I have been in and out of therapy and counseling since I was 14 years old. I grew up in a home with parents that would always check the box that said we were Christian when they filled out paperwork, but looking back, there was no discipleship and there was no fruit.

My parents married very young and had a very unstable marriage, leading to an affair and finally divorce when I was a freshman in college. I lived in total rebellion during my teenage and young adult years and had no desire to have a relationship with God.

My husband and I met in middle school and reconnected after college. Our lives were entangled in sin patterns that made a relationship seem natural, and it wasn’t until we had our second child that my heart began to change. I sensed something was missing. I wanted to be healed. I wanted to be whole.

This seeking and searching led me down a New Age path that eventually led me back to God. In 2017, I dedicated my life to the Lord. I found Mountain Movers in August 2025 after recently learning about deliverance, and how wounds of the soul create stumbling blocks for us in our life as adults.

I honestly came thinking that I needed deliverance from a kundalini spirit, but it didn’t take long after meeting with Melissa in weekly mentorship to realize that what I needed to hear was the truth from the Word of God. I needed to be shown how prideful I was, how much I idolized self, how bitter I was, and how desperate I had been for a touch from God.

I’ve since learned more about the spiritual influences over my life and how they have driven my behavior for so many years. Recognizing patterns within an unloving spirit, orphan spirit, and the spirit of rejection has been one of the most painful and simultaneously beautiful things that I’ve done in my life.

I’m so thankful that Mountain Movers uses God’s Word to lead us to the answers, and while I very much know that I’m currently in a messy season of my freedom, there has been so much deliverance without the first demon being cast out. To be healed is to be delivered, and I’m experiencing that first hand.

This work is hard, but it is worth it for my children to grow up with a mother who is free and who understands that she is a daughter of the King, and that the righteousness that she has in Christ is enough on even the hardest of days. I pray that my deliverance will deliver them, too, and generational patterns will break in the name of Jesus.