PQ for Christians

Root Cause Healing With Faith And PQ

Donald E. Coleman Season 4 Episode 66

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You can love Jesus, know the scripture, and still feel trapped in patterns you cannot break. That tension is exactly where this conversation goes. We sit down with Shonna Vaughan, a board-certified health and wellness coach and clinical herbalist, to talk about why “take your thoughts captive” can feel so hard in real life, especially when anxiety, hypervigilance, and future-tripping kick in. We start with prayer and a surprising question: What if success is real, but we miss it because it does not arrive in the gift wrap we expected?

From there, we dig into the hidden resistance that shows up when someone wants to change but cannot. Shonna explains how Positive Intelligence (PQ) gives clear language for the unseen obstacle, the saboteurs, and the inner Judge that sabotage progress even when the plan is good and motivation is strong. We connect that to root cause healing, not symptom management, and explain why chronic stress must be addressed if we want lasting change. We also explore what it looks like to pursue health and restoration as whole people, body, emotions, and spirit, because nothing happens in isolation.

We close with the heart of it: self-compassion as self-care, living from belovedness, and learning to pause and ask Jesus for perspective instead of labeling circumstances as good or bad. 

If you have ever “given it to God” and then taken it right back, this will feel uncomfortably familiar and deeply hopeful. Subscribe, share this with a friend who feels stuck, and leave a review with one takeaway you want to practice this week.

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