Hole in My Heart Podcast

What if the solution to our addiction problems is not fighting porn but outgrowing it?  Author and addiction recovery coach, Drew Boa, thinks so, and he’s got the research and stories of his own and his clients to back it up. Next Steps: • His book here . • His site here . • Hear our last conversation here . • Ask Laurie a Q on IG here . • Watch here .

It’s time for another round of your questions! Today we are responding to: • “My son talks to me about his prom struggles instead of his dad. Is this okay?” • “What if we send out kids to a school with a trans teacher?” • “My kid was inappropriately touched on the playground. What do I do?” • “How do you talk about your stories with your kids?” Let’s go! Next Steps: • That link I told you about to...

While many people exit the public school system, two women are staying (Laurie’s sisters!).  Not are not only staying but are shining the light. How? Through Bible Clubs. Toss out any image of old-timey flannel-graphs (bless ‘em) and pop in images of two imperfect moms who love Jesus, love their communities, and are bringing the gospel to the public schools. But how in the world did they get to do...

You ever felt stuck in your relationship to God because it felt…just too hard?   The season now doesn’t look like 10 years ago. Your friend’s faith seems better than yours. You’re too busy. Too frustrated. Too…disconnected.   What if trying harder wasn’t the goal but trying…less complicated?   Bestselling author and teacher Hosanna Wong is here to help us do exactly that: Uncomplicate our relation...

You ever feel like you’re still figuring out how to become a person?   Yeah, us, too.   Bestselling author, therapist, and speaker, Debra Fileta, is here to help us learn some people skills we might not even know we are missing.   Together we talk about many things including:   What are “people skills” and why do we need the more than ever? What are the levels of relational depth? How do we confro...

It’s time to talk about AI! We sit down with AI expert Christopher Lind and ask: What even is AI? • How can we have a gospel lens when it comes to engage it? (Is that possible?) • What is the potential for evil? • What about good? • Is there an overlord of AI? (Who controls it?) • How can we help our kids live in an AI world when we don’t understand how to? • What’s the hope? Next Steps: • His sit...

We know there is not *a formula* for parenting and discipleship, but is there at least a “Christian” way to do it?    Author Kelsey Kramer McGinnis says, “That’s talk about that.”   Okay! Let's do it. With her book, The Myth of Good Christian Parenting, as our guide, today on the podcast we explore how Christians started to believe there was *a right way* to do “Christian parenting,” and how we ca...

It’s our first ever Hole in My Heart Podcast LIVE, and we are taking your questions as they relate to raising wise kids in a sexually broken world: What are Matt and Laurie’s stories—and how do they relate to the Hole in My Heart? How did Laurie and Matt get into this work? Why is the gospel so important to conversations around sexuality? How can Christians approach pronouns? How can we help our k...

We are reflecting today on the last 10 years of the sexuality conversation with ministry leader Kristen Miele. We explore changes over the last 10 years as well as: How has fear of the conversation morphed in the last 10 years? How have disciple-makers in this convo changed for the better? What can we learn from our past mistakes?   Next Steps: • Kristen’s site here .   • Her IG here . • Join the...

We always love conversations with people who truly understand the complexities of human sexuality, and today’s guest is no exception. Author and podcaster Greta Eskridge joins us to help parents and caregivers navigate one of the most challenging discipleship conversations of our time: pornography. Together, we explore how to thoughtfully and faithfully engage the topic of porn while leading the y...

It’s behind the scenes time of our latest book! Matt interviews Laurie on the writing process and more: What was the inspiration? What were the hardest and best parts in writing? What does it mean “by Laurie Krieg with Matt Krieg”? What is the one takeaway you hope people take from it? Next Steps: Find Raising Wise Kids here !  Get the audiobook here . Raising Kids Video Series here . Our marriage...

Food Network star and author, Aarti Sequeira, is bringing the party to the podcast today.  We hear her story of finding Jesus as well as: How did she get into the Food Network world? Does she even struggle with cooking dinner every day? How can we turn the kitchen into a sanctuary instead of a place of angst? How can God use our past challenges to shape our futures? How does Aarti shine light both...

