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🔴Sun Live: Marriage Lessons Learned | Receiving & Giving Love | ROCD and Identity

In this broadcast, my Melissa and I open up about 19 years of marriage—sharing the honest challenges, the lessons we’ve learned, and the intentional steps we’ve taken to grow together in love and communication. I also dive into 1 John and cover the importance of receiving and giving out God’s love. Plus, we answer your […]

Overcoming Struggles with AVOIDANCE

We all do it. We put things off, shy away from uncomfortable conversations, or find ourselves saying “I’ll deal with that later.” But for many of us, avoidance has become more than just procrastination—it’s become a prison that keeps us from the freedom and growth God has for us. If you’ve ever felt trapped by […]

10 Types of Disempowering Self-Talk That Can Sabotage Your Healing Journey

Do you find yourself trapped in cycles of a negative and disempowering internal dialogue? If you’re struggling with persistent patterns of unhelpful self-talk that seem to work against your growth and healing, you’re not alone. Today, we’re going to explore ten common types of disempowering self-talk that may be hindering your journey toward mental, emotional, […]

🔴Sun Live: Parenting When you come from Legalism | Healing from Narcissistic Family Trauma | Healing Memories

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or just need some hope, this broadcast could be a great resource to your journey. Melissa and I had a great time addressing questions while having lots of laughter along the way. We unpacked a number of topics from questions that address: I also addressed a number of intrusive thought […]

Working Through Overwhelm and Shutting Down

When life hits us with emotional challenges, we typically respond in one of two ways: we either become overwhelmed, with our stress response kicking into hyperdrive, or we shut down and check out entirely. Both responses can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves and unable to process what we’re experiencing in healthy ways. If you’ve […]

Jesus’ Remedy for Rumination and Worry

Do you ever find yourself caught in an endless loop of anxious thoughts? Do you replay conversations, worry about the future, or get stuck analyzing the past without ever finding resolution? If so, you’re not alone. While the term “rumination” might seem relatively new in our cultural vocabulary, the struggle with worry and repetitive negative […]

🔴Sun Live: Discerning that God is Greater | Recovering from Condemning Preachers | Finding a Church When You Have OCD

Join us for our Sunday live broadcast, as we share our lives with you to encourage you in your own healing and freedom journey. Based on 1 John 4:1-6, I share a Bible study to help us grow in our discernment, especially in treasuring who Jesus is. Yet in all our biblical perspectives, we must […]

Recovering Emotional Safety

Our hearts yearn for it. We long for a sense of emotional safety with God, with others, but also within ourselves. Yet for many of us, there’s a war going on within us over our sense of emotional safety, and there can be a lot of confusion as to what it even means. View Post […]

This One Thing Can Really Help You Overcome Intrusive Thoughts

Intrusive thoughts can be a relentless battle, often feeling like they come out of nowhere, hitting us off guard, or sneaking their way in. They create a disturbance, forming a narrative that aims to hook us in, potentially focusing on any subject of disturbance, which kicks up a lot of anxiety or condemnation. This disturbance […]

🔴Sun Live: Breaking Through Condemnation | Being Hard on Yourself | Sexual Instrusive Thoughts

In this Sunday live, I want to share an important area of discernment that opened up my freedom and Christ and transformed my mental health–breaking free from condemnation. I dove deep into 1 John 3, unpacking how many believers get trapped in a cycle of self-accusation, self-criticism, shame, and law based bondage. Its important that […]