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If You Have These Marriage Expectations, You May Be Under the Influence of Relationship OCD

Are your expectations for marriage being hijacked by obsessive thoughts and compulsive checking? You might be dealing with relationship OCD without even knowing it. If you’ve ever found yourself constantly analyzing your feelings about the person you are dating, searching for “red flags,” or wondering if you’re with “the one” God has for you, this […]

🔴Sun Live: Faith that Overcomes | Detoxing Negativity | Adoption Healing | WWJD Confusion

Are you ready for breakthrough and empowerment in your mental health and faith? In today’s Sunday Live, I bring a strong exhortation from 1 John 5:1-5 about Faith that gets built up when you see yourself as an overcomer. Melissa and I share some of our day to day encounters and experiences, where we continue […]

The Most Overlooked Trauma Healing Experience: Tears, Grieving and Lamenting – Part 2

Grieving has to do with significant loss and working through the emotion of it all. If you’ve ever struggled with loss, pain, or the overwhelming emotions that come with grief, I invite you to join me for this heartfelt broadcast. In this second part of my series on tears, grieving, and lamenting, I open up […]

The Battle of “Pure O” OCD

I watched a short clip where Luke Combs, a well known singer, talks about his struggle with Pure O OCD. I wanted to share a fews thoughts to empower your journey. Pure O OCD is a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder where the battles of compulsions take place internally, with mental compulsions and relentless rumination. I […]

I watched a short clip where Luke Combs, a well known sin...

I watched a short clip where Luke Combs, a well known singer, talks about his struggle with Pure O OCD. I wanted to share a fews thoughts to empower your journey. Pure O OCD is a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder where the battles of compulsions take place internally, with mental compulsions and relentless rumination. I […]

🔴Sun Live: OCD Abuse and Trauma | Spinning About the Book of Job | Grieving Divorce

In today’s Sunday live, I dive deep into the heart of what it means to love one another—drawing from 1 John 4 and sharing how God shows up in our everyday loving connections and interactions. I also open up about the real struggles many of us face with OCD, trauma, abuse, anxiety, and how our […]

The Most Overlooked Trauma Healing Experience: Tears, Grieving and Lamenting – Part 1

Looking to experience greater healing from trauma and emotional pain that you have experienced? I want to share with you one of the simplest, very important, but also highly overlooked healing experience. It’s something you may have overlooked. It may even be something that you look down upon, but it is an aspect of healing […]

Stop Doing THIS with Your Emotions

Struggling with difficult emotions like anxiety, anger, or sadness? There may be an emotional pattern you are practicing that is working against you. In this video, I want to highlight an unproductive mindset that keeps so many of us stuck and show you a new, empowering approach to your emotional world. If you desire to […]

🔴Sun Live: Breaking Free from Fear and Severe Heaviness | Healing from Narcissistic Relationships

Today’s Sunday Live broadcast was a heartfelt exploration of the real-life mental health challenges that so many of us face. We covered a whole bunch of topics, including, OCD, anxiety, heaviness, depression and narcissism. Melissa and I started out with talking about the intersection of cleanliness, order, and the influence of obsessive-compulsiveness. Where do you […]

Why Do Christians Struggle with the Subject of EMOTIONS?

God created us as human beings who think, feel and relate. He made us with emotions that help us connect and relate in powerful ways. And there are a variety of emotions that you and I will experience throughout our lifetime, some of them we welcome easily; others make us uncomfortable. But emotions involve a […]