The Healing & Freedom Journey

By Mark DeJesus

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Experience Mental, Emotional and Relationship Health

Episode Date
The Struggle of Religious OCD | Scrupulosity
Apr 17, 2024
Do You Have a Quick Fix Mentality with Your Mental Health?
Apr 16, 2024
Confusion About Obedience and Disobedience
Apr 10, 2024
What is Grace? Part 11: The Journey from Condemnation to Grace (Romans 7 to 8)
Mar 26, 2024
The Power of COMPASSIONATE GRACE for Mental Health
Mar 21, 2024
What is Grace? Part 10: Grace vs Condemnation
Mar 20, 2024
The Christian, Mental Health and Medication
Mar 12, 2024
What is Grace? Part 09: Grace vs Performance and Perfectionism
Mar 07, 2024
Biblical Mental Health Profile: Timothy
Feb 28, 2024
How to Stop Being a FIXER in Your Relationships
Feb 08, 2024
Are You Waiting on the Lord or Procrastinating?
Feb 02, 2024
Am I Living in My Strength or God’s Strength? (What Does that Even Mean?)
Feb 01, 2024
Do I Need a Mental Health Diagnosis?
Jan 31, 2024
6 Common Church Trauma Reactions
Jan 29, 2024
What is My Conscience and How Does It Impact My Life?
Jan 25, 2024
Is OCD a Demon?
Jan 24, 2024
What is Grace? Part 8: Grace for the Single Person
Jan 19, 2024
10 Ways Self Pity Will Destroy Your Mental Health
Jan 18, 2024
Unhealthy Patterns Christians Believe About WORDS
Jan 17, 2024
Love Identity Validation and Mental Health
Jan 12, 2024
The Christian and Healing Our Sexual Struggles
Jan 11, 2024
Confusion About God’s Voice
Jan 09, 2024
What is Grace? Part 7: Effective Parenting Fueled by GRACE
Jan 04, 2024
4 Things You Need to Know About Your Intrusive Thoughts
Jan 04, 2024
3 Things I Focus on for Mental Health
Jan 02, 2024
3 Major Breakthroughs that Empowered My Mental Health
Dec 14, 2023
How the Love and Grace of God Changes Unhealthy Behavior
Dec 06, 2023
10 Things I STOPPED Doing that Dramatically Improved My Mental Health
Nov 30, 2023
Aspire to THIS Scripture and Your Mental Health Will Improve
Nov 29, 2023
What is Grace? Part 6: A Real and Powerful Marriage
Nov 16, 2023
OCD and Confusion Over DENIAL
Nov 15, 2023
What Starving Compulsions Has Done for My Life
Nov 10, 2023
What is Grace? Part 5: Grace Transforms Relationships
Nov 07, 2023
OCD, Fear, Control and Exposure Therapy
Nov 02, 2023
12 Insights About Your OCD Control Issues
Oct 31, 2023
What is Grace? Part 4: The Power of Grace and Peace
Oct 26, 2023
What is Grace? Part 3: Grace in the Old Testament
Oct 20, 2023
Working Through Control Issues
Oct 18, 2023
What is Grace? Part 2: Discovering Grace
Oct 12, 2023
What to Do When You Are TRIGGERED
Oct 10, 2023
What is Grace? Part 1
Oct 05, 2023
How OCD Infected My Pastoral Ministry
Sep 28, 2023
There is No Such Thing as a 20 Minute Call (And Other Helps for Your Journey)
Sep 27, 2023
Are You Obsessive Compulsive About SIN?
Sep 26, 2023
Are You Battling Existential OCD?
Sep 22, 2023
Common Pitfalls of Relationship OCD
Sep 19, 2023
Working Through Thought-Action Fusion
Sep 12, 2023
Healing Our Distorted “God Filter”
Sep 07, 2023
9 Toxic Ways Obsessives Interpret their Thoughts
Sep 05, 2023
Working Through Mood Issues and Irritability
Aug 31, 2023
Overcoming Overthinking
Aug 29, 2023
The Freedom Journey from Toxic Guilt
Aug 02, 2023
12 Common Guilt-Based Compulsions
Jul 25, 2023
8 Toxic Guilt Battles Christians Struggle With
Jul 19, 2023
10 Reasons WHY We Struggle with Toxic Guilt
Jul 13, 2023
15 Reasons Why Toxic Guilt is Not of God
Jul 11, 2023
How Jesus Responded to Toxic Guilt
Jul 06, 2023
Toxic Guilt and the Sin Cycle
Jun 29, 2023
Discerning the Armor of Toxic Guilt
Jun 27, 2023
The Power of Faith, Hope and Love for Mental Health
Jun 26, 2023
12 Signs You Struggle with Toxic Guilt
Jun 22, 2023
Exposing the Influence of Toxic Guilt
Jun 21, 2023
The Power of God’s Love to Transform Your Mental Health
Jun 19, 2023
Biblical Building Blocks for Mental Health – Part 1
Jun 12, 2023
Healing from Gaslighting
Jun 06, 2023
Overcoming Grandiosity from a Narcissist Relationship
Jun 01, 2023
Healing from a Narcissist When It is All About Them
May 30, 2023
Healing from a Narcissist’s Lack of Empathy Towards You
May 25, 2023
The Most Challenging Relationship in the Mental Health Journey
May 23, 2023
Strengthening Your Mental Health in the Midst of Storms
May 22, 2023
Have You Been Slimed by a SCORNER?