Happy New Year! We’re kicking off the year by diving into your thoughtful questions, including: How do we find the courage to speak truth with love? How can I love a gay friend well when they enter a same-sex relationship? How can a same-sex attracted man discern between marriage and singleness? How do I navigate pornography and masturbation conversations in a mixed-faith marriage? What healthy bo...

We’ve got author, pastor, and therapist Chuck DeGroat in the house—and he brought at least one of us to good tears. In this episode of the Hole in My Heart Podcast, we talk about healing the wound within and explore: Why so many of us swing from an anxious go-go-go pace into depression How we can begin looking inward—beyond simply calling a therapist The difference between solitary suffering and p...

It’s another Q and A! You ask, and we are thinking it through with you. What did you ask? “My husband is gay and left our family to be with a man. How do I talk with my kids about this?” “My son wants to paint his nails, play with dolls, or wear a dress. How do I lead him?” “My transitioning cousin is coming to the holidays. How do I engage them and lead my kids? “How do I know what is age appropr...

People have 70,000 thoughts per day and about 80% of them are negative. What is that doing to our emotional health? What is that doing to our actions? How is that affecting our very DNA? Global bestselling author and pastor, Max Lucado, is here to help us understand not only the science behind our thoughts but the heart beneath them.  How can we “take every thought captive?” How does something lik...

How can we walk with others—our kids or those we are called to disciple— if we are wounded by our own parents? We need to be fathered by the Father first. Today, author and popular YouTuber, Glen Henry, helps us understand his journey of being fathered by God as he walks with his own kids. | Highlights | “When you have a child, you are collaborating with God on a masterpiece.” “I will fail my chil...

We don’t just follow a biblical sexuality We surrender our sexuality. What does that mean? Today we have Authentic Intimacy co-founder, author, and psychologist, Juli Slattery, back on the show to help us understand the difference as well as:  What do we do if we feel stuck in our broken sexuality and shame? How do we love people who want to fight us? How do you invite someone into bringing their...

You aren’t making it easy for us today! Today, Laurie and Matt take YOUR questions including: + How should we navigate attraction—when it’s not to toward our spouses? (Single people, there is is stuff in this one for you especially when we speak generally about friendship/intimacy in friendships) + Is it hard to be married to someone who experiences same-sex attractions? + How do you protect your...

Many of us know that we were not made to be alone, but what if we don’t have good friends?  What if we don’t have friends who we can rely on in not just the good times but the hard?   Today, ministry leader, speaker, and author Toni Collier is back to help us understand why we need godly community and how to get it as well as: What if I feel too disappointed in God to even talk to him as my friend...

It’s hard to meet a parent of young kids today who isn’t desperately wondering how to equip their kids for this sexually broken world.   Thankfully, God is calling people to resource parents to equip their kids with a gospel vision for human sexuality, including a massive parenting discipleship project.   It is called Christian Sexuality: Raising Kids, and you can hear the behind-the-scenes detail...

Burnout. Maybe you’ve experienced it—or maybe you’re in it right now and can’t quite name it yet. All we see is: 1 . Emotional exhaustion 2. Autopilot living or cynicism 3. Loss of fulfillment Yup. That’s burnout. How can we heal from it? How does it affect our relationship with God? And how can we move forward with hope?   | Next Steps |  • Forbes article (with a quiz) here . • Psychology Today a...

It’s our season wrap episode, and we could not have asked for a better guest. Ruth is a teacher and author, and she knows the real-life challenges of helping kids to and parents to turn their hearts toward God. How can we practice something like family devotions without it feeling too forced? What if husbands and wives are on different pages about how to lead the family spiritually? Is structure h...

THIS EPISODE. We literally cried. All of us. And it led to a mentoring relationship between Matt and our guest, Michael John Cusick. Why? We were struck thinking about how to *actually live* in that tension between our faith and our experience. Join us? Next Steps:  Michael’s site here . His book here . Join the HIMH Pod FB group here . Follow Laurie on IG (where she is the most active) here .

As ministry leaders and therapists (Matt and Laurie), we have often wondered: When do church leaders and pastors utilize therapists and para-church ministries and when do they care on their own? Do pastors always outsource? Do they never outsource? What role does the church have for families in crisis? Let’s talk about it with author and psychologist (and lover of the Church), Jennifer Ripley. | H...