The Living Story: Healing from Heartbreak, Finding Purpose, and Learning to Live Again

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  E33 | Your Story Isn’t Over: Trusting God in an Unfinished Chapter 04.08.2026 22Min.

  Send us Fan Mail How do you trust God when you cannot see how your story will end? In this episode of The Living Story, Tennille shares encouragement for Christian women facing heartbreak, unanswered prayers, grief, uncertainty, and unexpected endings. A quiet moment in her church helped her realize that a painful chapter had ended, but God had continued writing. Through the biblical stories of Naomi in the Book of Ruth and Joseph in Genesis, this episode explores how to hold on to hope, heal...
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  E32 | Trusting God When You Never Get the Answer | I Never Got My Why - Part 10 05.07.2026 27Min.

  Send us Fan Mail For a long time, I believed healing would begin the day I finally understood why. Why the relationship ended. Why the prayer wasn't answered. Why life unfolded the way it did. That day never came. Instead, God gave me something I didn't know I needed. He transformed my heart, reminded me who I was, and taught me to trust Him even when the answers never arrived. In the final part of the I Never Got My Why series, we're looking back at the journey we've taken together—from hear...
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  E31 | When Healing Isn't Linear. I Still Go Back Sometimes And That's Okay | I Never Got My Why - Part 9 05.07.2026 10Min.

  Send us Fan Mail Have you ever thought you were healed, only to find yourself asking the same questions all over again? Maybe a conversation caught you off guard. Maybe you heard news you weren't expecting. Maybe a memory resurfaced, and suddenly it felt like you were back where you started. If you've ever wondered whether that means you've failed, this conversation is for you. In Part 9 of the I Never Got My Why series, we're talking about something we don't often hear in conversations about...
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  E30 | How God Uses Pain for Purpose | I Never Got My Why - Part 8 25.06.2026 19Min.

  Send us Fan Mail What if God was building something while you were still asking why? In Part 8 of the I Never Got My Why series, Tennille shares how healing often happens quietly—and how purpose can begin emerging long before we recognize it. Through Isaiah 43:18-19 and her own story of heartbreak, healing, and unexpected community, she explores what it looks like to move from searching for answers to discovering what God may have been growing in the middle of the pain. In this episode: • How...
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  E29 | How to Heal from Rejection When Someone Doesn't Choose You | I Never Got My Why - Part 7 23.06.2026 13Min.

  Send us Fan Mail Why does rejection hurt so deeply? In Part 7 of the I Never Got My Why series, Tennille shares a powerful realization from her healing journey: she was asking another person questions only God could answer. Through the story of the woman in Mark 5, this episode explores healing after heartbreak, the pain of rejection, and the identity wounds that often leave us wondering if we are enough, lovable, or worthy of being chosen. In this episode: • Why heartbreak is often about mor...
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  E28 | She Showed Up and She Was Not Okay | I Never Got My Why - Part 6 21.06.2026 15Min.

  Send us Fan Mail What if the breakthrough wasn't pretending you're fine? In this episode of The Living Story Podcast, Tennille explores the story of Hannah and the moment she stopped hiding her grief. For women carrying heartbreak, disappointment, unanswered prayers, or seasons that feel impossibly heavy, Hannah offers a different picture of faith than many of us were taught. She didn't show up strong. She didn't show up with the right words. She didn't show up pretending everything was okay....
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  E27 | When Your Heart Hasn't Caught Up Yet | I Never Got My Why - Part 5 16.06.2026 13Min.

  Send us Fan Mail What happens when your mind knows the truth, but your heart is still grieving? In this episode of The Living Story Podcast, Tennille shares the lesson she learned in the aftermath of heartbreak: understanding something intellectually is not the same as accepting it emotionally. If you've ever known what God was saying but still felt stuck in sadness, disappointment, or unanswered questions, you're not alone. Healing is not measured by how quickly your emotions obey your...
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  E26 | When God Doesn't Change the Season | I Never Got My Why - Part 4 11.06.2026 17Min.

  Send us Fan Mail In Part 4 of the I Never Got My Why series, Tennille explores the true context behind Jeremiah 29:11 and why God's promise of hope and a future was first spoken to people living in exile. What happens when God doesn't change the season? Through the story of Israel in Babylon, this episode explores how to stop putting your life on hold while waiting for the next chapter and how to build, grow, and flourish in a place you never planned to stay. Inside this episode: • The real c...
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  E25 l You Are Not the Only One Who Asked | I Never Got My Why - Part 3 09.06.2026 14Min.

  Send us Fan Mail In Episode 3 of I Never Got My Why, Tennille explores the wilderness story of Hagar and the powerful name she gives God in the middle of unanswered questions: El Roi, the God who sees me. This episode is about isolation, edited pain, emotional honesty, and the deep human need to be seen fully in suffering. Inside this episode: Hagar in Genesis 16El Roi, the God who seesemotional isolationthe edited version of painwhy women hide the full truth of their griefbeing seen versus b...
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  E24 | When “Why” Becomes the Room You Live In | I Never Got My Why - Part 2 04.06.2026 14Min.

