Becoming<\/strong>: stronger, braver, kinder<\/em><\/p>\n Becoming<\/strong>: more of who I am meant to me<\/em><\/p>\n Becoming<\/strong>:\u00a0more like the Love That First Loved Us.<\/em><\/p>\n Welcome to the where I show you my scars, tell my secrets, and give away my heart through my words, with the sacred hope a Love Letter will find you when you most need it.<\/p>\n Welcome to my story of Becoming:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n My memoir\u00a0Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: One Woman\u2019s Desperate, Funny, Healing Journey To Explore 30 Religions<\/a><\/em> is a story of Became<\/strong>. I was spiritually injured; I\u00a0Became<\/strong> healed. I was chronically ill for a decade; I\u00a0Became <\/strong>well. While there is great value and power in the telling of this story,\u00a0Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome<\/a><\/em> had a last page.<\/p>\n My life did not*.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Through this I learned there is no Became<\/strong>.<\/p>\n There are<\/em>\u00a0things we fight and win.<\/p>\n There are<\/em> ends and new beginnings.<\/p>\n There are<\/em> personal resurrections. Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome<\/a><\/em> is proof. I am proof.<\/p>\n But there is no final arrival, no finish line; there there is always<\/em> an after<\/em>.<\/p>\n After the end of the book, after the last chapter, after the final page, there is a continual beginning\u2026<\/p>\n There is a continual<\/strong> Becoming<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n \n<\/p> \n<\/p> ***<\/p>\n Even though it often feels unfair*, this is a gorgeous Truth:<\/p>\n Where Became<\/strong> leaves us stagnant like a still photograph, Becoming allows<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0kinetic movement.<\/p>\n Where Became <\/strong>is\u00a0a full stop, Becoming<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a blinking cursor.<\/p>\n Where Became<\/strong> confines us to the past, Becoming<\/em><\/strong> gives us infinite room to grow into our future.<\/p>\n Where Became<\/strong> is a period, Becoming<\/em><\/strong> is a colon\u2013a promise there is more to come.<\/p>\n This blog is my story of Becoming:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0because it is what I am. It is what you are. It is what we all<\/em> are as we experience this twisty-straight, darkly-light, painfully-amazing life together.<\/p>\n This is a blog of B<\/em>ecoming:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0because our lives are not a story of Became.<\/p>\n Our lives are a story of \u00a0Becoming:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0About Me<\/strong><\/p>\n Reba Riley<\/strong> is the author of\u00a0Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome:One Woman\u2019s Desperate, Funny, Healing Journey To Explore 30 Religions<\/a>, <\/em>the memoir lauded as: \u201cHilarious, courageous, provocative, profound\u2026Eat Pray Love\u2019s<\/em> gutsy, wise, funny little sister.\u201d \u2013Elizabeth Gilbert<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBrilliant, emotional, and audacious.\u201d \u2013Paul Young (The Shack<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFilled with grace, wit, charm, and profound insight.\u201d \u2013Jen Lancaster (Bitter is the New Black, I Regret Nothing<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMoving, funny, thoughtful book\u2026enormously entertaining, immensely hopeful.\u201d AJ Jacobs<\/strong> (The Year of Living Biblically)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n A graduate of Ohio State University and former Fortune 500 sales manager, Reba Riley writes at The Huffington Post<\/a> and Patheos.com, contributes regularly to television programming<\/a>, and travels widely speaking<\/a> about transformation, courage, health and healing. Reba is a survivor of a decade of chronic illness, clinical depression, an advocate for the undiagnosed patient, and a champion for the power of spiritual healing. But mostly she is just a woman with a Big Heart and Big Dream of changing hearts with her words. When she isn\u2019t working or writing, Reba enjoys creating art, drinking wine, gardening, and dancing. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband, Trent, and Welsh Terrier, Oxley.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n * \u00a0The day after<\/em>\u00a0my hardback about spiritual healing hit shelves, I experienced total burnout. Five years of working on my beautiful Became<\/strong> book gave me a breakdown, and caused me to spend fourteen battling clinical depression, fighting to recover. (Oh, the irony.)\u00a0I\u2019m still recovering.Yes, I healed spiritually. Yes, I healed physically. But after<\/em> that I threw myself into years of unsustainable work; I used up every internal resource and found myself sick again\u2013this time, mentally. Winning one battle does not mean you don\u2019t have to fight another. So we keep on\u00a0Becoming:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Connect with Reba\u00a0<\/strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Twitter\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Instagram<\/a> \u00a0www.RebaRiley.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Read more\u00a0about<\/strong> Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome<\/a>.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/b5r5zKxW_FM<\/a>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the Becoming:\u00a0Blog,\u00a0the little corner of the web where I curl up and write Love Letters to you. Welcome to the place where I stumble through this untidy life\u2026 Becoming: stronger, braver, kinder Becoming: more of who I am meant to me Becoming:\u00a0more like the Love That First Loved Us. 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