Episode 210: 5 Symptoms of Leadership Gifts in Overdrive: When Your Most Powerful Become Destructive

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In this raw and honest episode, Christine Jewell tackles the dangerous trap of letting your greatest gifts become your greatest liabilities. Speaking from personal experience of catching herself in the martyrdom cycle and the overthinking spiral, Christine reveals why our God-given gifts can get hijacked—it's separation from partnership with the Holy Spirit. Drawing from recent conversations with clients who were burnt out from pouring into everyone else while neglecting themselves, Christine unpacks the subtle shift that transforms multiplication gifts into destructive patterns and provides a clear roadmap back to spirit-led stewardship. If you're exhausted from carrying what's not yours to carry or if you're spinning in your head instead of operating from your heart, this episode will help you recognize when your gifts are in overdrive and channel them back to their divine purpose.

This Episode Is for You If:

• You feel like you're constantly pouring into everyone else while neglecting your own physical and spiritual health
• The leadership responsibilities you once thrived in now feel overwhelming and burdensome
• You're carrying guilt and pressure that everything rises or falls on your shoulders alone
• You're working from a place of fear instead of faith, spinning in analysis paralysis
• You suspect your generous heart has become a trap where people just take from you
• You're ready to stop making God's gifts feel like personal burdens you have to manage alone
• You need to learn how to steward your gifts from overflow instead of empty

KEY TAKEAWAYS

🔨 Our greatest gifts are also our greatest liabilities—the areas where we'll be most attacked 🌊 When we separate from partnership with the Holy Spirit, our gifts get hijacked by wrong motives 👂 Strategic thinking becomes overthinking when we're locked in our head instead of accessing our heart 💎 Radical ownership turns destructive when we think everything is our responsibility to carry ⚡ True humility isn't shrinking—it's being the lighthouse God created you to be 🏗️ Generosity must be paired with wisdom, stewardship, discernment, and Holy Spirit submission

NOTABLE QUOTES

"Our greatest gifts are also our greatest liabilities. The gifts that God put in me, in you are also the areas that we will be most attacked."

"When we are unable to access the heart of situations, the heart of the people, when we can't connect with human to human, heart to heart, we lose that ability because we're locked up spinning in our head."

"Be careful that we don't identify as, I'm always gotta be pouring into everyone else. And if everybody else has a need and I'm not just jumping on it, I'm not their savior and their fixer and the rescuer, then somehow I'm doing something wrong."

"The Holy Spirit shared with me was, I created you to actually be a lighthouse. It's strong, it's steady, it's constant. Whether it's a beautiful day, a stormy day, it shines because it's radiating light out."

"True generosity must be paired with wisdom, stewardship, discernment, and submission."

"We gotta make the 18 inch journey from our head to our heart, and this requires that we pump the brakes, that we recognize where we're at."

FEATURED SCRIPTURES

John 10:10 - "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

Proverbs 3:5-6 - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."

Matthew 6:33 - "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

1 Peter 4:10 - "Each of you should use whatever gift you have to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms."