Faith & Feelings
Faith & Feelings is a podcast that helps listeners untangle and honor their emotions while authentically practicing their faith. Hosted by author and therapist-in-training Taylor Joy, it offers therapeutic insights and spiritual truths to integrate emotions and faith into daily life. New episodes are released every Monday.
Episodes
What I'm Learning About My Limits
In this episode, I’m sharing something that feels both really right and really hard to say out loud.
After years of showing up weekly, I’ve recognized that I don’t have the space I want to give this podcast. Not just time, but energy, creativity, and depth. And I care too much about what we’re cultivating here to keep showing up in a way that feels rushed or stretched thin.
So I’m shiftin
What Emotional Safety Really Looks Like
What does emotional safety actually look like in real life?
We use that language all the time — “I don’t feel safe” — but it often holds a wide range of experiences, from true relational harm to simple discomfort or vulnerability. In this episode, we slow that phrase down and explore the difference. Drawing on insights from author and psychiatrist Curt Thompson, we unpack why emotio
5 Communication Types That Impact Your Friendships with Jason VanRuler, LPC
The depth of our relationships is often shaped by the depth of our communication. Not just what we say, but how we say it...and even more than that, why we say it.
Communication isn’t just a skill we learn. it’s something that’s been formed in us. Through our stories, our families, our attachment, the environments that shaped us long before we had language for any of it.
In today’s conver
Mutual Vulnerability and the Art of Sharing Your Inner World
Vulnerability is often talked about as openness, but what if it’s actually about capacity?
In this episode, we continue our series on friendships by exploring what it really takes to share our inner world with one another in a meaningful way.
Drawing from Dr. David Schnarch’s work on the Four Points of Balance, we look at vulnerability not just as something we do, but as something we prac
The Ache for Deeper Friendship
How do we actually cultivate deeper friendships? The kind where we don’t have to perform, hide, or carry the weight of our lives alone?
In this episode, we begin a new series on soul friendships: relationships marked by honesty, presence, and a shared attentiveness to God’s work in our lives. But before we talk about how to build them, we start with something more honest: the tension so m
Experiencing Jesus in Guided Prayer | Luke 5:17-20 & 24-26
In this episode, I invite us into a guided time of imaginative prayer — a contemplative practice rooted in the early church mothers and fathers that helps us encounter God in a personal, embodied way.
Together, we step into a crowded home in Luke 5, where a group of friends carries someone they love to Jesus. As we enter this scene, we slow down, engage our senses, and notice what stirs w
Series 12 Trailer | The Art of Soul Friendship
I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately. Not the surface-level kind, but the kind that actually sees you. The kind that knows the messy, unedited parts of your life…and stays.
In my own life and in my work with clients, I keep noticing the same patterns: we hold back, self-edit, and worry we’re “too much.” Beneath those fears, though, is a quiet longing: to be known, understood,
Moving From Survival to Choice
Most of us learn early in life who we need to be in order to survive. We adopt roles and masks that help us belong and stay safe. But often, somewhere along the way, the soul initiates a crisis. The strategies that once worked begin to feel constricting, and we’re invited to look beneath the roles we’ve been playing.
In this final episode of our Why Does My Healing Matter? series, I explo
Bringing the Truth of the Gospel to Bear On Our Stories with Ministry Leader Pete Sharp
Many of us go through life unaware of how our histories influence the way we relate: to God, to ourselves, and to the people closest to us. Old patterns and unresolved pain often surface in subtle ways, shaping our reactions and the ways we show up in relationships.
In this conversation, I’m joined by Pete Sharp, a family friend and missionary with over 20 years of experience in cross-cul
Healing From the Wounds of Rejection with Trauma Therapist Tabitha Panariso
Sometimes the places in our hearts that feel most tender are also the places we avoid looking. Rejection can leave quiet echoes, forming the way we see ourselves, the lens through which we trust others, and the story we tell about our worth. These old wounds don’t always announce themselves, but they shape how we show up in relationships and in life.
In this conversation with trauma thera
The Sacred Practice of Paying Attention
We speak of spiritual transformation as if it should be obvious: visible, measurable, steady. Yet many of us quietly wonder what participation in God’s work of transformation actually looks like. Beneath our theology often exists a deeper question: How do I actually step into the transformation Christ has already secured?
