Heaven & Healing Podcast

Dangers of Self-Help Culture

Self + self = more self.

Self-love, self-hate, self-help — it’s all one in the same, because the root is the same: SELF.

In this episode, I talk about the dangers of self-help culture, which include: assuming that we are good enough as is, capitulating a society that is literally SELF-centered, and watering down/edifying the biblical God—if not ignoring Him altogether to opt out for the “higher self” narrative instead.

No matter how you spin it, self-help has one goal: self-actualization. Self-healing. A concept that sounds pretty to the ears, but ultimately defies Scripture. Self-help keeps our sights set on the mirror and whatever that reflection can finitely offer back to us, instead of on Jesus and our promised eternal salvation in Him.

The thing about striving for self-actualization/healing within this personal development movement is that we do genuinely go into it with the best intentions — to grow and be better people — but the intention remains self-motivated, rather than for the glory of God, which leads us to idolatry of the self, creating more need for the self and no room for the Lord.

With self-help culture, before you know it, you are so full of yourself that you don’t even realize how hungry you truly are for God.

The reason you HAVE the hunger to grow that led you to self-help is because God designed you to need Him (John 15:4-5). You are hungry because it is GOD who feeds you your daily bread — not affirmations in the mirror, or daily journals, or a routine, or mindset training, or manifestation, or whatever else self-help falsely promises as the “thing” to help you heal you.

So does this mean we should neglect our wellbeing? Absolutely not. It just means that we stop going within to find healing when that’s the same place we find our strife. The self cannot be both the problem and the solution—logically, it’s a fallacy. So instead, we focus on self-sacrifice over self-help: laying our life at the Lord’s feet and stop exalting the self & our efforts as if we ourselves are the god of our life.

Stop reaching for the best of life and instead receive the life in Christ. If you were good enough on your own, you would have “done it” by now — you need Him. Desperately. We all do.

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Referenced Scripture:
John 1:19
Romans 3:23
Romans 3:10
Matthew 23:12
1 John 1:8-10
Matthew 16:25
Colossians 3:3
Proverbs 16:5
John 15:4-5
James 4:8
Romans 12:2
1 Peter 5:6
John 3:30
Luke 9:23
Philippians 2:3
Hebrews 12:2
Isaiah 41:10
Phillipians 4:7

Divine Feminine is NOT Divine! with Jessica Torres

Heaven & Healing Podcast episode 3 features my sister in Christ, Jessica Torres: ex-new ager who had a 6 figure business helping women ‘heal’ through sensuality, sex and divine feminine empowerment. She taught on popular gnostic topics such as Mary Magdalene priestess-hood and embodying our relationship to God through the goddess spirit within, all before her unexpected conviction of the Holy Spirit that lifted the veil to show her that Jesus Christ is the only truth. She gave up her business, lost her romantic relationship, and joyfully laid her life at the Lord’s feet.

In this conversation, we dive into the deceit of the divine feminine movement, how destructive it actually is in contrast to the healing that it promises, and unpack a range of topics within that realm — from sex, sensuality, trauma, relationships and more.

Our goal with this dialogue is to share how true feminine empowerment does not come from defiance of the Creator, His Living Word, nor from “crushing the patriarchy” or becoming more culturally & socially astute than men — it actually comes from the surrender and submission to our Savior Jesus Christ.

Women want to live by their own rules, with no sense of order or structure, because it feels good to our flesh and to our ego when we lack discipline or obedience. But this lifestyle of self-worship only leaves us craving more of that sensuality, giving us a false sense of security within the guise of ‘flowing goddess energy’ rather than bringing true fulfillment that can only come from living in accordance to God’s will.

The mindset that God’s will (Christ->man->woman->child) is oppressive is a radial misrepresentation of His Word.

What’s oppressive is the belief that there is freedom in the divine feminine, because you are imprisoned by your own flesh when you only live for your own desires. When you live within the structure of God, you are free from the world and resurrected in the Holy Spirit.

The devil promises freedom in the world by leading you to submit to yourself and abandon God.
God promises eternity by asking you to abandon the world and submit to Him.

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My Journey from New Age Deception to Jesus

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If you would have told me this time last year that in 365 days time, the podcast I had JUST launched a month prior would be dead and gone… buried along with the rest of my former astrology life… because instead of an esoteric self-healing podcast, I’d be starting my own ministry to talk about how much I love Jesus, I would have asked where I could buy whatever shrooms you were tripping on! And that’s the truth. I never imagined myself to be a “Jesus person” — and frankly, I didn’t get them.

 

I didn’t understand why people who loved Jesus so much made it a point to let everyone else know. But it truly is one of those IYKYK things because… if you know, you know. There is nothing like His love, yes, but there is ESPECIALLY nothing like his salvation.

 

See, both are given to us freely — His love and salvation — but it is not up to us to be loved by Him, because we simply are. To have His love is a given. To experience His love is another thing entirely, though — because THAT is a choice. To experience his love is to first WELCOME the salvation that He is so eager, willing and joyful to give you.

 

Of the near decade I spent engulfed in the false light of new age spirituality — no fancy esoteric modality, technique or practice has ever brought me the true soul healing that Jesus Christ has given me in a few short months in accepting Him as my Lord and Savior.