  Send us Fan Mail Why do some questions stay with us long after the moment that created them? In Episode 2 of I Never Got My Why series, Tennille explores what happens when heartbreak, disappointment, and unanswered prayers stop being something we experience and start becoming the emotional place we live. Through the story of Naomi in Ruth 1, personal reflections, and an honest conversation about the gap between knowing truth and trusting it, this episode is for the woman who feels stuck in gr...
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  E23 | Why Am I Still Stuck? | I Never Got My Why Series - Part 1 02.06.2026 12Min.

  Send us Fan Mail Why can’t I move on… even when I know the relationship is over? In this first episode of the I Never Got My Why series, I explore the emotional and spiritual exhaustion of living inside unanswered questions. If you’ve ever wrestled with heartbreak, grief, disappointment, emotional looping, or wondering why God allowed something painful to happen, this episode is for you. Through honest storytelling, biblical reflection, and emotional truth-telling, we talk about: functi...
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  E22 | You Are Not Behind | Why Comparing Your Life to Others Is Keeping You Stuck 31.05.2026 21Min.

  Send us Fan Mail Before you compare your life to someone else’s, remember this: You joined their story in the middle. In this episode of The Living Story, we’re talking about comparison, social media, waiting seasons, and the quiet belief so many women carry that they are somehow “behind” in life. Maybe you thought you’d be married by now. Maybe you thought you’d have children, clarity, healing, purpose, or peace by now. Maybe you scroll through someone else’s life and wonder why their story ...
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  E21 | The Stories I Told Myself Before I Met God | Healing Lies About Worth, Love & Purpose 30.05.2026 20Min.

  Send us Fan Mail Before I met God, I had a whole library of stories I believed about myself. Stories about rejection. Worth. Being overlooked. Being too much and somehow not enough at the same time. Stories about love, purpose, identity, and whether I was chosen at all. In this episode of The Living Story, we’re talking about the quiet lies women carry for years — the ones repeated so often they stop feeling like stories and start feeling like truth. If you’ve ever struggled with: low s...
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  E20 | When Self-Help Is Not Enough: What I Found When I Finally Opened the Bible 27.05.2026 18Min.

  Send us Fan Mail You read the books. You went to therapy. You journaled, processed, grew, and did everything the personal development world told you to do. And something is still missing. Not because the work was wrong. Because there is a question underneath all of it that none of it could answer. Am I actually known by something larger than all of this? This episode is for the woman who has tried everything available and still feels like one piece is not quite in place.&nbs...
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  E19 | The Gold Thread: How God Fills the Broken Places and Why Nothing in Your Story Was Wasted 19.05.2026 22Min.

  Send us Fan Mail There is a Japanese art form called kintsugi. When pottery breaks, the artist repairs it with gold. The cracks do not get hidden. They become the most luminous part of the whole piece. What if God works the same way in your story? What if the chapters you have been trying to get past are actually the chapters He has been filling with something that makes them the most beautiful part of what He is building? This episode is a slow and honest look at the gold thread ...
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  E18 | Her Story Begins: What 20 Years in the Classroom Taught Me About the Stories Girls Tell Themselves 13.05.2026 29Min.

  Send us Fan Mail Twenty years. Thousands of girls. And one thing that has never changed: the moment a girl decides she doesn't matter is the moment the world loses something it cannot afford to lose. This episode is for every woman who remembers being that girl. And for every parent, mentor, or educator who has one in front of them right now. Tennille Martinez opens up about what she has watched happen to girls in classrooms during her career, what she wished someone had said to h...
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  E17 | When Healing Keeps Restarting: What I Learned About Letting Go & Reaching Back 28.04.2026 19Min.

  Send us Fan Mail I deleted messages on WhatsApp. More than once. And every time I did, I restarted the clock on my own healing without realizing it. If you have ever reached back for something God already moved, if you have ever stood in a room with tears running down your face while worship music played and wondered why it was not getting easier, this episode is for you. This is what real healing actually looked like for me. Messy and circular and full of grace I did not earn. An...
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  E16 | You Don't Know the Full Story: Why Secondhand Faith Always Leads to Doubt 22.04.2026 14Min.

  Send us Fan Mail I was angry at God for years. And the honest truth is that most of my anger was built on a version of Him I had never actually taken the time to know. I had heard about Him. I had sat in rooms where people talked about Him. I had consumed the content, the books, the sermons. But I had never done the work of sitting with His word myself, letting the Holy Spirit correct me, letting the full story of who He is get past my arms-crossed, already-decided heart. This episode is for ...
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  E15 | What Watching The Testaments Taught Me About the Character of God 19.04.2026 23Min.

  Send us Fan Mail I was sitting on the couch with my mom, three episodes deep into The Testaments on Hulu, when something came out of me before I knew I was going to say it. That is not the God I know. And I have not been able to stop thinking about it since. In this episode, I am getting into all of it. Margaret Atwood and why her storytelling stopped me cold in The Handmaid's Tale and pulled me straight into The Testaments. I watched The Handmaid's Tale the first time as a woman who kn...
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  E14 | When You Are Waiting for Results: What I Found in a Hospital Room During Holy Week 03.04.2026 18Min.

  Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been in a hard week and needed to know things were going to be okay? This Holy Week, I found myself in a hospital waiting room. I had been avoiding going to the doctor for weeks because I was too busy, too scared of what sitting still might force me to face. Everything was going to be okay. Even if it was not, everything was going to be okay. But the peace came before the results. And that is what this episode is about. This Holy Week Selah is for the woma...