E19 | The Gold Thread: How God Fills the Broken Places and Why Nothing in Your Story Was Wasted

E24 | Why Am I Still Stuck? When Why Becomes the Room You Live In | I Never Got My Why - Part 2

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1951076/fan_mail/new] 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 grief, waiting, or the unanswered question she cannot seem to move past. Inside this episode: • Why grief can become an emotional home • The story of Naomi and what Scripture teaches about bitterness • The difference between visiting pain and living there • Functioning publicly while grieving privately • The gap between the mind and the heart • Why slow healing is not spiritual failure • Hope for women who still have unanswered questions FREE COMPANION GUIDE TO THE SERIES: I Never Got My Why: What I Got Was Better [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/never_got_my_why] Support the show [https://aged-sky-9140.ck.page/products/tip-your-host] Bible Study: Join me every Wednesday, starting June 17th, at 7 PM EST for "Why Did This Happen," [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] a free six-session live Bible Study for the woman who believes and still has questions. Register here to save your seat.   [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] Her Story Begins. A six-week literary enrichment program for girls 13 to 17. Four cohorts. Summer 2026. Founding rate closes June 8. Registration is open now. Register here! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/herstorybegins] Enjoyed this episode? There's more waiting for you on Substack [https://substack.com/@middleofthestory]. Longer thoughts, quieter moments, and a community of women who get it. Come find us. If this episode stirred something in you, grab the free guide: I Thought I Would Be Further By Now: 5 Signs You Are Trying to Finish a Story God Is Still Writing. [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] It is a gentle mirror for the woman who is still in the middle. My gift to you! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] Follow and connect with us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/livingstorypodcast/]!

E23 | Why Am I Still Stuck? | I Never Got My Why Series - Part 1

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1951076/fan_mail/new] 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: * functioning publicly while grieving privately * why heartbreak can become part of your identity * the gap between what the mind knows and what the heart can hold * Moses at the burning bush * El Roi, the God who sees * why asking “why” is not weak faith This episode is not about quick answers. It’s about learning how to stay honest with God in the middle of pain. FREE COMPANION GUIDE TO THE SERIES: I Never Got My Why: What I Got Was Better [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/never_got_my_why] Support the show [https://aged-sky-9140.ck.page/products/tip-your-host] Bible Study: Join me every Wednesday, starting June 17th, at 7 PM EST for "Why Did This Happen," [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] a free six-session live Bible Study for the woman who believes and still has questions. Register here to save your seat.   [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] Her Story Begins. A six-week literary enrichment program for girls 13 to 17. Four cohorts. Summer 2026. Founding rate closes June 8. Registration is open now. Register here! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/herstorybegins] Enjoyed this episode? There's more waiting for you on Substack [https://substack.com/@middleofthestory]. Longer thoughts, quieter moments, and a community of women who get it. Come find us. If this episode stirred something in you, grab the free guide: I Thought I Would Be Further By Now: 5 Signs You Are Trying to Finish a Story God Is Still Writing. [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] It is a gentle mirror for the woman who is still in the middle. My gift to you! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] Follow and connect with us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/livingstorypodcast/]!

E22 | You Are Not Behind | Why Comparing Your Life to Others Is Keeping You Stuck

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1951076/fan_mail/new] 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 seems to be moving while yours feels stuck. But what if you’re not behind at all? What if you’ve simply been comparing your page one to someone else’s page three hundred? In this episode, Tennille Martinez explores: *  why comparison is emotionally destructive  *  how social media distorts our timelines  *  the hidden middle chapters people never show  *  what the stories of Joseph and Hannah reveal about waiting  *  why God’s timing is not punishment  *  and how your “middle chapter” may actually be the place where transformation is happening most deeply  This episode is for the woman who feels overlooked, delayed, discouraged, or exhausted from measuring her life against everyone else’s. You are not behind. You are being formed. Support the show [https://aged-sky-9140.ck.page/products/tip-your-host] Bible Study: Join me every Wednesday, starting June 17th, at 7 PM EST for "Why Did This Happen," [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] a free six-session live Bible Study for the woman who believes and still has questions. Register here to save your seat.   [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] Her Story Begins. A six-week literary enrichment program for girls 13 to 17. Four cohorts. Summer 2026. Founding rate closes June 8. Registration is open now. Register here! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/herstorybegins] Enjoyed this episode? There's more waiting for you on Substack [https://substack.com/@middleofthestory]. Longer thoughts, quieter moments, and a community of women who get it. Come find us. If this episode stirred something in you, grab the free guide: I Thought I Would Be Further By Now: 5 Signs You Are Trying to Finish a Story God Is Still Writing. [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] It is a gentle mirror for the woman who is still in the middle. My gift to you! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] Follow and connect with us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/livingstorypodcast/]!

