But then came freedom. And the process is a process. It does not happen overnight. Think about this. Those beliefs that you have right now. They have been put there over decades. Okay. It doesn't undo overnight, but it can be undone. And oftentimes we see major transformation in as little as three months okay. And that is because there's a path that we take to really target these things and start breaking synoptic patterns in your mind so that you can make new neural pathways. So if you're familiar with Doctor Carolyn Leaf and James Wilder and Shannon Irving and all these other amazing people talking about renewing the mind, um, then you might have an idea of what's happening, but you may not have the clear process of how do I actually do it? And that's what we do in the 12 week inner healing and neuro coaching program. We do it with Jesus. We do it grounded in Scripture with neuroscience. For me, I love science, but it must bow to the authority of the Word of God. Okay, so in our program, we talk about the science. But first we explore what does the Bible say? Okay, so the beliefs that you have that have limited you, they're going to get exposed and replaced with truth. And as that happened for me, boldness began to rise up automatically. I wasn't trying to be bold. Courage just came. I didn't need to prove myself. All I needed to do was agree with God about who I am. So if you feel paralyzed by what people think of you, you're not alone. The fear of man is a sneaky little bugger. It tells you to shrink, to hide, to wait for someone else to go first. But God is calling you. Proverbs 2925 says something like this. The fear of man will prove to be a snare to you. But whoever trust in the Lord is kept safe. Okay? Fear of man, fear of what other people will think of you is a trap. When we are partnering with God and living in the fullness of who he's made us to be, we are actually safe. Okay? We develop secure identity as we are in relational joy. So when we have a joyful relationship with God, we have a secure identity. When we have a joyful relationship with other believers who are also growing in their walk with Jesus, we have secure identity and that helps us step forward in confidence. When you know someone is glad to be with you, even if you mess up. These are the treasures. These are the treasured friendships in your life. Those people who just love you for you. And when you make a foolish choice or you screw up in some way, they are there to say, ah, you got this. God's with you. Dusted off. Get up. This is not who you are. Let's move forward, okay. God is glad to be with you. He is not waiting for you to be perfect before you step out. I used to think that one. Steve Backlund says, you cannot consistently live in a way that is inconsistent with how you see yourself. Did you catch that? You cannot consistently live in a way that is inconsistent with how you see yourself. So even though I wanted to do x, y, z, okay, I had learned that I had the knowledge of it. I didn't have the belief about how I saw myself. To actually allow me to persevere in living out the new thing. This is why it all works together. We have to recognize the thoughts we're having. Understand the emotions attached to those thoughts and how they created a belief. Then we begin to unpack it. Do the. It's like brain surgery without having to go to the hospital. Okay, we do synaptic pruning. We start severing those lies. We get heaven's perspective, and we put a new truth in there on automation. So if you see yourself as small, you'll play small. But if you see yourself as chosen, anointed and equipped, you will live that way. So how do you want to see yourself, friend? Do you believe God made you to be small? No, of course not. He made you with a powerful story that impacts the world. With the love of God is only you can. Your impact is different than my impact. And it's by God's design. This is why we're one body collectively. No one person fully represents God. It takes billions of people living into their their purpose and destiny to represent our eternal, unfathomable God. Write down in your journal this reflection prompt and you can say, Holy Spirit, what fear of man belief is keeping me quiet. What? Fear of man. Belief is keeping me quiet. And whatever comes up. Don't question it, don't doubt it. Just write it down. Lord, tell me more. How did this belief come into my life? Where did it come from? Why is it there? Ask questions. Listen. And then let it go. Like the. Letting it go can involve a variety of things. It can be as simple as in your mind. You picture it all going into a box. You put the lid on that box and you hand it to Jesus. It's yours, I release it, I don't want to hold on to it anymore. I want the fullness of who you say I am. It could be God, I forgive XYZ people. You know, maybe there are things that people spoke to you that hurt you. You forgive them. God, I forgive so and so and so on and so on and so on. And so I forgive myself, God. I forgive myself for being so critical and judgmental of myself. When you have forgiven everything, like, who am I to be so critical of myself when you have forgiven me? We let it go, we release it through forgiveness. We release it through receiving the forgiveness of Jesus. We release it through acknowledging his love for us and that he didn't just die to save us from hell. He died to get heaven into us and through us in the earth. That the love of God would just pour out into everything that we do. Okay. So take time today. What fear of man belief is keeping you quiet. And then let's talk about moving from fear to faith. So you are braver than you think you are. And I love Joshua one eight. Be strong and very courageous like you see it on shirts and signs and people put it on stickers, you know, and it's like a mantra. But how many people really believe they're brave? I didn't believe I was brave, you know, that had to be exposed in me. You are more capable than you feel. And when you partner with God and get your inner world into alignment, fear loses its power. In Romans eight at verse 15, it says, you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption. You are a son or daughter of God. He has adopted you and you have all the benefits of being a member of the Royal family. Okay, you are not an orphan trying to survive. You are a child of God, empowered to thrive. When I work with women in my neuro coaching program, we don't just hype you up. Okay, I have zero zero ideas about just hyping up your ego, okay? Because I know it doesn't work. You don't need a cheerleader in that sense, okay? I help you identify your hidden beliefs, rewire them with truth, and then activate boldness from the inside out. So you don't need another pep talk. You need transformation. So the next journal prompt, I want you to write down what would boldness look like for you this week. A conversation, a post on social media, a new idea. What one thing can you do to step out boldly this week, confident that God has got your back and take that one brave step? I appreciate you being with me today, friends. But before you go, don't forget to take the spiritual season's quiz at the link in the description below. This is the next step to understanding the season that you're in. Whether that's healing, boldness, intimacy, overflow, or awakening and how to walk through it with purpose and grace. We don't want to waste any seasons around here. When you take the quiz, you'll get a three part video series and an invitation to join me in my 12 week Inner Healing and neuro coaching program. If you're longing to get free from what's been holding you back and finally live with joy and confidence, I will be honored to walk alongside you. This journey is sacred and you do not have to go it alone. In fact, you're not made to. We are made for relationship with each other. And whether you're healing, rising, cultivating intimacy, whatever season you're in, God is with you. And so am I. Until next time, friends. I am Amy Charbonneau. And this is Department 88.