Author, Speaker, Coach: Darice Ingram

In this episode of the Kingdom Communicator Podcast, we hear from author, speaker, and coach, Darice Ingram. This talk was captured from our KC Workshop in Dallas, TX.

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Transcript

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Welcome to the Kingdom Communicator Podcast. If you consider yourself a faith-based communicator, you're in the right place. We cover topics like marketing, platform building, book publishing, speaking, podcasting, and more. The purpose of this podcast is to encourage you as you share your message with the world. This episode features Doree Ingram. Derece brought a powerful talk at a recent event we held in Dallas, Texas. You can find us online at Kingdomcommunicator.com. We have resources, events, and an online community that you might want to check out. But for now, let's go ahead and tune in to this talk by Dorese Ingram.

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Well, they tell me that time heals all wounds. All I know is time just keeps passing. Your wounds aren't healed. They're still there. They show up in different places. They show up in the way you treat your family. They show up in the way you treat your children. They show up in the emails that you didn't write or wrote too quickly. They show up in your work. They show up in so many different places because they're gaping places that you haven't healed. Time just keeps passing. My name is Doris, and I love the authenticity in this room. I'm an executive coach. I train women to understand their dreams and prosper. But I wasn't doing that for me. I was living a lie. I was helping so many other people while I was drowning and dying and not dealing with the lie and the hurt and the trauma and the wounds that were not only just in me, but that I was causing to my family. Then one day, you know, they say you met Jesus. I grew up in church every Sunday. Morning, noon, night, prayer team, praise team, singing. But at home, I was living hell on earth. See, I was a girl that was being sex trafficked. I would come, I would smile, I'd have a mask, I'd be amazing in front, but yet I was living a complete lie. This happens so many to so many of our children, to so many of our families who've been taught to put on a mask, to tell a lie. I was great in school. All the markers that you would find of a child being abused, being neglected, being hurt. I learned no one should ever know. Because if they knew, what would happen to my family? I loved my family. I wanted to be with my family. I'd heard about the CPS and other things that were gonna come. And I didn't want that to happen to my family. So I took on both a heroes complex and a savior's complex because it's my job to make sure that no one else in the family or in the neighborhood gets hurt. I was 13 years old. 13 taking on the weight of holding a family together, or so I thought. Because guess what? That was a lie, too. It wasn't my job, it wasn't my responsibility, it was God's. It was God's. So all the while we're in articles and papers and writing stories and building families, but I was dying inside because I wasn't telling the truth. It took me an encounter with God and a chance meeting with the woman that I adored that said, here's my thing, I want to be a millionaire. I told her. She said, Hmm, you're in my gallery. I had no understanding of what that meant, but she taught me, she preached to me, she helped me to get to the real root when I could stop telling the lie of, oh my goodness, I'm not the savior, Jesus is. And an encounter with him when I started to tell my real truth, and I didn't know if I was going to jail, because that was a real possibility. And I started telling the truth, and in that moment, within a couple of weeks, instead of being committed and sent to prison, the Lord sent me to Hawaii. All expenses paid, where I had an encounter with him that allowed me to tell my truth and stop living in shame. So the title of I help women reconnect to their dreams and prosper really became my truth. Because now I can really help women reconnect to their dreams and prosper. I can talk to mothers who haven't done it right. I can teach children and support them to say, you know what? You don't have to live in that shame. Because there is a savior that will heal you, so you're not just telling the story on Oprah's couch and continuing to share out the trauma and the pain, but you met the Jesus that will heal you and deliver you and continue to the true freedom that is in you. So I want to help you as a woman or a man who may have gone through unimaginable trauma. See, my predator wasn't a stranger, my father sold me. The usher, the teacher. And there's so much pain. Right now, I get to see it. I see it in people's eyes and their faces and things that they don't want to talk about because they know about this Jesus, but they don't believe that he's really for them. And if I tell not only what I've been through, but maybe what I've done, are the people gonna shame me too? Am I gonna be stuck here forever, sent to Lodabar, if you will, and not healed? But no, I invite you to come along this journey with me, with Christ through me, so that you're healed and that you're whole. I'm writing the story as we're talking about it today. So I'm not a published author yet. I want you to come alongside with me as we finish the story that Jesus is writing not only in me, but in you. I am now truly the woman that God has created to say I help women reconnect to their dreams and truly prosper through him. So join me at the back table. We'll talk and walk through this journey together so that you too can be healed and redeemed. God bless you, Dari Singram, author, coach, and speaker.

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