Mark DeJesus's Blog, page 14

Your Need for Total Unconditional Loving Acceptance

We say this all the time: God loves you, right where you are. Receive Christ. Then we receive Christ, for many, a whole yoke of performance and perfectionism gets thrown onto our backs. We strive and perform and wear ourselves out trying to fix ourselves and make ourselves lovable. We end up walking past His […]

12 Ways We Practice Emotional Avoidance

One of the patterns I see quite often is the amount of avoidance that comes up in our mental health struggles. At first, avoidance shows up as a protective coping mechanism, but over time, we need to see where avoidance is getting in the way of our healing and freedom. In today’s broadcast, I want […]

🔴SNL: Attention Seeking | Limerence | God’s Anger

Join us in our live Sunday broadcast as we addressed questions on mental, emotional and relationship health, helping believers to experinece healing and freedom in their life. I start off addressing a question sent in about the need to be seen, attention seeking and how that impacts online interaction. Also, are some people just too […]

Healing Through RELATIONSHIP OCD (Q&A) Part 4

Romantic relationships can be a mindfield when obsessive-compulsive influences get into the picture. The constant doubts, anxiety, compulsive need for reassurance, the fear of making the “wrong” choice and missing “the one that God has for me” is enough to keep someone in fruitless spinning. Join me in this ROCD Q&A where I dive into […]

Mental Health Needs Practice

One of the top problems that people have when it comes to experiencing greater mental health is that we do not give ourselves room to practice. Mental health is really about emotional health, and emotional health is developed as we learn to practice and develop renewed ways of thinking and relating. But new thought patterns […]

🔴SNL: Getting Scammed | Work Out Salvation or Ruminating | Perfectionistic Preaching

Join us in our live Sunday broadcast as we addressed questions on mental, emotional and relationship health, helping believers to experinece healing and freedom in their life. We address a question about healing from being financially scammed while sharing our own experience of seeing this happen to loved ones. Mark also responds to a question […]

🔴SNL: Prayer Confusion | Distortions About God’s Peace | Anger and Irritability

Join Mark in a Sunday Night Live solo episode, where I address questions about mental, emotional and relationship health: The end times has made someone very impatient and black and white about their journey. How do I deal with friends who are into Harry Potter and Dungeons and Dragons.? Expressing the damage of spiritual abuse […]

🔴Wed Live: Female with Masculine Tendancies | OT vs NT | Idol Obsession

Join us as Mark and Melissa addressed numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. How do you work through church social anxiety, especially when you were raised in a church where you were taught to sweep the mess under the rug? Helping other stuck in a cult? OCD about fasting and doing […]

Empower Your Mental Health by Deciding

In the early days of my mental health journey, I realized that I woke up in the morning with two unhealthy patterns that I would follow. The first one is that I would insessantly check how I was feeling first thing when I awoke. Secondly, I would let how I was feeling dictate my actions […]

Suicidal Thoughts

The very mention of suicide and suicidal thoughts can bring about discomfort and fear for many. It can be an awkward subject to talk about. The subject of suicide can trigger emotional alarm bells, maybe regarding the pain of suicide that took place in the family history or memories involving someone they know. Many do […]