May 19, 2023
4 Signs You Are NOT a Narcissist
May 17, 2023
Why is it Hard for Christians to Accept that Narcissists Will Not Change?
May 12, 2023
How Christians Can Heal from a Narcissist Relationship
May 09, 2023
The Christian, the Bible and Narcissism
May 08, 2023
The Christian Mental Health and the Workplace
May 05, 2023
Healing & Freedom to the Heart of an Artist: My Interview with Matt Tommey
May 03, 2023
Mental Health and Hearing from God
May 01, 2023
Healthy Servants of God in a World Filled with STRIFE
May 01, 2023
Keeping Your Sanity in a World of Lawlessness
Apr 24, 2023
Fight Mental Health Battles with Compassion
Apr 21, 2023
Compulsively Checking Your Feelings
Apr 20, 2023
What the OCD Healing Journey Looks Like
Apr 19, 2023
Myths That People with Relationship OCD Believe
Apr 18, 2023
The Struggle with Self-Condemnation
Apr 17, 2023
Mental Health and the End Times
Apr 17, 2023
When Your Spouse Has OCD
Apr 14, 2023
Obsessive Compulsive SERVING and GIVING
Apr 13, 2023
Obsessive Compulsive FASTING
Apr 12, 2023
Working Through Health OCD
Apr 12, 2023
Developing Empathy Balance
Apr 10, 2023
Does This Thought Mean I am Lusting and Committing Adultery?
Apr 06, 2023
On Fire for God or Obsessive Compulsive?
Apr 05, 2023
How Religious OCD GROWS
Apr 04, 2023
How Certain Christian Denominations Can Influence Religious OCD & Scrupulosity
Apr 03, 2023
Do You COMPULSIVELY CHECK Your Believing?
Mar 30, 2023
The Struggle to Rest and Relax in God’s Love (Nurture)
Mar 29, 2023
Why Giving Scriptures to Religious OCD Strugglers Can Seem to Backfire
Mar 28, 2023
The Story Behind the Book: Melissa Interviews Her Husband
Mar 24, 2023
2 Reasons Christians Get Off Track with Intrusive Thoughts
Mar 23, 2023
12 Reasons OCD Gets Worse
Mar 22, 2023
The 7 Distortions of OCD
Mar 21, 2023
What is OCD? Part 2: Compulsions
Mar 20, 2023
What is OCD? Part 1: Obsessions
Mar 17, 2023
Take a Tour of The OCD Healing Journey Chapters
Mar 14, 2023
New Book: “The OCD Healing Journey” Available Now!
Mar 13, 2023
Processing Parental Wound and Family Brokenness
Mar 10, 2023
10 Struggles that Reveal You Had Emotionally Immature Parents
Mar 09, 2023
12 Signs You Were Raised By Emotionally Immature Parents
Mar 06, 2023
5 Types of Dysfunctional Families
Mar 03, 2023
10 Reasons You Need to Understand Your Relationship with Your Parents
Feb 27, 2023
The People Pleasing Healing Journey
Feb 24, 2023
Discerning the Traps of the Inner Critic
Feb 23, 2023
8 Ways You Become an Enemy to Yourself
Feb 20, 2023
Healing the Heart of a People Pleaser
Feb 16, 2023
Discerning the Bondage of People Pleasing
Feb 13, 2023
Compassion and Grace Towards the “Old You”
Feb 10, 2023
When Others Lack Compassion & Grace for the Old You
Feb 09, 2023
Do You Ruminate About the Past?
Feb 06, 2023
Do You Talk About Mental Health Too Much or Too Little?
Feb 03, 2023
Religious Perfectionism and Prayer
Feb 01, 2023
2 Unhealthy Responses to Shame Attacks
Jan 30, 2023
What Does It Mean When You Feel Stuck Are a Broken Record or Going Around the Mountain?
Jan 25, 2023
The Biblical Importance of Living SOBER
Jan 23, 2023
Take Back Your Joy from Perfectionism
Jan 20, 2023
10 Signs of a Shame Attack
Jan 16, 2023
46 Years of Learning (Birthday Q&A)
Jan 13, 2023
Bible Reading and Religious Perfectionism
Jan 11, 2023
7 Questions to Enhance Your Mental Health Journey
Jan 06, 2023
10 Ways Gratitude Can Help Your Mental Health
Nov 23, 2022
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #12
Nov 21, 2022
Failure, Fear of Failure and Advice I Would Give to Moses
Nov 19, 2022
6 Tips to Help You Stop Spinning
Nov 16, 2022
7 Misunderstanding About Acknowledging Emotions
Nov 14, 2022
Our Perfectionism Healing Journey
Nov 11, 2022
10 Things You Need to Know About Your Emotions
Nov 09, 2022
All or Nothing Thinking, Perfectionism and Our View of God
Nov 07, 2022
What Trials Bring Out in Perfectionists
Nov 04, 2022
What is the Opposite of Perfectionism?
