Keep Fighting to Protect Your Purpose
- Naeemah Shakir
- Jan 18
- 2 min read

A Word for Survivors
If you're healing from toxic relationships, this is for you.
I know the pain you carry. The way trauma from toxic relationships—whether from childhood, past partnerships, or present struggles—becomes like a constant ache demanding your attention. Like stubbing your toe and being unable to think of anything else, betrayal trauma and Complex PTSD have a way of consuming our focus, stealing our energy, and clouding our ability to hear God's voice.
That pain distracts us from responding to God's calling, His gentle nudging, His divine assignments. We want so deeply to fulfill what He's placed in our hearts to accomplish for the good of others and His glory. Many of us have sensed that there's been an anointing on our lives since childhood—a purpose the enemy has been trying to steal, kill, and destroy since before we could even name it. Some of us have evidence that this spiritual warfare was activated since before we even left the womb.
You have to fight to protect your anointing, to protect your purpose, to do what you were created to do.
I want to encourage you with everything in me: keep fighting. Don't let fear or pain limit what you say or silence the voice God gave you. Don't let doubt about yourself, cultivated by the exposure to crippling toxicity, become the final word on your story.
Here's what I believe you need to hear today:
Process your trauma. Get the help you need. Don't abandon yourself or the abundant life God has for you.
Receive the blessings. You can receive what He's prepared and be the blessing He created you to be.
Walk in obedience. Part of your liberation comes from walking in your calling and allowing God to fight your battles as you do.
Trust the restoration process. Let Him reclaim your time, restore what was stolen, and redeem your pain for His glory.
Know the truth about God, yourself, and life. Grow in the knowledge of that truth. Go and share that truth.
I believe that as you walk in your calling, you'll feel a burden lift. There's freedom in obedience. There's healing in allowing God to turn your valley into a testimony and your wounds into wisdom.
Your voice matters.
Your story matters.
Your valley will be exalted.
Your triumph will bring glory to God.
Contact me. I would be honored to support you on your recovery journey.
🦋Naeemah