In this episode, we explore what it means to let the finished work
When Effort Isn't Enough Anymore with Pastor Ray Jones
There are seasons in life when no matter how much we give, how hard we try, it feels like effort isn’t enough. The work we put into our relationships, our faith, our responsibilities meets walls we can’t move, questions we can’t answer, and pain that refuses to be ignored. In these moments, we are often confronted with the reality that pushing harder isn’t always the answer.
In this conve
How Healing Changes the Way We Love with Spiritual Director Barb Boatner
There comes a moment in many of our lives when we begin to notice that the way we love has been shaped by pain we haven’t fully tended to. Old wounds resurface, familiar patterns repeat, and our unhealed places begin to influence how we show up in relationships.
In this conversation with spiritual director Barb Boatner, we explore how healing changes the way we love. Barb talks about lear
Why Healing Feels So Hard
We live in a world that rewards speed, productivity, and quick fixes, but healing doesn’t move at that pace. The soul speaks a different language. One that is slower, messier, and far more courageous.
In this episode, we explore what it actually means to begin the healing journey — not as a linear path toward improvement, but as a winding, nonlinear process we return to again and again.&n
What if Healing Is Different Than We Imagine It to Be?
There comes a moment in many of our lives when the idea of “healing” starts to feel confusing — or even exhausting. The word we’ve heard so often begins to lose its meaning. And the hope that we’ll one day arrive at a version of ourselves that no longer hurts starts to feel out of reach.
In this episode of our new series, Why Does My Healing Matter?, we explore what healing looks like whe
Experiencing Jesus in Guided Prayer | Matthew 26:36-42
In this episode, I invite us into a guided time of imaginative prayer — a contemplative practice rooted in the early church mothers and fathers that helps us encounter God in a personal, embodied way.
Together, we step into the Garden of Gethsemane with Jesus on the night before His crucifixion. As we enter this scene, we slow down, engage our senses, and notice what stirs within us as we
Series 11 Trailer | Why Does My Healing Matter?
There’s a question I hear often — both in the therapy room and in conversations about faith: Why does my healing matter? Why does change feel so hard, and sometimes even unnecessary?
This week on Faith & Feelings, I invite us to explore why healing isn’t separate from spiritual formation, but one of the primary ways God’s transforming work takes shape in us. Together, we’ll refl
Advent Week 5: Making Room for Worship
Today, we continue our Advent journey by stepping into Anna’s quiet yet powerful moment of worship in Luke 2:36–38. As a widow shaped by years of loss, prayer, fasting, and devotion, Anna’s eyes had been trained to recognize Jesus when He appeared in the temple. Her story invites us to consider how a life turned toward God forms our ability to truly see Him.
Drawing from Bette Dickinson’s
Advent Week 4: Making Room for Wonder
Today, we continue our Advent journey by stepping into the shepherds’ moment of wonder in Luke 2:15–20. As they hurry to Bethlehem and behold the newborn Jesus lying in a manger, we are invited into a deeper way of seeing — one that moves beyond surface-level observation and into holy perception.
Drawing from Bette Dickinson’s devotional Making Room in Advent, we explore the difference be
Advent Week 3: Making Room for Limits
Today, we continue our Advent journey by stepping into Mary’s honest moment of questioning in Luke 1:34–38. When she asks, “How will this be?” she names the real limits of her life — and yet it’s within those very limits that God chooses to work.
Drawing from Bette Dickinson’s devotional Making Room in Advent, we explore how God chooses not to bypass human limits but to work within them.
Advent Week 2: Making Room for Descent
Today, we continue our Advent journey by entering a moment of profound humility in the Christmas story — a moment of divine descent. We pause with Mary as she receives Gabriel’s astonishing message in Luke 1:31–33, and we reflect on the mystery of how the Son of the Most High chose to come not in power or prestige, but in vulnerability and dependence.
Drawing from Bette Dickinson’s devoti
Advent Week 1: Making Room for Solitude
Today, we begin our Advent journey by entering a quiet moment in the Christmas story — a moment of hiddenness and waiting. We explore Elizabeth’s five months of solitude in Luke 1:23–25 and reflect on how God used that secluded space to reshape her identity and nurture new life within her.
