Inflamed by Fear, Healed by Love ❤️

You’re Doing Everything Right… So Why Aren’t You Healing?

Hi Friend,

I need you to hear this truth, every time you let fear in, you literally trigger a cascade of inflammation in your body. So many of us are doing “all the right things.” We’re eating clean, taking the supplements, hydrating, walking, lifting weights. And yet we’re still stuck, still inflamed, still exhausted.

It’s fear.

This is the main topic we discuss this week on StRest with Susie Larson! Yes that Susie, who wrote all the devotionals you have and has been speaking truth into us for decades on her show!

There are interviews you enjoy.

There are interviews you learn from.

And then there are the ones that are so raw and honest that you can’t help but examine your own heart.

Susie described how her labs once showed she was malnourished and dehydrated—even though she was eating well and drinking plenty of water. Her doctors told her her cells were essentially closed off from fear. Your brain, she said, runs on one of two fuels: fear or love. It cannot run on both at the same time.

As a health coach, I can work with a woman for a year on food, sleep, and movement. But until we do the soul work—until we deal with the trauma, the striving, the little-girl wounds—the body often won’t fully heal. Susie understands this at a cellular level. She has battled Lyme disease for 36 years. She has faced neurological symptoms, tinnitus, and childhood trauma.  She talked us through her healing and her rest in the Lord.

So many Christian women live in the belief that if we check the boxes, we serve on the committees, we perform, strive, over serve, and overcommit, then we will please the Lord. Deep down, we’re still trying to earn what Jesus already gave us freely.

Over serving and over-striving can keep you from healing. Chronic stress is not a badge of honor.

“The strategy of God can only be heard in rest. When you’re striving, you’re out of order.” – Susie Larson

The invitation from God is always intimacy before productivity.

Love before labor.

Rest before strategy.

This episode goes deep—into fear, trauma, inflammation, identity, and the infrastructure required for real healing.

If you’re stressed, sick, stuck, or simply tired of performing, this conversation is for you.

Listen to my full conversation with Susie Larson here:

YouTube: https://ow.ly/tMYq50Ycx4S 

Spotify: https://ow.ly/y32450Ycx4U 

Apple: https://ow.ly/kMFE50Ycx4V

In Him

Kerstin

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