The Wednesday Project

What if the emotions you've been trying to manage are actually trying to tell you something? In this episode, Christina explores what emotions really are — not a malfunction, not weak faith, but information that must be experienced before it can teach. From the raw honesty of the Psalms to Jesus sweating blood in Gethsemane, she makes the case that God never asked us to be emotionally invulnerable...

Forgiveness is one of the most commanded and least understood topics in the Christian life. In this episode, Christina sits with the complexity honestly — not to soften the command, but to give it room to breathe. What does it actually mean to forgive? What does it not mean? And what does it look like to move toward forgiveness when your heart is willing but your body is still learning it's safe t...

What if the version of self-denial you were handed was never what Jesus meant? In this episode, Christina traces the distance between biblical self-denial and the quiet self-erasure that has shaped so many believers — examining the original Greek and Hebrew, the jar of clay, the incarnation, and what the body knows when something is off. This is not a conversation about rejecting Scripture. It's a...

At some point, something breaks. Not because you failed — but because you're human, and so are they. In this closing episode of The Wednesday Project's relational theology arc, Christina explores rupture and repair across every kind of relationship: parents and children, siblings, close friends, partners. But before repair is possible, something else has to happen first. Drawing from Colossians 3,...

What's really happening beneath the surface of your hardest conversations? In this episode, Christina explores why even the people we love most can miss each other — and why that doesn't mean something is broken. Following Love Without Collapse, this conversation names what walks into the room before a single word is spoken: two nervous systems, two histories, two stories already in motion. Drawin...

What does it actually look like to stay connected to people without losing yourself? In this episode, we move from understanding into practice. Following Why Rejection Still Hurts, Attachment Is Not Idolatry, and Secure People Still Feel Pain, this conversation explores the pattern many people quietly live inside: relational collapse. The instinct to adjust, over-function, or disappear in order to...

This episode is released in honor of my mom's birthday — a woman who overcame more than most, who carried a cloud, and who always had oil close by. She is perfected in Christ now. This one is for her. We all walk around with some version of a cloud — the wounds we carry, the limits of our nervous systems, the ways our survival has shaped what we can and cannot give. And sometimes that cloud makes...

If you've ever wondered why things still hurt — even after growth, healing, or deepening faith — this episode is for you. Completing the trilogy begun in Why Rejection Still Hurts and Attachment Is Not Idolatry, this episode addresses the quiet assumption many people carry: that maturity should mean feeling less. Drawing from Isaiah 53, Hebrews 4, Psalm 34, Romans 8, and the emotional life of Jesu...

If you've ever wondered whether needing people means you've made them an idol, this episode is for you. Following Why Rejection Still Hurts, we sit with the fear that quietly lives underneath a lot of Christian relational theology: at what point does attachment cross a line? Drawing from 1 John 4, John 15, and Ezekiel 14's concept of idols of the heart, this episode makes a careful distinction — n...

If you've been told that a secure identity in God means rejection shouldn't hurt — this episode is for you. In this follow-up to Anchored & Sent, we sit with the question that gets quietly asked after every episode about identity: then why does this still ache so much? Drawing from the Psalms of lament, Genesis 2, and the emotional life of Jesus at Lazarus's tomb and in Gethsemane, we explore...

You've probably heard some version of this message: "If God is enough, why do you still need people?" It sounds spiritual. But underneath it is an assumption worth examining — that attachment is a training wheel. That if you mature enough in your faith, the ache for safe human connection will eventually go away. This episode pushes back on that assumption. Not because community is a nice add-on to...

What if the humility you’ve been practicing isn’t actually holy? What if it’s fear wearing a spiritual label? In this episode of The Wednesday Project, Christina unpacks one of the quietest wounds in Christian culture: the way Scripture has sometimes been misapplied to silence pain rather than hold it. Drawing from 2 Samuel, Galatians, the Gospels, and the nervous system research behind trauma and...

What if the longing you’ve been ashamed of is actually evidence of good design? In this episode of The Wednesday Project, Christina unpacks one of the most quietly damaging messages circulating in Christian spaces: that if you truly trust God, you shouldn’t still feel lonely. Drawing from Genesis 2, attachment theory, and the Gospel of John, she reclaims the theological foundation for human relati...

What does faithful withdrawal actually look like? Last week we talked about Elijah under the broom tree—about honoring the body's "enough." But what comes after? In this episode, Christina explores the rhythm of engagement, withdrawal, and return—not as failure, but as the pattern Jesus himself embodied. A conversation about pacing yourself within your calling, rebuilding capacity, and returning w...

What if the quiet hesitation you’ve learned to override is not weakness — but wisdom? In this episode of The Wednesday Project , Christina reflects on the story of Elijah under the broom tree and the way God met him in his physical exhaustion before offering direction or correction. Together, we explore what it means to listen when something in us says “enough,” and how to discern the difference b...

What if staying present in your body isn't just a therapeutic skill—what if it's an act of faith? In this episode, Christina explores what comes after noticing: how to stay with uncomfortable sensations, emotions, and memories without rushing to fix, explain, or spiritualize them away. Drawing on clinical frameworks like Polyvagal theory and somatic experiencing, alongside biblical examples from t...

For many of us, paying attention to what we feel wasn't safe—so we learned to fix, override, or disconnect before we ever fully noticed. But what if curiosity of the inner life isn't self-absorption? What if it's self-awareness grounded in relationship with God? In this episode, Christina explores what it means to practice micro-curiosity: noticing sensations, emotions, and automatic stories witho...

For many of us, curiosity has felt like the first step toward unraveling. But what if slow, grounded curiosity doesn’t threaten faith—it deepens it? In this opening episode of The Wednesday Project , Christina explores why curiosity has often been framed as dangerous in faith spaces, how our nervous systems learned that noticing equals threat, and what Scripture reveals about Jesus’ repeated invit...