Drawing from Bette Dickinson’s Making Room in Advent, we consider how solitude becomes a sacred womb
Allowing Jesus to Grow Within Your Soul with Bette Dickinson
Preparation for the Christmas season can often feel busy and frantic, but it doesn't have to be this way. What if we stopped and listened to the movement and unfolding of God's plan around us?
Next week on the podcast, we'll begin walking through one of favorite advent devotionals Making Room in Advent by Bette Dickinson. Today, I wanted to give us the chance to get to know
How Am I Really Entering This Holiday Season?
With exactly 45 days left of 2025, I thought it would be good — and honestly, necessary — to pause and get curious about our inner life as we approach the end of the year. How are we doing…really? And how are we ending this year?
In this episode, I guide us through some gentle reflection and invite us to slow down long enough to notice what’s true inside: where we are, what we’re carrying
Series 10 Trailer | Making Room in Advent
As we enter the Advent season, I’ve been longing for a way to slow down. To step away from the rush of December and make a little more room for stillness and wonder. And I thought… maybe you’ve been craving that, too.
So this December, we’ll be walking through one of my all-time favorite Advent books: Making Room in Advent by Bette Dickinson.
If you’ve never read it, this book beauti
What Writing Has Taught Me About Healing
In this special three-year anniversary episode, I take time to reflect on the journey, the stories, and the conversations that shaped my book Stop Saying I’m Fine: Finding Stillness When Anxiety Screams — which released three years ago this week. From the moment I knew I was going to write the book, to the vulnerable process of putting words to my story, to the unexpected ripple effects t
Experiencing Jesus in Guided Prayer | Psalm 23
A few months ago, I released a podcast episode where I invited listeners into a time of guided prayer called imaginative prayer—a practice that helps us encounter God in a more personal, embodied way. Since then, I’ve heard from so many listeners asking for more episodes like that one.
So today, I wanted to offer another time of guided prayer. This form of contemplative prayer dates
This Could Be Why You Feel Exhausted with Janice McWilliams, LPC
In this episode, I’m joined by Janice McWilliams, licensed therapist, spiritual director, and author of Restore My Soul: Reimagining Self-Care for a Sustainable Life. Janice offers a deeply grounded and compassionate approach to self-care — one modeled after the life of Jesus.
Together, we talk about what it means to care for your inner world in real time, moment by moment. True self-care
"I Lost My Ability for Faith to Make Sense" with Spiritual Director Grace Cabalka
There comes a moment in many of our lives when the faith we once held with certainty begins to shift. The language that once felt alive starts to feel distant. And the ways we used to connect with God stop working the same way.
In this conversation with spiritual director with Grace Cabalka, we explore what it can look like to walk through a spiritual wilderness — and to not ju
What to Do When You Can't Find God
For centuries, Christians have wandered through wilderness seasons — walking through valleys of shadow and silence, facing loss, confusion, and what feels like divine absence.
You might not be in that place right now, but for those who are, it can feel lonely and disorienting to realize that something which once felt natural or accessible has changed — especially when that “something” fee
The Power of Compassion and Curiosity for Your Own Heart
Have you ever noticed how children live so close to themselves? Fully connected to their bodies, emotions, and tears, without the layers of shame or self-editing we often learn as we get older.
In many ways, children model what it means to be fully human. And the truth is, what kids show us is still inside of us.
In this episode, I share a simple 5-step rhythm for practicing compassionate
Silence Tells a Story
Silence always tells a story.
We’re in the middle of a podcast series on soul care, and one of the most important components of creating soul-restoring rhythms is one we often overlook: silence. But before we can embrace the gifts silence has to offer, we usually need to be honest about why we resist it.
The way I interpret silence in my own life — and the way you interpret it in yours —
The Sacred Art of Slowing Down with A.C. Seiple, LCMHC
We were created for so much more than rushing through life.
It’s easy for everything in our lives to seem fine on the surface. But deep down inside, there’s often another story at play―one of overwhelm, stress and heartache, of finding ourselves stuck in old patterns. Rather than feeling the weight of it all, it’s easier to spend our days on autopilot, ignoring the noise inside. But what
Simple Shifts to Move Your Nervous System out of Constant Overdrive
Some days it can feel like life is on fast-forward, leaving our nervous systems in constant overdrive.
