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🌿 Life Changed When I Realized the Rules Are Made Up

  • Writer: Lea
    Lea
  • May 15
  • 3 min read

Dear friend,

There’s a moment in every healing journey when you realize:You don’t have to keep living by rules that never served you. The kind of rules that told you how your life should look, how fast you should go, how much you should hustle, and how quiet you should keep your dreams.

But who made those rules anyway?

Because most of them didn’t come from God. And the moment I realized that
 everything changed.

📖 “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free
” – Galatians 5:1

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đŸš« The “Rules” We’ve Been Taught to Follow

Most of us were handed a quiet script from the world around us:

  • Rest is earned not simply a part of the rhythm of life

  • Productivity equals worth and fruitfulness

  • Healing has to be hard and complicated

  • You must stay small to be safe

  • A woman’s body is just like a mans body.

  • God places your worth in your performance.

But none of that reflects the Kingdom.

When I started spending time with God in the quiet, He began gently showing me how much of my life was built on fear—not truth. On performance—not peace. On survival—not Spirit.


🧠 Why Do These Rules Even Exist?

Because a society built on consumption, exhaustion, and image benefits from people who feel unworthy.

If you’re always hustling to prove yourself
If you’re always insecure about your body or your calling
If you’re too overwhelmed to slow down or ask hard questions
Then you’re a lot easier to manipulate, distract, and sell to.

The “rules” were never about your flourishing. They were about keeping you in line. But the truth? You were made to live free.

And the longer we stay tangled in the world’s script, the harder it becomes to hear the whisper of God’s voice saying:“You were made for more.”


đŸŒ± Reclaiming What’s True — Practical Shifts

If you’re ready to unlearn the lies and align with what’s true for your body, mind, and soul, start here:

  • 📖 Sit with Scripture or recite it first thing instead of the scroll or viewing the news. 

    Begin your mornings with truth before opinions.

  • đŸ§˜â€â™€ïž Listen to your body. If something is making you anxious, exhausted, or sick — it’s not alignment.

  • đŸ•Żïž Build quiet into your day. Even 10 minutes of stillness can start to untangle performative living.

  • 💬 Pay attention to your inner dialogue. Does it sound like God’s voice—or culture’s pressure?

  • 🛑 Stop asking permission to rest. God Himself rested. You don’t have to justify slowing down.

Realignment doesn’t require a full life overhaul overnight. It simply begins with choosing peace over pressure—one day at a time.


✹ A Resource to Help You Begin Again

I created the 30-Day Glow-Up Reset Challenge for this exact reason — to give you a gentle, supportive path to start healing the way you were designed to:

  • No starving

  • No harsh detoxes

  • No perfection pressure

    Just small, meaningful rhythms that help you glow from the inside out 🌿

With daily encouragement videos, a simple tracker, and real lifestyle support — you’ll feel held the whole way through.


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And for your internal healing journey, identity, and purpose... my new book Becoming God’s Daughter is now available on Amazon. A quiet place for your soul to land. A journey of healing, daughterhood, and divine calling. 📖


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đŸ•Šïž Let the Freedom Begin

You’re not behind.You’re not broken.You’re simply being invited into something better.

And the good news?You don’t have to follow the rules that kept you small.You can build a new rhythm — one that reflects your worth, your design, and your calling.


With you on this journey,

Lea

 
 
 

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