Nikki Humphrey (00:00)
Today we're looking back at the seven most powerful breakthroughs from our first year. From the radical holy exchange to the power of the 1 % shift. These are moments that didn't just change our conversation, they changed us. So whether you've been here since episode one or you're just joining the Equipped Fellowship family, this episode is the foundation. This is the best of Equipped Fellowship. Hi, I'm Nikki.
Hope Mangiafico (00:27)
Hi, I'm Hope. Welcome to a Quote Fellowship where friends become family through Christ. We're two Jesus-loving friends on a mission to share personal stories, resources, and real talk about our triumphs, breakthroughs, struggles, and setbacks. Why?
because we believe you are called to live victoriously and we're here to equip you with Holy Spirit led tools and strategies to strengthen your faith. Transform your mindset and walk boldly in God's promises because here's the truth, you've been given great and precious promises by God. So grab your coffee, lean in and let's grow together. It's time to step into everything God has for you.
Nikki Humphrey (01:10)
This is going to be so exciting for all of you listeners and for Hope and I. It's truly special because after a year of doing this podcast, we're looking back at the seven moments from this past year that not only shaped our podcast, but also our hearts. I truly believe that these are the Holy Spirit led tools used to shift our thinking, bring loving correction, invite us into deeper freedom.
mentally, spiritually, emotionally, all the above. You'll hear themes
Hope Mangiafico (01:43)
Yes.
Nikki Humphrey (01:45)
that will come back to again and again in this podcast, holy exchange, loving correction, redemption, the power of getting just 1 % better each day, because that's really what this podcast is about. Not perfection, but transformation.
Hope Mangiafico (02:04)
Amen. And diving into this to prepare for this, revisiting it was a great reset for me to actually pause and reflect and see where I've actually forgotten some of these Holy Spirit lit tools over the year and got, sometimes we just spit them out.
Nikki Humphrey (02:18)
Mm-hmm.
Hope Mangiafico (02:18)
But anyways,
I'm excited because even if you've been here, the intro, Nikki kind of talked about whether you've been with us or you're new, like this is gonna be so valuable for all of us. So we'll jump right into the first one. And this is episode nine and we'll have all of the episodes we reference in the show notes. So you can just binge and just get to that, like devour the Holy Spirit led tools. So the first one.
is actually something Nikki shared in that episode and we would call it the cassette tape of the past. And as soon as we started talking about this, I even remembered my own grandmother listened to this episode and she was like, β my gosh, I love that one part. And so that's like check in the box. This was very impactful. And the concept was Nikki's vision of the enemy replaying this cassette tape of past failures and yuck that
Here's the catch, we're all guilty of this, that we've already been freed from.
Boy, I literally since this episode have had personal aha applications since then. And what I've noticed is they can be so sneaky. And even just as of like this past week, the father gave me an idea of how to practically do check-ins with him. And we talk about check-ins, but like you gotta have different ones in different seasons of life. And your girl wasn't using the appropriate ones for her season of life. And so he gave me an idea of how to...
do the check-ins with him, that was like the equivalent to real time making sure I was tearing the tape all the way out so the enemy couldn't keep, back step. So I wouldn't allow the enemy to keep hitting play and me saying, yeah, like kind of like jamming out to a jukebox, you know? Because here's the thing, the breakthrough is,
understanding that God wants to pull that tape out entirely and I think sometimes if we're not careful we forget that. And Nikki had this rope illustration that she used and so even when you feel challenged the individual twines of bondages are snapping and there's this that's like so beautiful because there's that tension there. It's kind of like this one percent Nikki isn't thinking about this. didn't even think about that beforehand.
Little by little, they're still starting to release and pop. When you finally are like, no, I'm over it, let me rip it all the way out. That's that freedom that you're finally implementing that you are given by the blood of Jesus.
Nikki Humphrey (04:57)
Yeah. And it was also in that episode, because I went back to this one, because it really impacted me when we recorded it. And that's when we also talked about the pause and process. Pause, figure out what's going on and process it, bring it to the father. And that's so key in taking that tape and ripping it all the way out in our own strength.
Hope Mangiafico (05:09)
Mmm.
Yeah.