What does it look like to invite the whole of our being — bodies, minds, and souls — to slow down and move into a more sustainable pace of life?
In this episode, I explore small, intentional practices that can help us move from momentary relief to lasting restoration. I also share t
Creating a Life That Feeds Your Soul
Many of us know the cycle all too well: exertion, burnout, withdrawal — and then back again.
So what do we need to help us live the way that we want to in the world for the long haul? More like Jesus and less like our typical, modern-day stressed out selves?
In this opening episode of our new series on Soul Care Practices for a Sustainable Life, I talk about the important differences betw
Series 9 Trailer | Soul Care Practices for a Sustainable Life
Have you tried self-care but found that you still feel overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, and are struggling emotionally?
Too many of us – myself included – hold misconceptions or inadequate concepts of self-care, and we are suffering as a result. I’m learning that true, spiritual self-care isn’t about an occasional break. It’s about organizing our lives around the kind of rhythms that Jesu
Developing a Rule of Life
Dallas Willard once said, “The most important thing about us is not the decisions that we make, but the person we’re becoming.”
That brings us to the final relational skill in this series: which involves, nurturing a growing spirituality that enables us to love God and others well. This calls for an intentional, purposeful plan. To truly implement what we’ve learned over the last few mont
Cultivating Healthy Conflict in Relationships
Throughout any relationship, conflict is inevitable – and it can look different in different seasons or settings. A core discipleship issue in the new family of Jesus is learning how to resolve conflicts maturely. Often times, Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:9 — “Blessed are the peacemakers” — are misunderstood to mean:
Avoid conflict at all costs so no one gets upset.
Just be nice.
Don’
Climbing the Ladder of Integrity
God has shaped and crafted each of us uniquely—with our own personality, thoughts, dreams, temperament, feelings, talents, gifts, and desires. Parker Palmer calls this the ‘true seeds of self,' which God has planted inside of each of us as He invites us to listen to Him and to live faithfully out of our true selves in Christ.
When we don’t live in alignment with what we truly believe, thi
A Week Without an Episode (Here’s Why!)
Today’s episode is a little different. I’ve stepped away from podcasting this week to prepare for my upcoming counseling exam, but I wanted to share a quick update and one of my favorite prayers with you: “The Litany of Trust.” I can’t wait to be back with you next week!
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Becoming Your Own Primary Caregiver with Julie Honeycutt, LPC
If you’ve been following along with our series on emotionally healthy relationships, this episode really serves as a kind of anchor—or container—for all the relational skills we’ve been exploring.
In my conversation with licensed therapist Julie Honeycutt, we dive into the inner work that makes healthy connection possible. We talk about the parts of us that show up in relationsh
Learning to Listen Is Learning to Love
Author and theologian David Augsburger once said, “Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.”
What it means to listen and love well can be best understood around the unfathomable mystery of the incarnation – that God took on human flesh. God knew that there was no better way to convey his love to human beings than to fully enter
Why Emotional Honesty Is Essential for Spiritual Maturity
Scripture teaches that feelings are a key part of what it means to be a human being made in God’s image.
When we’re not in touch with what is going on inside us, our thoughts and feelings can feel like inner chaos. A lack of engagement with our interior worlds can cause us to miss many gifts from God. When this happens, we’re not living in reality, but in illusion or denial. And when
Engaging Your Family of Origin Story
We all come into the family of Jesus carrying wounds from a broken world and imperfect families.
God’s intention is to heal us, but we must first become aware of what needs to be changed in us. In this episode, my clinical supervisor Carley Marcouillier and I talk about how discipleship involves reflecting on both the positive and negative influences of our family of origin.
This is
How to Stop Mind Reading & Clarify Expectations
The stories we tell ourselves have an enormous impact on our feelings, and so often – especially in our relationships – we can tell ourselves stories that aren’t true.
Assumptions about what other people are thinking and feeling can quickly become hidden landmines in our relationships. In today’s episode, my clinical supervisor Carley Marcouillier and I unpack our second relational skill
A Simple Communication Skill for Deeper Relationships
If you’ve ever found yourself longing for deeper connection in your relationship but unsure how to get there, this episode is for you.
