Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

by Jennie Allen

I handed her the mic and said, “You tell them.” Her voice reached across the field and beyond as she shouted, “Dishonesty no longer has power over me! Dishonesty no longer has power over Baylor’s campus!” Impromptu lines began to form on each side of the stage, and students took turns shouting in the mic that their sin and their wounds no longer had power over them. “Suicide no longer has power over me! Suicide no longer has power over Baylor’s campus!” “Pornography no longer has power over me! Pornography no longer has power over Baylor’s campus!” I have never seen anything like it! Not only were they throwing down their last 2 percent publicly; they were also denying the enemy’s power over them.