Sarah Jakes Roberts - Having A Famous Father and Teen Pregnancy WIDE

of course we're talking to sarah jakes roberts she's got a book out called woman evolve break up with your fears and revolutionize your life um you know you talked about it you know just being honest about who you are um as a woman and some of the mistakes or or things that you did early on and you own them did that how did you do that was it did that come from a lot of prayer did you go to counseling like how did you how were you able to do that i really stopped running from it i think a lot of times when we have an experience that we don't know how to process we start building our life in a different way or building something that we feel like helps us to make up for whatever happened to us and so that distance between what happened to us or what we did to who we want to become becomes so wide that eventually we have to have this we come to jesus moment where we say to ourselves i want to be whole i don't want to be ashamed of who i used to be surely there's a way that both of these people can exist within me and so i started really looking at that girl who got pregnant at 13 and embracing her and loving her and i'm seeing her the way that god sees her and it allowed me to help foreign to other women like we're doing in the book to help them do the same thing it sounds like owning who you are that's the other thing i think that i think what happens a lot of times is that for women we may end up um trying to become something that we think society wants our parents want our family wants and so we end up not really owning who we are and it sounds like what you did was you owned who you are as we also talk about you owning who you are you know having a famous father like you have has it been difficult for you definitely it's been difficult for me i think because of the thoughts in my own head i think the projections from other people but not necessarily because my family made it difficult which i think has really been a blessing because my father's always kind of coached us my mother's always said like you can do whatever it is that's in your heart to do but until you believe it down on the inside of you it doesn't matter what anyone else says about you so those added pressures definitely wait on me but they were i'm sure there was a point in your life that you were like i am going in the opposite direction of ministry because you get what i'm saying like that's that's a that's a normal thought press process is to kind of almost rebel against what you were brought up in right for sure i mean i'm when i got pregnant i mean i felt like okay that's it there is no ministry for me there's no way that this could ever turn into that and i was comfortable with that i didn't feel any shame or no kind of disappointment about not being able to be in ministry because there was so much pressure that i saw connected to it and yet when i started telling my story and people were connecting to that story and i was like praying with them i'm like this kind of looks like ministry but even though i thought that i was running into running away from it i ended up running into it by just sharing my story and empowering other people so everybody again talking to sarah jakes roberts she has a book called woman evolve break up with your fears and revolutionize your life when you talk about being pregnant at the age of 13 your father is bishop td jakes how did he take that when you when you told him he was disappointed i don't no one's holding their baby and thinking one day i want you to have it did you try to hide it though did you try to hide for sure for sure but i will show you just i mean at 13 when you're pregnant you're not thinking about your life is about to change and you're going to become a parent i just didn't want to get in trouble and it wasn't until i told them that i realized this is bigger than you're grounded this is something that's going to change your life forever so i hid it for four months my sister eventually told them and from there i could see that this was grief this wasn't disappointment about a decision this was grief about a life that they thought that i would have yeah hold up we gotta address that too your sister told all you now i know you're talking about paralyzing i ain't when you grow up in a household and bishop t.d jakes is your father i mean as a kid did you did you watch him when he practiced his sermons or anything or like tell me about what was that like growing up in the household and did you get lectured a lot or anything well i think he's a natural communicator so there were lots of moments in which he would definitely at the dinner table kind of unload whatever thoughts that he was having but we weren't really a part of just like the sermon prep and watching him bring it together we very much kind of were like the people who came to the church because monday through saturday he was just like our dad walking around in a row taking food off our plate messing up our homework and then sunday there were these moments you know right off of keith boulevard in which we could just tell that there was something bigger than him working through him and so now has he given you any advice because again i can get on instagram and every single friend i got will repost you or something you've said and you know what i mean like it's it's viral almost everything you say goes viral now um has your dad giving you any advice with all of this um he just reminds me to stay committed to being authentic you know my dad has been so gracious that he gives us room each of us in our own ways room to kind of show up in the world in a way that feels most authentic to who we are my dad will be fighting in my comments if somebody says something crazy to me he's like give her leave her some room to be yourself so he just reminds me to stay committed to my truth wake that ass up get up and get tanked up

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Length: 5min 26sec (326 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 07 2021