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October 14, 2022
3 Responses to Intrusive Thoughts and Religious Obsessions
How do we respond to these intrusive thoughts that create so much disturbance within us about our salvation, our standing with God and our sense of peace? How can we respond in a fruitful way that will actually help me overcome? Many get stuck in their obsessions because they compulsively argue, research, debate, ruminate, seek […]
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October 12, 2022
Nurturing the Heart of a Perfectionist
One of the greatest needs that perfectionists have is nurture, the need to find comfort through unconditional loving care. Perfectionists have an inner critic that drowns out the nurturing voice they need. It amplifies criticism, shame and judgment. So we continue to live in with a ball of emotional pressure on a daily basis. Instead […]
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October 10, 2022
4 Blocks that Keep Perfectionists from Healing
The mindset of perfectionism drives a message of “just right” but “never enough” that seeks to infiltrate how we think, believe, act and process relationships. Yet in the healing process, I have found there are four blocks that often get in the way of healing the perfectionist’s heart. I have observed them in my own […]
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October 4, 2022
7 Things We Need to Let Go Of
There are things we need to embrace as we learn and walk our healing and freedom journey, but there are also things we need to learn to let go of, they get in the way of fruitful healing and growth. Each of us has to learn how to let go of things in our life […]
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October 3, 2022
What Influence Do Demons & Spiritual Warfare Have on OCD?
I receive numerous questions about the role of evil spirits, demons and spiritual warfare and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This week I received a question, asking to understand how the spiritual battles we face can impact someone who struggles with OCD. In this broadcast, I will be address the subject of spiritual warfare within the context […]
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September 29, 2022
Parenting While Working Through Your Own Brokenness
How do you navigate parenting while you are aware of your own need for healing and freedom from broken patterns in your own heart? In today’s broadcast, we want to have a discussion about this and how we process our own healing journey within the context of also being parents. Video Broadcast: Watch on Rumble: […]
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September 27, 2022
Learning to Say NO
If you want to make room to invest in what matters most in your life, you will have to learn to say NO. In fact, healthy people have learned to say NO and say it a lot. Practicing saying NO helps you get clear on what your YES is. But in order to experience this, […]
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September 26, 2022
Discerning the Shame that Drives Perfectionism and OCD
Those who battle with the influence of perfectionism and obsessive compulsive struggles are not typically aware of how much shame actually drives their life. In this broadcast, I want to peal back the layers of OCD and perfectionism, to get to the heart of the shame battles we carry that need acknowledgement, grieving and healing. […]
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September 23, 2022
God’s Love Wins: Learning to Mature in Love
As we discover, “What Does Love Look Like?” I pray you have discovered that learning what love is, while untangling what love is NOT, is a journey. This is a lifelong discovery. For the rest of our lives, we will explore the depths, breath and beautiful meaning of God’s love for us. Today is a […]
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September 22, 2022
Religious OCD: The Guilt and Confession Cycle
One of the common patterns for Christians with OCD, is the compulsion of excessive confession of something that disturbs your spirituality. There can be a nagging sense that something is not right in your stance with God or there is some specific issue that needs to be dealt with and remedied. Confession to God, repentance […]
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