Have you ever caught yourself saying, “I’m just low-maintenance,” “I don’t like attention,” or “I’m more comfortable behind the scenes”? What if those statements didn’t begin as personality at all? What if they started as protection? A comment about your body. A moment of embarrassment. A relationship where being noticed felt unsafe. A message about modesty or vanity that landed harder than anyone realized. Those moments do more than hurt. They teach. And when those lessons go unquestioned long enough, they start shaping the way you dress, receive compliments, use your voice, and decide whether it feels safe to be seen. In this episode of Making Life Beautiful Again, we continue our Crowned in Beauty book tasting by opening Chapters 2 and 3 and talking about what happens when the wound becomes the teacher. We’ll look at how protection can start looking like personality, why hiding can continue long after the original season has passed, and how Christian women can begin attaching spiritual language to behaviors that are actually rooted in fear. We’ll also look at Esther’s own season of hiding and why her story gives us an important distinction: hiding can have a purpose, but it was never meant to become an identity. This episode is for the woman who has started wondering whether the quieter, more careful version of herself is really who she is or simply who she learned to become. Scriptures Mentioned Esther 2:10 Matthew 5:14–16 Join the Conversation Come into the Making Life Beautiful Again Facebook group and finish this sentence with us: “I realized I may have been calling __________ my personality when it was actually protection.” https://www.facebook.com/groups/makinglifebeautifulagain Crowned in Beauty Crowned in Beauty releases September 16, 2026. Inside the book, we go much deeper into the beliefs Christian women carry about beauty, vanity, hiding, preparation, and what it means to steward the woman God created you to be. About Making Life Beautiful Again Michelle Rose is a health + beauty strategist helping Christian midlife women care for the woman they are now, rebuild confidence, and fully show up for the life and calling still in front of them. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: http://www.makinglifebeautifulagain.com 🎥Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@michelledayrose

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