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The Healing & Freedom Journey

The Healing & Freedom Journey

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🔴ROCD Q&A 6: I Feel Nothing | Numbness and Doldrums | Noticing Attractive People is Not Sin

In this live broadcast on Relationship OCD, I will shares my personal journey and insights into the complex world of ROCD, providing a roadmap for those seeking to break free from its grip. With a unique blend of biblical insight and practical strategies, we will walk through more of your questions that arise in the […]

Jan 9, 20252h 6m

Reading the Bible When You Have OCD

Reading the Bible and taking in the Scriptures is an important aspect of the Christian life. But when you have obsessive-compulsive struggles, this can be very challenging. When you have OCD issues, reading Scripture can trigger a lot of anxiety and distress. If you struggle when it comes to your Bible reading, you are not […]

Jan 8, 202546 min

🔴Sun Live: My Claustrophobic Panic Attack | Grandiosity | Writing | Body Shame

Join us as Mark and Melissa address numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. Our passion is to help believers experience healing and freedom by becoming rooted in the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ and to experience the truth that sets us free! This is a jam-packed […]

Jan 5, 20252h 10m

🔴Saturday Live: End of Year Question and Answer

Join Mark and Melissa for a final Q&A of this year as we address questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. Our passion is to help believers experience healing and freedom by becoming rooted in the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ. Watch on YouTube: Watch on Rumble: Recommended […]

Dec 15, 20242h 23m

How to Set Healthy Boundaries

When setting boundaries, many times people rush to discover the perfect rule to apply to their given situation. When in reality, boundaries are an invitation to learn new relationship mindsets. There are ways of how we approach relationships that can be modified. Sometimes even the smallest modification can make the biggest difference in your relationship. […]

Dec 13, 202444 min

Why Are Boundaries So Challenging?

Boundaries are so important to develop in our lives. But why are they so challenging to practice? Why do we find it so difficult to implement and stick with healthy boundaries? Today I want to get into the heart of the struggle so we can begin to understand what prevents us from taking healthier steps. […]

Dec 13, 202423 min

What are Relationship Boundaries and Why Do We Need Them?

As a part of your healing journey, it will be important to understand how to live in healthy boundaries, because healthy boundaries help us to experience the best out of our relationships. Healthy relationships provide the best environment for us to heal and grow in our mental health. However, healthy relationships do not flourish without […]

Dec 11, 202436 min

Struggles with Mental Health While on Vacation

Taking time off for time away for vacation or holiday to visit with loved ones or to enjoy a special location can be great for mental health. It can refresh the heart and mind, while recalibrating your emotions and perspectives. But for many, vacations can be tough times on their mental health battles. I have […]

Dec 11, 202423 min

🔴Wed Live: Confusion Over Taking Thoughts Captive, Mindfulness, Judgment and More

Join me in this live Q&A as I address questions that have to do with confusion over the subject of taking thoughts captive, mindfulness, meditation, judging, the bema seat judgment, “heaven’s promise” cognative distortion and narcissism. “My question is the line between letting thoughts float by vs “taking every thought captive to the obedience of […]

Dec 4, 20242h 2m

Safe Relationships that Restore those who Fall (Galatians 6)

How should we as believers conduct ourselves when another believer is caught in a sin, trespass and pattern that is drawing them away from the ways of Christ? Many times the deep dysfunction amongst Christians shows up the most when sin and brokenness reveals itself. We don’t know how to handle it effectively. On top […]

Dec 3, 202438 min

🔴Sun Live: Addressing a Pastor’s Unhelpful Mental Health Advice

Join us as Mark and Melissa address numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. Our passion is to help believers experience healing and freedom by becoming rooted in the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ. Today I take some time to address an email from an Independent Fundamental […]

Dec 1, 20241h 33m

🔴Sun Live: Vow Confusion | Chronic Fatigue and Lyme | Demons and Trauma

Join us as Mark and Melissa address numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. Our passion is to help believers experience healing and freedom by becoming rooted in the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ. “I made a vow that I will never get married, but now I […]

Nov 24, 20241h 36m

The Christian and Healing Our Sexual Struggles – Part 2

Join me as I going into a part 2 of addressing your questions on struggles many have regarding sex and sexuality. I will spend time covering more of the battleground of sexual addiction, porn, OCD, sexually intrusive thoughts and more. Watch on YouTube: Watch on Rumble: Watch Part 1 Healing Our Sexual Struggles To support […]

