What if the parts of your story you’ve always seen as failures or flaws aren’t the end of the story? In this episode, we explore Jacob’s journey, the lifelong process of identity formation, and how God meets us in our wrestling to reinterpret, redeem, and reveal who we were created to be.

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ABOUT JESSIE:
Jessie Cruickshank holds a Master’s degree in experiential education from Harvard and has spent 30 years studying how the brain actually learns, grows, and changes. She’s the author of Ordinary Discipleship and the architect of Identity Formation Theory, a framework for understanding where people are in their spiritual and psychological development. She believes discipleship was never meant to be a solo journey, and neuroscience backs her up.