How do abandonment wounds affect the way we love, trust, communicate, and choose relationships? In this raw and honest conversation, Kerie Hamilton and JD explore how childhood abandonment, parental absence, emotional wounds, and survival patterns can continue to influence adult relationships.

Kerie opens up about experiencing father abandonment and the patterns she developed while trying to protect herself and others. JD shares his experience of being raised by his father after his mother left, navigating a complicated relationship with his stepmother, and learning how to understand and express emotions he once struggled to communicate.

Together, they unpack the connection between childhood trauma and adult relationships, including:

• Why familiar pain can sometimes feel safer than healthy love

• How childhood survival patterns can follow us into adulthood

• Why emotionally unavailable partners may feel familiar

• The difference between sacrifice, attachment, and genuine connection

• How boundaries can help break unhealthy relationship patterns

• The role of vulnerability and emotional communication

• What forgiveness can look like without ignoring the pain

• How self-reflection can help us recognize repeating patterns

• Why healthy love can sometimes feel unfamiliar after trauma

Healing isn’t always about changing the people who hurt us. Sometimes, it begins with understanding why certain patterns became familiar in the first place.

Kerie and JD share their personal perspectives on abandonment, family dynamics, emotional availability, forgiveness, boundaries, vulnerability, and the hard work of creating healthier connections.

If you’ve ever wondered “Why do I keep repeating the same relationship patterns?” or questioned why healthy love feels unfamiliar, this conversation offers an honest look at the wounds beneath the patterns—and what it can mean to begin breaking them.

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What happens when you stop ignoring the signs and start listening to wisdom?

In this episode of Sorry Satan This Soul is for The Savior with Kerie Hamilton, we dive into a powerful message about wisdom, discernment, direction, and guarding your heart.

Kerie reminds us that what we allow into our hearts can influence the direction of our lives. Not every voice deserves access to you. Not every relationship is meant to continue. And sometimes, staying on the right path means having the courage to walk away from what keeps pulling you off it.

Kerie shares a raw perspective on recognizing manipulation, trusting your discernment, protecting your peace, and learning that familiar doesn’t always mean healthy.

Guard your heart. Watch your path. Choose wisdom.

Because sometimes God isn’t asking you to move faster…

He’s asking you to make sure you’re moving in the right direction.

What happens when the person you trusted to lead you is actually the person betraying you?

In this powerful episode of Sorry Satan This Soul is for The Savior with Kerie Hamilton, Kerie explores Zechariah 11 through the lens of betrayal, narcissistic abuse, manipulation, discernment, toxic relationships, and learning what real love is…and what love is not.

Kerie shares her personal journey of learning that love isn’t control, manipulation, fear, or losing yourself to keep someone else happy. Sometimes the people we believe are good, trustworthy, or safe can be the very people leading us away from our truth.

Zechariah 11’s imagery of the shepherd and the flock becomes a powerful reminder to look beyond appearances and pay attention to character, actions, and fruit.

This conversation is about recognizing when manipulation becomes control, when deception becomes normalized, and when following someone else’s version of reality causes you to abandon your own.

Most importantly, it’s about discovering that truth doesn’t always feel freeing at first…but standing in truth eventually sets you free.

If you’ve ever experienced narcissistic abuse, betrayal, a toxic relationship, trauma bonding, manipulation, or the painful process of rebuilding your identity after someone made you question yourself, this episode is for you.

You don’t have to keep following what is destroying you just because you once believed it was leading you somewhere good.

Sometimes the moment is simply realizing:

“This isn’t love. This isn’t truth. And I don’t have to follow it anymore.”