 

Turns out it wasn’t a blocked charka. Turns out it wasn’t my Venus in Cancer. Turns out it wasn’t an energy imbalance. Turns out it wasn’t an old karmic debt or past-life trauma resurfacing. Turns out I didn’t need to carry an obsidian in my bra every day. Turns out, I was missing God. The TRUE, LIVING God, that is. I had formed an idol of who I believed God should be based on how I felt, as many do in the new age, so I THOUGHT I knew Him, but I was only experiencing the counterfeit Christ who tells us to follow our heart.

 

Jesus was clear. Follow Him. Proverbs 3:5-6

 

In this first episode of Heaven & Healing Podcast, I share my personal new age to Jesus testimony, talk about the difference between God’s unconditional love vs. unconditional tolerance, discuss what type of content you can expect from future podcast episodes, and so much more. The scripture focus of this episode is Isiah 47:13 — AKA the verse that finally did me in and admit astrology was not God’s will.

 

Can’t wait to hear your thoughts and hope you are looking forward to more.

 

Sending love to you all. Blessed be. Praise God!

Rebranding in Christ‘s Redemption: Podcast Relaunch 2022

This is not my last podcast. It is my last Moon and Back podcast.

 

When I started this podcast, my goal was to talk alongside one another on the self-healing journey.

 

I now see self-healing as irrelevant in the understanding that the full love and healing myself and my listeners are seeking can only be found in God. He is the answer to the emptiness that I thought “self-healing” could fulfill. I am convicted in the knowing that nothing — not tarot, not reiki, not yoga, not crystals, not chakra work, not channeling aliens, not witchcraft, not the law of attraction, not astrology — can  fill that void or longing except Jesus Christ.

 

I tried for a few months to keep one foot in Christianity and one foot in my astrology work, because I loved astrology with my entire heart, found my identity in it, built my platform around it, and am good at it. However, truth is truth and the truth is that astrology and other new age practices are founded and rooted in paganism, self-actualization, universal consciousness and have nothing to do with God. My intentions have been good, trying to bring God to the forefront of the astrology work, but as the saying goes — the road to hell is paved in good intentions.

 

We don’t need astrology. Formed in ancient Babylon, the very city known for rejecting God, the purpose of astrology was to inform the individual of the course of their life in the basis of the positions of planets and zodiac signs, AKA to put one’s faith and purpose in the planetary patterns rather than in God Almighty.

 

Astrology worships the creation. I am here to worship the Creator. So I’m done. I find my identity in Jesus Christ, in being a child of God, not in being a Gemini sun.

 

I know this is different. I know I’m going to lose people. I know people will think I’m nuts. I’m fine with it. I am more sound than I ever have been in my life — because I’m filled with the Holy Spirit, not with the influence of whatever Mercury is doing.

 

Unfortunately, all of the new age practices all have roots that have literally nothing to do with God or with Christ as our Savior, even when they present as holy or divine. 2 Corinthians 11:14 “Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” Satan capitalizes on our trauma and pain, inviting us to happiness in things like the law of attraction, astrology, tarot, enneagrams, etc. so that we feel like we have answers, identify and meaning — when really, all we need is God, his Word, his Son and his Spirit.  

 

The new age teaches that we don’t need a man written book to tell us about God, while at the same time giving us their own man made interpretation on how they view God. The new age teaches that truth is all relative and there’s no absolute truth, which is a relativist, self-defeating fallacy since they attempted to make an objective truth statement that there’s no objective truth. New age teaches that religion is a control tool while at the same time they are trying to influence our decisions based on this statement, which makes new age beliefs a control tool.

 

Everything about the new age is contradictory and deceitful. I apologize, from the bottom of my heart, for presenting these false teachings for the past 7 years. I pray in repentance.

 

Closing books on self-help and opening the Bible began to cure my anxiety. Turning away from tarot cards and toward Jesus Christ saved my relationship. Ceasing any participation in moon rituals and praying to the Father, Son & Holy Spirit saved me from suicide.

 

My podcast will relaunch in 2022, with a new name and new mission, where I will deep dive into these topics over and over. 

 

The new podcast will be focused on new age recovery, Scripture, healing in God, nutrition, health and more. I will interview people with testimonies both similar and different to mine, how finding God redeemed their lives. 

 

My yoga videos will no longer be traditional yoga, as the roots of yoga are undeniable in their paganism and belief that man & God are one, but rather on simply stretching and fitness. You need not worry about following a new channel, for I am simply changing the name, the brand, the imagery etc. So follow me on Instagram @angelamarieucci to stay up to date with these changes before the re-launch in the new year.

 

To the Moon and Back community, thank you for being here. I hope you will stick around, because in 2022, we are going so much further than the moon — we are going to Heaven.

 

I express my most sincere gratitude for your trust and consistency with M&B, and again do deeply apologize for pulling you further into false light all this time. I truly did not know any better. I thought astrology was the answer, but it was simply a distraction that only led to more questions. God has forgiven me, and I hope you will too.

 

I am sending you so much love, one last time, to the moon and back. Stay tuned for the re-launch. Please watch or listen to this episode in full.

 

God Bless.