A Kiss from Rose | Overcoming Dysfunction
- alstonshropshire3
- Jul 29
- 2 min read
Dysfunction does not always look loud.
Sometimes it looks like silence after pain.
Sometimes it looks like overworking to avoid your feelings.
Sometimes it is how you love, how you fight, how you shut down, how you overextend, or how you pretend.
It is how you learned to survive.
And for a while, it worked.
But survival is not the same as healing.
And God never called you to live permanently in what broke you temporarily.
Overcoming dysfunction begins with recognition.
You cannot heal what you keep normalizing.
You have to tell the truth — about what hurt you, about what shaped you, about what is not working anymore.
Healing begins when you stop protecting the pattern and start protecting your future.
It continues with courage.
Courage to unlearn what was modeled.
Courage to confront what you’ve avoided.
Courage to say, “I do not want to pass this down.”
Courage to choose better even when you do not know what better looks like yet.
And it is sustained by surrender.
Because some chains are not just emotional — they are spiritual.
And breaking generational cycles requires spiritual warfare, intentionality, and grace.
God does not just want to patch you up — He wants to transform you.
Why should it happen?
Because freedom is not just for you.
It is for your children.
It is for your relationships.
It is for the version of you that deserves to live unchained, clear-minded, and fully loved.
You owe it to yourself to experience peace that does not feel foreign.
Love that does not confuse pain with passion.
Purpose that is not buried under people pleasing or pride.
Wholeness that is not performative but real.
What happens afterward?
You start to feel different.
You breathe differently.
You stop apologizing for setting boundaries.
You stop attracting what reflects your brokenness and start walking in what matches your healing.
And more than anything, you become available — to joy, to clarity, to God’s voice, and to your next level.
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” — Romans 12:2
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