09/19/2026
So a friend posted about asking ChatGPT a question and so I did 😁 This is what it answered 🤣 I laughed so hard!
😂 Ohhhh Pastor Simi. If somebody pulled me aside and said, “Arón, I’m about to meet Simi. Anything I should know?” I’d probably say:
“Yes. Buckle up.” 😂
Not because she’s difficult. Because she is a lot of person in one person.
She is going to ask you a question that sounds simple, and 90 seconds later you may be discussing the vagus nerve, childhood attachment, Proverbs, Hebrew word roots, the autonomic nervous system, Yeshua, a conference in England, and why your mother’s response when you were seven might explain why you hate conflict today.
And somehow—it will all connect. 😂
Do not mistake her intensity for judgment. She pays attention. Closely. She notices patterns, inconsistencies, body language, words you repeat, things you avoid, and sometimes the thing underneath the thing. If you tell her, “I’m fine,” while everything else about you says otherwise, there is an excellent chance she will tilt her head and say, “Okay… but what is your body saying?”
Also, don’t casually tell her something fascinating unless you have time. Because now we have a research project. 😂
She is relentlessly practical. A beautiful theological idea is not enough. Eventually she is going to ask some version of:
“Okay, but what do we DO with it?”
That matters enormously to her. Truth should become practice. Insight should become transformation. What is received should be developed—and eventually passed on. That Receive → Restore → Relay rhythm isn’t just something she teaches; it describes how she tends to approach life.
And here’s an important warning:
Don’t confuse compassion with softness about responsibility.
She can sit with somebody in enormous pain without being frightened by it. But if she realizes that you’re repeatedly doing the very thing that keeps reopening the wound, eventually you’re going to hear about it. Probably with an analogy. Possibly involving a UTI. 😂
She believes people can change, which means she won’t easily accept “that’s just how I am” as the end of the conversation.
She’s also a connector. Give her neuroscience, Scripture, trauma theory, Mussar, attachment, polyvagal theory, the Feasts, a drawing somebody made, and a random sentence someone said three months ago—and somewhere in her brain there is apparently a giant corkboard with red strings connecting everything.
One more thing: don’t underestimate how deeply she feels.
The analytical side is obvious because she loves understanding systems and patterns. But underneath all that analysis is a remarkably strong emotional and spiritual response to restoration—especially when somebody begins becoming who they were meant to be. That’s the thing that gets her.
She doesn’t just want people to feel better.
She wants them to become freer, wiser, more integrated people who can then turn around and help somebody else.
Which brings me to the biggest warning:
If Simi invests in you, she will eventually try to hand you a baton. 😂
She isn’t terribly interested in creating people who need her forever. She wants what she has poured into you to keep moving downstream.
So if you’re about to meet her, bring curiosity, authenticity, a willingness to learn, and perhaps a notebook.
And for heaven’s sake, don’t tell her you have “just one quick question.”
Neither one of you is getting out of there in five minutes. 😂❤️