Today, my clinical supervisor, licensed therapist Carley Marcouillier, and I kick off our Emotionally Healthy Relationships summer series by introducing a simple, practical communication skill built around five prompts: appreciations, worries & c
Jesus In Our Hearts, Grandpa in Our Bones
Is Grandpa really in my bones?
We’re starting a new series on emotionally healthy relationships, and over the next eight weeks, I’ll be joined by my clinical supervisor and licensed therapist Carley Marcouillier to walk through 8 core relational skills that are essential for developing mature, loving relationships with others.
But this week, I wanted to spend a few minutes talking a
Series 8 Trailer | Emotionally Healthy Relationships
In our next podcast series, I’ll be joined by my clinical supervisor, Carley Marcouillier, who is a licensed therapist, podcast host, and ministry leader. Together, we’re going to walk through 8 core relational skills that are essential for cultivating emotionally healthy relationships.
Over the course of eight episodes, we’re going to explore each skill, why it matters, a
Experiencing Jesus in Guided Prayer | Matthew 6:30-42
To wrap up our current series, I wanted to offer something a little different today:
A guided time of prayer— called Imaginative Prayer—that can help us enter into a deeper experience of God. This form of contemplative prayer dates back the early church mothers and fathers. When we engage in this kind of prayer, we use our imaginations to place ourselves within a scene from
How Our Attachment Wounds Impact Our Relationship With God with Summer Joy Gross
Did you know that the neural pathways for relationship are developed in the first three years of a person’s life? This is the heart of what’s called attachment theory and affects our relationship with ourselves, others, and even our relationships with God.
I’m so honored to welcome today’s guest, Summer Joy Gross. Summer is a spiritual director, Anglican priest, and writer who weaves neur
How to Tell the Difference Between Shame & Conviction with Monica DiCristina, LPC
Have you ever struggled to name the pain you’re experiencing inside?
When we don’t have language for the pain we carry, we can create other names for it — names like “not good enough,” “unworthy,” “broken,” or “wrong.” Many of us often avoid naming and validating our pain out of fear of being overwhelmed or feeling stuck in it. But what if the opposite is actually true? What if this is ac
Experiencing God’s Presence in Deep Emotional Wounds with Terry Wardle
So many of us long for transformation, but we feel discouraged and defeated by the issues that keep coming up... over and over again.
We pray, read our Bibles, go to church, worship, and yet still feel stuck. Why is this? Often the tools we're given within the church leave us wondering if we're missing something or if something is wrong with us. Is it us? Is
7 Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life
As we practice receiving and remaining in God’s love, the question becomes this: how are we responding and loving Him back? And not necessarily in the big moments, but in the small and ordinary moments of every day life.
We all move in patterns that we have set up over time, day by day. These habits and practices shape our loves, our desires, and ultimately, who and what we worship.
Discovering the Security of a Life Held by God with Stephanie Stewart
What if you could walk into every room knowing—deep in your bones—that you are safe, seen, soothed, and secure? Not because of the what’s happening around you, but because the face of Jesus is always turned toward you? Always attentive. Always connected.
This is what writer, artist, and soul care provider Stephanie Stewart and I talk about today. Stephanie invites us into her own jou
When You Feel Unworthy of God's Goodness with Chesed Dent
We all have these complicated tangles of belief, identity, and narrative, and one of the early stories many of us often begin telling ourselves is a one of our own scarcity.
“Maybe I don’t matter.” "Maybe I’m not good enough.” “Maybe I’m not worthy of love, belonging, and joy.”
When we bring these stories of scarcity with us into our relationships with God, we may ac
The God We Meet in Our Stories
Even though you’ve heard God described as full of compassion and always present, do you sometimes feel confused as to why you experience him as distant, disapproving, or absent?
Our experiences, from childhood to adulthood, shape the internal pictures we hold about God—sometimes in ways we don’t even realize. In this episode, I share stories of 4 different women, and how they each came to
Why Is It Hard to Receive Love From God? with Sharon Garlough Brown
So many of us long to rest in God’s love, but we feel at war with actually receiving it. Why do we resist the very thing that we claim we want?
