Rewrite Your Story: Recent Episodes
Chandra Jarrett
Chandra Jarrett created this podcast to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually or relationally. Subscribe now and tune in each week as we:1)Revisit the pain of our past to2)Glean a different perspective and3)Live with renewed purposeRemember, regardless of your circumstances, it’s not too late to redeem your past and rewrite your future.For more than 20 years, Chandra was paralyzed by the pain of rejection, neglect, sexual abuse by a pastor, spiritual abuse, abortion, failed relationships, and depression to name a few. As an international speaker, executive leadership coach and author, Chandra helps women identify invisible weights while using pain as a platform for healing. Tune in as Chandra shares how she has rewritten her story for God's glory!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real-life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In the Season 1 finale, Chandra and Sarah recap some of their favorite parts of the previous 10 episodes. They talk about the stories of Hagar and Lazarus and how they differ from other topical episodes. They also discuss plans and desires for season 2 (send us your topic requests!). Most importantly, they emphasize their hope that this podcast focuses on God's glory and how He can help you rewrite your story for His glory!
Resources:
Grief Share
Facebook: Chandra Denise Jarrett and Sarah Andersen Oxley
IG: official_chandrajarrett and soxley1227
We will announce Season 2 dates on social media
Scriptures:
2 Cor 1:3-5 (MSG)
James 1:2-5
Tune in next week for our final episode of this season. As always, thanks for joining us!
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real-life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In today's episode, Chandra and Sarah discuss part 2 of miracles, signs, and wonders by taking a deep dive into the story of Lazarus in John 11.
The begin with a recap of last weeks episode and how discussing personal miracles impacted them throughout the week (1:00). Chandra again references Unger's Bible dictionary and includes some definitions of miracles that help provide context (7:00).
Sarah gives an overview of John 11 ( (12:57). She and Sarah discuss highlights from verses 1-44. There are good thoughts and questions to ponder that Sarah and Chandra discuss such as:
- Is the miracle the one we want, or does God have something bigger?
- Do you become discouraged when you know God has the power to do something but He doesn't?
- Sometimes the people closest to us don't understand the miracle God is performing. Listen with caution and trust God.
- A delay may be to increase our faith or the faith of others.
- When we try to control God's timing, we risk eliminating a miracle and taking away glory given to God.
Resources:
Unger's Bible Dictionary
Scriptures: Hebrews 11:6
Tune in next week for our final episode of this season. As always, thanks for joining us!
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real-life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In today's episode, Chandra and Sarah talk about miracles, signs, and wonders. They start with a discussion about whether miracles happen today or if they're a "Bible thing". The episode continues with talk about "you must believe to receive" and whether or not they believe in miracles (5:00). Chandra references Unger's Bible dictionary and includes some definitions of miracles that help provide context (7:00). Next there is a conversation about miracles being a help or a hindrance (16:45) and the different types of miracles (22:00). Chandra and Sarah each share a personal story about a miracle in their lives (30:00 and 37:00) and the episode concludes with a sneak peek of the next episode - diving into the miracle of Lazarus!
Resources:
Unger's Bible Dictionary
Miracles All Around Us - True-Life Stories of Heaven Touching Earth (compiled by John van Diest)
Link to Chandra's book - What I Wish I Knew About Abortion
Scriptures: Hebrews 11:6, Acts 2:22, Exodus 15:11, John 2, John 9, Mark 5, Psalm 147:3, James 5:16, 1 John 1:7
Tune in next week for a more in-depth look at the story of Lazarus.
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real-life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In part 2 of Grief and Loss, Chandra and Sarah discuss suffering and how it accompanies grief and loss.
Chandra talks about suffering and how it relates to the grief and loss she experienced in the passing of her father one year ago. (9:00)
Sarah talks about suffering and how it relates to the grief and loss she experienced through her divorce. (12:00)
Chandra and Sarah talk through the intensity of suffering and if it has been more or less intense than they expected in certain situations. (15:45)
Sarah shares a friend's story about suffering and where God was in the moment. She took it to God and His response was, "I upgraded your relationships." We don't always see the results or benefits of suffering but if we ask God, He may reveal them to us in a way that gives Him glory. (20:05) Chandra adds, "What we may see as suffering, God sees as an upgrade."