Nov 22, 20242h 33m

🔴Sun Live: Acountability | Woke Ideology | Psychosis & Confusion

Join us as Mark and Melissa address numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. Our passion is to help believers experience healing and freedom by becoming rooted in the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ. What is accountability? Is it being a “Holy Spirit Fruit Inspector”? What is […]

Nov 17, 20241h 57m

🔴Confusion Over the Goodness of God, God’s Anger and Lukewarmness

Join me in this live Q&A as I address questions on the struggle of connecting to the goodness of God, wrestling with God’s anger and even confusion surrounding the subject of lukewarmness. How does one process the goodness of God when you are struggling with infertility? Do you struggle with reading about God’s anger in […]

Nov 14, 20241h 49m

How to Cultivate Relationship Safety

God designed us for safe relationships, where we can experience love and edification in dynamic way. As many look around and see the relationship pain people are experiencing, the need for safe relationships is more important than ever. So how we can begin to experience safe relationships? Whether you’re seeking to improve your existing relationships […]

Nov 13, 202425 min

🔴Sun Live: Prosperity Gospel | Obsessive Buyer’s Remorse | Masculine Christianity

Join us as Mark and Melissa address numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. Our passion is to help believers experience healing and freedom by becoming rooted in the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ. How do you deal with intrusive dread that shows up when you have […]

Nov 10, 20241h 41m

I Address Your SCRUPULOSITY Questions!

Join me in this live Q&A as I addressed the struggle of scrupulosity, which can also be called religious OCD. In this broadcast I will address your questions about the healing and freedom journey when it comes to working through obsessions that involve aspects of your faith. I will specifically show how the seven distortions […]

Nov 6, 20241h 34m

6 Traits for Empowered Relationships

We all want to have safe and empowering relationships. So we need to know some important things that make up loving relationships that are empowering. In this broadcast, I will call out six important traits that make up empowering relationships and how we can implement them into our life and journey. May these insights breathe […]

Nov 5, 202444 min

🔴SNL: Confusion Over Restitution, Love, Sexuality, Hebrews 6:4, Laziness and More

Join us as Mark and Melissa address numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. Our passion is to help believers experience healing and freedom by becoming rooted in the love of the Father and rhe grace of Jesus Christ. A lot of questions I address in this broadcast have a similar theme, […]

Nov 4, 20241h 42m

🔴ROCD Q&A 5: Perfectionism Kills Romance | Distortions Keep You Stuck in Limbo | Work on Myself Before Dating?

Join me in this live Q&A as I will be addressing a very specific battle of OCD that impacts relationships, especially romantic ones. It is often called relationship substantiation or relationship OCD. In this episode I talk about some common ROCD hangups that you need to be aware of and some helpful pathways to experience […]

Oct 31, 20241h 53m

6 Draining Relationships and What to Do About Them

We all have our own personal encounters with people who are emotionally draining. What are the signs of a draining relationship and what do we do about it? In this broadcast, I want to share about six types of draining relationships and give you some practical insights you can put into practice today to help […]

Oct 30, 202434 min

🔴SNL: What is Discipleship | Finding Relationship After Leaving Legalistic Church | Writing a Book

Join us as Mark and Melissa addressed numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. Our passion is to help believers experience healing and freedom by becoming rooted in the love of the Father and rhe grace of Jesus Christ. I open up with a question from a sister who struggles to recieve […]

Oct 28, 20241h 26m

🔴Wed Live: Mold in House | Adult Children of Addicts | Evil Thoughts

Join us as Mark and Melissa addressed numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. Our passion is to help believers experience healing and freedom by becoming rooted in the love of the Father and rhe grace of Jesus Christ. Today I bring a strong exortation about mold in the house and how […]

Oct 24, 20241h 29m

3 Forms of NEEDINESS that Make Vulnerable Sharing Unhealthy

You want safe relationships right? Be is neediness getting in the way? We long for meaningful interactions and safe relationships. However, within our deep wounds, we can develop an intense and excessive neediness that will take over in our relationship interactions and become a driving force. We all have a need for loving connection and […]

