First Steps: The Trauma Recovery Journey with Sheridan Correa

Welcome to the Victorious Living Podcast. You are about to hear real stories of real people who have discovered the real hope of Jesus Christ. I am Christi Overton Johnson, the founder and publisher of Victorious Living Magazine. Since 2011 I have had the privilege of sharing the most amazing life stories. I never cease to be amazed at the life transforming power of Jesus Christ. Today in our podcast you are going to go deeper into these amazing God stories and hear from those who have overcome incredible odds and discover how they found a life of freedom. You can discover it too. I trust that you'll enjoy today's conversation between our host and our special guest. Thank you for listening and be sure to share the hope you hear and the mission of Victorious Living. This is Randy Claypool. I'm with Sheridan, Korea. Am I saying that right? You are. Yes, when I go into prison though, the Latino brothers, they say, oh, Korea. Korea, yeah. Yeah, it's a Portuguese name. That's kind of what I was thinking. It's exciting to sit here and video you. There's a few thoughts that come to my mind, introductory, we'll call it, okay. When I got invited to go in and speak as a team member with Victorious Living, it was with this lady that you may have heard of and those listening may have heard of. Her name was Brooke. I'm so honored to be here in her place. It's big shoes to fill. Brooke has made some wonderful life decisions and she's off going to be happy. I'm just thrilled for her. We all are.

But I had to bring her up not only for that reason, but also for the reason of simply saying to you, we went into two prisons that day, her and Mr. Pat and I, and she just both of them can say, you've got to meet Sheridan. Wait till you meet Sheridan. I like Sheridan so much. So I was, the anticipation built for months, you know, I looked forward to meeting Sheridan and actually I think it was from April all the way to September before I got to meet you. Yeah. So, um, I wasn't disappointed. Yeah, that's good. And tell, tell everyone where we met. At the revival of hope. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. 2024 revival of hope. It's hard to believe it's been a whole year, but yeah, we got to meet there and it, and it was kind of neat because, you know, different team members, we had communicated, we had done some zooms, um, and, and, but it was just neat. Like it was such a, it was like a homecoming, like, you know, getting, getting to actually shake hands, give a hug to somebody that you've been communicating with. It was like it, the, the family bond was already there. Yeah. Had already been nurtured. Yeah. That was cool. So in the, now I've had the opportunity to go in with you on many occasions. The thing that really resonates with me Sheridan is, uh, you know, different backgrounds. I, um, I've never like lived in prison.

I've been in prison. Yeah. I enjoy the experience so much that I don't mind telling somebody I'm going to prison today. Yes. You know. It's awesome. Yeah. And to see other people who are here hustling be like, what the heck? I was actually checking out at a convenience store and I don't know, the gal at the cashier was really nice. And I, I just said to her, I just got out of prison and it's just, you know, the reaction. Yes. Yes. I'm going to jail today and they're like, where I'm going with all of this is I hear this over and over again, and I've had the opportunity on multiple occasions to be one of the speakers with you. Um, I don't ever want to follow you. I'd rather go before you because once you've been there, there's just, you know, it's just not the same. Um, but she is one of us or she was one of us. Mm. That's, that's what I'm keying in on. She was. one of us and, and that means so much to them. Yes. You know, I can tell stories about life experience, but yours are relatable to them for so many reasons. So, um, I guess that's kind of my lead in

question to, to, to get you sharing, um, how long have you been with, with VL, how, uh, victorious living, how, how, um, how'd you meet Christy, just tell us about that and kind of where you're at with things. I appreciate that. But before I get into that, I want to say that, you know, that, that statement, I, I was one of y'all is that's, I'm going to reframe that because I, I am one of y'all. I'm just the same. You know, we're all on this journey together. The only difference, the only difference is I'm not, I'm not wearing a suit. I'm not behind bars in this season of my life and hopefully for the rest of my life. Um, but yeah, I just, I want to just reframe that a little bit and give some more context. It's present tense and not necessarily past tense other than the incarceration part. But I met Christy four years ago, um, through Christina Kimbrell, one of my very good friends in Arizona and Christina told Christy about me and just said, you got to meet this lady. And so, um, we jumped on and she gave me, uh, an offer for social media job. And I was like, I don't do social media. I don't even like social media. I don't understand, but okay, Lord, I will step into this and I will allow it to