E21 | The Stories I Told Myself Before I Met God | Healing Lies About Worth, Love & Purpose

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1951076/fan_mail/new] 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 self-worth  *  overthinking relationships  *  feeling unseen  *  people pleasing  *  fear of rejection  *  comparison  *  identity confusion  *  heartbreak  *  or believing you missed your purpose…  this conversation is for you. We explore: *  how false narratives are formed  *  why emotional wounds become internal beliefs  *  the stories women silently rehearse  *  what happens when God interrupts those narratives  *  and how healing begins through truth, surrender, and renewal of the mind Free Resource: Download “The Story She Keeps Telling Herself,” [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/story_she_keeps_telling_herself_freebie]  a truth-and-lie reflection guide designed to help you identify the narratives shaping your life. My gift to you! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/story_she_keeps_telling_herself_freebie] Support the show [https://aged-sky-9140.ck.page/products/tip-your-host] Bible Study: Join me every Wednesday, starting June 17th, at 7 PM EST for "Why Did This Happen," [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] a free six-session live Bible Study for the woman who believes and still has questions. Register here to save your seat.   [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] Her Story Begins. A six-week literary enrichment program for girls 13 to 17. Four cohorts. Summer 2026. Founding rate closes June 8. Registration is open now. Register here! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/herstorybegins] Enjoyed this episode? There's more waiting for you on Substack [https://substack.com/@middleofthestory]. Longer thoughts, quieter moments, and a community of women who get it. Come find us. If this episode stirred something in you, grab the free guide: I Thought I Would Be Further By Now: 5 Signs You Are Trying to Finish a Story God Is Still Writing. [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] It is a gentle mirror for the woman who is still in the middle. My gift to you! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] Follow and connect with us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/livingstorypodcast/]!

E20 | When Self-Help Is Not Enough: What I Found When I Finally Opened the Bible

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1951076/fan_mail/new] 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.  What changed when the Bible stopped being something she circled from a distance and became something she actually opened.  And what it says about who she is that nothing else could tell her. Here is the free guide mentioned on today's episode: The Story She Keeps Telling Herself. [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/story_she_keeps_telling_herself_freebie] It is a truth-and-lie finder for the woman who is ready to stop believing everything the middle has told her about who she is and who she will become. My gift to you! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/story_she_keeps_telling_herself_freebie] Support the show [https://aged-sky-9140.ck.page/products/tip-your-host] Bible Study: Join me every Wednesday, starting June 17th, at 7 PM EST for "Why Did This Happen," [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] a free six-session live Bible Study for the woman who believes and still has questions. Register here to save your seat.   [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AauuJTMpSfW6KF0AtY-EjQ] Her Story Begins. A six-week literary enrichment program for girls 13 to 17. Four cohorts. Summer 2026. Founding rate closes June 8. Registration is open now. Register here! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/herstorybegins] Enjoyed this episode? There's more waiting for you on Substack [https://substack.com/@middleofthestory]. Longer thoughts, quieter moments, and a community of women who get it. Come find us. If this episode stirred something in you, grab the free guide: I Thought I Would Be Further By Now: 5 Signs You Are Trying to Finish a Story God Is Still Writing. [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] It is a gentle mirror for the woman who is still in the middle. My gift to you! [https://livingstorypodcast.systeme.io/5signsfreebie] Follow and connect with us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/livingstorypodcast/]!