Regina Hollomon

My healing journey began in 2015 when I attended a weekend conference offered by Healing Grace Ministries. The information presented to me that weekend challenged my concept of God and the performance-based system that religion had programmed into me. In that system, my performance determined my value and acceptance. My performance, along with negative life experiences, had left me with a load of shame. Because of my shame, I had a history of searching for significance and acceptance through achievement. The gold stars in Sunday school turned into college degrees and certificates, but I still felt the void. I sought to fill the void through connection and relationship. However, shame made me distance myself from the One relationship that would fill my every void, my every need. Because of the stronghold of shame I was living under, I buried my failures and my feelings in avoidance and denial. I effectively learned to hide.

I was hiding in the shadows, but God called me out into His marvelous light. He kept placing opportunities to discover His grace in front of me, even as I was hiding and running from His presence because I felt unworthy. Because of God’s love and grace, He diligently pursued me. In 2019 I enrolled in the Advanced Freedom Life Training with Freedom Path Counseling and completed the training in 2020. Through Freedom Life, I began to put the performance aside and focus on my identity in Christ as His beloved daughter.
I was a federal employee for 30 years. God had begun a healing work in me through the AFLT training program and was leading me into a healing ministry. More and more I felt the call until I prayed, “God if You want me doing Your work, You’re going to have to get me out of this workplace!” Shortly after that prayer and within the perfect window, I was offered an early retirement with a cash incentive. I took that as the answer to my prayer and never looked back.
I completed my own personal healing journey with Lifewell Ministries. It was at times a difficult journey, but it has been the most important and worthwhile thing I have ever done. It wasn’t easy to face the shame of my past, but God is faithful, patient and kind in the process. Through the modality of formational prayer offered at LifeWell, God healed the emotional woundings that led to my shame and transformed my mind and soul. God used formational prayer to dig out the last remnants and roots of the shame that held me back from experiencing His fullness for decades. I was completely transformed by His unfathomable love and tender mercy. It’s impossible to effectively describe a healing journey with Jesus. It is something that must be experienced to truly comprehend. As Jesus walks us through our darkest moments, our most profound woundings and the places of our deepest pain, His tender mercy and steadfast love provide true healing and integration of the fragmented parts of ourselves. The result is a renewal of the mind and a transformation of the landscape of the brain. The power of toxic thoughts is broken by the power of His Spirit working in our innermost selves. A wounded soul is made whole. There is spiritual alignment with Truth.

My personal transformation resulted in a burden for broken women. I desperately want others to experience what God has done for me. My desire in pastoral counseling is to come alongside women in their struggles, to provide them with a safe place to discover how they got to the place they’re stuck in, and to usher them into the presence of Jesus and the remarkable healing work of the Holy Spirit. The Shepherd constantly leaves the ninety-nine on the mountain to rescue the one. It is a privilege to be an empathic witness on the journey with someone who is looking to be found.