be a stepping stone to wherever you're going to take me further, um, on this path of my calling. And so I, I did that for, I don't know, three years, a little, almost three years. Um, and we brought another team member in last year and, um, who took over the social media stuff and all the uploading and all the digital things that we do, which is a lot. And praise God for that. Um, and so now I get to really step into this space with, you know, while serving a victorious living, um, with helping y'all walk through the transformation story, the story of regeneration that God has given every single one of us to make sense of your past, present and future, and, and to help you clearly, um, to guide you into and inform you of God's plan, purpose, and promises for your life. Because we all have them. We all have them. My story is, you know, no different than yours, other than some probably certain experiences, but God has a plan, a purpose and a path for every single one of us and invites us into be a part of his redemptive and transformative story. And so that's what gets me up in the morning. That's what fuels me. Um, that is my heart for others to experience the, the identity, the healing and the freedom

and the empowerment. And I could give you so many other characteristics and beautiful words, but just what God has done in my life. And scripture says that he is not a respecter of persons and he doesn't play favorites. And so I'm not that cool. I'm not that cool what he's done in my life. He can do for everyone's life. But for being honest, the, the nature of trauma, you know, it, there was a study a couple of years ago, um, out of Illinois that, that found that nearly 97% of incarcerated persons have experienced trauma on some level, whether that's violence, abuse, neglect, um, abandonment, things like that. And so that has the nature of trauma has very, very grave and extremely challenging, um, impacts and effects on our life. And it kind of informs the reason why we do the things that we do. And I want, it is my heart to really help you understand that, to help our incarcerated brothers and sisters understand that and, and to be able to empower themselves and change the, you know, change their story with God's help. Good. I apologize. Silence. This is, so anyway, I'm trying to shut the audio

off so I don't blow everybody's ears out. We appreciate that. Yeah. Um, my, my past and my experience with the word trauma was as a pastor dealing with things that people went through in church, uh, in life, NASCAR auto racing, most everything involved something major unplanned medical death, um, a horrible crash, you know, and, but I think a common thing may be some of the known or the, or the, uh, well, you know what the facts sort of are, but it's the unknowns of where's this going to take me, how am I going to get past it on and on. So, you know, I get to meet you and, and then you take on this, this thing of, of sharing, um, deep dives in, in, in trauma lessons and it's, it's impactful. So let's, let's talk about that because, because of you, I had an opportunity last year to speak, uh, to a group of mentors within the, the, the prison system in Florida. And it was different than going into a faith based situation. So I thought, okay, what am I going to say? I'm going to use Sheridan's thing, but I'm going to use it as a chance to learn. And so I ask names, some traumas that you've been through was boom, boom, boom, boom, all these hands going up and ideas. So it was, it allowed me to be, to, to connect

with them because I listened, I cared and it was interesting. So I want you to elaborate on that because again, my personal experience with trauma is not necessarily the traumas that you might be, well, not might be that you are dealing with and, and teaching about. So tell us all about that. So I would, I would sum up the definition of trauma as an event or an experience or a series of events. Cause it, a lot of times it's not just one time, it is the continuation of it. Right. That causes harmful and negative impacts on a person's life. Okay. And so if we think about the things that we have experienced and walk through, if in my life, if I think about that and, and let me put a semicolon there or, or just a little sidebar really quick on that. If you would have asked me prior to nine years ago, if I'd ever experienced trauma, I'd have been like, absolutely not. Absolutely not. I didn't even under, I didn't know the word trauma. I didn't understand it. Now I had a trauma accidents on a, you know,

physically that required eight surgeries and three years of recovery on one of my legs and arms. And, but I never really thought and reflected about, wow, that was traumatic. It was a trauma accident, right? So it was traumatic and it had impacts. It had lasting impacts on my life. Never thought about that. Never thought about my childhood or the adult, uh, the other adult experiences that were extremely challenging and had an imprint and impacts. Um, so trauma, trauma in its nature is supposed to, or not supposed to, it, it still kills and destroys. And if we look at the scripture biblically in John 10, 10, where Jesus is saying the thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. And he does that in so many different ways in our lives. Experiences is one of the top ways, right? But then Jesus also said he came to give us an abundant life. And I love that scripture because it shows us that there is a way there is a rest, a restorative path. There is a, a purpose even in that pain where God's redemptive rescue and redemptive and restoration story is to defeat the enemy's attempts to thwart our life and to take us out

