How to Stop Letting Your Past Define You

<p><strong>What happened to you may be part of your story, but it does not have to define your identity, your worth, or who God is calling you to become.</strong></p><p><strong>📖 Get </strong><strong><em>Breaking the Chains</em></strong><strong>: Finding Healing, Forgiveness, and Freedom in God</strong><br> Amazon⁠:&nbsp;<a href="https://a.co/d/0hoVBUnr">https://a.co/d/0hoVBUnr</a></p><p><strong>🌐 Healing, faith &amp; encouragement:</strong><br> FreedomEncourages.com⁠</p><p><strong>📧 Connect with Cecilia:</strong> <a href="mailto:freedomencourages@gmail.com">freedomencourages@gmail.com</a></p><p>In this episode of the <strong>Rise to Freedom Podcast</strong>, Cecilia shares a personal excerpt from <em>Breaking the Chains</em> and explores how rejection, failure, painful relationships, and past mistakes can become identities God never gave us.</p><p>You may have failed, but <strong>you are not a failure</strong>. You may have experienced rejection, but that doesn’t make you unworthy. You may have experienced brokenness, but <strong>broken is not your identity</strong>.</p><p>Discover how to identify negative beliefs, stop measuring yourself by someone else’s standards, separate <strong>what happened to you from who you are</strong>, and begin seeing yourself through the truth of <strong>who God says you are</strong>.</p><p><strong>One Step Closer to Freedom:</strong> Ask yourself: <em>Who told me this? What experience made me believe it? And is this actually what God says about me?</em></p><p><strong>What happened to you is part of your story. It is not the whole story, and it does not get to become your name.</strong></p><p>If this episode encourages you, follow the <strong>Rise to Freedom Podcast</strong>, leave a review, and share it with another woman who needs this reminder.</p><p><strong>God has already given you everything you need to rise, flaws and all.</strong></p><p><br></p>