Chandra and Sarah discuss things that give them comfort in times of suffering. (29:00 and 32:00)
Tip or takeway - choose one thing that you can control today (35:00)
The episode is closed with Chandra and Sarah talking about how God can get the glory in our suffering (39:30)
Scriptures: Psalm 34:17, Psalm 34:14, Romans 5:3-4, James 1:12, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (MSG), Psalm 62:8
Tune in next week for an uplifting episode about miracles, signs, and wonders that Chandra and Sarah have personally experienced!
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real-life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In this episode, Chandra and Sarah discuss grief and loss. Jesus promises that we will be comforted (6:00). Chandra explains a grief ambush as surprise triggers, such as songs, sights, sounds, smells and places that cause our emotions to take over (9:38).
Sarah shares that we each experience loss in many ways. Divorce is a deep loss with grief associated with it (22:30).
Tune in next week for Grief and Loss pt. 2.
Scriptures: Matthew 5:4; Psalm 34:14; Revelation 21:4; 1 Corinthians 1:3-4; John 16:22; Ecclesiastes 3:4
Resources:
Griefshare - https://www.griefshare.org
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Our Recap and Reflection are shorter episodes that cover current events, hot topics, and other things that come to mind in our day to day lives.
In this episode, Sarah reflects on how she felt missing church while attending the Daytona 500 with Faith. She shares how she and Faith had God moments on the trip. Here’s a few highlights.
6:30 – Sarah sees a gorgeous sunset and immediately said, “Faith looked what God gave us.” She pointed out God’s beauty to Faith. Such a beautiful gift.
8:00 – Faith asks to listen to worship music, specifically worship music on Spotify from their church.
9:00 – Faith recognizes a song about Resurrection Sunday and both Sarah and Faith talk about how they love the Resurrection of Christ.
10:30 – Faith hears a song that causes Faith to question if the lyrics align with scripture. Faith reads her Bible to assure the lyrics of the song are correct.
13:45 – They skipped church, but church didn’t skip them.
Do you feel guilty when you miss church? Are you serving the Lord on autopilot religiously or in relationship with Him? Is it possible to experience God outside of Sunday church while enjoying a vacation or time with family? Stay tuned for the Religion vs Relationship episode as we go deeper.
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
Special Guest: Corina Kojack
Scriptures: Proverbs 11:14; James 5:16
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real-life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In this episode, Chandra and Sarah continue their discussion about Jesus + Therapy along with a special guest, Corina Kojack. Corina gives her perspective as a therapist who loves Jesus and welcomes Him into her counseling sessions.
The discussion begins with Corina introducing herself (3:30) and explaining why Jesus plus therapy is important to her (6:15). Don’t miss how Corina “cheats” in her sessions! They continue with Corina addressing challenges and myths about therapy that can make it difficult for Christians to seek professional counseling (8:20).
They also talk about how Christian counseling can be a joint process with believers and the Holy Spirit – leaving room for Jesus to work and heal alongside an equipped counselor (11:00). Corina continues the discussion by giving examples of why a pastor cannot always be the “go to” (12:35) and Chandra shares a healing experience in her own life (16:15). Corina then shares details about the training she has gone through and describes different types of therapy (17:45) which leads Sarah to ask how one might know when to seek out therapy that they are not currently engaged in (21:45).
The episode wraps up with a discussion about “trauma dumping” on friends and family (31:00), how God can take pain and hard places to rewrite our stories to give Him glory (39:30), and Corina addresses using insurance (or not) in mental health care (40:00).
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real-life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In this episode, Chandra and Sarah talk about Jesus “plus” Therapy.
- They cover personal experiences with therapy (9:00 and 17:30),
- how they balance prayer and therapy (16:15),
- whether to pray or talk to a counselor (24:15),
- the difference between a counselor and a friend (27:15),
- what counseling has done for each of them (37:30), and
- some fears that prevent people from seeking therapy (39:45).
