63. "Finding Healing in Brokenness" with Toni Collier
Feb 27, 2024
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Discover the journey of Toni Collier, founder of Broken Crayons Still Color, as she shares her authentic story of healing and redemption. Embrace the power of finding beauty in brokenness, the importance of surrender, and the impact of faith on resilience and empowerment. Explore how facing struggles can lead to personal growth and stronger relationships.
Trauma and darkness aren't our design; surrender is key to healing.
Avoid spiritual bypassing; pursue holistic healing for genuine transformation.
Embrace challenges, acknowledge strength, and find courage in adversity.
Deep dives
Origin Story and Intersection of Faith and Culture
where You're From podcast delves into individual stories at the intersection of faith and culture, exploring the influences and experiences that shape personal identities.
Childhood Challenges and Trauma
Tony Collier reflects on her childhood, sharing a story of being born into a blended family and later experiencing trauma when her mom had a stroke. These early experiences shadow her adulthood, leading to a double life in high school, seeking validation and recognition.
Transformation and Healing Through Faith
The birth of Tony's daughter becomes a catalyst for breaking free from an abusive marriage, leading her to seek sanctification and healing. She highlights the importance of surrendering trauma, seeking holistic well-being through counseling and spiritual growth.
Bonus Segment: Engaging Biblical Narratives and Healing Journeys
Tony finds resonance in biblical stories of forgiveness and redemption like the woman forgiven for adultery by Jesus. She emphasizes the significance of not spiritually bypassing emotional struggles and the necessity of pursuing holistic healing for genuine transformation.
Empowering Women Through Unshakeable Moxie
The podcast episode delves into the empowering concept of unshakeable moxie, focusing on the resilience and determination displayed by women in the face of adversity. Through powerful personal stories and anecdotes, the discussion highlights the importance of embracing challenges and acknowledging one's strength to overcome them. The episode emphasizes the significance of women's voices and experiences, inspiring listeners to find courage and perseverance in the midst of difficulties.
Healing Through Acknowledging Pain and Embracing Redemption
Another key theme explored in the podcast is the journey of healing and redemption through acknowledging pain and brokenness. It discusses the transformative process of finding healing by facing and embracing past traumas. By sharing personal experiences and insights, the episode encourages listeners to embrace their vulnerabilities and strive towards wholeness. It offers a roadmap for healing and self-improvement, promoting the idea that growth and transformation are possible even in the midst of brokenness.
Is there purpose in our pain? Well-known speaker, author, and founder of the international women’s organization Broken Crayons Still Color Toni Collier shares her authentic journey of God rewriting her story using the very things she thought could never be made beautiful. Even after experiencing heartbreak after heartbreak, and trauma after trauma, Toni can still joyfully proclaim there is light in the darkness, and that her one true love—Jesus—is continuing to make all things new. Join us as we explore how God invites us all to do great things using our most broken pieces.
Guest Bio:
Toni Collier is the founder of an international women’s organization called Broken Crayons Still Color and helps women process through brokenness and get to healing and hope. Toni is a speaker, host of the Still Coloring podcast, and author of two books: Brave Enough to be Broken and her latest release, a children's book, Broken Crayons Still Color.
Toni is teaching people all over the globe that you can be broken and still worthy, or feel unqualified and still be called to do great things.
Notes & Quotes:
“We're human. We just can't handle what we weren't made for and we weren't made for trauma. We weren't designed for darkness. We were made to just be frolicking around, just basking in the goodness and having an endless supply of glory.”
“It's not our success that gets us to perfection. It is going to be our surrender.”
“If we're just bypassing people's emotions by throwing a little Scripture on it, we aren't being like Jesus either.”
“A part of being a victim is thinking that you don't have control. Whoever's controlling you and whatever's going on in your life, you don't have control. But the truth is God's given us dominion and he never took that away. And we are co-laborers with him in helping to make beauty from these fragile, broken, pieces of our lives.”
“We are just now discovering that [being] mad is not bad and our feelings matter and we can sit in sorrow like the psalmist did and God is still present in that.“
