A sacred community of spiritual formation for women in ministry, who are ready to receive what they have spent their lives giving.
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And the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
1 Peter 5:10
You have become so good at holding everyone else together that almost no one knows you are barely holding.
You have spent years giving what you were never given, and somewhere along the way, you stopped expecting anyone to notice what it costs you.
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Storyline is a guided, Christ-centered group experience designed to help you process your story with God and engage it in a deeper, more honest way.
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Through structured reflection, story sharing and spiritual formation, you’ll learn how to engage your story in a way that leads to real healing… not just more understanding.
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Think of it as the space where your story is finally brought into the light—with God, and with support. Â
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âśž A clear, step-by-step process to understand and engage your story, in light of God's story
✞ Language for what you have carried—and why it’s stayed stuck all these years
âśž A Christ-centered space where you are seen, known, and not carrying it alone, or minimizedÂ
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Begins June 23rd and 24th
You can choose:
Tuesday at 9:30am PST or Wednesday at 11am PST
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You love God deeply.
You know His Word.
You’ve done the studies, the journaling, the prayers…
And yet—
Parts of your story still feel unresolved.
Patterns you can’t quite break.
Emotions that feel heavy… or quietly overwhelming.
You’ve tried to “give it to God”…
but you’re still carrying it.
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And this isn’t how it’s meant to feel.
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You are not meant to:
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✞ keep circling the same patterns...reacting before you even realize it, your chest tightening or shutting down completely… then lying in bed later replaying it all, feeling the weight of it sit heavy in your body, wondering why you keep ending up here
✞ feel spiritually mature, reading your Bible, showing up in your faith, doing what you know to do… but still waking up with a quiet heaviness already there, a subtle dread you cannot explain, feeling disconnected from what you know is true
✞ know truth, to say what is right and good, to encourage others and believe it… but then notice how quickly you fall back into old reactions, feeling that tension between what you believe and what you are actually living
✞ carry pain in silence, pushing it down as soon as it rises, keeping it between you and God… because you do not know where it belongs or if it is safe to bring it into the light, so it stays in your body, unspoken and unresolved
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There comes a point where you can’t keep moving forward the same way… you need to first slow down long enough to notice what you’ve been carrying.
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You have shown up.
You have kept going.
You have done your best with what you’ve been given.
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But parts of your story still feel… unresolved.
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Not loud enough to demand your attention every day—
but present enough that they shape how you see yourself,
how you show up in relationships,
and even how you experience God.Â
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You don’t need another space that tells you what to fix. You don’t need more pressure to figure everything out, and you don’t need to rush to healing before you feel ready.
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What you actually need…
is a space where you can be honest.
A space where you don’t have to filter your story, perform, or have it all tied together.
A space where your story can be spoken out loud—
and instead of being rushed, corrected, or minimized…
you are seen.
you are known.
you are gently met and held right where you are.
Because healing doesn’t happen by avoiding the hard parts of your story.
And it doesn’t happen by forcing clarity.
It happens when your story is brought into the light—
in the presence of God,
and in the presence of people who know how to listen.
This is that space.
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Why I lead this work
Hello, if we haven't met, my name is Paris. Nice to *meet* you. I didn’t start leading Storyline: Seen, Known, & Restored because I had it all figured out. I started because I knew what it felt like to be stuck... still carrying things I didn’t fully understand, even while doing all the “right” spiritual things.
When I stepped into trauma-informed training, I expected more tools.
Instead, God gently led me somewhere I hadn’t gone before, into the parts of my story I had learned to move past…but never truly process.
I realized how much of my faith lived in my head—
consuming truth, agreeing with it,
assuming it would eventually change me…
while my heart stayed guarded, overwhelmed, and unseen.
Storyline changed that.
It helped me:
- name harm I had minimized
- acknowledge grief I had overlooked
- recognize God’s presence in places I used to avoid
It didn’t fix everything overnight.
But it gave me a way to finally move through what I had been carrying.
And that is why I lead this work now.
Because I know what it feels like to:
→  suffer quietly while trying to “stay strong”
→  be given spiritual answers that don’t actually help
→  wonder if something is wrong with you because you’re still struggling
→  And to long for a space where your story is finally safe to be seen.
