The Wounds Of The Faithful

Welcome back to Part Two of the One Year Anniversary celebration! I have more new music featured for you, as well as more highlights from my great guests this past year! There is a book giveaway for those who share and comment on their favorite guest's podcast! This is a great episode to get a sample of all the guests so you can go back and listen to the full episode! Join us again for the anniver...

Welcome to the One Year Anniversary of The Wounds Of The Faithful Podcast! It has been a great year full of special guests, inspiring survivor stories, music, and tools to help you in your journey to heal from abuse. We will celebrate with featuring some new music I recorded for my new album. Then I will feature highlights from your favorite guests, and takeaways from our interviews. I will be giv...

Happily ever after? It's pretty disturbing to find out 24 hours after the wedding that you've made a big mistake. I'm continuing Part 9 of my abuse story, covering the wedding, the honeymoon, and the rocky first year of marriage. You'll hear about the strange thing that was happening as I was walking down the aisle. Why did my new husband leave me alone at a bed and breakfast for 2 hours? Find out...

How do you cope with an illness that doesn't seem to go away? How does it affect your relationship with God? What are some coping strategies to deal with the struggles? I have my husband Brian back on the podcast to answer those very questions. We talk about all the things that have happened during this past year reflecting on the one year anniversary of the podcast. Some of our conversation is se...

"Why did you marry him?" is a question I've been asked more than once. This week, I tell the story of how I met my ex, his family's rich heritage, and our strange dating relationship full of red flags. I point out some of the traits that are textbook narcissistic behaviors that he exhibited. I asked myself, "Why did I ignore the abuse right up to the engagement?" You'll hear my crazy stories about...

Would you marry someone that called you ugly? Or treated you like a trolphy? Well, I almost did. This week I am continuing my story, during the second year of bible college. I started dating this Peruvian fellow in my Spanish church. You'll hear about how we met and started doing ministry together in the Spanish church and the bus ministry. I get candid on how purity culture can backfire and how G...

This week on the podcast, we are continuing with Part 5 of my story, where I reminesce about my first year in bible college. I talk about the culture of the church and the school, the dating scene, the legalistic standards, and the insane ministry schedule I kept. I started my formal voice and piano training and went on two foreign missions trips. I end with some of the things about the church and...

Sometimes in our lives, circumstances seem so hopeless that ending it all appears to be the solution to end the pain. That happened to my guest Rob Decker, when he decided to end it all by jumping out of a third story window-and surviving the fall. We will find out about his childhood abuse, being raised by parents who were addicts, his path of self destruction, and making bad choices in relations...

Thanks for joining me on Part 4 of telling my life, my ministry, and abuse story. It starts out with moving back east to be closer to extended family. I enter the work force with a few challenging jobs, join my cousin's church, and finally get baptized. Learn why being overly vocal with your family about your new faith can backfire. I reminesce about the first woman that I helped escape from domes...

Join me this week as I continue on part 3 of my story. I talk about my teenage growing pains during my high school years, and adjusting to my parents' divorce. I navigate my renewed relationship with God at the same time I started dating my atheist boyfriend. You'll hear the adventures with my first car and surviving the 122 degree heatwave. The episode ends with a catchy musical selection, I Choo...

https://anchor.fm/brenna-covelens/episodes/Sexual-Harassment--Abusive-Relationships-Pt--1-Featuring-Diana-Winkler-e1678qm/a-a6cssss On this week's podcast, I will continue telling my story. I reflect on the challenges of attending new public school out west. I share the story of how I came to saving faith in the Lord Jesus. You will also hear about the time I was followed home by a pedophile, and...

Welcome to my journey! I'm starting a new series about my background, bible college years, church planting and abuse story. This will be the first time telling my entire story on the podcast. It will be a raw, honest, and transparent telling of heartaches, trials, successes, failures, and valuable lessons along the way. Each step of my journey, I reflect on how God was there through it all, even w...

How can an abuse advocate not recognize the red flags of abuse in her own relationships? Well, it happened to Maegan, from The Secret Garden Podcast. She shares her experiences in the emergency room of comforting sexual assault victims and ensuring that the collection of evidence is completed accurately. Find out what the connection is with the show Law & Order! Maegan reveals what is the proc...

