Rooted & Risen Within

It’s unbelievable how many layers you have to peel away before you fully unmask indoctrination. How many times you have to awaken before you finally get to the point where you’re truly awake.

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I’ve received a few questions lately, both in the comments and in direct messages. Several of them are touching on similar themes, so I think it would be more helpful for me to address them collectively in a few upcoming videos. That way, I can share my thoughts more fully, and anyone else who may have the same questions can benefit from the conversation as well.

If there’s something you’d like me to speak on, feel free to leave your question in the comments of a video or drop it here. I can’t promise I’ll address every question, but I’ll be paying attention to any themes that keep coming up (for now).

Also, while some people are choosing to unsubscribe, others who have followed this channel but never subscribed may continue to see my content even though it’s no longer resonating with them. If that’s you, and you’d prefer not to see my videos or posts moving forward, simply click the three dots on the corner of the post or video in your newsfeed and select “Don’t recommend this channel.”

No hard feelings. Not every path is for every person, and that’s okay.

Peace to you on your journey. May we all find spaces, conversations, and communities where there is mutual growth, respect, understanding, and edification.

Welcome to new subscribers and peace to those who’ve been around for a while and continue to hang!

Shalom!💜

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COURAGE is often the interruption needed to break the cycle.

Cycles continue because they are familiar. Even when they’re limiting, painful, or no longer serving us, there is comfort in what we know. Courage disrupts that comfort. It invites us to step beyond the familiar and into the unknown. That step may feel small, but it has the power to alter the direction of our lives. Every cycle is eventually broken by someone willing to do something different.

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If we are unwilling to take the time to truly listen to and understand something we disagree with, how can we even know whether we actually disagree with it?

Beyond that, we cannot develop real literacy, real comprehension, or real critical thinking if all we ever consume are points of view that echo our own.

Our intellectual muscle may be getting weaker by the day, but we mistake it for our conviction getting stronger.

What feels like strength is often just the echo of isolation.

We become increasingly closed off within our own thoughts, and when there is nothing left but our convictions, we have to cling to them even harder. Not because they are true, but because they are all we have.

There is no ground beneath us. Only our grip on that conviction.

And the tighter we hold, the more terrifying it becomes to examine what we believe. Because if we let go, we fear there will be nowhere to land.

But if we develop our minds by exercising them, and trust our God-given capacity to think, discern, question, and grow, we never have to cling to an idea for dear life.

We can examine our beliefs without fear. We can challenge them without feeling threatened. We can refine them without losing our footing.

Because our confidence is not rooted in protecting a conclusion. It is rooted in our ability to engage honestly with reality.

We trust ourselves enough to follow Truth wherever it leads.

And when we trust our relationship with ourselves, and with Truth, to carry us through any terrain, we no longer need to cling to certainty to feel secure.

We can carry our convictions with us without fearing where honest inquiry might lead.

Shalom 💜👑
Yarah Arukah Shalom
Rooted & Risen Within

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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.
open.substack.com/pub/rootedandrisenwithin/p/i-had…

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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…

open.substack.com/pub/rootedandrisenwithin/p/i-cam…

Join me on Substack if you’re interested in the faith deconstruction journey.

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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

substack.com/@yaraharukahshalom?r=pvg3u&utm_medium…

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