Karen Key Smith discusses the importance of exposing our defects and weaknesses to the light of day to create more of what works in our lives. She shares her personal experience of growing up in an alcoholic home and how it affected her physical health. Karen emphasizes the significance of understanding what has happened in someone's life to be patient with them.Main takeaways:
Our secrets make us sick, and it's essential to expose them to the light of day to receive healing.
Exposing our defects and weaknesses helps us address them in a healthy way and create more of what works in our lives.
Understanding what has happened in someone's life can help us be patient and empathetic towards them. Mental health is crucial, and emotional issues can affect our physical health.
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And don't forget to use the hashtag #BeSweetYall!The show's theme song is "Tropical Sun" by Uppbeat, provided free for creators with a license code of SYC1UZMPYY5BQTHZ. The show is written and recorded by Karen Smith, with post-production and show notes by Ashley Feller.Transcript:We've been talking a lot about our gifts, our deficits, our defective character boundaries, things like that. And so what has to happen, and there I use the example of AA, NA, any of the 12 step programs, Al-Anon doesn't matter. They are all based on the same principles of working a program of recovery to expose what doesn't work in their lives and to create more of what does.So I'm just gonna read you the passage that I based our whole affirmation on this morning. And it says, "It would be tragic to write out our inventory only to shove it in a drawer. These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure." So our affirmation today is in the light of exposure.So let's talk about it for just a minute before I read it. This is the thing they say that our secrets make us sick. The things that we hold inside that we don't admit to another person, maybe to your pastor or somebody, or things that can fester and grow, they will always find manifestation. Y'all don't find manifestation in maybe your anger. They'll find manifestation in maybe your body where you're sick and you don't know it.I'm gonna be very transparent and honest with you, with what happened to me as a child. So when I was a young girl, I grew up in an alcoholic home like I've told you many times before. Now my dad was not mean, he was not unkind, and he was not abusive. None of that. But when you live in a home of dysfunction, you get used to dysfunction. But yet you're embarrassed by the dysfunction. You don't want anybody to know about the dysfunction, so you cover it up. And part of my covering it up was I wanted to make everybody happy. So I was always kind, always loving, always sweet. If I was sad or scared, I did not let you know. I don't, to this day, I still don't know about. . I don't know how to express anger because I just don't have it. But what I would do, I would stuff it away.I started getting sick, horrible stomach problems, passing out, hyperventilating, everything you can imagine. They took me to every doctor imaginable and could not figure it out. Not one single person said, "Hey, she's been growing up i
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