The Pause Within

In Episode 4 of Season Two, Mike and Dan explore one of the deepest questions in the healing journey: Who told you who you are? Together, they look beneath behavior, wounds, shame, performance, and predictable comforts to the false names many of us have learned to live under, and the truer identity God is restoring in us through Christ.

In Episode 3 of Season Two of The Pause Within , Mike and Dan sit with a simple but deeply personal question: Are you ready??? Not ready as in perfect, fearless, or finally strong enough to fix yourself. Ready as in willing. Willing to stop hiding from the places where pain, fear, shame, control, or old patterns have been shaping your life. This episode is about the moment when awareness becomes s...

In Episode 2 of Season Two of The Pause Within , Mike and Dan sit with one of the most honest questions Jesus ever asked: “Do you want to be made well?” It sounds like an obvious question, but the longer you sit with it, the more personal it becomes. Because many of us want the pain to stop, the pressure to lift, the habit to loosen, or the relationship to get better, but healing asks something de...

In the Season Two premiere of The Pause Within , Mike and Dan begin a new journey by introducing the foundational framework at the heart of Pause Ministries: God, Self, Others . This episode explores how healing begins when life returns to the right order. Together, Mike and Dan reflect on Jesus’ words in Mark 12, the importance of loving God first, learning to see ourselves through His eyes, and...

In the Season One finale of The Pause Within , Mike and Dan bring the whole journey home: pain, trauma, shame, identity, trust, and surrender all lead us to one deeper invitation: healing. This episode gets to the heart of Pause Ministries: it’s not about fixing behavior, it’s about healing the heart. Together, Mike and Dan reflect on how God meets us in our brokenness, brings hidden pain to light...

Scars have a way of making us believe our brokenness is the truest thing about us. But in the hands of Jesus, even the places marked by pain can become part of something beautiful. In this episode, Mike is joined by special guest Deb Bove for a conversation about trauma, healing, and the truth that our scars do not determine our worth. Through the image of kintsugi, broken pottery restored with go...

Our culture teaches us to think our way through life. But real change doesn’t happen in the head alone. In this episode, Dan explores how our emotions carry deeper truths about our story, our wounds, and our longings. Growth doesn’t come from ignoring what we feel. It comes from paying attention to it with honesty and courage. Real transformation begins when we stop bypassing the heart and invite...

The patterns we struggle with are rarely just about behavior. In this episode, Dan explores how compulsions and addictions often grow out of deeper pain, fear, and the need for relief. Real freedom doesn’t begin with trying harder; it begins with surrender, honesty, and inviting God into the places where the cycle truly lives.

Surrender is often the hardest step, and the most freeing one. In this episode, Dan explores how surrender becomes the doorway to healing. When fear has shaped our stories and survival has taught us control, surrender invites us to trust love again, with God, with others, and with ourselves.

Trust is often the hardest step, and the most transformative one. In this episode, Dan explores how trust becomes the turning point in healing and growth. When trauma has shaped our stories and attachment has taught us how to protect ourselves, trust invites us to risk connection again, with God, with others, and with ourselves.

Join us as Dan walks us wisely through how trauma shapes attachment. Attachment shapes our ability to experience life and love. And attunement is what begins to rewrite the whole story.

Dan explores attunement—learning to stay present with ourselves so we stop abandoning the parts of us that are scared, angry, or ashamed—and how allowing others, and God, to meet us there opens the door to healing and trust in the Holy Spirit.

Dan helps us uncover how our childhood attachment patterns shape our adult relationships, and how God heals those places with His secure love.

Dan uncovers why the trauma you buried… never stays that way. “Trauma that’s buried doesn’t go away — it leaks.” And when you stop running from it? That’s where God begins to heal your story.

Dan uncovers how the pain we never named — is still running the show. "You can’t heal what you won’t name.” And the moment we stop hiding it? That’s when healing actually starts.

In the inaugural episode of "The Pause Within" Podcast, Dan Bove and co-host Mike Leahy explore the transformative power of pausing in our hectic lives. Discover how true healing comes not from fixing behavior but from allowing God to heal our hearts. Join us as we delve into faith, brokenness, and the hope of freedom in Christ. Tune in for honest conversations that invite you to pause and reflect...