Scripture: Proverbs 11:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:23
Resources:
- 3:15 – Sarah shared how her family prioritizes experiences over “stuff”. Instead of spending a lot of money on Christmas or birthday gifts, they choose something they want, something they need, something to wear, something to read, and one family experience
- 13:00 – Chandra recommended the book - “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Bessel A van der Kolk
- The book of Job – Job’s friends being too close to the situation to provide wise counsel; God’s perspective vs human perspective
- Dr. Anita Phillips, trauma therapist and author of "The Garden Within" says – “emotions don’t last forever but they’ll wait forever”
Make sure to tune in for the next episode – Jesus + Therapy – Part II – where we have a special guest help us dive deeper.
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In this episode, Chandra and Sarah talk about the story of Hagar and how we can all relate to struggles in life. They discuss letting children have a voice in decision making (6:30) and then dive into Genesis and Hagar’s story (10:00). They start by exchanging what comes to mind when they think of Hagar (11:45) and what happens when they try to “help God” (13:30). Chandra talks about when intention turns to tension (14:45) and they both discuss what has kept them anchored in hard places (22:00). Sometimes God’s answer is to “stop - and wait” (27:10) and while the desert was isolating for Hagar, it also gave her purpose and identity. Next, they visit the meaning of “Ishmael” - God heard (31:30) - and talk about how God gives us peace as we walk in obedience. In closing, they discuss takeaways for someone in a difficult situation.
Scriptures: Psalm 86:15, Numbers 6:24-26, Psalm 46:10, Proverbs 3:5-6, Genesis 16:9-14, 1 Peter 5:7 (AMP)
Please share us with a friend and tune in each week for a new episode of Rewrite your Story for God’s Glory.
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In this episode, Chandra and Sarah talk about parenting styles, how our mothers impact our lives and the value of talking to your parents as adults.
Sarah shared one of the ways she helps her daughter describe her feelings by asking, “What feels funky, your head, your heart, or your stomach?”
Learning to love every stage of your child’s life is a gift. Give yourself grace as a parent. You’re doing great mom and dad!
Scriptures: Psalm 127:1-5; Psalm 139:14-16; Ecclesiastes 3:1
Please share us with a friend and tune in each week for a new episode of Rewrite your Story for God’s Glory.
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This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Our Recap and Reflections episodes are shorter episodes that cover current events, hot topics, and other things that come to mind in our day to day lives.
In this first episode of “recaps and reflections,” Chandra and Sarah discuss Black History Month. Join us for this episode as we discuss our personal experiences related to black history, Chandra’s interest in engineering and inventing as it relates to black individuals, and a history lesson about butter pecan ice cream.
- During slavery and Jim Crow times, Blacks were only allowed to eat vanilla ice cream on 4th of July because vanilla ice cream was seen as pure and for white people only. It wasn’t a law but known as the status quo during Jim Crow era.
- Black people were allowed to eat chocolate ice cream even though the person who perfected vanilla ice cream was a slave.
- Another Black man - Mr. Jackson- developed the process for ice cream we use today - mixing salt, removing eggs, and adding new flavors and cream.
- Around the mid-1800’s a Black man – Antwain- cultivated pecans. Unable to access vanilla ice cream often, Black people added pecans when they were able to get vanilla ice cream, thus creating butter pecan ice cream.
Music: Gerald Thompson
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In this episode, you will meet Chandra and Sarah, our hosts. Prepare to laugh and enjoy a great conversation as you get to know each of them.
Please share us with a friend and tune in each week for a new episode of Rewrite your Story for God’s Glory.
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Tune in each week as we:
1) Share real life stories
2) See God’s hand in everything and
3) Offer tips and tools to rewrite your story for God’s glory
In this episode, Chandra and Sarah share their faith journey and how faith continues to anchor them during tough sessions of life. They each talk about how faith in Jesus Christ is their firm foundation.
Please share us with a friend and tune in each week for a new episode of Rewrite your Story for God’s Glory.
