Be Clay
" You are the Potter, I am the Clay! " Like me, you may have heard this phrase multiple times and even said it yourself. Whether you are in the church or not, this has become a popular phrase; that eventually in some cases became a cliché. However, has it crossed your mind what it really means to say " I am the Clay"?When you hear this phrase, you may imagine the positions of a “Potter” and “Clay” in this relationship. Understanding that the “Potter” makes and molds the clay to the desired finished product. You understand that the “Potter” knows the process needed to obtain the product's intended purpose. You may even imagine a “Potter” molding clay on the Potter’s wheel into a bowl. It is only possible for the clay to become a bowl if it cooperates with the Potter. The clay has to understand that its duty is only to be molded. The “Potter's” purpose will never come to fruition if the “clay” is non-cooperative.
Here on the “Be Clay” podcast, we will talk about how to accept and endure the duty of clay, as we allow the Potter to perform the same. We will explore the positions of “The Potter” and “The Clay” and the dynamics of each role. In the past years, I have learned and am still learning the roles of “The Potter” and “The Clay”. I have come to the realization that I was not fulfilling the role of “The Clay”. Instead of allowing “ The Potter” to mold me, I was fighting back and trying to mold myself. You can imagine what a mess I made! If you can relate, know you are not alone. “You are the Potter, and I am the Clay” will not be just something you say, but you will learn and understand your role and “ Be Clay”
Episodes
19 episodes
Breaking The Lies We Tell Ourselves And Learning To Heal
Life can be loud, demanding, and relentless, but the loudest thing in the room is often the story we keep telling ourselves. I’m talking about that inner script that says you’re not enough, you’re “too much,” or you’ve already failed, even when...
You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Name
The most dangerous story you believe might be the one you never say out loud. I’m talking about the quiet inner conversation that runs beneath your whole life: I’m unworthy, I’m too much, people won’t stay, it must be my fault. On B Play, I ope...
What If Your Unspoken Pain Has An Audience?
Your life can look “fine” while your mind is fighting a private war. We’re talking about that gap, the one where you show up for everybody, keep smiling, keep working, and still feel unworthy of being fought for. I share real updates from my ow...
What If Feeling Unworthy Is A Lie You Learned
Finishing a full semester should feel like pure celebration, but sometimes the win comes with shaking hands, tears, and a nervous system that still expects the worst. We talk honestly about deadline pressure, proctored exams, and why time limit...
What If Breakthrough Starts With Core Wounds
One comment or one look can hit harder than a whole conversation, and that’s where this story starts. We’re unpacking the beginning of 2025, a year that feels so dense we can’t summarize it neatly, because God keeps pulling the spotlight onto w...
Retiring As The Man Of The House
Your birthday can be more than a celebration. It can be a deadline for healing. We talk about the moment we realized our pain was spilling onto our kids, and why that awareness forced a new decision: we’re not walking into the next year of our ...
Stop Living In Survival Mode
Survival mode can look like strength until it starts stealing your joy. I’m Elisa, and I’m telling the truth about the version of me that learned to survive “Lisa” and the version of me God keeps calling forward “Alisa.” When you’ve spent years...
Why Being The Strong One Makes You Tired
Your life can look “fine” while your nervous system is living in constant alert. I’m walking through why 2024 became an eye-opener for me, starting with grief, continuing through family pressure, and landing on a painful realization: a lot of w...
What Blessings Are You Blocking By Not Asking For Help
Welcome back to another episode of Be Clay! In this episode, we are continuing our journey through the seasons of 2024, reflecting on how far we've come as we work toward wrapping up major milestone goals by August 31st.Today, we are tak...
The Blueprint of Who We Are: Attachment Styles & The Raw Truth of Healing
2023 was a controlled demolition of my false identity. But entering 2024? That’s where the real test began. In this episode of Be Clay, we are diving headfirst into the raw, uncut truth of the healing journey.It all started when...
You Might Be Wrong About Who You Are
You ever look up and realize you’ve been living as a version of yourself that was built to survive, not a version that was built to be free? That’s where I’m starting, with a raw 2023 overview that became a prequel to everything that hit in 202...
What If Healing Feels Worse Before It Works
A deadline doesn’t change your life until it has teeth. We’re celebrating a two-year milestone for the podcast, and I’m using it as a mirror for something I’ve struggled with for a long time: consistency. I talk honestly about what finally got ...
The Swelling Phase Is Not Failure
Something nobody tells you about healing: the breakthrough isn’t the finish line, it’s the start of recovery. I’m Alisa, and I walk you through the first six months of my 2023 healing journey using a metaphor I can’t shake, surgery. There’s the...
Are You Willing To Pay The Cost To Be Healed?
Healing gets celebrated like a glow-up, but nobody warns you about the bill that comes due in the middle. I’m Alisa, and I’m sharing the real “what to expect” before I break down my year-by-year healing journey. If you’ve ever said you want to ...
From Breakdown To Breakthrough Through Deep Healing
Healing can feel like a moving target until the day you realize something is different and it stayed different. That’s where we start: the moment I look at my life and see real freedom, not a temporary high, not a good week, but the kind of emo...
Be Clay And Stop Fighting The Wheel
Although I lost my initial recording, took a longer break than I wanted, I still felt the pull to come back with something real. On Mother’s Day, I’m back on the mic to reintroduce Be Clay and say out loud what a lot of us live quietly: ...
Survival, Surrender, and the Softer Grip
In this deeply personal season finale—recorded at the close of 2025 and shared now with the perspective of the new year—I’m opening up about the moment everything came to a screeching halt: a serious car accident that totaled my vehicle and sh...
Choose To Be Thankful
Ever feel like your life is spinning, but not in a way that’s shaping you? I open up about the moment a simple hymn line—“Thou art the Potter and I am the clay”—turned into a vivid picture of me fighting the wheel instead of trusting the hands ...
What If Healing Starts When You Stop Rushing It?
The mic is back on, the candles are out, and something real has shifted. Turning thirty-nine didn’t just add a number; it lifted a weight. I’m sharing how a quiet weekend in Virginia, a birthday test, and a year of honest work pulled me from di...