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Rebuilding Trust With Yourself After Repeated Broken Promises.

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Rebuilding Trust With Yourself After Repeated Broken Promises.

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Send me a textWhen the promise you keep breaking feels like proof that you are the problem, what if it is actually your body doing exactly what it was designed to do to keep you safe? Welcome to The RISE Experience — a podcast for women who are finding their way back to themselves. This is a space to slow down when everything feels loud, to lead from steadiness instead of urgency, and to finally hear yourself think again. Here we talk about identity, faith, and the quiet inner wisdom that gets buried under all the doing. A place to pause, reflect, and rise from clarity instead of pressure.Episode Highlights In today’s episode, I get honest about the promises we keep making to ourselves around food, habits, and “starting over,” and how the story we tell after we break them can either bury us in shame or help us rebuild real trust with ourselves and with God. Episode Outline The pattern of broken promises and why it feels so personalHow repeated “failures” slowly erode trust with yourselfThe guilt and shame that show up after breaking a promiseWhy your body turns to old coping patterns when you are stressed or under fueledRereading the “evidence” of failure through a different lensNaming the deeper promise underneath the habits: not abandoning yourselfHow one hard moment becomes a story about your whole identityInterrupting the shame spiral with a new question about what your body is trying to do for youBeginning to rebuild trust with compassion instead of self attackEpisode Chapters00:00 Intro: Welcome to The Rise Experience00:24 Rebuilding trust with yourself: monthly theme01:32 Why we keep breaking promises to ourselves03:10 Food, body, and the shame that follows “breaking the rules”05:02 Your body’s real job: safety over perfection06:28 How stress and under fueling trigger autopilot habits08:05 Reframing “failure” as your body’s learned protection09:35 The deeper promise: “I won’t abandon myself anymore”11:02 How one hard moment rewrites your whole identity12:20 Peter’s denial of Jesus and what fear does under pressure14:08 Your story doesn’t end on your worst day15:10 A new question: “What is my body trying to do for me right now?”16:02 Practicing kinder self talk after you slip17:05 Closing encouragement and prayer17:55 Final send off: share with a friend and keep risingConclusionBroken streaks, empty pans of brownies, missed workouts, the sharp words you wish you could take back, none of that gets to be the whole story about who you are. The real work is not never slipping again. The real work is what you say to yourself in the moment after you do. When you stop using those moments as evidence that you are too much or not enough, and start seeing them as honest signals of what you are carrying, you stop abandoning the woman you actually are. She has been there the whole time, under the pressure and the starting over, closer than it feels right now. Action Taken Notice what you say to yourself in the moment right after you “break” a promise.Ask: “What is my body trying to do for me in this moment?”Check your inner tone against how you would speak to someone you deeply lovePay attention to where you have been reading, struggle as proof that you are failing, instead of proof that something real needs careBring that honest need to God, asking for grace, strength, and a kinder way to see yourself CTA If this resonates, share it with a friend or a woman in your life who keeps calling her struggle a character flaw when it might just be her body doing the best it knows how to do. Visit the links provided to stay connected.Instagram: @risewithshannonFacebook: Shannon DennistonLinkedIn: Shannon DennistonBusiness: https://msha.ke/shandenCoaching: https://msha.ke/risewithshannonThank you for listening and for being willing to look at yourself with more honesty and compassion instead of more pressure. You are not the sum of your hardest moments or broken promises. You are the woman who keeps getting back up, learning what you need, and choosing not to abandon the truest version of you.

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