When I encountered Jesus, everything changed.
I was radically saved and pulled out of deep darkness. My repentance was immediate and visible - my life reflected it overnight. I renounced the New Age practices I had been involved in, destroyed tarot cards & spiritual paraphernalia, and turned fully toward Christ. I was born again, set free, and completely surrendered & there was no question about who I belonged to.



And yet, as time went on, I began to notice something I couldn’t ignore:
Although I loved God deeply and believed His Word, I struggled to cultivate the intimacy with Him that others spoke about so freely.
I prayed. I read Scripture. I trusted God.
Yet my heart often felt guarded, restless, or unable to fully settle in His presence.
I knew about God, but there were moments where knowing Him deeply, resting with Him, and receiving His love felt just out of reach. It wasn’t rebellion or lack of faith. It was something quieter and harder to name.
Over time, I sensed the Lord gently inviting me to stop striving for closeness — and instead allow Him to tend to my heart.
Not to undo my salvation, but to mature it.



Partnering With God

In that season, the Lord led me to a ministry that would profoundly change my understanding of healing and sanctification. Through their teaching, I began to learn something that shifted everything:
Jesus did not come to abolish God’s law, but He came to fulfil it.

Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfil.” — Matthew 5:17

I began to understand that while we are saved by grace, God’s biblical laws still operate quietly in the background of our lives. His commandments have nto been forgotten and they're not punishments, but rather, invitations to freedom, alignment, and fruitfulness.
As I studied Scripture more deeply, I saw how vows, judgments, honour, forgiveness, and repentance are not merely spiritual concepts, they are laws that affect the condition of our hearts and the fruit of our lives.
God was not asking me to strive harder.
He was inviting me to understand His ways He'd already written in His Word.
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The Vows and Judgments I Had Never Seen

As I partnered with the Lord in this work, He began revealing things I had carried for years without knowing.
I saw that the vows I had made in my heart were survival promises formed in moments of pain. Vows to stay in control. Vows to protect myself. Vows that once kept me safe, but now quietly limited my ability to trust, receive, and rest in God.
Scripture took on new weight:
When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it…” — Ecclesiastes 5:4–5
I also began to see the judgments I had made as a child toward my parents — particularly in response to neglect, instability, and abuse. These judgments were not born from malice, but from a child’s attempt to make sense of pain.
Yet God gently showed me how those judgments had taken root — producing bitterness, mistrust, and inner distance, not only in my relationships with others, but in my relationship with Him.

Judge not, that you be not judged…” — Matthew 7:1–2
Honor your father and mother…” — Ephesians 6:2–3
I realised that these inner judgments and vows had locked me into patterns I could not break through willpower alone.

This was not a season of condemnation, it was a season of pruning.
Every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” — John 15:2
God was not uprooting me, He was tending to me.
As I repented, forgave, renounced ungodly vows, and promised to honour my parents with truth and grace, something profound began to shift. My heart softened. My nervous system settled. My prayers became more honest, more restful, more intimate.
I began to experience God not just as Lord and Saviour, but as safe, present, and near.
Healing became less about fixing my past and more about reconciling every part of my heart back to Him because of His good Law.
I came to understand that intimacy with God is often limited not by unbelief, but by unhealed places in the heart. And that Scripture, when lived and applied, brings alignment, freedom, and lasting fruit.




Why me?

I don’t walk with women as someone who has “arrived,” but as someone who has been faithfully walked with by God through the same terrain. My authority does not come from having a perfect life, but from having submitted my heart to deep, ongoing work with the Lord. I have not only encountered Jesus, but partnered with Him over time, learning to recognise how biblical laws, inner vows, judgments, and early wounds quietly shape the inner life and our intimacy with God.

My role is not to replace the Holy Spirit, but to help you slow down, listen well, and tend to the places He is already drawing your attention to. I bring together Scripture, prayer ministry, trauma-informed understanding, and lived experience, always with reverence, discernment, and a commitment to honouring God’s pace and process in your life.

The other side

The other side of this work is not a flawless life, but a freer one. I still walk with God daily, still listen, still repent, still grow. But my heart now knows how to rest.

My relationships are more grounded. I am no longer striving to be near God, I experience Him as near. The fruit of this journey has been deeper intimacy, greater emotional safety, increased discernment, and a growing ability to live from wholeness rather than survival.

 I share this not as a testimony to myself, but as a quiet witness to what Christ is able to do when we allow Him to tend the roots. What He has done in me, He is faithful to do in others - gently, thoroughly, and in His time.

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