The Christian Women's Journey to Healing & Identity in Christ | Faith-Based Emotional Healing

Send a text You start every January with a Bible reading plan. Three weeks later, you're drowning in Leviticus and beating yourself up for failing again. Sound familiar? If you've ever wondered what's wrong with your brain, why you can't stay consistent with spiritual practices, or if God is disappointed in you for struggling so much, this episode is for you. In this vulnerable...

Send a text Have you ever felt like you're one missed prayer away from disappointing God completely? If you've spent days obsessing over whether an intrusive thought means you've lost your salvation, or if you confess the same sin repeatedly because you're terrified you didn't "mean it enough,” you might be struggling with religious scrupulosity. This form of OCD can...

Send a text When the intrusive thoughts won't stop. When prayer becomes compulsion. When you're doing everything "right" and still drowning. This is one of those episodes where we go there... to the places most Christians are afraid to talk about. My co-host Jasmine shares her raw, unfiltered journey through intrusive thoughts so dark and perverse that she couldn't even be...

Send a text What does following Jesus actually look like when you're clinically depressed? Not the "had a rough week" kind of down... the kind where getting out of bed feels impossible, joy feels foreign, and even praying feels like too much. In this raw and honest episode, I'm sharing my own battle with major depressive disorder, and what I've learned about faith when eve...

Send a text Why does rest feel so wrong when God designed it for our good? In this episode, I'm getting raw about my unhealthy relationship with rest and the breakdown that changed everything. If you've ever felt guilty for taking a break or exhausted from performing even your faith, this one's for you. In this episode, we talk about... The lies we believe: "Rest is a luxury I...

Send a text If you’ve ever found yourself saying, “Why am I STILL struggling with this?” - this conversation is for you. We open up about the heartbreak of feeling like we're back at square one in our healing process and the surprising ways God meets us there. We explore what real healing looks like when it’s messy, cyclical, and slower than we expected... and how the Holy Spirit gently leads...

Send a text Have you ever felt afraid that if you stopped doing... stopped reading your Bible, stopped serving, stopped performing... that God might love you a little less? You’re not alone. In this raw and honest conversation, we unpack the deep-rooted lie that love must be earned... a lie many of us first learned in childhood, and one that still shapes how we relate to God today. Together, we ex...

Send a text What do you do when you love Jesus, show up for community, and still feel alone? In this episode, we talk about the loneliness no one wants to name - the ache of feeling unseen in a place that’s meant to feel like family. We explore the paradox of being faithful yet still feeling forgotten, the ache of longing for connection that never quite lands, and the quiet grief of realizing that...

Send a text Have you ever walked into church, smiled, said “I’m fine,” and instantly felt the ache of pretending? In this episode, Melissa and Jasmine unpack the hidden pressure many believers feel to appear “spiritually mature.” We explore how church culture can unintentionally reward masking - showing up polished, composed, and holy - when our souls are actually crying out for safety and connect...

Send a text The Real Truth About People Pleasing Most people think people pleasing is just about being “too nice” or not wanting to disappoint others, but the truth runs much deeper. For many of us, people pleasing is actually a trauma response - what we psychologists call fawning . It’s how we learned to survive unsafe environments, and it often shows up in ways we don’t even recognize. In this e...

Send a text “Am I too broken to be used by God?” If you’re battling depression, anxiety, childhood trauma, navigating neurodivergence, or even just struggling to get through daily tasks, you’ve probably asked yourself that same question. I’ve wrestled with it too... feeling like my weaknesses and struggles disqualified me from being useful in God’s Kingdom. In this episode, I share my personal jou...

Send a text Many Christian women secretly wonder if their emotions are proof of weak faith - or even sin. In this episode, we unpack the truth about emotions:  Why God gave emotions to us How emotions can point us back to Him What it looks like to bring every feeling from joy to anger to sadness into His presence without shame Join Melissa Chan, PhD, Christian Emotional Healing Coach, and her co-h...

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