Nikki Humphrey (05:23)
That tape will be never ending. It'll just keep going from now into eternity. But like you said, Hope, like you got revelation on it and processing it with our Father God. He just takes it. He just rips it all the way out and just crumbles that whole cassette. We're good.
Hope Mangiafico (05:40)
Yeah. You're right. That pausing processing is.
that practical check-in in the season of life year and that's kind of my new revelation. In this season of life, what is the application? And I think we all could relate to that. That's great. So good because we talk about pause and ponder often. That's so good. That's episode number nine.
Nikki Humphrey (06:03)
Yes. And then the next one was episode 17, guilt versus shame. And it was so good because we, up until this episode 17, Hope and I kept saying like guilt, shame, and condemnation, kind of just lumping it all together. And I think it not only got confusing for me and probably for Hope, but probably for the listener. Like, what is the difference between guilt
Hope Mangiafico (06:18)
Yeah.
Nikki Humphrey (06:33)
And shame.
And so we defined it as guilt says, I did something wrong. And shame says, I am something wrong. And when I figured out that definition, when I looked that up, I was like, yes, I walked around for so many years, like I something is inherently wrong with me. There is no fixing it. I am shame. Like if I'm sort of a scarlet letter is just like shame. Hello, my name is shame.
Hope Mangiafico (06:56)
Okay.
Nikki Humphrey (07:03)
And so guilt is actually a loving correction. It's the Holy Spirit led saying, Hey, let's just adjust course. Like it's okay. Like something's going a little miss, but we can fix it. But shame,
ooh, shame is vague. It's sneaky. It's heavy. It's identity based. makes you high. And when you hide, you stop receiving God's love. And when you stop receiving God's love, growth.
Hope Mangiafico (07:24)
Mm hmm.
Nikki Humphrey (07:33)
stopped. And that's why loving correction is such a gift
Hope Mangiafico (07:33)
So.
Nikki Humphrey (07:40)
from the Lord. God corrects because he loves. The enemy shames because he wants distance between us and our father God. Correction leads to redemption. Shame leads to isolation. And we've brought up in many episodes how Hope and I have been isolated.
and we thought it was a good thing. And then the enemy twisted it into something
Hope Mangiafico (08:04)
Okay.
Nikki Humphrey (08:06)
not so great. And then also in the episode, talked about shame is like a virus, something that got programmed and you're thinking over the time, like a computer virus. And it just, once it's in there, it scrambles the whole system. It skews our thinking. It lets the enemy play that tape over and over again that we just referenced. But by
Hope Mangiafico (08:16)
Hmm.
Nikki Humphrey (08:30)
immersing ourselves in God's love
and his truth by reading scripture, by learning to hear God's voice, by replacing the enemy's lies with your identity in Christ. That's where the powerful chains of shame can be broken. Your identity gets rebuilt not around your past, but around God's redemption.
Hope Mangiafico (08:35)
Amen.
And I just have to say, because this episode, I'm glad you were one covering this topic, because this episode was so much of like you pouring out so much revelation that the father gave you directly. And I remember listening to you with like such intent. And I remember my light bulb moment in this was when you talked about shame was vague and heavy. It was like all of a sudden, I understood while it felt like I was chasing my tail half the time.
is because it was vague. It was, you are the mistake, just like you were saying. And it was so freeing and again, helpful for me to keep bringing that to my remembrance because God knows every detail of you, the hair on your head. so he's not gonna be vague. He's gonna have that soft correction so that he can realign you with that original design he intended from the very beginning.
Gosh, that was so freeing for me.
Nikki Humphrey (10:03)
Me too.
Hope Mangiafico (10:05)
Hmm man and the next one is episode 27 which is also one the Lord put on Nikki's heart about is God really near the broken hearted and we hear about broken heartedness in scripture everywhere and you just have this question when you see suffering in the world and just even your own journey and you're like, what does that even mean? Right? And and in this episode
Nikki introduces the term the holy exchange and I love this because in this holy exchange my brain makes an image and it's like an infinity symbol because it's always going, always flowing, his mercies, his grace, none of it, it never runs out. So he's always pouring out until you get to the end of the infinity symbol.