at all costs, at any cost. And trauma doesn't have to have the last word. The enemy doesn't have to have the last word. And that's, you know, trauma instills a lot of fear, a lot of insecurity, and a lot of lies in our life. And fear disempowers us and tells us, ain't nobody gonna love you. Nobody's gonna want you, you know, based on what you've done and what's been done to you. Don't talk about that. Do not ever talk about that. It's embarrassing. That's full of shame. But the word of God calls us into honesty and into transparency and vulnerability and learning to live honestly as a child of God is, it's scary, it's scary. And it's confusing because we don't wanna talk about the things that hurt. We don't wanna talk about the shameful things that we've done or that's been done to us. That's, we wanna put those in a cave and just hoard them and stack them. But if I think about, when I think about what trauma does to us, sorry, I think about an iceberg. And if you think about an iceberg, you know, in that freezing water, how much of the iceberg do you really see? Very little, yeah.

Very little, maybe 10%, 15%, something like that, right? And what's underneath that is the rest of the percentage, right? 85 to 90% of all the hidden things, you know, the impacts that it does to our soul and to our life that nobody knows, it's all unseen things. And that's, like, that's what I wanna, let's turn up this iceberg. Let's capsize it and really expose that and reveal that. The word of God says you cannot heal what is not revealed. So to clarify, what you're touching on is the person who's been traumatized, they themselves only saw, probably aren't even, it's kinda like the Titanic. Yes. There were icebergs, they were going by. Like you're saying, they're not seeing the bigger part that's underneath and is broader and does the damage. So they're seeing something for surface value, not realizing what's happening underneath, deeper or painful. So it's a part then of the process to help somebody see that what they went through or what they're burying was trauma, was traumatic. Yes, yes. And had impacts on you mentally, emotionally, your decision-making, right? A high percentage of the reason why we all did drugs, did do drugs, right? Whether it's past tense or present tense.

A lot of times is to cope with the pain that we are carrying, that we don't know what to do with and we may not even understand or even be aware of how much pain that we're in. Because it's such a norm for us. Until somebody gives you the language and points it out and says, oh my gosh, yes. Oh, I remember that one experience. And then it led to a series of other choices that I made and be able to connect the dots in your story and see how maybe that one experience or several experiences has impacted or directed, and shaped and influenced your life. What's it, I don't know, like for yourself personally, you've been through this. So you're not just sharing like some kind of book knowledge, although I know you study and prepare, you're sharing real life experience. Yes. And so what you're trying to bring to someone is, can we refer to that as like enlightenment? Yeah, I like that word. Enlightenment, I'm gonna say revelation, but not like I'm the Lord and I'm the Holy Spirit, but just something that is revealed and peeled back and uncovered for you, right? Like, oh my gosh, this is what it is. Like, this is what it's about. But yeah, I hope to just inspire and ignite and peel back the curtains of, you know, of the veil

because trauma does that. Trauma kind of veils and then influences and shapes even our worldview and the way we see things. and our perspective, our Oscuca, our Horeo, and it informs, you know, our belief system. And so when we can get into the soul of our hearts and our lives, we can get to the underneath part of that iceberg and kind of dig into it and get a microscope maybe and be like, okay, why? Why do I do the things that I do? How have the experiences of my life impacted and influenced the direction of my life and my choices and then inform my belief system? Our belief system have to be challenged. It's easy for us to walk through an experience and a challenging and difficult experience that was traumatic with all of its impacts and to come out of it with such anger and such blame and such bitterness and resentment. And that's an incarceration sentence in all its own before we ever get behind bars. Does your past shape who you are? Yes, yes. And I'm going to say this too, because when we become believers, and as believers, I love more using the word and term follower. Because you can have a fan, a believer, it's like, whoa, Jesus, I believe, and you ain't doing nothing, right? You're not letting the commands and the encouragement of Christ to get in you and change you and transform you, right? But part of being a follower of Christ is giving a new identity and what that means to live in Christ. It's weird. It's so confusing, especially when those of us who have had the past that we have, it doesn't line up. I don't understand how I can become like Jesus and continue to walk this path as a child of God when I may be still wrestling with the grave reality that I'm not lovable.