Oct 22, 202429 min

What is Grace? Part 14: The Gateway to Experiencing Grace

The grace of God involves God’s relational empowerment, divinely working and through your heart, based on the work of Jesus Christ. But how do you experience grace in a meaningful way? Today I want to talk about the key gateway to experiencing grace and how you can open your heart to up to it more […]

Oct 17, 202415 min

2 Things to DISCERN Before You Vulnerably Share

One of the great aspects of a safe relationship is that you can be vulnerable, where you are able to share the good, but also the challenging aspects of your journey. But within it all, love and grace remain in the picture. But sometimes we want vulnerable connections so bad, we end up sharing vulnerable […]

Oct 15, 202422 min

🔴SNL: When Will I Arrive? | Chastening | Forgiveness

Join us in our live Sunday broadcast as we addressed questions on mental, emotional and relationship health, helping believers to experinece healing and freedom in their life. Our passion is to ground believers in the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ. I open with a question from someone feeling burnout and […]

Oct 14, 20241h 38m

11 Mindsets to Help You Minister to Others Without LOSING HEART

It is such a common occurance today for those who are involved in ministry to encounter weariness, burnout and exhaustion. We were designed to minister to others, but not in constant burnout and exhaustion. So what are the factors that are contributing to losing heart and what can be done about this? Based on the […]

Oct 11, 20241h 13m

11 Things Unsafe People Say

As we learn to develop our discernment for what safe relationships are, its important to identify what an unsafe person is like. Unsafe people make healing and freedom more challenging. When you interact with an unsafe person, it reveals that the person is not emotionally healthy. They are not a person to go to with […]

Oct 8, 202425 min

🔴SNL: News and HSPs | Climate Obsession | My Kids Don’t Have Friends

Join us in our live Sunday broadcast as we addressed questions on mental, emotional and relationship health, helping believers to experinece healing and freedom in their life. Our passion is to ground believers in the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ. How do you process watching the news of hurricanes and […]

Oct 7, 20241h 35m

13 Signs of Safe People

Mental health is enhanced through safe relationships. But how do find safe people? What are some the important things to look out for when it comes to identifying them? Safe relationships are loving relationships where we are edified through our interactions with safe people. They are powerful connections where we can heal and practice our […]

Oct 1, 202426 min

🔴SNL: Autism | Compuslively Giving Up Things You Like | Superstitious Faith

Join us in our live Sunday broadcast as we addressed questions on mental, emotional and relationship health, helping believers to experinece healing and freedom in their life. Our passion is to ground believers in the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ. How do you walk a mentally health journey when you […]

Sep 30, 20241h 31m

What is Grace? Part 13: God at Work Through You

It is by the grace of God that we love, bless and minister to other people. But have we made ministry so complicated that we do not see the beauty of God’s work in everyday, ordinary moments? What about our calling and destiny? Should we spend all this time trying to figure out our calling […]

Sep 26, 20241h 11m

Discerning Love Bombing

Are you someone who love bombs? Have you been under the influence of someone else who was love bombing you? What is love bombing and how does it get into our lives? Because of woundedness and a lack of emotional equipping, our definition of what love looks like can become distorted. This can open many […]

Sep 24, 202431 min

🔴SNL: Falling Back | Conviction Confusion | Delayed Gratitification

Join us in our live Sunday broadcast as we addressed questions on mental, emotional and relationship health, helping believers to experinece healing and freedom in their life. I talk about ministry projects and where we feel to have our ministry right now, as well as addressing material for kids. What do you do when you […]

Sep 23, 20241h 22m

Your Need for Total Unconditional Loving Acceptance

We say this all the time: God loves you, right where you are. Receive Christ. Then we receive Christ, for many, a whole yoke of performance and perfectionism gets thrown onto our backs. We strive and perform and wear ourselves out trying to fix ourselves and make ourselves lovable. We end up walking past His […]

Sep 19, 202420 min

12 Ways We Practice Emotional Avoidance

One of the patterns I see quite often is the amount of avoidance that comes up in our mental health struggles. At first, avoidance shows up as a protective coping mechanism, but over time, we need to see where avoidance is getting in the way of our healing and freedom. In today’s broadcast, I want […]