And then we get to choose if we want to give him the yuck, the heavy burdens, the pain, the isolation, the shame, gosh, all of it. In place of everything he has for us, the grace to love, the mercy, his presence period is what it boils down to. And I love that.
And while you're in that holy exchange, there's this other part to it. The Lord just kind of highlighted this to me years ago. And when Nikki used the term holy exchange, it kind of brought everything full circle, is you have that infinity symbol, and then you have an infinity symbol going in the opposite direction. So almost like it would be person to person. So as you do the holy exchange, you're now going to like almost like complete a cross, and now do an infinity symbol from person to person as an overflow.
but that only starts by accepting the holy exchange from the Father. And so we really, at the end of the day, to embrace that fully, we have to approach God like a child running to a parent with a little boo-boo, little accident, because that's what it is at the end of the day. He knows we're figuring this thing out. He knows we're human. He created us. And he knows we're going to have a couple little falls. So we have to the...
Holy exchange be the radical act of letting him see the wound so he can bind it up That's the holy exchange if we again I go back to my little infinity symbol That bottom of that symbol where he's flowing we have to make a choice Well, we let him see the wound see the pain and then say okay We're gonna let you in Lord and as we let him in
It goes right back up to him. And when it goes to him, that literally is like Jesus at the top because he took all of it on the cross for us. So if we actually don't let the Father come near our accidents, our boo-boos, and run to him freely, we're not utilizing all that Jesus died for, his resurrection. We're not stepping into that. And so it's such a sweet reminder.
that the holy exchange is like a one-way thing. Our only decision is to, will we accept that love of the Father so we can go ahead and get rocking and rolling in the fullness of what Christ did for us.
Nikki Humphrey (13:27)
So good. I love that. And remember we talked about in the episode was like the whooshing. When we, when we're stuck and we're in trauma, like we can't breathe, like everything's tight. And like you said, the holy exchange, like the infinity circle, like when we do that, we allow ourselves to breathe, to take a deep breath and allow God's whooshing to come.
Hope Mangiafico (13:32)
yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nikki Humphrey (13:53)
over us to loosen the tension, to break up the anxiety, to dismantle the whole thing. But if we don't again surrender, do the holy exchange, have time with God, it blocks all of that.
Hope Mangiafico (14:00)
Yes.
Yeah, it's like you're built if you again the infinity symbol if you have the block there that pressure builds up preventing that whooshing from happening and then the anxiousness builds up, right? I'm glad you brought that back up. That's such a good full circle moment. I remember.
Nikki Humphrey (14:10)
mean... Right.
Yes.
Yeah. Because it is such a weird word in the episode that came to my head.
So whooshing, but it makes with your whole infinity simple analogy. It just went so good that I had to bring it up.
Hope Mangiafico (14:33)
Absolutely, I love it. That's the point of all of this. You even in yours that you did about guilt or shame, you were able to tap into the first one we started with, with the cassette tape. You can't separate any of these, but the hope is that they connect dots for you to step into your freedom. But we should always be connecting dots because that's the father. So good.
Nikki Humphrey (14:52)
Right. Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico (15:01)
β
Nikki Humphrey (15:02)
Next, we have self-help versus God's help. And that was episode 30. And as a recovering self-helper, sometimes still slipping in to the self-help mode. I'm not completely healed, released from that yet, versus God's help. And for me,
Hope Mangiafico (15:09)
Mm-hmm. You
Nikki Humphrey (15:26)
a self-reliance on self-help. β it can be an altar that we just build over ourself at time. At first, it's like this little old rickety table, and then it's like bigger, and then it's like a big banquet table, and then it's more tables. just, it builds on itself. We try harder, we do more, we're gonna fix ourselves, we're gonna go to that conference, we're gonna read that book, we're gonna...
Ask somebody for the secret sauce and we're going to apply the secret sauce. We're trying to be the hero of our own story, but Jesus never asked us to do that. Ever. Never once in the Bible.
Hope Mangiafico (16:03)
Right. Right.
Nikki Humphrey (16:09)
is the directive. Go ahead, be the hero of your own story. Go fix yourself. Yeah, know. He didn't ask us to fix ourselves. He asked us to abide in the Father. And Jesus modeled that time after time again. And I'm not gonna be too hard on myself here because we just did a deep dive on the disciples.