There's no way, although I said the prayer, and yep, now I'm a believer, there's no way still, and I don't believe that God loves me that much, that he could completely remove my past and give me a new past and a new name and then a whole new future. I don't believe that. And I think there's a high percentage of us, of our brothers and sisters behind bars that really, really are challenged with that, with that belief, with that coming, looking at ourselves in the mirror or getting in front of Christ in such a transparent way and say, there's just no way. I just, I don't believe that. And so instead of that, I'll just continue to believe all the negative stinking thinking that I've been telling myself and what other people have told me my whole life and what the enemy continues to tell me. And that is re-traumatizing. That's so re-traumatizing. And we have the power and the tools and the truth to combat all of that, to truly live out who God has intended for us to be all along and to really live out our identity as a child of God, not an orphan who's digging out of trash cans. And if you were like me back in the day, I'm living on the streets and I would go get my food and my provisions from the dumpsters sometime. And we continue to live like that. Sometimes I look in the cloud. Sometimes I look off in the distance. It's, it's my way of, uh, just really reaching into my brain, which I'm not saying is fantastic by any stretch, but as, as I'm, as I'm really listening to you go deep about this, so we kind of touched on the fact that some just flat out, don't know that they were traumatized. Something has just blocked that out. Yes. There are some that don't know what to call it or they name it the specific thing or things that happened and they choose to bury it.

And there are some that want help, don't know how to ask for it. There are some that don't want to. have help. How important in this transformation process, in this beginning of that, is being self-aware or that enlightenment? So self-aware is, just let's define that, being self-aware. What is that step? So I think, I mean, it's a simple answer. Being aware of self, understanding self, why you think the way that you think, why and how your emotions come to be and surface, where those come from, why you do the things that you do. You know, when I think of being self-aware, another word for that is being emotionally intelligent, a similar word. And that is understanding our inner being and our inner experience of being able to explain it, to be identifying it, and to explain it. And even to the point of beyond reproach, where if we do act out or whatever, like we have enough intelligence and awareness to go, okay, let me kind of parse out this thing, right? And let me take accountability and responsibility for myself, because nobody else can do that. I can't take accountability and responsibility for you, Randy, for your actions, your thoughts, your choices, you know, emotions, all of that. It is my responsibility.

It is mine to steward, and that's biblical. It is mine to understand and to steward. And we understand it in the light of God's truth, not in our experiences or, you know, that have even shaped and informed our worldview about how things go and how things should be in the world, but in light of God's truth. And even then, what to do with that after, which is another, which comes after self-awareness. But that's, the awareness of yourself and myself is just, that's so powerful in and of itself before we ever get to the second phase after awareness, which is acceptance and then action. But that, you can't just move straight to action if you don't know, if you're not aware and you don't have the knowledge and the wisdom in order to redirect and guide you in this different way. Clearly, the two of us could talk hours. Yes. Unfortunately, we don't have that much time. So as I was listening to you, you know, what is the adage, the, you know, the whole first step thing? It's, you know, when you take that first step, it's the biggest, it's the longest, it's the ability to, okay, I'm going for this. Yes. You know, I'm gonna go for it. So that's why I kind of, as we were talking, wanted to key in on, because there are a lot of people

listening to you already when you do your videos for the IFAM. Yeah. I gotta admit, I didn't know what that meant. No. No. I really, and I was like, I was figuring, and then somewhere along one of the meetings, incarcerated family, okay. But in all fairness, I was thinking intellectual family. So for those of you that are hearing this. There you go. We're gonna start calling you that too. So once they've taken that first step, they're coming to you for help. They're reaching out, they're listening. They're like, okay, I can't wait till the next lesson. And I think if I understand correctly, there's gonna be the ability to do some notes or whatever to help them do a deeper dive once they've. Okay. So then today, it has to be then about that first step. And how exciting that is. It's a journey that they should take. Yes. And it comes down to those two points being enlightened about, do you know what was under the water that hit you? Yes. The iceberg. Do you know how much damage it did?

