The Living Story: Healing from Heartbreak, Finding Purpose, and Learning to Live Again
You have done the work. Read the books. Sat in the therapy chair. Said the prayers or maybe stopped saying them altogether. And something still is not landing.
You are not broken. You are not behind. You are in the middle of a chapter that is longer and harder than anyone told you it would be. You feel stuck between who you were and who you are still becoming. And you are looking for someone who has been exactly where you are.
Welcome to The Living Story.
Hosted by Tennille Martinez, a teacher, storyteller, and woman of faith, this is a podcast for women in their 30s and 40s navigating healing, identity, heartbreak, and the long journey of finding themselves again after loss, divorce, depression, and the kind of pain that changes everything.
Each episode weaves together personal testimony, scripture, and honest spiritual conversation for women who are done performing and ready to go deeper.
Whether you are healing after divorce, recovering from heartbreak, rebuilding your sense of worth and purpose after loss, walking through depression and faith at the same time, or simply trying to find yourself again after a season that left you unrecognizable, there is a chapter here for you.
This is not a podcast for women who have it together. This is a podcast for women who are still in the middle of it and need to know the middle is survivable.
Faith will meet you here exactly where you are. Even if you are not sure you believe anymore. Even if you are angry. Even if the last thing you expected was for God to show up in a chapter that looked like this.
If you have been searching for a podcast about healing, starting over, self-worth, identity, purpose, and becoming the woman you were created to be, you just found it.
The chapters you least understand are often the ones that change everything.
You don't just read stories. You are one.
Episodes
17 episodes
E16 | You Don't Know the Full Story: Why Secondhand Faith Always Leads to Doubt
I was angry at God for years. And the honest truth is that most of my anger was built on a version of Him I had never actually taken the time to know.I had heard about Him. I had sat in rooms where people talked about Him. I had consumed...
E15 | What Watching The Testaments Taught Me About the Character of God
I was sitting on the couch with my mom, three episodes deep into The Testaments on Hulu, when something came out of me before I knew I was going to say it.That is not the God I know.And I have not been able to stop thinking about ...
E14 | When You Are Waiting for Results: What I Found in a Hospital Room During Holy Week
Have you ever been in a hard week and needed to know things were going to be okay?This Holy Week, I found myself in a hospital waiting room. I had been avoiding going to the doctor for weeks because I was too busy, too scared of w...
E13 | What God Actually Says About You When You Are Still Healing: Seen, Known, Chosen, Renewed, Held
Have you ever felt like healing was for everyone else but somehow not quite available to you? Like you were doing everything right and still felt like you were behind where you were supposed to be? This Selah episode is ...
E12 | When God Claims You Before Your Life Is Ready: Baptism, Heartbreak, and the Gold Thread Running Through It All
I was baptized at sunrise on the beach with my church community. One week later, the relationship ended. Same week. Same breath. If you have ever had a chapter that cost you more than you thought you h...
E11 | What God Does in the Silence: Why I Was Gone and What Happened When I Finally Came Back
I was gone for six almost seven months. And if you have ever stepped away from something you loved because life asked too much of you all at once, this episode is for you. A new subject I had never taught before. A hunge...
E10 | Fear of Sharing Your Story: What Jeremiah, Moses, Esther & The Poet X Teach Us About Courage
Do you struggle with the fear of sharing your story—afraid of being judged, misunderstood, or rejected? In this episode of The Living Story, we explore why so many women hesitate to tell their stories and how God can transform f...
E9 | Overcoming Perfectionism in Work, Relationships, and Faith
Perfectionism promises peace but leaves us exhausted. In this episode of The Living Story, I share the quiet ways perfectionism shows up in our lives at work, in relationships, and in our faith, and how to finally let it go...
E8 | Rewriting the Pain: What Esperanza and Tamar Taught Me About Voice, Worth & Healing
Do you keep replaying the same painful inner narrative? The one that whispers, “You’re not enough,” “You’ll never be loved,” or “This is just how it is”?In this powerful episode of The Living Story, we explore how to stop rehear...
E7 | Wrestling with God’s Timing: What Janie, Joseph, and My Healing Journey Taught Me About Delay
Have you ever wondered if God forgot about you? If the delay in your life means the promise has passed you by?In this soul-stirring episode of The Living Story, we explore what it means to wrestle with trusting God’s timing when...
E6 | He Brought Me to the Door, But God Brought Me Inside
What if the people who walked you to the door can’t take you inside?In this episode, I share how God used unexpected transitions, a new teaching job, a fresh heartbreak, and a church I didn’t choose to walk me through sacred thres...
E5 | Hermoso Momento: My Ocean Baptism & the Worship Song That Healed Me
I never planned on being baptized again, but God did.In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of my unplanned baptism in the ocean, the worship song that carried me through heartbreak and change, and the sacred moment where sur...
E4 | The Girl Who Lost Her Voice (And Found It in the Margins)
After my car accident, I lost the ability to write, even journal entries or sticky notes. As a storyteller, writer, journaler, and teacher, that silence hit hard. But in the margins of books, of random words on a sticky note, of lif...
E3 | The Books That Saved Me: How Fiction, Faith & Characters Helped Me Rebuild My Life
In this deeply personal episode of The Living Story, I take you through the books that didn’t just fill my shelves—they healed my soul. After surviving a near-fatal car accident and navigating a season of exhaustion, discon...
E2 | The Blank Notebook: When You Can’t Go Back to Who You Were
What happens when life forces you to start from scratch?In this episode, I share how my first podcast planted the seeds for something deeper, but never quite scratched the surface of why stories matter. It was beautiful, but it wa...
E1 | Before the Blessing: When the Breaking Becomes the Beginning
What if the unraveling isn’t the end—but the sacred beginning?In this premiere episode of The Living Story, I share the truth behind my podcast’s transformation—from hustle to healing, from strategy to surre...
Welcome to The Living Story: Where Fiction Meets Faith and Your Healing Begins
What if the stories you loved held the healing you needed?Welcome to The Living Story—a podcast that weaves fiction, scripture, and personal reflection into sacred conversations about identity, healing, and becoming.<...