Taking Responsibility for Your Healing - Kimberly Bell

<p>Taking Responsibility fo Your Healing - Kimberly Bell</p> <p>Taking responsibility is a powerful tool when it comes to healing and my conversation today guest, author and speaker, Kimberly Bell is the perfect example of what that means. Using her book titled, The Epitome of Kimmy: Accept & Embrace It All, we talked about her healing journey from the various traumas she's experienced. Such things as domestic violence, teen pregnancy, abusive relationships, as well as various other traumas and PTSD. Kimberly tells us that her powerful transformation from broken to discovering who God had created her to be wasn't an easy journey because it was plagued with set backs and returning to old patterns but Kimberly never stopped praying to the God of the Holy Bible.</p> <p>While her adoptive parents could not rewrite what had been imprinted on Kimberly as a young girl they equipped her with the best possible option to discover truth and freedom. They pointed her heart to a personal relationship with Jesus. And she would need that as a compass to find her way to healing because her early trauma made her an easy target for future abuse. Even as Kimberly struggled through the various abusive relationships from early teens and for several decades, she always knew she could talk to Jesus about her pain and confusion. But she wouldn't see lasting change until she decided to try things God's way.</p> <p>As it is with many of us who finally come to the end of ourselves, there came a time when she too hit the proverbial wall and surrendered. She gave up the futile struggle against the evil that she was no match for. Just like the rest of us, she tried everything she knew how, her human reasoning and strength of mental endurance but nothing brought a peace or lasting resolution to solve her pain.</p> <p>I would personally say that the first glimpse of someone's healing who has thoughts of self-harm would be when they don't surrender to the voice that is telling them to end it all, to give up, you're not worth the effort, no one w