Ever felt like you’ve strayed too far to come back? We sat down with Zayd (aka Latter-day Zayd) to talk about leaving, returning, and rebuilding a life with Christ at the center. Her story is unvarnished: teenage inactivity, addiction, bad relationships, and the moment her daughter’s birth turned her toward home. What follows isn’t a fairy tale of instant transformation—it’s a patient walk of daily choices, new habits, and the grace that meets us where we are.

We explore why “repentance as an event” leaves people stuck, and how treating repentance as a lifelong process opens room for real healing. Spiritual highs help, but consistency changes the brain and the heart: scriptures on hard days, prayer when shame says hide, showing up at church even when you feel unworthy. We draw a clear line between guilt and shame—guilt prompts movement, shame stalls growth—and talk about claiming identity as children of God, not as the sum of our worst moments. If you’ve expected an Alma-style conversion, we offer a more common, hopeful pattern: slow, steady change that endures.

You’ll hear practical ways to reset after relapse without throwing away progress, how daily repentance functions like a covenant “reset button,” and why endurance matters more than perfection. Zayd’s message lands simply and powerfully: you are never too far gone, and belonging is not earned—it’s received in Christ. If you need permission to start again, this conversation is your green light.

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A skittish golden retriever, a humming tower fan, and a ball stuck just out of reach—sometimes that’s all it takes to expose how fear can paralyze us. We take that simple moment and trace it through the deeper terrain of faith: what it means to act before we feel brave, why God rarely “gets the ball” for us, and how courage grows not by erasing fear but by aligning our will with His.

We open up about the lies we tell ourselves when anxiety hits—“I’m not strong enough,” “this should be easier by now”—and replace them with a clearer path: adopt Christ’s pattern in Gethsemane, prepare like Esther with fasting and prayer, and remember like David who recalled the lion and the bear before facing Goliath. Along the way we unpack the difference between faith and hope—faith trusts that Christ is real and with us; hope trusts that His promises will be fulfilled—and show how to build a spiritual resume from small, steady experiences: answered prayers, quiet reassurances, sacramental renewal, and the witness of scripture.

As the world hums with rumors, commotion, and cold hearts, we hold fast to Christ’s assurance that His promises stand. If your heart has felt shaky, this conversation offers language, stories, and simple practices to help you move forward while afraid: name what God has done, keep tools that fit your soul, and take the next step even if your knees knock. Don’t keep circling the fan. Pick up the ball, build on the Rock, and keep going with Him.

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Ever felt like you were living two lives—the polished version everyone sees and the anxious, exhausted one you keep hidden? We sit down with Liv, an LDS creator whose journey from college drift to deep discipleship shows how honest effort, not perfection, opens the door to real healing. She shares the pivot that changed everything: reading the Book of Mormon cover to cover for peace rather than debate, then stacking daily habits—short prayers, audio scripture on migraine days, institute and long drives to the temple—until clarity and courage returned.

We get specific about the costs of spiritual drift, mapping how shame silences prayer, how the body mirrors the spirit, and why the first step back is often the smallest: show up weak. Liv talks about aligning her online and offline selves, posting the valleys as well as the peaks, and discovering that authenticity creates community. That honesty spills into our stories from LDS Addiction Recovery, where a simple invitation—assume the sale—sparked confessions, friendships, and a sacrament meeting filled with living testimonies. The takeaway is practical and hopeful: vulnerability is a spiritual skill; consistency beats intensity; and asking for help is how light gets in.

If you’ve felt far from God, anxious about worthiness, or tired of hiding, this conversation offers tools you can use today: five-minute scripture study, a text asking for prayer, a quiet drive to the temple, or a candid post that tells the whole truth. Subscribe for more grounded faith conversations, share this episode with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review to help others find their way back to Christ alongside us.