Do you know that you have to work on repairs and you need outside help? Yes. Okay. And then, so there's the do you know and then there's the other side of yeah, I know but I don't want to talk about it, but you really need to. So it comes back to you're here to help, you're not here to judge. Yeah. Oh gosh, no. And I think that's coming back to the beginning of what we were talking about one of them. You understand it so much more from their perspective. So you're out, you're doing a good thing with your life, you're working hard, you're trying to give back. How does Sheridan keep herself on center? I love this question. So I'm going to give a little bit of background because I want to give context. I don't want to just like, I do all these things and like, bam, I'm just amazing because this was a journey. There are several different areas of our life and I didn't understand this till almost nine years ago. I would not have been able to even articulate that I had a spiritual side to my life because I wasn't walking in the spirit and didn't have any experience with it. But the spiritual side, my soul care, my psychological side, my mental and my emotional and even my will, like how I choose things, my physical side, my family area, my marriage now, I've been married for four years, my financial, my friends and fellowship, my creativity, my solitude. Like there's all these different areas. So I think of my life as like a balance wheel, like a circle, okay? And kind of like a travel pursuit, if you've ever played travel pursuit and it's got those little pie, those little pie slices, I think of my life in that way. And if there is one area of my life that is getting too much attention, I do get out of

balance and it does affect me. And I have to readjust and realign and have my little chiropractic adjustment that I give myself or the Lord gives myself and says, whoa girl, you got to get back over here. But there are several things that I aim to do on a consistent basis. Transformation requires commitment and consistency. It's more than just a decision, like I'm going to do this because we all have done stuff like that, right? We get sober and we last like two days and we're like, forget this, this sucks and it's hard and it's too challenging. I don't want to exercise, I don't want to put forth effort in that way. And so commitment and consistency is part of this. And so for me, it is about stewardship of my life, about the life, the new life that God has gifted me with. And so making sure there is a touch point in every single one of those areas. I eat good foods, I do, I mean, there are some times I'll be smashing a whole large pizza by myself, but I earned it, dang right, I earned that. Or a whole pumpkin pie from Costco during pie season. But because I have a lot of experience in my previous life in exercise science and nutrition and personal training, I did that for almost 10 years before I got into the crime world. And so I have this education and experience already in the nutrition world and just in the physical wellness part of my life. And so, you know, do I want to feed my body Chevron gas or do I want to feed it the El Cheapo where you run up and get it as cheap as you can, you don't matter what additives they put in there, all those things. So I'm very, very, that is a very sacred space for me. Very sacred space is taking care of my body. I exercise, I go to the gym nearly every day. I'm a runner also. And as far as my mental care, my soul care, you know, I will seek out solitude and I will have that space of rest and renewal.

There are some times where I do not get that. This last season in the fall was unbelievably busy and it had impacts on me mentally. And, you know, I'm walking around my house for seven minutes trying to look for my phone and it is literally in my pocket. I have my watch telling me, where is your phone? And it is in my pocket buzzing, but it's coming through my Bluetooth speaker in my car. So I go out in my car and I'm looking and I'm just freaking out. It's just all bad. But I was not doing well mentally sometimes when I am that busy and not having that balance of, you know, solitude and rest and renewal. I journal a lot during my day. My natural morning as I wake up, I come into my prayer closet. It has a desk. It has my journal and my Bible. I light a candle. I have soft music playing and I spend two or three hours in there. And sometimes it's praying for most of that. Sometimes it is doing a deep dive into scripture and meditating on it. I write out like a SOAR method. It's subjective, objective, application, and then response. And that helps me to process the word and see what God is really talking about