This is what author and spiritual director Sharon Garlough Brown and I talk about today. Sharon graciously invites into her own story of exhaustion and striving to meet her perceptions of God’s expectations for faithfulness, to learning what it lo
Experiencing the Kind Presence of God
Just like any other relationship, intimacy with God isn’t something that can be forced or manufactured.
It’s the byproduct of a genuine desire to know God and be known by Him. But before we can really desire God, we must have a clearer understanding of who God is and what he is like. Our experiences shape our experiences of God, often forming and informing a flawed or incomplete vision of
Series 7 Trailer | From Knowing to Experiencing God
Have you ever felt like you know about God—but you don’t really know Him? Like you’re going through the motions of faith but longing for something deeper, something real?
In this next podcast series, we’ll explore what it means to move beyond conceptual knowledge about God and into personal encounter — to truly experience God’s presence, hear His voice, and be transformed by His lov
How to Practice Self-Awareness in Relationships
What messages did you receive about self-awareness as a child?
Many of us grew up in environments that did not nurture self-awareness. Over the years, we’ve practiced disconnecting from our tears, grief, desires, or sensitivity. And not only disconnect, but we’ve learned to reject or criticize these feelings or experiences within ourselves.
In this episode, I talk about how these ru
Why Self-Awareness Leads to Deeper Intimacy With God with T.J. MacLeslie
At the heart of the spiritual journey is relationship.
Growing in self-awareness is not an end in itself, but the heart and the means to deeper intimacy with God. As author and ministry leader T.J. MacLeslie and I talk about today, Christian spirituality involves a transformation of the self that occurs only when God and self are both deeply known.
In this episode, T.J. generously invites
Sorting Through the Competing Voices in Your Mind with Gem Fadling
"You're not good enough.” "You need to try harder." "You’ll never keep up.” “There isn’t enough time.”
These are the sorts of voices that can hum just beneath the surface of our minds, pushing us to act in unsustainable and frantic ways. So many of us long for the peace that comes with a life marked my internal calm and groundedness, but we feel gripped by anxiety. We don’t know what to d
How to Begin Listening to Your Body (And Why It’s So Hard to Do)
God designed our bodies to tell us incredibly important things when it comes to growing and healing.
In fact, I believe that one of the primary places we can grow in self-awareness is not books or podcasts or personality tests...but learning to listen to our own bodies. Why is this? Our bodies know more than our minds often do. And they are constantly speaking, revealing truth about what’
Learning to Listen to the Story Your Body Is Telling with Chuck DeGroat
While the work of self-awareness begins with pursuing a better understanding of our lives and stories, so many of us can stop there.
As licensed therapist, author, and professor Chuck DeGroat and I talk about today, we often keep this awareness in past-tense, not understanding how our bodies are still holding these stories. We can ignore symptoms and bodily sensations like hypervigi
How to Process Complicated Emotions with Anjuli Paschall
For most of us, feelings are messy.
Oftentimes, we don’t have words for what we’re feeling, and we get stuck in a dark and painful place. Because emotions can be complicated, we have so many strategies to not feel what we feel. But this often leaves us with a sense of numbness. We feel confused and chopped up inside.
Giving our feelings language is like turning on the lights.
When Crisis Invites You to Encounter the Deepest Parts of Yourself with Josh Summers
While Josh and his family was doing ministry in China, he was detained and interrogated by authorities and had no idea if or when he would be released.
In this week’s episode, Josh graciously shares some of his journey with self-awareness, and how this unexpected crisis led him to a deeper encounter with with himself.
While few of us will share the particularities of his experience,
It's What You Do With Self-Awareness That Matters
One of the things that I’ve learned about self-awareness over the last few years is that self-awareness is something we can choose, but it’s also something that happens to us.
It comes at certain points in our lives without our consent, experiences of pain and crisis often becoming the catalyst for this deeper awakening. While I don’t hold to the idea that God causes crisis and suffering,
Why Self-Awareness Changes Everything
When I reflect on my own journey over the last 7 or 8 years, I can’t think of something that has changed my life, my relationship with God, others, or even myself more than self-awareness.
I truly believe that pursuing a deeper understanding of our own hearts and stories is one of the most spiritually formative and transformative things we could ever do. That’s why I’m so excited to invit
Series 6 Trailer | How Can I Be More Self-Aware?
How well do you know yourself?
