Some seasons don’t feel like growth, they feel like loss.

In this episode, Mariah dives into the uncomfortable but necessary process of pruning. What happens when God starts removing people, closing doors, and allowing isolation? Is it rejection… or preparation?

Through Scripture and real reflection, this episode explores how discipline, silence, and separation are often signs of spiritual maturity, not punishment. If you’ve felt alone, misunderstood, or like everything around you is shifting, this conversation will help you see the season differently.

Pruning isn’t meant to destroy you.
It’s meant to prepare you.

This episode is heavy.

In Episode 5 of Rooted, Not Perfect, I open up about the things I once thought I would carry to my grave. We’re talking about searching… spiritual hunger… and the dangerous substitutes we settle for when we don’t know what we’re truly looking for.

Using Luke 15:11–24 (the prodigal son), we unpack what it really means to leave, to feel empty, and to come back. Sometimes we’re not rebellious — we’re just restless. And when we don’t recognize our hunger correctly, we start feeding on things that can never satisfy us.

This conversation is raw, transparent, and freeing.

If you’ve ever searched for love, validation, identity, success, or security in the wrong places… this episode is for you.

There is no shame here.
There is restoration.
There is freedom.

From addiction to freedom — you can still come home.

In Episode 4 of Rooted, Not Perfect, Mariah Woods explores the story of the lukewarm church and what it means to be rich on the outside, yet distant on the inside.

Drawing from the message to the church of Laodicea, this episode unpacks how familiarity, comfort, and routine can quietly replace intimacy with God. It’s a conversation about believing without surrender, knowing church without truly knowing God, and how spiritual self-sufficiency can blind us to our need for Him.

This episode is not about condemnation — it’s an invitation. An invitation to open the door, restore hunger, and move from routine faith to real relationship.

If you’ve ever felt spiritually “okay” but not deeply connected, this one is for you.