and what it means for my life and how I'm gonna respond to it. Revelation without application is not, it's not transformation. It's just information. So I do that. I journal out my thoughts. I process. I have in my bookshelf over here, I'm on my 29th journal in eight years. I am an avid journaler because I get tangled up here. You know, I still have impacts of trauma. I still have impacts of stress. I'm not relieved completely from that. I still have to manage that and steward that. And one way that I do that is journaling, challenging my own thoughts. You know, what am I feeling today? I still struggle with like locating myself emotionally sometimes. And I have my list of emotions. It's like 100 different emotions. So I can like literally pinpoint, I have to do that still. You know, fellowship is a big part of my balance also in my centering. Being able to give back and be a part of, you know, being on mission with Jesus and making disciples, right? And you can't make disciples unless you're a disciple really too because you gotta know the word of God

and you gotta know what Jesus commanded. You know, I protect my priorities also. And right now I'm in this season where God is reorganizing my priorities. I had to, or not had to, but I, with a lot of prayerful consideration in this season, this new season, I've had to let go of some things that are near and dear to me, some volunteer experiences and things that I was doing here in the area. And I didn't wanna let go because it's so fun and it's so rewarding. And I get to really walk alongside, you know, face-to-face what I'm trying to do digitally, which is much harder. But that is to create more space for what this new season that God is having me step into. You know, part of that is caring for my dad. He needs a lot more care. He lives with me. Another part is my husband is starting a new business and a new calling, and I wanna be available even for that. So there's all these different disciplines that I do to help me stay centered. And sometimes I'm killing it and I'm slaying my day in them. And sometimes, you know, I need an adjustment. I need to go to the sovereign chiropractor and get readjusted. But the commitment and consistency and the lifelong pursuit of continuing to seek

and continuing to even be open to being corrected, rebuked, disciplined by the Lord, and trained, like that's what it's about. It's not about perfectionism. It's about a lifelong pursuit of continuing to show up and even be honest with where you're at. So it. truly is a journey. Yes. And again, to recap, it hasn't begun the right journey, the path to transformation, if you haven't allowed yourself to be enlightened. Discover the impact, the trauma, the things that your mind has just shut off that you don't know are there, or if you do know are there, you've got to talk about it. And you provide that opportunity. And I want to ask you, have you, in the seasons that you've been doing this, have you had any responses? Have you had some come up to you personally when you're speaking in a prison that have listened to you or letters or anything? What's that feel like? What's that experience been like? It's very humbling. It's very humbling. And the temptation is to take it and be like, yeah, I'm awesome, because I've done that too. I have followed after that temptation and fueled my pride. But it is humbling. It's humbling, because I once was right there too, right?

And it's, yeah, I would just say humbling. But it's also encouraging for me, because I'll tell you, I fam, and I'm already getting emotional about it. The enemy still attacks, right? It's just part of life. It's not his design to leave us alone. And we are to go through tests and trials to mature and continue to overcome and be victorious, right? But the enemy still comes and plays with me and tries to discourage me and say, nobody wants to hear from you. Nobody wants to hear from you. You don't have anything cool to say. And he says crap, crap, crap, absolute garbage like that to me. And sometimes I believe it. And so when I hear y'all come up to me and hear the impacts of videos and soon-to-come courses that we are going to roll out, that is so encouraging to me. There's many times where I will print out. Lauren, our prison correspondence director, she will either text me or email me, here, this person named you or whatever. And I will print them out, and I will tape them on my wall in my prayer closet to not only remind me why I do what I do, but to just see your faces and see your words and how encouraging that is for me to continue going. OK.

I promised not to put you on the spot. Oh. But you know, when Brooke ended these, uh, you know, her, her podcast, she always kind of had a, like, write it down sort of thing. So I was thinking, uh, what can we do today? What is the motto or the self-motivating thought? What drives you? What keeps you going every day? What is something that you come back to over and over again and, you know, if, and it just, it just gets you where you need to go? Yeah. So there's two things that come to mind. And my very first pastor in my, in my trauma transformative journey, uh, was a pastor who, um, said to me or gave me this quote, and I'm not sure even where it comes from, but it's change is inevitable. Growth is optional. And that has stuck with me. I use that all the time. Um, growth is, there is a, a value system within me where growth is like at the top two. I love to grow. I love to lean in and, you know, I do it in the gym every day and I put in the work and I put in the effort, um, so that I can be stretched, so that I can be challenged and so that I can be, become stronger. And, and that's, yeah.

