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'Dami | Joy Shifter

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Sooo, that’s how shame tried to move in during my grief.
And shame doesn’t just attach to sin - It attaches to trauma and grief too. It’s a stronghold pattern.
But God gave us a better stronghold — with a promise.

Zechariah 9:12 — return to your stronghold, prisoner of hope. For today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Also, Zechariah means The Lord remembers.

Beloved, you’re not forgotten.

Sometimes this process makes us feel forgotten and causes us to forget the good — stripping us of comfort and opportunities to still give thanks. And thanksgiving is the catalyst for the joy cycle.

You are seen. You are marked. He remembers you.

Get your hopes up.

Save this if you’ve been needing to swap strongholds and remember the good.

#GetYourHopesUp #PrisonerOfHope #ThinkAgainAndBe #GriefAndFaith #DoubleRestoration by @damitenin

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Here’s the real trap: focusing on “how do I get rid of my anxiety” instead of “how do I reclaim my joy?” One keeps you stuck managing a feeling, while the other puts you back in ownership.

Continuing from part 1 - comparison and worry aren’t the only ones stealing your joy. I realized misappropriated control; and laziness of mind count too — not taking God’s Word seriously enough to let it actually move you.

When I say joy is warfare, one of the ways I explain it is that the command to “Rejoice in the Lord always” isn’t this idealistic burden. Joy co-exists end with periods of mourning and grief. But more on that later.

Here’s to all of us reclaiming our joy.

Save this for when you catch yourself still waiting for permission to be joyful, and send it to someone putting joy on the side until everything else gets settled.

Get your hopes up. 🤍

#ReclaimYourJoy #GuardYourHeart #GetYourHopesUp #joyshifter #spiritualwarfare by @damitenin

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When life is overwhelming, it consumes your attention and sidelines your joy — and that’s exactly why you can’t see what’s working for you right now.

You instinctively know the sun is still shining even when it’s nighttime on your side of the world. So right now I’m reminding you - Don’t let the nighttime gaslight you into believing the day won’t break.

I say we allow the “count your blessings” song to convince us as we start noticing every little thing that’s working. That breath, that movement… and everything it took just for that to happen.
You’ll begin to rebel against ingratitude through wonder.

That becomes hope — a confident expectation, because now, you’re looking for things to marvel about.

And that’s resilience and emotional intelligence at work as you exercise the ability to remember the good, give thanks, and rejoice anyway.

Save this for the next time overwhelm convinces you nothing’s working. 🤍

Get your hopes up. 👑🌿

#WhenLifeIsOverwhelming #HighFunctioningWomen #FaithOverFear #JoyShifter #GetYourHopesUp by @damitenin

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Comparison doesn’t just ruin your day — it actually robs you of joy. It steals from us. That word “thief” is what I’m harping on to help us shift aggressively from anxiety.

Stay tuned for part 2, but you wouldn’t let someone’s hand in your pocket just because it only took a little. So why let comparison sit there taking from you daily?

Above all else, guard your heart, for out of it flow the issues of life is what scripture tells us (Proverbs 4:23).

Save this and send it to someone who needs to guard theirs too. 🤍

Get your hopes up. 🤍

#ThiefOfJoy #GuardYourHeart #GetYourHopesUp #myverse #highfunctioninganxiety by @damitenin

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You were not made to quit. You were built to last. Even when it’s hard, quiet and nobody seems to see. And the weight of it feels like too much. But although you may need to rest, you’re still the crown of creation, dear, and that was decided before the doubt snuck in.
I’ve been saying that joy isn’t the reward for surviving, but rather, it’s the weapon you fight with.
You’re resilient, so pick it back up.
You’ve still got it. I promise you’ve still got it in you. Receive that new breath of life, beloved.

Here’s the verse that reminds me of this.
Your future is bright and filled with a living hope that will never fade away.
-Prov 23:18 TPT

Get your hopes up. 👑🌿

Drop a 👑 if this shifted. And even follow for more joy-shifting that does something incredible for your heart.

#joyfulliving #faithoverfear #blackwellness #movementismedicine #getyourhopesup by @damitenin

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9 days ago

My Bible verse from my personal life verse archives on hope and joy.

Hope is an expectation, and where you look is where you’ve set your expectations.
The enemy will taunt and mock you with grief, setbacks, disappointments, aging, and your own sin. He will tell you not to dare to dream again. But even death doesn’t have the upper hand — because hope is a person, and His name is Jesus, who defeated sin, death and the grave. Plainly speaking — look to Jesus.

See, I often coach on building a library of life verses that “jump out” at you over your lifetime. It’s important to know which Rhema Word from scripture you’re standing on for a season or situation. This is a spiritual warfare strategy and will serve as an anchor. (I also love studying different translations so I don’t fall into a clichéd familiarity rut. TPT’s paraphrase of this verse made it a heart-stirring home run for me).

“Your future is bright and filled with a living hope that will never fade away.” — Prov 23:18 TPT

Save this one, and start your own library of life verses. 🤍

Get your hopes up. 👑🌿

#MyBibleVerse #HopeInJesus #FaithOverFear #HighFunctioningWomen #GetYourHopesUp by @damitenin

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How to train your mom to lose her fear of snakes 🐍 (she ran). We set out for a beautiful, peaceful day in the wild, but things took an unexpected turn. 🌿 Let’s just say our homeschool nature study escalated very quickly.
Mom perspective: I went off seeing what my friend went through with these boys, @showdudes and their friend, and then they turned around and came for me. Just pure, Wild & Free family chaos. 🏃🏾‍♀️💨

I guess I’m done taking them to the reptile shows 😂
Would you have run? Or what would you have done? Tell me o. 👇🏾

#HomeschoolMomLife #WildAndFreeChildren #SnakePrank #MomReacts #FamilyPranks by @damitenin

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We don’t talk about this enough: bottled up grief doesn’t disappear. It just shows up somewhere else.
The passage that says we don’t mourn without hope has become poignant to me over the years, but years later, you can still cry a deep cry and think something’s wrong with you when that’s not the case. I’m grateful for the client who shared that with me back when my Father passed on.

