MaryAnn Yotka

For so many years, I lived in what I now realize was survival mode. Maybe you felt it too; that quiet, constant pressure to hold everything together, to keep the peace, to anticipate every need before anyone has to ask. We become protectors. Caretakers. Fixers. Peacemakers. Performers. And without even noticing, we start living with a version of ourselves that was built as a fear, duty, or trauma, not the truth. That version becomes the false self we talked about in the last devotional She...

A PATH TOWARDS HEALING IDENTITY AND TRUTH. There comes a moment in every woman's life, when God gently turns our attention to the parts of ourselves, that we have carried for far too long, the pattern, the roles, the fears, and the defenses we've mistaken for personality. We think these behaviors make us who we are, but God calls them something different. The false self: The version of us built by survival not truth. For much of my life, I walked with pieces of a...

Rooted in Truth. Growing free. Blooming in His Grace John 8:32 says, "And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free." I didn't start the Wildflower Gathering because I had everything together, I started it because Jesus gathered me when I felt scattered. He met me in the mess and showed me healing not becoming someone new, it's returning to who He created you to be. And now, together, we'll walk the journey: From wounded too whole. From striving to resting. From...