If you’re tired of understanding truth… but not experiencing change,
If you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your own story,
If you’re ready for a different way to move forward with God…
you do not have to keep doing this alone.
- With you in this, ♡ Paris
Healing was never meant to stay in your head.
It was meant to be experienced—
in your body, in your story, with others, and in relationship with God.
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Which is why…
You don’t just need more teaching.
You need a step-by-step, Christ-centered process.
A guided way to move through what you’ve been holding alone— honestly, without rushing.
Because the real work isn’t just learning truth…
It’s learning how to locate where your story still needs healing, and allowing the Lord to meet you there.
A monthly membership for women in ministry who need somewhere to finally stop hiding.
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This isn’t about fixing yourself.Â
Refuge is a small, confidential community rooted in Scripture, silence, and spiritual direction, designed for the woman who gives everything to everyone and has nowhere to simply receive.
It is not a support group. It is not a coaching program. It is not a Bible study.
It is the closest thing to a sanctuary most women in ministry have ever had.
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Join Refuge
Over 9 weeks, you will not just “learn”—you will begin to see your story differently.
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✞ Trust — learning how to feel safe again (with God, yourself, and others)
✞ Grief — finally putting words to what you’ve been carrying for years
✞ Identity — separating who you are from how you’ve had to survive
✞ Repentance — releasing patterns that once protected you, but now keep you stuck
✞ Calling — gaining clarity on what’s next (without pressure to have it all figured out)
✞ Harm — naming what actually happened, so it stops quietly shaping your life
✞ Hope — seeing where God has been in your story all along—and where He’s leading you next
What Refuge holds for you:
 Monthly Group Lectio Divina
Live, online, recorded for replay
Once each month, you gather to meet God in His Word the way the ancient church always did — slowly, prayerfully, and in community. Not to study the text. To be met by it. Three readings. Three silences. Room for the Spirit to speak personally through Scripture. This is the consistent Word-anchored practice that gives your soul something to return to each month.
Monthly Group Spiritual Direction
Live, online, confidential, not recorded
Two women per session bring what they are actually carrying, and the group becomes a community of holy listeners around each one. This is not advice. Not counsel. Not a conversation you have to manage. It is the ancient practice of attending together to the movements of God in a person's life — and being spiritually directed, rather than directing. What is shared in the room stays in the room. Always.Â
Community Space
Kajabi community, member-sustainedÂ
A small, private community where members connect between sessions — sharing honestly, responding to reflection prompts, and knowing they are not the only one carrying what they carry. This is not a place to perform. It is a place to belong.
Somatic & Spiritual Practice Audio Library
30 guided Christ-centered audio practices, lifetime access
On the days when your body is carrying what your spirit cannot yet articulate, these practices meet you there. Breath prayer, Psalm-based lament, spoken liturgy, and Scripture-anchored stillness — drawn from centuries of Christian formation, not wellness culture. Every practice is rooted in Scripture and grounded in the Person of Christ. God is not afraid of your body. He made it. He entered one. This library exists to help you meet Him there.
We begin
June 23rd, Tuesday at 9:30-11am PST orÂ
June 24th, Wednesday 11 to 12:30 PST
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What This Looks Like Week to Week
 What's Included in this Cohort ExperienceÂ
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Each week inside Storyline, you’ll be guided through a simple, intentional rhythm:
Before Each Session
You will receive a short prerecorded teaching, 20 to 30 minutes, to help you understand the week's theme and begin noticing what is coming up for you before we gather together.
No pressure to have it figured out. Just come having listened.
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Each Live Session — 90 Minutes
Every session follows the same five-part liturgy. The rhythm is intentional. The repetition is the point, because safety is built in the return, not in a single conversation.
Part One — Ground & Discuss We do not rush into content. We arrive first. A brief grounding practice helps you release what you carried in and settle into the present moment together. We then open space for the week's teaching. What lingered? What unsettled you? What question did this session raise that you did not have before? We follow what is alive in the room.
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Part Two— Story Sharing
This is the heart of the liturgy. Each week one woman is invited to share her story with the group — not a prayer request, not a problem to be solved, but a story offered to be held. She may share a significant arc of her life, walking the group through where she has come from and what has shaped her. She may bring a hard memory, a season she is still processing, or simply what feels most alive and unresolved right now. There is no right way to do this. There is only her way. She is not performing. She is not expected to have it resolved or wrapped in a lesson. She simply brings what is true.