Please send comments, questions, or topics to strength4sisters@gmail.com. Thanks!
Join Chandra Jarrett and Lakeisha Carey as they discuss "All things love" by asking and answering the questions "What is love?" This is a lively discussion about what is love and who is love. Enjoy.
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Join Chandra Jarrett and Torri Edwards as they share about Kimora's journey with hip dysplasia. It's encouraging to hear about the resilience and faith of a little girl who has overcome multiple surgeries, rehab and recovery. Torri shares what it's like as a mother to watch and care for Kimora through the journey. It's a wonderful story of hope.
The Adventures of the Purple Princes - available on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Purple-Princess-Torri-Edwards/dp/B08NRZBS22/ref=sr_1_1?crid=30Q7Z5OUZRWYA&dchild=1&keywords=the+adventures+of+the+purple+princess&qid=1611872185&sprefix=The+Adventures+of+the+pu%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1
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Meet Chandra Jarrett and Lakeisha Carey as they share they encourage, educate and empower women to be their authentic self. Chandra and Lakeisha share about the pain they suffered, brokenness, heartache, and struggles while offering the hope and healing they've found in Christ, community and sister-friends.
Resources:
www.desertstream.org
www.healinghearts.org
www.hopewellmin.org
Contact us through either website:
www.chandrajarrett.com
www.joyconsultinggroup.com
Meet Chandra Jarrett and Lakeisha Carey as they share they encourage, educate and empower women to be their authentic self. Chandra and Lakeisha share about the pain they suffered, brokenness, heartache, and struggles while offering the hope and healing they've found in Christ, community and sister-friends.
www.chandrajarrett.com
www.joyconsultinggroup.com
Meet Chandra Jarrett and Lakeisha Carey as they share they encourage, educate and empower women to be their authentic self. Chandra and Lakeisha share about the pain they suffered, brokenness, heartache, and struggles while offering the hope and healing they've found in Christ, community and sister-friends.
www.chandrajarrett.com
www.joyconsultinggroup.com
Chandra Jarrett was sexually abused by a pastor while being counseled about divorce. She felt helpless and violated. Unable to use her voice, she wrote letters to the pastor asking him not to touch her only to be sent to the prayer room. In this episode, Chandra shares how this experience affected her life and how she went from Victim to Victor. It was painful to revisit the pain of her past and forgive this man but as you will hear forgiveness set her free to live a new like and rewrite her story. Chandra now uses the pain of her past to help others by collapsing the time of their healing to live victoriously. She warns people to beware of pastors or leaders who prey on others. Trust the Holy Spirit, know God's word and don't allow people to define God.
Scriptures: John 10:10; 2 Samuel 11:1-5
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What do you do when the place of healing becomes a place of pain? What happens when pastors are perpetrators preying on people in church? How does one cling to the Creator when church hurts?
Chandra Jarrett has experienced her share of church hurt from being sexually abused by a pastor to being called a Jezebel and put out of the church by another pastor. Although she's left the church multiple times, she's always clung to Jesus in the midst of the pain.
Church people can be messy and dirty but don't allow them to define God. Chandra encourages anyone who has experienced church hurt to know God for yourself. She says "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." Give God another chance.
Scripture: Psalm 34:19
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June 26, 2015, Chandra Jarrett was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer and it would change her life. In this episode, she shares how she shifted from fear to faith - giving thanks to God for allowing her to slow down, reflect, asses and reset her life. Chandra developed personal declarations to help her through the tough days and encouraged her family/friends to 1) remind her of God's promise that she would live and not die, 2) speak God's word to her, and 3) make her laugh when she was down. She fought for her life and today she's thankful to be alive.
Scriptures: Psalm 118:17; Romans 8:28; Proverbs 23:7; Philippians 4:8
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Chandra Jarrett shares her personal struggle with being overweight, addicted to food and lack of exercise. She also shares her professional struggle of being unable to complete graduate school after beginning at least 4 different programs. Chandra says that "perfection is often rooted in pride. It's our need to perform to please other people." As she learns to be comfortable in her own skin as the person God created her to be, Chandra offers 4 tips to Rewrite Your Story: 1) be honest - life is hard sometimes, 2) give yourself grace - no one is perfect, 3) be who God created you to be - no more comparing yourself to others, and 4) Don't quit!
Don't give up while doing well. God has promised a harvest if we don't faint.
Scriptures: Galatians 6:1-10; Ecclesiastes 9:11
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Chandra Jarrett answers the questions: Why dig up the past? What's the point in going back to past pain? Why stir up old emotions?
Chandra considers pain as a friend - a messenger to inform us of growth, unhealed wounds or longings in our heart. She shares the value in listening to pain and responding in a healthy way. Going back to painful experiences is not easy, yet necessary to heal and rewrite our story.
In order to Rewrite Your Story, Chandra recommends you 1) seek healing resources, 2) keep an open mind, 3) get what you need and leave, 4) take power over your pain and past, and 5) help others avoid the pain you've experienced. You too can Rewrite Your Story by Going Back to Go Forward.
Scripture: Colossians 3:15
Resources:
https://desertstream.org/ (sexual and relational healing)
http://www.hopewellmin.org/ (Christian counseling)
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Chandra Jarrett shares that people, places and events of our past are connected to our present and future. Journaling is a great way to write out the plans of life and see them come to pass. She shares her personal story of how June 26 - the date she was diagnosed with breast cancer was the same day God spoke her destiny, 22 years prior, June 26, 1997. Through a series of events, she would discover that June 26 was not a day of death but a day of life, a day of promise, a date with destiny. Chandra encourages listeners to 1) journal - write the vision, 2) draw a timeline of life events, experiences, passions, dreams, etc. and 3) keep living and listening to God as He orders each step to Rewrite Your Story.
Scriptures: Habakkuk 2:2; Ecclesiastes 3:1; Psalm 139:16; Proverbs 16:9
References: Draw the Circle: The 40-Day Prayer Challenge by Mark Batterson
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Chandra Jarrett shares that every day is the start of a new beginning - a new day to Rewrite Your Story. In this episode, Chandra shares her three steps to start over, 1) surrender, 2) stop and 3) start. For the past twelve years, she's been rewriting a great comeback story of victory! You too can have a great comeback as you Rewrite Your Story.
Scriptures: Ruth 1-4; Romans 7:21-25
Resources:
https://desertstream.org/ (sexual and relational healing)
https://www.healinghearts.org/ (post-abortion healing)
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Chandra Jarrett compares her life of being stuck to walking through cement, weighed down by the pain of her past, the voices in her head and repeating patterns that prevented her from soaring. Through the Word of God, healing and therapy, Chandra learned to love herself, get victory over the voices in her head and focus on what she believe she's been created and called by God to do - speaking. She believes that you too can Rewrite Your Story as you get unstuck from the pain of your past and live a renewed life filled with purpose.
Scripture references: Exodus 2; 3:11, 4:1, 4:10, 4:13; Acts 7:20-22; Romans 8:31, 35, 37-39
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Chandra Jarrett shares how she tried to avoid being like her mother but was like her mother in many ways, especially as a parent. Through her story of forgiveness and healing, Chandra shares tips to help listeners rewrite their story with their mother/father. Today she celebrates being like her mother and father, drawing from their strengths and characteristics, making a difference in the lives of others.
Scriptures: Ezekiel 16:44, Psalm 27:10, Psalm 139:13
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Chandra Jarrett discussing four ways we are paralyzed by pain by 1) the vows we make, 2) the ways we cope, 3) the lies we believe, and 4) by not getting to the root of our pain. Chandra shares tips to identify and redefine these invisible weights and provides tools to rewrite pain in every day life. She reminds listeners that "they are not them and this is not that." "They" are not the people who hurt us in the past and "this" is not the situation that caused us pain. Listen in as Chandra shares how to rewire your hippocampus to create new memories to Rewrite Your Story.
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Chandra Jarrett introduces herself by sharing her story - the pain and abuse she suffered and how she began rewriting her story. She also shares why she launched Rewrite Your Story.
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