Rooted & Risen Within

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.

#FaithDeconstruction
#deconstructing
#awakening

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I had to step away from the Bible for a while. Not just step back - detox.
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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 on Substack, subscribe to get articles emailed.
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#FaithDeconstruction
#deconstructingreligion

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Article on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/rootedandrisenwithin/p/every…

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I Came Back Different: When the Ground Beneath Your Faith Begins to Shift…

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W.A.R.R. - Wrestling Authentically thru Religious Residue is a section of Rooted & Risen Within 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 bondage 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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I’m good at loving myself in a protective way. Boundaries, saying no, discipline - no problem!

But giving myself permission to create and enjoy life without attaching outcomes to it - Survival mode had me neglecting that part!

I’m working on reclaiming that area of self-love this month and beyond. 💜

Has survival mode ever affected you in this way?

Read the full article below…
open.substack.com/pub/yaraharukahshalom/p/survival…

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The word spoken in a language of condemnation, spite, disgust, or accusation does not bring about the desired end. It does not communicate the heart and intent of the father. The goal of the word is not to break people's spirits, but to free them from the spirit that is trying to break them. Our countenance, tone, timing, attitude of heart, and intentions all play a part in the spirit that we speak out of. The Spirit of YHWH speaks truth in love and brings a conviction of that love. When we speak out of a contrary spirit, we sow destruction into the spirit of the hearer. I am thankful that YHWH understands and speaks the language of the soul. He perceives the intentions that empower our words, and His love interprets it all. I pray that He teaches us to speak and interpret the language of a person's heart to communicate the language of His love.

Excerpt From Remnant Love
Yarah Arukah Shalom
Http://RemnantLoveBook.com/

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Hebrew family: More than one thing can be true at the same time. Life has layers, one truth does not always cancel out another.

We can understand that January 1 is not the SCRIPTURAL new year and still acknowledge that we are moving into a new civil CALENDAR year. We already do this in other areas of life, a school year does not start Jan 1st or in the Spring but in Aug / Sept. A fiscal year for Gov’t or companies might start in June or Oct. Different calendars exist for different purposes. That does not threaten truth, it simply means we are dealing with more than one system at once.

It’s interesting when people try to act like the calendar year is not happening at all, like 2026 is imaginary because it is not the biblical new year, while at the same time shifting to write “2026” on documents, checks, forms, planners, etc. That is a type of dissonance and denial of reality. And it has folks speaking in ways that are honestly unnecessary.

It is completely understandable to not embrace cultural traditions that fall outside of your personal convictions or practices. No one is required to celebrate, party, or attach spiritual meaning where they do not believe it belongs. Disengaging from the holiday and its traditions is legit, but feeling the need to deny that our current functional calendar is changing and condemning and clowning others is getting real old.

Yes, it is true that winter is not a natural season for launching. It is a season for slowing down, resting, reflecting, and preparing. Just like night is not for launching, but for renewal and rest before the morning light. Do some choose to launch anyway? Sure, that is their choice. We all resist what is natural/seasonal at times, just like some people work nights to feed their families.

I personally choose to resist the cultural rhetoric and align with nature when I can. So I do not move with spring renewal energy in January. But I can also acknowledge and honor completion of a phase of time that I lived within. And I can say Happy 2026 to people and it doesn’t violate scripture, truth, or integrity.

Maturity is being able to hold more than one framework at the same time. Immaturity demands one angle only and calls everything else compromise. Until we learn nuance, we will keep mistaking our rigidity for righteousness.

So I close my 2025 calendar year in gratitude and enter the 2026 calendar year in gratitude. I will honor this winter season of energy conservation and hidden growth, and allow this time to build momentum for the blossoming and renewal of spring.

Blessings & Peace to all in 2026! Whatever cultural traditions or convictions you may hold, may it all lead to greater maturity in love, light, and truth. 💜👑

#Happy2026

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Shabbat shalom!👑💜
#shabbatshalom

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