A conversation about grief, faith, and the danger of using spirituality to avoid the truth of life.

In this episode of Sacred Disruption Podcast with Alyssa Marie ☀️, Alyssa explores the concept of spiritual bypassing—when spiritual language and practices are used to avoid the truth of our human experience.

The conversation begins with a deeply personal story. After traveling to California to say goodbye to her brother-in-law during his final hours, Alyssa witnessed a powerful moment of presence, honesty, and love that reshaped her understanding of spirituality.

Instead of denying reality or praying for a different outcome, her family chose to walk through grief with gratitude, compassion, and faith.

This episode reflects on:

• What spiritual bypassing actually is
• How spiritual clichés can sometimes silence real pain
• The difference between faith and avoidance
• Why grief, honesty, and compassion are sacred parts of spiritual life
• How scripture and spiritual practice call us toward presence—not perfection

True spirituality doesn’t deny life’s difficulties. It walks through them with open eyes, open hearts, and a commitment to love anyway.

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In this episode of Sacred Disruption with Alyssa Marie☀️, we dismantle the idea that denying yourself makes you more worthy, more spiritual, or more lovable.

Self-rejection is not humility. It is fragmentation.

When you silence your needs, suppress your truth, or shrink your light to be accepted, you don’t become more lovable — you become divided. And division within always blocks connection without.

This conversation explores the difference between discipline and self-denial, ego and authenticity, sacrifice and self-abandonment. True love — romantic, spiritual, communal — begins with self-acceptance. Not perfection. Not performance. Acceptance.

The body remembers when it has been rejected. The heart knows when it has been dimmed. Healing begins when you stop fighting yourself.

Self-acceptance is not selfish. It is alignment.

And alignment is love.

Sacred Disruption isn’t about tearing yourself down. It’s about shedding what was never truly you.

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The Race, Based on Ecclesiastes 9:11–12

A reflective episode for anyone who’s been doing “all the right things” and still wondering why the results don’t match the effort.

We’re told from a young age that life rewards the fastest, the strongest, the smartest, and the most prepared. But Ecclesiastes interrupts that tidy narrative with an inconvenient truth: the race is not always won by the swift.

In this episode of Sacred Disruption, I sit with Ecclesiastes 9:11–12 and explore what it really means to live in a world where timing, chance, and forces beyond our control shape outcomes just as much as effort and intention. This is a conversation about ambition, disappointment, faith, and the humility required to keep running even when the finish line keeps moving.

The Race invites us to release the illusion of control, question hustle culture—even in spiritual spaces—and trust God in the unpredictability of the journey. Not every loss is a failure. Not every delay is denial. And not every race is meant to be won the way we imagined.

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Grown-up conversations hit differently when it’s your own child sitting across from you. In Episode Seven, I sit down with my son Stephen — now a full-grown man with his own mind, his own memories, and his own truth.

We unpack what it really looks like to parent a Black son into adulthood while unlearning the rules we were handed. We talk responsibility, identity, expectations, and the places where love evolves as both people grow.

This is an honest, reflective, sometimes funny, sometimes tender conversation about the long arc of parenting. The little boy becomes the man — and the mom becomes a new version of herself right alongside him.

If you’re a parent, a son, a daughter, or anybody doing the work of breaking cycles, this one will land deep.

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🎙️ New episode of Sacred Disruption: DISRUPTION…The kingdom of heaven isn’t somewhere far away—it’s within you.

You are the ruler of that inner kingdom. The way you treat others is the reflection of how you rule yourself. If your words carry grace, your reign is rooted in love. If your actions are harsh, your throne is built on unrest.

How you lead within determines what flows without.

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In this episode, I sit down with my sister, Joy, for an honest, unfiltered conversation about the roots of our “performer selves.” We go back to childhood—the praise, the pressure, the invisible scripts we learned to follow—and the walls that finally came tumbling down. It’s raw, freeing, and a reminder that the real you is always waiting underneath the roles you’ve played.

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🎙️ New Episode Drop: The Backdrop to Becoming the Imposter

In this episode I share how duality raises an imposter‼️ All in preparation for Episode 5, The Imposter

✨When you grow up under the twin stars of Gemini parents — wild, free, magnetic, yet bound by the rules of religion — you learn early how to shapeshift.

✨Sunday mornings were sermons and pressed clothes. Saturday nights were jazz, laughter, and too many secrets. Somewhere between holiness and hedonism, I learned to perform. To become whoever kept the peace, kept the love, kept the illusion.

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Dear Beloved is the letter we all need but rarely write—to the parts of ourselves that learned how to perform just to be loved. In this first full episode of Sacred Disruption, Alyssa Marie opens the series with a heartfelt exploration into the making of the performer—the masks we’ve worn, the stages we’ve built, and the applause we’ve mistaken for love.

Through intimate storytelling and raw reflection, Alyssa invites you to witness how the performer is born—not from vanity, but from survival. This episode isn’t about tearing down the act; it’s about tracing its roots. Every performance has a script, and this is where we begin rewriting ours.

Pull up a seat in your own sanctuary. Let’s begin where all transformation begins—with truth.

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