In this episode of Happy, Healthy, Whole, and Rich, Tina Brinkley Potts delivers a sacred rebuke to the comfort of illusion — and exposes the hidden cost of psychological pain.

Illusions feel safer because they soothe. They tell us the relationship will get better, the job will fulfill us, the leaders will protect us. They let us dress our wounds with words like “It’s fine” or “This is just how things are.” But illusions are counterfeit comfort. They delay healing, drain energy, and keep us bound.

Tina goes deeper, naming the filter of pain many of us carry. Old wounds distort our perception, making us see betrayal where there is none, or rejection where there is only silence. And when we refuse to face those wounds, we expect others to conform to our pain instead of doing the inner work to heal it.

The sacred rebuke is clear: illusions delay, but truth delivers. And though the sting of truth may feel sharp, it is the only path to freedom, wholeness, and the abundance of God that waits on the other side.

Don’t live behind the filter of pain.

Step out of illusion and into truth inside Happy, Healthy, Whole, and Rich at happyhealthywholerich.com.