Rooted & Risen Within

Not everyone will see you clearly, and you can’t let their perception become your reality.

People will interpret you through the lens of their own experiences, fears, and limitations. If you’re not careful, you’ll start seeing yourself through their eyes instead of your own - questioning yourself, shrinking yourself, redefining yourself based on their misunderstanding.

But another person’s perception is not your identity.

Be willing to examine feedback, but don’t surrender your self-understanding every time someone disagrees with you. There’s a difference between being teachable and being suggestible.

A teachable person listens, learns, and grows. A suggestible person lets others define reality for them.

Those are not the same thing.

Know who you are and what you stand for. Let their perceptions belong to them while your identity stays anchored within.

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I didn’t lose God when I shed the religious framework. I lost fear. And that’s when life, faith and freedom expanded.

When I speak about “religion,” I’m not talking about the Creator, Truth, or sincere faith.

I’m talking about the layers often built around them:
fear,
control,
performance,
human projections,
cultural conditioning,
and interpretations that distort the heart of spiritual life.

What was meant to awaken transformation often becomes bo***ge instead.

And for many people, the hardest part of spiritual growth is learning to separate their relationship with Truth from the human concepts of God that have clouded the clear image of Source.

Some truth comes to graciously flip your world upside down. If you’re not ready for it, you’ll see it as danger and resist it.

But sometimes the very thing that feels like disruption is actually liberation trying to enter your life.

Not everything that shakes you is sent to destroy you. Some things come to break the illusion you were surviving inside of.

I had to step away from the Bible for a while. Not just step back - detox.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rootedandrisenwithin/p/i-had-to-stop-opening-my-bible?r=pvg3u&utm_medium=ios

Rooted & Risen Within reflects a change in where my roots now live - no longer within the container of any religion, but from the inside. From within. Read the full article in the comments…

So I have to take you back to a space that I don’t live in anymore for you to get why I had to shift.

By late 2024 everything I knew about God fell apart….Read full article in the comments.

I have always examined my beliefs and faith deeply, but 2017 was the first time in my life that I seriously questioned and had doubts about the Bible and the God of the Bible.
In the introduction of my book Remnant Love, which I wrote in 2023 and published in early 2024, I shared this about the first time those questions surfaced:

“In 2017 I felt like I lost everything… For a moment, I even lost my faith. It was the first time in my life that I questioned whether the God I was serving was truly the true God. I began to explore the idea that maybe the Bible was false and that the ‘Universe’ and universal law was the way to go. If I could serve the Creator at a distance, maybe I wouldn’t take these life events so personally… Thankfully, those thoughts didn’t last long, but they went deep…”

Those thoughts went deeper than I had realized.
And it wasn’t necessarily a good thing that I didn’t sit with them for long. But it was necessary for where I was in that season.

Continue reading in the comments…

W.A.R.R. - Wrestling Authentically thru Religious Residue is a section of Rooted & Risen Within (currently h on Substack) for people who care deeply about living a life of Truth, Love & Freedom and are in a season of questioning and examining their faith walk with honesty and depth.

I’ve spent about 20 years of my faith walk within Christianity and about 15 years within the Hebrew community, including Hebrew Israelite and Hebrew Roots spaces. These have been sincere, committed years where I have grown in understanding, truth, relationships and in leadership as a teacher and prophetic voice. I have had many beautiful, life-changing experiences.

But I also have been able to observe dynamics that were not so beautiful. Dynamics that were dysfunctional and often unintentionally destructive.
I witnessed a tension between the fruit of love, freedom, humility, and transformation that life in Christ points toward, and the anger, fear, unhealed trauma, self-righteousness, control, and spiritual pride that often surfaced within large portions of the faith community.

Not everywhere. Not everyone.
But enough for it to be deeply concerning, and eventually - unacceptable.
It forced me to be honest about how that fruit was affecting me.

Eventually, my wrestling went even deeper than those religious containers.

I found myself disillusioned not only with systems, but with my relationship with the Most High. I experienced disappointment, silence, unmet expectations, and confusion. I reached a point where I had to ask whether I was encountering the True God, who I have known as YHWH (Yahuah or Yahweh) or only the limits of how I had been taught to understand God through inherited frameworks and narrow interpretations of the biblical narrative.

That season was deeply painful.
I questioned the faith.
I questioned Scripture.
I questioned the concept of God.
Not from rebellion, but in an honest wrestling for understanding and freedom.

What I eventually realized was this: much of what pushed me to that breaking point wasn’t necessarily God, but the religious mindsets, rigidity, and unexamined assumptions about God that affected how truth, relationship, and freedom could be understood or lived.

That realization saved me and changed how I walk.

This space exists for people who find themselves in those places of wrestling for freedom and truth.

W.A.R.R. — Wrestling Authentically thru Religious Residue is a space for honest deconstruction and reconstruction toward a healthier faith.

We’re not here to bash Christianity or the Hebrew faith, or to swap one religious system for another. We’re here to evaluate fruit honestly, identify religious residue, and renew the mind where fear, control, and rigidity still live.

My aim is to grow forward beyond rigid interpretations and inherited limitations into the truth that restores clarity, freedom, and wholeness. Into deeper love, deeper oneness with our Creator, ourselves, and each other.
I won’t tell you what to believe. I won’t force doctrinal conclusions. And I won’t debate. My role is to help us think better, see better, and live better, even when faith is hard.

At the heart of it all is one conviction: The Creator is beyond religion. Beyond denominations, labels, and theological categories. Source is Love and Truth, and Source is leading us toward freedom and wholeness, not deeper bo***ge to systems.

Here you’ll find candid moments from my journey, early previews of future writings, and honest engagement with relevant topics. Most written posts are absolve to free subscribers. Audio, video, live Q&As, and deeper community conversation will live in the paid subscriber space where we can explore nuance honestly and safely.
If you’re questioning religion but still desire to connect with the Creator (or even if you have doubts about that) you’re welcome here!
Rooted in truth.
Risen in love.
Free within.
~Yarah Arukah Shalom

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