Part Three — Being WitnessedÂ
When she finishes the group does not offer advice, interpretation, or scripture. Instead each person reflects back what her story evoked in them—the emotions it stirred, what they noticed, what they sense God may want her to know. They may name something they see in her that she cannot yet see in herself. This is witness, not analysis. Presence, not fixing. Honest reflection, not spiritual reframing.Â
Part Four — She Responds The woman who shared then receives what was offered—not to perform gratitude or correct anything, but simply to notice what landed. "Something I want you to know is..." — this phrase is a threshold. Cross it slowly.
Part Five — Ignatian Prayer & Closing We close not with a summary but with a posture of listening — toward God. A worship song. A question to the Lord. Unhurried silence. And a spoken blessing to release each woman back into her week.
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What You Carry With You
Every week, someone in this room is coming for you. Every week, you are coming for someone else.
You will never be rushed. You will never be called on unexpectedly. You will never be pushed beyond what feels safe.
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What Comes With You Throughout the Nine Weeks
†A short prerecorded teaching before each session
†A live 90-minute facilitated group session every week
†Gentle reflection practices to help you process between sessions
†A printed workbook mailed directly to you before we begin
†The Guided Integration Vault — a curated library of practices, audio tracks, and guided exercises to support you in the spaces between sessions
†A quiet private community space where you are known, not overlooked
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This is a closed cohort. Eight women. Nine weeks. Together from start to finish.
Come as you are. But come ready to show up.
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Begins June 23rd and 24th
You can choose:
Tuesday at 9:30am PST or Wednesday at 11am PST
Join RefugeYou will never be rushed.
You will never be called on unexpectedly.
You will never be pushed beyond what feels safe.
A curated collection of grounding practices, guided exercises, reflection prompts, and spiritual formation tools built specifically to support your nine weeks—so what the Lord opens in the room has somewhere to go between sessions.
 Your Story Workshop:
WELCOME YOUR WOUNDS, COPING, & OBJECTIONSÂ
A guided teaching to help you arrive at session one ready rather than overwhelmed:
âśž understand why parts of your story still feel hard to face
âśž recognize coping patterns and internal resistance keeping you stuck
âśž approach your story with safety, compassion, and honesty
 Somatic & Spiritual Practice Audio Library:
RETURN TO SAFTEY, IN YOUR BODY &Â WITH GODÂ
30 Christ-centered practices to resource your body and spirit between sessions:
✞ guided breath prayers (including praying through Scripture like the Psalms)
✞ grounding exercises to steady your body when things feel hard
✞ lament liturgies to speak truth over you before you can speak it yourself
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Embodied Integration Practices
WHERE CHANGE ACTUALLY HAPPENS
Seven short practices for when something gets stirred up and you don't know what to do with it:
âśž stay present in your body instead of shutting down
âśž move through difficult emotions with awareness instead of avoidance
✞ integrate what God is revealing into your actual daily life
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Reflections: Connecting Your Story ArcÂ
WRITING YOUR STORY HELPS PROCESS IN REAL TIME
30+ pages of guided narrative reflection to walk alongside the nine weeks. :
âśž map the key moments and formative experiences that shaped you
âśž name the lies that took root and trace the threads of redemption
âśž notice patterns and shifts with clarity and the presence of God
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 Four Spiritual Season Guides + Your Discernment Path
INSTANT PRINTABLE DOWNLOADÂ
Begin with the guide that meets you where you actually are—not where you think you should be:
✞ take a short assessment to discern your current spiritual season reflect on what has shifted in your story
âśž receive the guide written specifically for where you are right now
âśž move through practices designed for your particular place in the journey
Private Community Space
CONNECTION ENCOURAGEMENT, & PRESENCE
A small, quiet space to remain connected between sessions. Not a busy feed. Not noise:
✞ connection with women walking a similar journey
✞ a place to share what surfaced (only if you want to)
âśž a reminder between sessions that you are not doing this alone
Inside Storyline: Seen, Known, & Restored
 you won’t just understand your story…
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âś” You feel grounded in your story, and you no longer instinctively avoid it or distract yourself when something gets stirred up. Â
✔ You can name what you’re feeling without shutting down, numbing out, or pushing it away.