Hope Mangiafico (16:15)
Save yourself. Yeah, save yourself. β
Nikki Humphrey (16:38)
And they weren't abiding well either. But it's bringing that awareness of what Jesus did and to be a model of it, to dismantle those altars of self-help and go ask God for help. That's the direction I want to start leaning more into because apart from God, we can do nothing. And that is what is freeing because self-help is a one size fits all.
Hope Mangiafico (16:40)
Right. Thank
Nikki Humphrey (17:08)
Hope how many times did that one size fit all work for you?
Hope Mangiafico (17:11)
Every time, duh. Holy, literally never. It caused so much pain and.
Nikki Humphrey (17:17)
Right.
Hope Mangiafico (17:21)
And a really amazing full circle moment, Nikki, going back to where you talked about early in the episode, the guilt versus shame. And I was like, ooh, I had the aha about shame being heavy. No joke, while reflecting on this, and this goes back to the tying back to the one size fits all why it doesn't work, β is one, he made us all differently, which we're still all, we know that, we're still like accepting that, right, on the different levels. But while we're studying this.
I had a personal revelation and I came across the scripture, Matthew 11 30, which everyone is pretty familiar with where Jesus says, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Self help matches shame because it is not light. It is heavy. It is white knuckling. And to Nikki's question, she asked me, does it ever work? No, because it's one size fits all which is probably why you're white knuckling.
Because it ain't for you.
Nikki Humphrey (18:20)
Right.
Between Hope and I, we had all the systems, we had all the formulas, we had everything that worldly people would say would make you successful. And we are good students. We are great learners. And never once did it work. Because we are, we've said in many episodes, like a study of one, that's it. If we want to know if something works, we have to get our guidance.
Hope Mangiafico (18:30)
.
Yeah. Yeah.
Nikki Humphrey (18:50)
from God and do that thing. And then if it doesn't work, go back to Him, not to the other things. And letting go of the belief that we are the ones responsible for fixing everything,
Hope Mangiafico (18:51)
Yes. Yes.
Nikki Humphrey (19:04)
which is so hard. But we need to rely on the constant nature of God that has proven time and time again in the Bible.
Hope Mangiafico (19:06)
Yeah.
Nikki Humphrey (19:18)
We want to shift from fixing ourselves again to abiding in the Father's love who has already redeemed us, who has already restored us, who already has the plan. We just need to go to Him to access it.
And that's where redemption becomes sustainable when we constantly check into God for His help. Because that's where we, just like Hope said,
That's where we're not working from a place of exhaustion. We're living in an ignited space of revelation from the Father.
Hope Mangiafico (19:51)
Yeah.
Ooh, say that again. And it flows. It just goes. No.
Nikki Humphrey (20:02)
It just came to me a space of ignited revelation from the Father. So I had this picture of like, when you get that Jesus download, aren't you like, you're ignited, like you are ready. You are armored up. Yes. And it's not hard. I mean,
you still have to put in the work, but it's not like, right.
Hope Mangiafico (20:22)
It's the yoke is easy, burden is light. It's a prime example.
And here's the thing. So Matthew 11 30, like I said, came to me while working on this. I was doing some diabetes stuff and I felt the Lord highlight to me. Jesus is like the ox with the yoke. All I have to do is just say I'm going to help. So like you said, Nikki, it's still.
It's still work. I just have to help, but he's doing the work, but I gotta choose to put it on to be his friend.
Nikki Humphrey (20:54)
Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico (20:55)
It's that simple though. But we complicate it because of that rescuing ourselves and responsibility of helping everyone and doing all these things. No, you literally just have to choose to pick up his yoke, let him do the pulling and he'll tell you, sorry, I just got a picture of me being like a little baby ox next to him. He's like, okay, you eat that piece of grass over there. I got the whole field.
You just take care of that little cute little dandelion and maybe till that little part and I cut the rest of it. So yeah, it's man. But that's the personal revelation. You know, like I, I, personally needed that scripture to set me free from this burden I've continued to carry daily on the diabetes realm. that constant battle I have. And so that's that personal, now I can't remember exactly what you said, the ignited revelation.
from the spirit and it changes. It literally pivots you to a new realm. And we are still going to keep pushing back on self-help, aren't we, Nikki? That's so good. Now the next one. This is a hot topic. Peacekeeping versus peacemaking. And this was episode 36. Ever since we did this episode, I pay attention to the people pleasers.
β because they talk about peace a lot and I notice that they say that they like to keep the peace or make peace, right? We all tend to want to be a peacekeeper because we, the worldly term, we're people pleasers. And guess what? That's rooted in the fear of man and avoiding conflict at a cost. So we think this is safe. And you know, some of that's, you know, rooted in trauma experience. Like, I get it.
Nikki Humphrey (22:37)
Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico (22:47)
But boy is that perverted because you are now at the cost of your own peace. And anything that cost you that is good, a fruit of the spirit, is not actually going to create the fruit of the spirit outward. Amen. It can't do that. That's why you got to love yourself first, aka find your identity in Christ, right? Walk it out, receive the Father's love so you can love others. The same is true with peace. It's good stuff.
And fear of man is at the root of so many things that we do, including myself. This is one of those areas I have to pause often and ponder because it is sneaky and it can really make itself look like true love and care.
but it is destroying you and it's actually messing up the other person because they're now stuck in their bondage as well. And fear, you know, it says in scripture, perfect love cast out fear. So if we're walking out in peacekeeping, we haven't experienced the full love of God. Peacemaking can be disruptive. It can feel disruptive, it can feel rude.
but it actually points us all back to the Father in alignment with the design. again, I said it earlier, that He intended at the very beginning when He formed us in the womb and even before that. And so the peacemaking is rooted in the love of God and you have to sit in that. And again, I have said this already way too many times on this episode.
but it's showing how much I have stepped away from bringing to mind after 52 episodes, the things that Holy Spirit gave us to share with other people. And yet we, like Nikki said in the intro, it impacted us. And it did real time, but until we did this, I did not revisit them fully. And I say this because just today, the Father highlighted something to me.
and I felt him say, and Nikki knows this, because we both have done it before, but it doesn't mean it's one and done. I had to sit and be washed by his love.
laid in the grass, know, it breezy, the sun, all the things that the Lord created and I just was washed and it produced peace. So then guess what that means? No matter who in that moment would have crossed me, I bet you I would have been a much better peacemaker and I wouldn't have been a peacekeeper. So it's just so important. All of these are rooted in knowing the Father's love and not letting man dictate.
you or you know Nikki often mentions the world what the world says even the self-help versus God help it's the culture the world tells us we need self-improvement we got to make a decision will we let man in the world tell us what to do or the father
Nikki Humphrey (25:43)
Sorry.
Hope Mangiafico (25:44)
that simple.
Nikki Humphrey (25:46)
Then we had restoring the radiance of the mind, episode 42. This is one that I think really embodies a lot of what we talked about before we got to episode 42. Because we were talking about if we want overnight transformation, God invites us into those 1 % shifts.
Hope Mangiafico (26:11)
Yes.
Nikki Humphrey (26:13)
Like we want, we want it now. We want the transformation. We want it all right. Right. And God just like this a little bit today and then a little bit tomorrow. You know, just how like, oops, that little baby donkey just eating a little dandelion over here. Like that's it. I got the rest. We weren't meant to carry all of that because slow growth builds dependency.
Hope Mangiafico (26:15)
Yeah. Yes.
Yes.
Nikki Humphrey (26:41)
God was a genie and
gave us every little wish, every little whim. We're only running back to him when we want something more.
Hope Mangiafico (26:44)
Yeah. Yeah.
Nikki Humphrey (26:54)
But the slow growth builds that dependency because we have to consistently go back to the father. For the next little nugget, the next thing, what's next?
Hope Mangiafico (27:03)
.
Nikki Humphrey (27:05)
Okay, rest. Okay, yeah. Okay, go. I'm gonna go. Get in your word. I'm getting in the word.
