Hey everyone, I wanted to jump in here and do my intro to the group.
My name is Lindsay.
I live in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband of 11 years and our daughter who is just turning
18 months.
She is our victory girl, our long awaited victory child.
And like I said, I'm excited to be here because I feel like this is divine timing for me.
I've known Ashley for a few years now.
She's a dear friend and she is, I call her my mentor, my friend and my mentor because
she has mentored me in this revelation of rest like no one else has.
And I've learned so much from her and experienced so much breakthrough sitting under her ministry
and mentorship.
And I'm in a really interesting season.
So Ashley told me, we don't do surface level here.
This is about vulnerability and I know that that is something that I am learning to practice
more and more in my life.
And especially in this season, I feel like the Lord has me like an open heart surgery
is the best way that I can describe it.
I feel very exposed when it comes to just the things that he is removing from my life
and healing in my heart and renewing in my mind.
And I feel, at times I can't really articulate all that's happening, but I know that I'm
being healed and I know that I should not jump off the table too quickly, right?
Don't rush the process.
And so I'm here in this group because I feel like there is treasure for me in the weeks
ahead.
That is a seal of what the Lord has been doing in me all year long.
So for the last couple of years, my husband and I, we're in business together.
So he used to be the entrepreneur.
I had the nine to five.
I felt very safe and comfortable in that space.
And I always said I'd never marry an entrepreneur and then I did.
And I said, well, I will never be an entrepreneur and now I am.
And I'm loving this life of pioneering, but I used to be a very reluctant pioneer and
the Lord has moved me from being a reluctant pioneer to a ready pioneer.
And I know I'm in a season right now where he's moving me to become a resilient pioneer.
So in that space of becoming, there's a lot that I'm learning and it hasn't been easy
at all, but it's been very rewarding.
So I have felt this year more than ever before that life is on top of me and I'm not on top
of it.
And it's been a really weird feeling for me.
I think part of that is just the shift into motherhood.
But also part of that is that my husband and I are now leading a growing movement.
So there's this mantle of spiritual motherhood that I've taken on and it's been this expansion
of who I am, but I've had to grow into it.
I am growing into it.
And so because of that, everything feels a little unsettled or more than a little.
And that is why I'm pressing, I'm continuing to press into this revelation of rest.
I feel like I have learned so much from Ashley already.
I've never done the rest intensive, the full rest intensive.
So she had hosted a mini one that I've been a part of, but this is my full rest intensive.
And I just believe, I just know that there's a shift for me in this space and in this group.
So I know that I sound even a little all over the place and I'm okay with that.
I used to be very uneasy with not being able to fully articulate what I'm feeling or thinking.
And because of that, I think in the past, I really held back from being vulnerable with
other people.
And I've been very guarded and very closed and sometimes even coming across as aloof.
Not meaning to, it's not my heart, but I just felt like I was only as good as my ability
to communicate and articulate and the Lord's removed that from me.
And so that's kind of the unsettling right now is I feel like I'm in a space where I
can't quite even articulate the season that I'm in and that in that unknowing, I've had
to really press into a dependency of Him for even in the, in what I don't know, I've
just kind of taken it day by day.
So that's a little bit about me.
I just feel like I'm in this really interesting space of, I've never been here before, right?
And for someone who likes structure and organization and being able to articulate and communicate
everything. I believe the Lord's removed that for a time, for a season, so that I
grow a deeper dependency in him and I say yes to that. I make a powerful
choice to say yes to that, to say yes to him and so I'm so excited. Part of my yes
to him in the season is saying yes to this group and being a being an active
participant even though I might come across as raw and and unsettled and all
of those things. I know this is a really safe space. I really trust Ashley and
that's why I know I can show up fully, be fully present because she is an
incredibly powerful leader and I can see, you know, because I lead groups as
well, the intention that she has put behind this group for our benefit is
such a gift and so that's, I'm here as a participant and I'm fully
ready to engage in this process with you all. Can't wait to meet you all soon.