The only experience with OCD that most people have usually comes from TV shows, like Monk, or celebrities like Howie Mandel. What exactly is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? Peyton Garland joins us to share her journey with this debilitating illness. Here's what we discuss during our conversation: The 4 kinds of OCD. Why OCD is not the same as being a clean freak or organizing your office supplies a...

We're back with Part Two of The Healing Power Of Music. We open with a behind the scenes look at the process of Diana recording her song "Break These Chains". We hear more about the amazing power that music has to transcend barriers and how much music plays an integral part of our everyday lives. What would our lives be without music? Diana talks about the songs included on her new album and the s...

How can we use music as a healing tool? How music can affect our emotions? Can music make you sin? Is music only for worship services? These are some questions we answer on this week's episode. Also, hear about the history behind how DSW Ministries was started, some of Diana's musical background and influences, and how she had a musical identity crisis. We have some fun on the new synthesizer too....

Will Hess continues the story of his life in the Independent Fundamental Baptist Church. He talks about getting married, transitioning out of the IFB, exposing a sexual abuse cover-up, and being manipulated as a pastor of his church. Will shares how to avoid false teachings, how to study the bible in context, and why you shouldn’t walk away from God after abuse. Part two of this interview is packe...

Is your church a cult? My guest Will Hess wholeheartedly agrees that The Fundamental Baptist Church (a.k.a The IFB) he was raised in was a cult. He will share the story of how he suffered abuse from within his own family, as well as in his church. In this two part interview, here are the topics we covered this week: Being raised in an IFB environment, but being abused at home in secret. The legali...

How can we be more like Jesus in this world of pain, suffering, and evil? Is it our responsibility as Christians to care for the oppressed? The Rev. Dr. Marcia Ledford guides us in answering these kinds of questions with empathy and compassion. She candidly shares her upbringing in the Baptist church, her divine call to preach, and becoming a civil rights attorney. She once was given an ultimatum...

We're talking about your Inner Child today. Do you have behaviors that point to sexual addiction? Do you need some real solutions to dealing with it? Does your husband have a porn addiction? Do you blame yourself for his actions? Meet Eddie Capparucci, a licensed and Christian therapist certified in the treatment of sexual and pornography addiction. He is the creator of The Inner Child Recovery Pr...

Is there a difference between combat PTSD and First Responder PTSD? According to my guest, Norm Wielsch, your body recognizes them as the same thing. In my conversation with Norm, we hear about his father fighting during WWII and losing almost his entire family during the bombings. True to his father's generation and culture, he never spoke about his war trauma. Fast forward to Norm's service as a...

When should you leave your church? Perhaps we should be asking God, "Should I stay?" instead. This is the second half of my riveting interview with Pastor Al Desheneau. We hear his story of being a young, green pastor, and pastoring churches filled with stubborn, legalistic people who didn't want to change or be pastored. Pastor Al candidly shares the joys, the trials, the exhaustion, and spiritua...

Have you been bullied? Then you must know how it feels to be alone, rejected, and friendless. My guest today is Pastor Al Descheneau, who shares the story of his upbringing in a transient Christian home. As always the new kid in school, he was subjected to frequent bullying and abusive treatment from his school mates. By the time he went to Christian college, he was an angry, antisocial kid who wa...

We have an incredible, unbelievable story for you today. This is the story of a man raised in the projects in Miami, Florida who rises to massive success and wealth by his mid twenties, only to lose it all to sexual addiction. Dr. Joe Martin very candidly shares his childhood, being raised by his alcoholic teen mother, the unbearable loss of his friends in his neighborhood, and suffering childhood...

Have you ever been stalked by a former boyfriend? It was La'Trae Wilson's living nightmare. She describes her history of relationships with abusive men, and the process it took to finally leave. She shares the joys and challenges of raising her genius autistic son, and also caring for her mother. When she was in college, she was diagnosed with dyslexia, but she never let it stop her from reaching...