✔ You begin to understand why certain patterns keep repeating, so you’re no longer left confused by your own reactions.
âś” When something hard comes up, you feel more steady and less likely to spiral or feel overtaken by it.
âś” You feel safe to be honest with yourself and with God, even in the parts you used to avoid.
âś” You are no longer carrying everything alone, because you are supported, seen, and not the only one walking through this.
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âś” You experience God as present in your story, not distant from it.
âś” You grow in emotional and spiritual maturity, and you begin responding with awareness instead of reacting automatically.
✔ You release the pressure to fix everything, and you find yourself slowing down instead of stressed, trying to figure it all out.
✔ You gain clarity on what healing actually looks like for you, rather than second-guessing if you’re doing it “right.”
✔ You build capacity to stay with your story instead of escaping it, checking out, or avoiding what feels hard.
âś” You begin to move forward with a sense of peace, making decisions from a more grounded and settled place.Â
Which one is for you?
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Pay in full or choose a payment plan. Two payments of $625 or three payments of $425.
Includes the full nine-week experience, the Guided Integration Vault, and a printed workbook mailed directly to you.
Storyline is a closed cohort. Eight women. Nine weeks. Together from start to finish.
Come as you are. But come ready to show up. Every week, someone in this room is coming for you, and you are coming for someone else.
"This was the first time I felt safe telling the truth about my story."Â
"I came in feeling ashamed, stuck, and spiritually numb. Through Paris’ gentle, trauma-informed guidance, I began to understand parts of my story I had avoided for years.
I’ve experienced more healing in these months than in years of trying to “fix myself” alone. Now, I move through life with a deeper sense of hope, honesty, and connection with God."
— M., age 38
"I didn’t realize how much pain I had never acknowledged."Â
I’ve been in ministry for decades, yet had never slowed down enough to face the harm in my own story.
Paris created a space where I felt seen, respected, and understood—something I didn’t realize I needed so desperately. For the first time in years, I feel hopeful and reconnected to my own heart—and to God in a way that feels real again."
— L., age 60
“But what about the time… or the investment?”
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It’s honest to ask those questions.
Because this work matters—but your life is already full.
So let’s talk about it.
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“I don’t have time for something like this.”
You don’t need hours every day.
Storyline is designed to fit into your real life:
- One 90-minute session each week
- A short teaching you can listen to on your own time
- Simple, guided reflection (not overwhelming homework)
This isn’t about adding more to your plate.
It’s about finally addressing what’s been quietly taking up space underneath everything else.
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“I don’t know if I can justify the cost.”
You’re not paying for more information.
You’re investing in:
- a guided process (so you’re not doing this alone)
- a safe, facilitated space
- tools you’ll return to long after the 9 weeks end
Because staying stuck in the same patterns also has a cost. Emotionally. Spiritually. Relationally.
This is an invitation to do something different—with support.
"I felt an immediate sense of safety and calm.
Paris gently guided me into deeper parts of my story with wisdom and care.
Her presence created space for real healing—
and I felt truly held in the process."
— W., age 55
Paris Byrum is a certified trauma-informed mentor. She is training through Soul Shepherding in spiritual direction and through Freedom Movement as a trauma-informed coach and Storyline facilitator—currently completing her practicum. She is also a co-author of The Empowered Women's Path and brings over five years of chaplaincy experience working alongside incarcerated teens and at-risk youth. Her formation background includes dedicated study through the Allender Center, ACBC, and IBCD—over two hundred hours of trauma-informed, biblical, and narrative-focused training—as well as specialized training for vocation and calling discernment. This fall she begins facilitating the Storyline for Teens program for at-risk teen girls from single-parent homes through a grant program with North Idaho College's Center for New Directions.
Do I have to share my story?
Is this therapy or another Bible study?
What if I am afraid to open up?
How do I know if this is right for me?
What if Tuesday or Wednesday doesn’t work?
Will sessions be recorded?
What if I miss a session?
Will I receive a hardcopy of the workbook?
What if I am not ready?
There is room for your story here.
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You do not have to keep carrying this alone.
You do not have to keep circling the same thoughts, the same patterns, the same questions.
There is a way forward.
And you do not have to rush to find it—you just have to begin.
Storyline is open now.
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