And if everything changed instantly, we wouldn't need God, we wouldn't need his love, we wouldn't need the Bible. We wouldn't need anybody else.
but that daily renewal, daily surrender, daily holy exchange, that builds relationship between us and God. And that builds history and that builds confidence and that builds our faith.
that it might not happen overnight, but it's gonna happen eventually, God's way, not my way. And I can trust in that because he loves me so much.
Hope Mangiafico (27:46)
Yeah.
Nikki Humphrey (27:48)
And this matters, especially when you're mentally tired, when your thoughts feel loud, when your mind feels overwhelmed, when you feel stuck in the loops of the cassette tapes of the enemy of past mistakes that you've done.
Hope Mangiafico (27:49)
Okay.
Nikki Humphrey (28:07)
This is where rewiring your mind becomes a faith practice. Not fixing everything, just shifting one thought, 1%.
And a lot of times when I'm working with clients, they want that immediate, boom, secret sauce. How do I fix it? And I'm just like, it's gonna be a slow process. Like what's one thing you wanna focus on within the next 24 hours?
And they look kind of like deflated when I say that. they're just like, I'm just like, what's one little shift you want to make in the next 24 hours? And then you're going to check back in and they were going to do another one and another one and another one. Taking that one thought captive, replacing one lie, choosing one truth is a victory. We don't have to have the whole mental rewiring restructuring in one whooshing.
Hope Mangiafico (28:57)
Thank you.
Nikki Humphrey (29:08)
Every little thing that you change,
every little minute thing, it's a victory and we need to celebrate that. And we talked about that in one of our episodes too. This is radiance restoration. It's letting more light in just a little bit at a time. We're not gonna get flooded. We're not gonna get overwhelmed mentally, physically, emotionally. It's small shifts with God. God is not.
Hope Mangiafico (29:25)
Hmm.
Nikki Humphrey (29:37)
disappointed in these mental struggles. He's inviting you into deeper freedom. He's inviting you to reclaim and restore your relationship with him. And he wants that transformation to unfold slowly through small shifts. So you can be like a best friend calling your friend or even
Hope Mangiafico (29:45)
.
Nikki Humphrey (30:06)
whatever people do nowadays, I'm old. You know, you just checking in,
the, how you doing? What's going on? Guess what I heard, like.
Hope Mangiafico (30:13)
Yeah.
Nikki Humphrey (30:16)
I said at the beginning, I'm saying that he just wants that small shifts build strong relationships.
And that helps us see ourselves as God does when we do that slow shift over time to change those mental thoughts from our earthly thinking to how God thinks of us. And when we start seeing ourselves as God does, like hope said her word of the year is daughter, you start feeling like a daughter.
Hope Mangiafico (30:24)
Yeah.
Nikki Humphrey (30:46)
You just don't get the restoration, you walk out the restoration with confidence.
that who he says I am, I really am that. And it's okay that I'm not like anybody else. I'm going this way because this is how God built me and I'm gonna live it out loud.
And over time, that becomes a radical transformation.
Hope Mangiafico (31:07)
And a piece that I just want to add to that, that I believe we can all relate to and it complements everything you're saying so well. The father wants the 1 % because of everything Nikki is saying. And we often want the quick because we believe that if we reach that next improvement, we're going to love ourselves more.
we're gonna be a better person, we're gonna fill in the blank. And when we try and do that and do quick jumps, we actually end up more disappointed and in more pain. And the father doesn't want us in pain. And...
He just wants us to know how loved we are as daughters, as children, like Nikki was talking about. Yes, I'm very obsessed with the concept of being a daughter. It's why thinking about this brings me to tears because the Lord, again, going through this, his timing is perfect. He's like, Hope, you've always been pursuing the quick because you think, man, this was my personal conviction. I'm gonna love Hope more if I can just reach that. So obviously the faster I can get there.
the more he would I'm gonna be.
and we all wrestle with not feeling the father's love, Nikki, and I've talked about it on the podcast episode, and I'm being very clear right now that it's very evident I still wrestle with it.
but I just really wanted to share that, another part of that 1 % is so you don't become more broken hearted, more upset, digging yourself into a deeper hole.
He wants to save you out.
And it goes back to the holy exchange, will we let them?
And Nikki's sharing about episode 42, the 1 % better strategy is actually sandwiched between what would be known as top-down restoration. We're just working top-down because we often work bottom-up. And so the whole episode 41, 42, 43, they're kind of built on this concept because we are spirit beings. We started with the father. We kind of hinted at this already.
Then we came to earth in the body so you have to start in the way in which he made us and We often do a bottom-down approach where we try to use Physical things they can complement, but they sure as heck can't free you do physical things to see progress and a prime example Going back to time. I'll be in a peacekeeper peacemaker talking about peace
is we think, and even the 1%, we think that if we jump, if we push, if we have the tip toe around and be careful around people, we're gonna have peace. All of that is surface level. It's what we see around us. And it doesn't work.
So his divine order is starting with what matches him, which is the spirit, knowing our identity, because that's our origination, and then going down to what would be the mind level or the soul, because that's where your emotions, your thoughts, your will, all of that is. But if you don't know your identity with the Father through Jesus Christ and you're not, we talk about Holy Spirit led tools, that's the whole purpose of this podcast.
You won't be able to use Holy Spirit led tools and then apply them to the mind and your emotions to heal from trauma or not even just trauma. people, trauma is so layered. it's, was talking to someone yesterday They had something happen to them and they're like, I don't wanna use the word trauma. I said, girl.
I understand that it feels like it's overused, but like we all are wired so differently and have so many different life events happen that what sounds traumatic to you may not be to me, but it doesn't belittle what you've gone through.
And so we have to accept that by applying this top-down approach, by applying the truths from the Father to heal whatever we've gone through to get the mindset right, to allow ourselves to receive love, to give love, all of those things. And then we start seeing the manifestation of the good in the body. This whole time, when we're not aligned doing the top-down, we see bad manifestations in the body. Nikki and I share examples of that.
when we talk on these episodes. your physical body will manifest whatever is operating. So if there's yuck in that middle part, that mind-soul part, it's gonna be yuck on the physical. And so you'd be doing all this work in the physical, but your mind's still messed up. You're gonna still be producing yuck in the physical, in your body.
When you do that top down and you get washed with the love of God, you get whooshed, you do the exchange, you got the true peace, you're doing all of these things, you're 1 % better, trickles into 1 % better in the spirit connection to your β mind, down to your body, and you start seeing ailments go away.
And you're like, oh, what did I do different? You received the love of Christ. And it's like Nikki said, I'm gonna butcher this, because you said it in the episode and I heard it, but it's not my spirit got it. Let's see if I can spit it back out. You said like, you not only receive restoration, you like walk out restoration. This is a prime example of that. We all, many of us on this episode have received Christ as our savior. What about walking out the love of Christ?
A lot of us stop at saying, yes, we've received it, but we don't see the manifestation of it. And that's that top-down restoration that has to happen. You can stop. You don't have to do it. But remember what Jesus died and resurrected for. It's for your wholeness.
Nikki Humphrey (37:14)
I want to plant a little seed for the overflow because I want to talk about this there. So if you're listening and you're curious about this, meet us on the overflow on Wednesday. I want to talk about how trauma and all that effect in our body, how disgusting, for lack of better word, our body looks on the inside because when you detox trauma, how it comes out on the outside.
Hope Mangiafico (37:24)
haha
Sounds good. Yeah. That's fair. Totally. It's a good story to share.
Nikki Humphrey (37:44)
Stop pretty.
So today we look back at these seven moments. And I'm so glad we did. It's been so fruitful and restorative for me. And there's a common thread. We know this. We've been referencing this the whole episode. The common threads are moving from striving to surrender, from shame to redemption, from self-help to God's help, from caring everything alone.
Hope Mangiafico (38:14)
Okay. Okay.
Nikki Humphrey (38:20)
to the holy exchange, from perfection to 1 % better each day. This is the heart of equipped fellowship, learning to depend on our Father who always keeps his promises.
So for the listener, which one of these moments hit home for you? We encourage you to go back and listen to the full episodes or just the ones that speak to you personally. They're all going to be in the show notes. Remember, you have been given great and precious promises by God and it's time to step into everything he has for you. Until next time, stay open, stay grounded, stay equipped.
Hope Mangiafico (38:39)
Now.
Nikki Humphrey (39:08)
and we'll see you in the overflow.
