Embracing Change

Join Lucretia Bowman as she gives insights into how her life was transformed from a five-time convicted felon to the founder and Vice President of Recovery Services at City Gospel Mission. You'll be inspired to turn your life around and how to embrace change no matter how impossible it seems.

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Average duration: 35 minutes
Episodes: 121
Years Active: 2020 - 2025

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S11 Ep101: The Mind of Incarceration - Unlocking the Incarcerated Mind - Surrender

What does surrender look like to you? In this episode, we discuss what surrender can look like and how God can use it.

Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embr…

00:48:01 | Wed 12 Jun 2024

S11 Ep100: We're Back: So many changes

"...To everything, turn, turn, turn" Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Change is in the air. We let you in some updates. We are so glad to be back with you.

Recorded April 15, 2024
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00:44:29 | Tue 04 Jun 2024

S10 Ep99: Unraveling: Healing versus cure and deep pain: Lessons, leaning, and Learning

Lessons are all around us, and if we lean into them we can learn much. If we don't, we can be stuck in complacency and stunted growth.

Recorded September 18, 2023
Podcast recorded and produced by …

00:25:57 | Tue 17 Oct 2023

S10 Ep98: Unraveling: Healing versus cure and deep pain: Body language and listening

Have you ever had someone you are speaking to not make eye contact or acknowledge what you are saying? Do you feel heard? Do they feel like they are listening? Our bodies reveal how we are listeni…

00:31:57 | Tue 10 Oct 2023

S10 Ep97: Unraveling: Healing versus cure and deep pain: Management of life suffering

Sometimes suffering is optional. Sometimes it is not. Whatever the case, how we process suffering can set us on different paths.

Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Copyright 2023 by Lucretia Bowman
Rec…

00:33:30 | Tue 03 Oct 2023

S10 Ep96: Season 10: Unraveling: Healing versus cure and deep pain: Self-forgiveness/compassion

How do you talk to yourself? Is it positive? Negative? Riddled with self-doubt? Join us as we discuss how self-forgiveness and compassion will radically change your life.

Questions or comments: …

00:32:10 | Tue 26 Sep 2023

S10 Ep95: Unraveling: healing versus cure and deep pain - Undivided Becoming Whole - Interview with Courtney Walton pt 3

Part 3 - We continue our discussion on how racism and trauma create division, and how Undivided is bridging that gap.

More information on Undivided:
https://undivided.us/

Recorded July 14, 2023
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00:23:37 | Tue 19 Sep 2023

S10 Ep94: Unraveling: healing versus cure and deep pain - How Trauma Divides - Interview with Courtney Walton pt 2

Part 2 - We minimize. We shrink. We become something other than what God created us to be. In this episode, we discuss just how trauma divides us and makes us twist and conform to the expectations…

00:28:52 | Wed 13 Sep 2023

S10 Ep93: Unraveling: healing versus cure and deep pain - How Trauma Divides - Interview with Courtney Walton pt 1

We minimize. We shrink. We become something other than what God created us to be. In this episode, we discuss just how trauma divides us and makes us twist and conform to the expectations of other…

00:37:59 | Wed 23 Aug 2023

S10 Ep92: Unraveling: healing versus cure and deep pain - The Deep Wound of Pain - Interview with Courtney Walton

Part 1 of our interview with Courtney Walton. Join us as she shares about epigenetics and the deep wound of pain. This is part 1, and part 2 will continue next week.

Recorded 7/5/2023
Produced a…

00:32:46 | Tue 15 Aug 2023

S10 Ep91: Unraveling: Healing Versus cure and deep pain: Healing is not a cure

Did you know that healing and a cure are two different things? When we have deep pain in our lives we have to unravel what that means to heal and to know that the ultimate cure is death, either deat…

00:41:31 | Tue 08 Aug 2023

S9 Ep90: Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: The 30 year journey: Embracing Peace

Pastor Deborah Merritt once again joins us for a discussion on Embracing Peace. This is our final episode of this season.

Recorded on 3/13/2023
Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn for Embracing …

00:36:04 | Tue 09 May 2023

S9 Ep89: Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: The 30 year journey: Loving Others as a Shepherd versus a Sheriff

We invited Pastor Deborah Merritt on the latest episode to discuss "Loving Others as a Shepard versus a Shepard." Deborah was the first mentor Lucretia had coming into the faith and she adds wonderf…

00:39:43 | Wed 03 May 2023

S9 Ep88: Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: The 30 year journey: Seeing my purpose as my pulpit

Seeing my purpose as my pulpit: Lucretia continues to share about her 30 years in ministry. In this episode she shares details of the "marriage" of Having the Courage to Change and City Gospel Missi…

00:25:35 | Tue 04 Apr 2023

S9 Ep87: Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: The 30 year journey: Uncovering Performance vs Producing

Do you live your life performing for those around you, even God? Do you know what it is to produce for God? Lucretia asked these same questions as she continues to walk us through her journey in th…

00:37:08 | Tue 28 Mar 2023

S9 Ep86: Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: The 30 year journey - The difference between pushing/pulling

Finding her mother meant a new wave of things to work through. It could have push or pull her back to places she didn't want to go, but God kept her through it.

Recorded: 2/27/2023
Produced by Je…

00:33:59 | Tue 21 Mar 2023

S9 Ep85: Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: The 30 year journey - Finding my power

Lucretia talks about the many ways in which power was taken from her and how it was restored through her taking it back.

Recorded 2/27/2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embra…

00:36:09 | Tue 14 Mar 2023

S9 Ep84: Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: The 30 year journey: Creating a Plan

When Lucretia left the halfway house she found herself at Mary Louise Inn trying to put her life together. After an invitation to church she found the clear pathway to prepare herself and made a pla…

00:36:08 | Tue 07 Mar 2023

S9 Ep83: Leaving Prison to Build a Pulpit, The 30 Year Journey: Leaning Toward Prayer

Continuing our journey through the beginning steps of healing, Lucretia takes you through the letter to the little girl her and how that impacted her healing.

Recorded: 2/6/2023
Produced by Jennifer…

00:34:31 | Tue 28 Feb 2023

S9 Ep82: Leaving Prison to Build a Pulpit, The 30 Year Journey: Living Through Pressure

Pressure can either destroy us or it can make us. In this episode, Lucretia talks about how the pressure helped make her a diamond.

Recorded: February 6, 2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
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00:35:46 | Tue 21 Feb 2023

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