But high-functioning women get so afraid to admit grief, or weakness, in front of even God. We’re addicted to strength. And in that addiction, we miss the exchange — His strength for our weakness.

In fact before we know it, we’ve confused hardness for strength!

He literally said His grace is more than enough and that His strength is made known in our weakness.
Developing our spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence means shifting our mindset to realize a hardened heart is not a resilient spirit. True resilience takes the grief to the Father and in it you discover a sustaining joy. Joy is warfare, and your resilient state is everything.
See 2 Corinthians 12:9 📖 for more.

So does this make sense? Where do you mistaken hardness for strength? Meet me in the comments. 👇🏾
Get your hopes up. 🤍

#joyshifter #spiritualintelligence #emotionalintelligence#highfunctioningwomen #faithoverfear🙏 by @damitenin

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Joy is not naive. Joy is warfare. We sometimes treat joy like a an emotion we can have after a nice outcome. Something you get to once everything else is handled. I find myself on the receiving end of that assumption sometimes when I display joy. Surely “you have no real problems” 😏 But that’s backwards.

From post-church rich-auntie vibing and Barre in The Wild, one of my favorite moments this past weekend was getting to share the pop up poem during poetry tea-time.

From the poem: “She does not ask whether life has been easy. She asks whether you are willing.” Willing to notice. Willing to soften. Willing to let beauty interrupt your proving.

And this part especially: “Joy is not naive. She has walked through ashes too. She just knows that wonder is still a form of wisdom, and hope is still holy even when spoken gently.”

That a God-designed weapon, and not just fluff. Joy is part of your overcoming.

If you’re walking through something right now, this is your invitation: joy isn’t naive, and it isn’t optional. It’s warfare. The Joy of The Lord IS your strength.

Save this for when you need reminding. Send it to someone walking through one right now too. 🤍

Get your hopes up. 🤍

#JoyIsWarfare #JoyIsNotNaive #JourneyThroughJoy #JoyShifter #GetYourHopesUp by @damitenin

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You cannot rehearse anxious thoughts and verbally give thanks at the same time. It’s actually impossible, physically and spiritually.

Wore this Lagos find of mine, and was feeling myself with all the “I still got it” vibes, ha. Nigerian rich-auntie energy has a way of resetting something in you. Sometimes a good word is just a fashion statement, loll.
But real talk—talk is not cheap o.
Words carry a kind of weight God built into them—the kind that can pull you out of a low place, or send you further into one.
And is I’ve shared before, we deal with anxiety as a separate entity. Anxiety knows this. It uses words and pictures against you constantly.
But that same tool is your antidote, especially when it’s loaded with intentional, articulated thanksgiving.

Even the ones who carry joy for a living need reminding sometimes.

Get your hopes up. 🤍

#RichAuntieEnergy #AdireSilk #AnxietyAntidote #FaithOverAnxiety #DreamDaysWithDami

A merry heart does good, like medicine — but a broken spirit dries the bones.
— Proverbs 17:22

“A good word.” Remember the verse said “a good word”. Not an outcome or a fixed circumstance.

Just begin with a word. Receive and meditate on that Word.

😆

Dream Days with ‘Dami has been years in the making to see you sustained in your uplifted, purposeful, joyful and resilient state. I cannot wait to launch with you. Get your hopes up. by @damitenin

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I wrote about this a while back on the blog — and no, forest bathing doesn’t mean taking a literal bath in the woods 😂

It’s the practice of immersing yourself in a forest canopy, breathing in phytoncides (nature’s own essential oils released by the trees), letting the rushing creek water and birdsong do what no scrolling ever could; research backs it too — lower blood pressure, a stronger immune response, a calmer nervous system, just from being present in that atmosphere; now add barre, pilates, afrobeats with treats and poetry tea time by the creek into that same forest air, and you get something rare in an increasingly isolating, disconnected world — real wellness, real connection, real people, present together.

That’s the deeper work of Mind-Renewal — retraining your mental trajectories and raising your Emotional Intelligence because your body and your relationships were supposed to be built up together.

Spots are limited for Saturday, so show up with full expectation and go wild with wonder with me — link in bio to grab yours before we’re full.

Get your hopes up. 🤍

#BarreInTheWild #ForestBathing #PoetryTeaTime #TribalMarks #getyourhopesup by @damitenin

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Silent contemplation won’t cut it. Mama. Friend. You already know how to use your voice, so why the silence? I realized it was an issue so common to us as the phrase dropped into my heart during a time of praying over precious women.

“What you fail to proclaim, the enemy will gladly try to claim. 🗣️”

— You’ve barked “not today” over a tantrum, spoken order into total chaos, and declared the house calm before you even believed it yourself. It’s in you.

But why does that same voice disappear the moment the battle moves into your own head?

We’ve been conditioned stylistically to fight everything silently — read Scripture in our heads, meditate quietly, and try to think our way out of a crisis. Meditation is very key, but silence is only one part of true meditation and silence alone is not equipped to break an oppressive mental entity. I’m always reminded - Faith is voice-activated.

I pray a release into your heart of this understanding — receive that fresh activation today, beloved.

Save this for the next time your mind goes quiet on you — and send it to a mama who needs to hear her own voice again. 🤍

Get your hopes up. 🤍

#FaithIsVoiceActivated #SpiritualWarfare #ProclaimIt #JoyShifter #WarriorMom by @damitenin

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