Sep 17, 202426 min

🔴SNL: Attention Seeking | Limerence | God’s Anger

Join us in our live Sunday broadcast as we addressed questions on mental, emotional and relationship health, helping believers to experinece healing and freedom in their life. I start off addressing a question sent in about the need to be seen, attention seeking and how that impacts online interaction. Also, are some people just too […]

Sep 16, 20241h 23m

🔴ROCD Q&A Part 4: Does God Choose Your Spouse? | Attraction and Feeelings | Emotional Immaturity

In this raw and honest Q&A session, I confront some of the most damaging theological beliefs and distorted thinking patterns that keep Christians trapped in Relationship OCD. If you’re stuck measuring your attraction levels, asking “Is this OCD or real?”, or waiting for God to give you a sign about your relationship, this broadcast will […]

Sep 11, 20241h 50m

Mental Health Needs Practice

One of the top problems that people have when it comes to experiencing greater mental health is that we do not give ourselves room to practice. Mental health is really about emotional health, and emotional health is developed as we learn to practice and develop renewed ways of thinking and relating. But new thought patterns […]

Sep 10, 202421 min

🔴SNL: Getting Scammed | Work Out Salvation or Ruminating | Perfectionistic Preaching

Join us in our live Sunday broadcast as we addressed questions on mental, emotional and relationship health, helping believers to experinece healing and freedom in their life. We address a question about healing from being financially scammed while sharing our own experience of seeing this happen to loved ones. Mark also responds to a question […]

Sep 9, 20241h 28m

🔴SNL: Prayer Confusion | Distortions About God’s Peace | Anger and Irritability

Join Mark in a Sunday Night Live solo episode, where I address questions about mental, emotional and relationship health: The end times has made someone very impatient and black and white about their journey. How do I deal with friends who are into Harry Potter and Dungeons and Dragons.? Expressing the damage of spiritual abuse […]

Sep 2, 20241h 22m

🔴Wed Live: Female with Masculine Tendancies | OT vs NT | Idol Obsession

Join us as Mark and Melissa addressed numerous questions on all things mental, emotional and relationship health. How do you work through church social anxiety, especially when you were raised in a church where you were taught to sweep the mess under the rug? Helping other stuck in a cult? OCD about fasting and doing […]

Aug 28, 20241h 44m

Empower Your Mental Health by Deciding

In the early days of my mental health journey, I realized that I woke up in the morning with two unhealthy patterns that I would follow. The first one is that I would insessantly check how I was feeling first thing when I awoke. Secondly, I would let how I was feeling dictate my actions […]

Aug 27, 202416 min

Suicidal Thoughts

The very mention of suicide and suicidal thoughts can bring about discomfort and fear for many. It can be an awkward subject to talk about. The subject of suicide can trigger emotional alarm bells, maybe regarding the pain of suicide that took place in the family history or memories involving someone they know. Many do […]

Aug 22, 20242h 23m

🔴SNL: Healing Perfectionism | Progressive Christianity and Deconstruction | Celebrating Holidays

Join us in our live Sunday broadcast as we addressed questions regarding mental, emotional and relationship health. Mark responds to a question from someone expressing the frustration of trying to heal through perfectionism, but doing it with perfectionism, which is making it so much more challenging and confusing. Mark also took some extended time to […]

Aug 19, 20241h 26m

Healing SELF-HARM

In this midst of pain and struggle, the mental and emotional pain can feel so overwhelming that some can turn to self-harm as a way to cope. For those that struggle with this behavior, it can seem like one of the only ways to express the pain or gain a sense of sanity within the […]

Aug 13, 202448 min

🔴SNL: Keys to Our Marriage Journey | Obsessive About Salvation Prayer | Brain Fog

Today we celebrate 18 years of marriage and invite you to celebrate with us, as we talk about our marriage journey and take your questions on mental, emotional and relationship health. Melissa and I talk about things that terrified us in chilldhood that we can (somewhat) laugh about today. Mark also addresses a number of […]

Aug 12, 20241h 34m

What is Grace? Part 12: Grace and FAITH

As we learn to be people who embrace the grace of Jesus Christ and let it have a work in our lives, what relationship does FAITH have with grace? Today I want to bring out what faith is and how it relates to recieving grace, while giving some perspectives you can put into action to […]

Aug 8, 20241h 0m