A note from Wanda:
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Small Decisions, Deep Liberation
Welcome
Hi — I’m Wanda.
Thank you for joining Liberating Living Weekly. I’ve spent 20+ years helping people align faith and finances so freedom isn’t theoretical — it’s lived. Each Sunday I’ll send one short spiritual practice, a simple money move you can automate, and a podcast highlight to guide the week. Today’s issue is the fuller version of our first post: practical, research-aware, and designed to be used.
November invites us to breathe in fresh beginnings and change. This week’s episode (publishes Wednesday): Cultivating Resilience: Finding Strength in Unexpected Places — The Power of the Shift.
The shift — those subtle, holy pivots that change how you move, how you think, and how you respond. Because sometimes strength doesn’t roar… it whispers.
Sometimes breakthrough doesn’t come with fireworks… it comes with a shift.
What you’ll learn in this guide can transform how you navigate tough seasons, unexpected challenges, and internal storms. One shift in meaning. One shift in posture. One shift in perspective — and suddenly, what felt heavy becomes a place of growth.
So settle in, breathe deep, and prepare to shift — gently, intentionally, and powerfully.
You’re not just surviving this season. You’re shaping it.
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Why This Matters
Because real resilience isn’t built in the big moments — it’s shaped in the small, internal shifts that no one sees. When you learn to reinterpret what’s happening around you, you reclaim your peace, your power, and your path. These shifts determine whether you spiral or rise, whether you stay stuck in an old story or step into the strength your future requires.
This matters because every shift you make — in thought, in meaning, in posture — becomes a seed for the life you’re building. Small shifts create big strength. And when you shift spiritually, everything in your outer world eventually follows.
Spiritual Practices
1️⃣ The 90-Second Reset
For grounding when the mind spirals into “worst-case” thinking
How it works:
Neuroscience shows that strong emotional waves last about 90 seconds if we don’t feed them.
This practice teaches listeners to ride the wave, not drown in it.
Steps:
Sit still and inhale slowly for a count of 4.
Exhale for 6.
Let the emotion rise. Don’t argue with it. Name it: “This is fear.” “This is disappointment.”
Repeat silently: “This feeling is not final.”
After 90 seconds, ask: “What else could this mean?”
Why it helps:
It allows space for clarity to return. This is where the shift begins — right after the emotional wave softens.
2️⃣ The Perspective Pivot Prayer
Short, sacred, and powerful — great for morning alignment
Steps:
Place your hand over your chest.
Say aloud:
“Spirit, shift my sight.
Let me see possibilities where I only saw pressure.
Let me see purpose where I only saw pain.
Guide my thoughts toward truth, not fear.”
Breathe in deeply and visualize light expanding from your chest outward.
Why it helps:
Affirmation + breath + intention rewires what the mind focuses on for the next 2–3 hours.
This prayer unlocks the “inner lift” that makes perspective shifts sustainable.
3️⃣ The 3-Lens Reframe (Mind • Heart • Spirit)
For actively shifting out of stress into clarity
When listeners face something heavy, have them ask:
Mind Lens — “What’s actually happening?”
Strip the story. Stick to facts.
This reduces anxiety and slows the body’s threat response.
Heart Lens — “What do I truly feel?”
Not what you should feel.
Not what others want you to feel.
What’s real in the body?
Ownership creates alignment.
Spirit Lens — “What is this moment trying to teach or redirect?”
This is where the gold lies:
wisdom
redirection
clarity
opportunities hidden inside discomfort
Why it helps:
This 3-lens reframe reveals the perspective shift you wouldn’t have seen through emotion alone.
5-minute Journaling Prompt
Answer with one-sentence responses:
What challenge recently pulled you out of alignment?
What new meaning could you assign to that situation?
How would your future self reinterpret this moment?
What shift (thought, boundary, behavior) would bring you peace right now?
Affirmation:
“Small shifts create big strength in me.”
The “Shift Your Story” Fund
Money
&
Faith
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Align with Freedom
Your financial resilience is shaped by your financial story. This week, shift one belief about money. Automate it and watch the habit compound.
Step 1 — Identify Your Default Story
Examples:
“I never have enough.”
“Money is stressful.”
“I always fall behind.”
Step 2 — Shift the Frame
Rewrite it as a faith-based belief:
“More is coming than going.”
“Money flows where peace goes.”
“I’m building wealth in alignment, not anxiety.”
Step 3 — Align with Action
Automate $5–$20 to your ”Shift Your Story” Fund → a small shift that builds long-term strength.
Liberated Living Principle:
“Your wealth grows where your perspective shifts.”
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7-Day Micro-Challenge: Shift Journal
Move + Journal + Fund
Goal: Track how your shifts reshape your emotional landscape.
Day | What Triggered You? | Old Interpretation | New Meaning | What Shift Did You Make? | Peace Level (1–5) |
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Deeper exercise — The 60-Second Shift Ritual
STEP 1 — STOP
Place your hand over your heart. Whisper: “Pause.”
STEP 2 — SCAN
Ask yourself:
What am I feeling?
Is this mine or someone else’s?
STEP 3 — SHIFT
Choose your new meaning.
Example:
From: “This setback is blocking me.”
To: “This redirection is protecting me.”
STEP 4 — ANCHOR
Say aloud: “I shift into peace. I shift into purpose.
STEP 5 — ACT
Take ONE aligned action — text, boundary, pause, prayer, journal entry.
Resilience grows the moment you choose a different interpretation.
Podcast Episode
Cultivating Resilience: Finding Strength in Unexpected Places
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The Power of Perspective
🎙️Practical + soulful steps. Listen → next to the current episode
Missed last week’s episode? 🎙️ Listen here
Listener Story & Invitation to Reply
A listener reached out after Part 1 and shared something so powerful. She said, ‘I didn’t realize how much my perspective was shaping my strength. I kept seeing everything as a setback… until I paused and asked myself what this moment was trying to grow in me.’
That one question shifted everything.
She told me the situation didn’t magically change — but she did.
Her peace returned, her mind steadied, and the same moment that once felt heavy now felt purposeful.
Family, that’s the power of perspective.
One shift… and strength begins to rise from the very place you thought you’d fall.
Your story helps others.
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Resource of the Month
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That’s it for this week.
Strength doesn’t always look like pushing through. Sometimes it looks like:
Shifting your breath
Shifting your narrative
Shifting your boundaries
Shifting your pace
Shifting your expectations
Every shift you make in faith becomes a brick in the foundation of your resilience.
Keep showing up for you. Keep flowing in freedom! 💜
Liberating Living Weekly
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