a true reality, not only for our physical bodies, but for our spiritual and our soul also. And so I love that. I love to become, I love to become, I love this journey where there are no limits. I'm, you know, I've limited myself back in the day so much, um, oh, I've had 14 surgeries on my knees. I can't do that. And when I got into my new life and I was hiking mountains and getting to the top, I'm like, oh my gosh, I can do this. And I started to reframe even the way that I said everything. Um, but yeah, just growth, expansion, development, and becoming are all gorgeous words to me. Um, and I just, I love, I love, I love. I have this common phrase that can often be misinterpreted, but I say it because it's special to me. You know, it's adoration in the scriptures, adoring the Lord. So I adore you in all the right ways. Very spiritually as a sister, as a team member, I adore what you do. Uh, I admire it. Um, we all come with different gifts and skill sets. I'm still trying to figure mine out, but me too. The journey, does it ever end or when does it end? Does it, does it, does it end when we arrive at Jesus feet? Is that it literally? And, and, uh, it can be a tough journey, but it's well worth it, isn't it? Yes. And what makes it well worth it? Just staying after it, right? Yes. Yeah. The pursuit of it, the pursuit of it for sure.

And doing it with other people, right? We were not meant to do that alone. Alone. Yeah. We were not meant to journey alone and in our pain and brokenness, you know, it, it shapes our independence and our self-sufficiency. And Jesus has come to blow that up, to interfere with that and say, nope, it's now about dependence on me and interdependence on each other and calling each other brothers and sisters and, and helping each other and encouraging each other along the way, right? With that patient endurance, because man, we're all in the race, we're all in the race. I think it was, uh, yeah, we were walking into a prison together, everybody else had gone in front of us and I experienced something I hadn't yet. And we were kind of out in the yard and some of the men were crossing over and, uh, I hear Sheridan, it's Sheridan. And I thought that was so cool. Um, cause I was still so new, but, uh, it really is exciting. When you're giving your testimony and we did a tour together, you and Christie and I, and similar, you know, aspects of your testimony were given on three different occasions. And I, it got to the point as I'm listening, I knew to look and I'm looking around and I'm, I'm just watching and I'm like, here it comes, here it goes. And they're like, they're just taking it in, they're shaking it. You know, the whole, she's one of us, she gets us, she understands this. The words that she's speaking are so impactful because she's been right here. And I think it comes down to how did she get her life back? How did she get over her trauma? How'd she get a child back? You know, it's how did she put things back together that she broke? And I can tell that's what they're thinking. Wow. Yeah.

Their brains are working and they're calculating and they're taking notes and they're thinking, you know, and I had, I had a gentleman come up to me, you were busy, surrounded, and he, he was near in tears, started to cry and it was, you know, how do, how do I get my confidence back? How do I get the sense of authority? You know, the influence, how do I get all of that back? As a father. Right. That's what he was talking about, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, that's, what's so cool because, well, you use the word see. So folks, stay tuned. There's another season coming of Sheridan. Correa. Am I saying? Correa, Correa. Correa. Correa. Gosh, we love everybody out there and I love and appreciate you and your ministry and what you're doing and it's exciting to be a team member with Sheridan, whom I heard about over and over and over and over again. You're gonna like Sheridan, yeah. Yeah, we connect and I learn from you. I'm inspired by you. It's awesome what you're doing, what you're providing. And there's so much more after chapter one.

I mean, the whole journey, the enlightenment. Folks, let this fine servant of God help you. Listen to her, look her up, follow it. Sheridan, thanks for being here today. Thanks for being my sister in the Lord and I appreciate you so much. Keep on keeping on. Thank you. To God be the glory. Amen. Amen, thank you. This is all new for me. Hey, this is, how you doing? You remember that song? Ooh, baby. New kids on the block. Oh gosh. Thank you for watching our broadcast. Are you an incarcerated brother or sister who needs encouragement? Write to us at Victorious Living Correspondents, P.O. Box 2751 Greenville, North Carolina, 27836. Or email us at hope at vlmag.org. To view Victorious Living Magazine in its entirety, please have your chaplain contact us at 352-478-2098. Or email us through our website at vlmag.org. We are happy to provide our Victorious Living Magazine free of charge, in bulk, with or without staples.