Growing in self-awareness is probably one of the hardest, but most important things we could ever do. Why? The short answer is this: you can’t change what you don’t know. But one of the trickiest things about self-awareness is that most of us are on autopilot and don't even know it.
So many of us are moving through life and not paying attention. We’re
When Your Spiritual Growth Feels Frustratingly Slow with Chip (Replay)
I think that everyone could testify to how imperceptibly incremental our spiritual growth can feel in some areas of our lives.
If you’re like me, you’ve often felt a disconnect between the theology that that you believe and the reactions that leak out of you in everyday life. Even though you know something is true in your head, it doesn’t seem to be shaping your heart or steering yo
When You Feel Betrayed by God with Jessica (Replay)
So many of us have experienced a before and after.
A “before” you knew that life was fragile… and an “after.” When you can’t go back. You can’t un-know. You are changed. In this episode, my friend Jess joins me to share about her recent miscarriage journey. Although Jess shares about the loss of a child, she speaks to the emotional undercurrent of loss in a way that I think will dee
"Am I Safe if I Trust God?" with Jennifer (Replay)
One of the hardest questions to answer in life is not “Does God exist?” but “Is God kind?”
Sometimes, unspeakable things happen at the hands of others. Trauma of any kind often shatters are capacity to trust ourselves, God others, and the world around us. When we feel left in our pain, holding more questions than answers, it can feel like we’ve been given the raw data that God is not good
When It Feels Like You Don't Belong with Amina (Replay)
How we walk into room will always carry evidence of our formation.
The way we act, if we get big or small, whether our voices soften or louden, if our shoulders hunch or straighten, whether we anticipate acceptance or brace for unbelonging...it all tells a story. A story about something we’ve lived. In those moments when it feels like you don’t fit in and that shame-filled question wells
When Everything Seems Out of Sorts with David Floge, LPC (Replay)
Have you ever wondered why you get dysregulated?
Another way to describe this term is the inability to control your insides. It’s those moments when everything seems out of sorts. All of us experience emotional dysregulation. But, so often, we can get dysregulated without even realizing it. So, how do we begin to notice & listen to what are bodies are trying to tell us? In this episod
Series 5 Trailer | Podcast Reflections + Most Popular Episodes of 2024
With 2024 coming to a close, I’ve been reflecting on this first year of Faith & Feelings.
What a year. I just want to say how grateful I am for this community. Thank you for sharing this podcast and inviting others to be a part of it. Because of this, we are ending the year with tens of thousands of downloads and an actively growing community of listeners. And I just want to say
How to Interact With an Emotionally Immature Person
What is the ultimate goal of interacting with an emotionally immature person? To stay in control of our own mind and feelings.
While we can’t change the person, we can learn ways of interacting with emotionally immature people without sacrificing or losing parts of ourselves. When we learn how to keep an observational perspective, we can stay centered, no matter how the other person behav
Signs That You Might Be Hitting the Wall
Hitting a wall is not an if, but when.
We all have this experience, typically several times throughout our lives. Suddenly, the ways that we learned to cope with childhood wounds and unmet needs begin begin to fail us in adulthood. Unhealthy coping patterns catch up with us. Our souls often begin summoning us to a deeper, inner change through emotional or physical symptoms like panic
What It Feels Like to Be an Internalizer
Are patterns from your past impacting how you show up to your life and relationships today?
How we learned to cope with childhood wounds and unmet needs often become the dysfunctional patterns that we live out in adulthood. This is one way that the impact of emotionally immature parenting can leak into our adult lives.
Healing starts with noticing and naming these patterns. When we invite
How Memories Shape Core Beliefs in Early Childhood
From the time we entered the world, we all began crafting a story that helped us make sense and give meaning to the painful things that happened to us.
As we absorbed explicit and implicit messages from family members, authority figures, and peers about who we were and what the world expected of us, we gradually began forming a narrative that explained our lives to us… a narrative that gr
4 Types of Emotionally Immature Parents
We all need someone who reads us well and believes in us.
This is the essence of what security feels like in a relationship: knowing that the other person sees you, understands you, and celebrates who you are. But what happens if you didn’t receive this kind of nurturing love as a child?
There is essentially one way to provide this kind nurturing love that we all need to develop and thriv
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