Survival Me Vs. Healing Me

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  Recently, I found myself reflecting on some of the names I've been called throughout my life. Guarded. Standoffish. Quiet. Distant. For years, I accepted those labels as personality traits. I assumed that was simply who I was. But healing has a way of revealing things we couldn't see before. As I've learned more about nervous system regulation, trauma, faith, emotional healing, and self-awareness, I've begun to wonder: What if I wasn't being guarded because it was my personality? What if I was surviving? When survival mode becomes your normal, you don't always recognize it. You learn to stay alert. You learn to protect yourself. You learn to keep parts of yourself hidden because somewhere along the way, vulnerability didn't feel safe. Over time, those protective behaviors can become so familiar that they begin to look like identity. But they aren't always the same thing. The truth is, many of us have spent years operating from protection rather than co...

God Healed Me: Free From High Blood Pressure After 10+ Years

 

My Testimony: Faith, Breath, and Healing

There was a moment on my healing journey that tested my faith in a way I’ll never forget. I was out of town, far from home, and I realized I had run out of my blood pressure pills. For over 10 years, those pills were something I depended on every single day.

Normally, I would have gone into panic mode. But instead, something in my spirit said, Trust God.

I made a choice in that moment — not out of fear, but out of faith.
I told God, “If You are truly healing me like I’ve been praying for, then this is where I trust You.”

Through prayer, faith, and the simple yet powerful practice of intentional breathing, everything started to change.

Breathing became more than something I did automatically. It became a way to connect with God, calm my mind, release stress, and invite peace back into my body. I didn’t realize how much tension I had been holding until I started breathing on purpose — slowing down, expanding my lungs, and giving my nervous system room to reset.

When I returned home, I scheduled a doctor’s appointment to check everything properly. After being on blood pressure medication for more than 10 years, I wanted clear confirmation — not just how I felt, but real numbers.

They checked my pressure once.
Then again.
Then a third time.

And that final reading was good enough — low enough — for me not to need a refill on  pressure pills.

That moment was all the confirmation I needed. My body was steady. My pressure was normal. And the healing I had prayed for was real.

This wasn’t coincidence. It wasn’t luck. It was God’s power, God’s faithfulness, and God answering a prayer I hadn't been focusing on for years, but when I asked by prayer, not long after, I received.

I’m not telling anyone to stop their medication — I’m simply testifying that God still heals, and sometimes He gives us undeniable proof.

“For with God nothing shall be impossible.” — Luke 1:37

#noturningback #GodisaHealer #GlorytoGod  #HealingbyFaith #HealingJourney #testoffaith

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