Nov 01, 2022
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #11
Oct 28, 2022
Mental Health for Christian Introverts
Oct 26, 2022
12 Limiting Beliefs that Can Hinder Your Mental Health
Oct 24, 2022
Our Journey through Shame, Abandonment and Perfectionism
Oct 21, 2022
Healing the Stress Response of a Perfectionist
Oct 19, 2022
The Root of Abandonment and “Shame Attacks”
Oct 17, 2022
3 Responses to Intrusive Thoughts and Religious Obsessions
Oct 14, 2022
Nurturing the Heart of a Perfectionist
Oct 12, 2022
4 Blocks that Keep Perfectionists from Healing
Oct 10, 2022
7 Things We Need to Let Go Of
Oct 04, 2022
What Influence Do Demons & Spiritual Warfare Have on OCD?
Oct 03, 2022
Parenting While Working Through Your Own Brokenness
Sep 30, 2022
Learning to Say NO
Sep 27, 2022
Discerning the Shame that Drives Perfectionism and OCD
Sep 27, 2022
God’s Love Wins: Learning to Mature in Love
Sep 23, 2022
Religious OCD: The Guilt and Confession Cycle
Sep 22, 2022
5 Forms of Biblical Meditation You Can Practice
Sep 20, 2022
7 Reasons We Cannot Emotionally Settle
Sep 19, 2022
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #10
Sep 17, 2022
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #09
Sep 08, 2022
Sharing Our Personal Struggles – Part 4
Aug 25, 2022
Spiraling in Overwhelming Anxiety, Religious OCD and Pain
Aug 22, 2022
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #08
Aug 19, 2022
Love Hangs in There
Aug 18, 2022
12 Ways Slowing Down Has Improved My Mental Health
Aug 15, 2022
Sharing our Personal Struggles – Part 3
Aug 11, 2022
10 Reasons Why We Do Not Slow Down
Aug 10, 2022
Where Do I Start in My Heart Healing Journey?
Aug 08, 2022
What Makes Healing from Brokenness So Challenging?
Aug 05, 2022
Love Strengthens Hope
Aug 04, 2022
The ONE Scripture Saved My Mental Health
Aug 01, 2022
Do You Compulsively Overshare?
Jul 29, 2022
Sharing Our Personal Struggles – Part 2
Jul 27, 2022
Mental Health and Prophetic Ministry
Jul 25, 2022
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #07
Jul 25, 2022
Church Transition & Finding Heart Healing Community
Jul 22, 2022
How Do You Relate to Yourself in Your Struggles?
Jul 20, 2022
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #06
Jul 16, 2022
Sharing Our Struggles
Jul 14, 2022
How Thoughts Impact Your Mental Health
Jul 11, 2022
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #05
Jul 08, 2022
3 Tips for Renewing Your Mental Health
Jul 06, 2022
Sabbatical Break (Update)
May 14, 2022
The Gospel: Grieving Pain in Your Life
May 13, 2022
Are You a Christian Perfectionist?
May 10, 2022
Love Empowers Belief
May 04, 2022
Understanding Your Family of Origin
Apr 28, 2022
Love Can Handle What You Are Going Through
Apr 27, 2022
The Gospel: The Opening of Prison
Apr 26, 2022
The Gospel: The Message of LIBERTY
Apr 20, 2022
Are You Stuck in the Past?
Apr 18, 2022
10 Reasons Perfectionists Have a Hard Time Working Through Emotions
Apr 13, 2022
Working Through Accusation and Being Misunderstood
Apr 07, 2022
I’m Starving Compulsions…Now What?
Apr 06, 2022
Healing Emotional Neglect and Perfectionism
Mar 31, 2022
The Gospel: Healing to Your Broken Heart
Mar 29, 2022
Top 12 Reasons People Do NOT Empathize with You
Mar 28, 2022
Healing Mother Wounds
Mar 24, 2022
Love Gets Happy About the Truth
Mar 23, 2022
OCD and Depression
Mar 22, 2022
Obsessive Compulsive about Anger (and Underlying Perfectionism)
Mar 15, 2022
Healing Father Wounds
Mar 11, 2022
The Gospel: Do You Actually Need It?
Mar 09, 2022
Do You Need Exposure Therapy?
Mar 07, 2022
Help with Salvation OCD
Mar 02, 2022
The Gospel: Good News from a Good God
Feb 28, 2022
Help Me See Through the Eyes of Love
Feb 24, 2022
The Gospel: The Father’s Heart for You
Feb 21, 2022
Healing Family Wounds: What NOT to Do
Feb 17, 2022
The Gospel: Heart Healing & the Transformation Journey
Feb 15, 2022
Obsessive Compulsive About Relationship Conflict
Feb 10, 2022
Allowing God to Love You When You Are Afraid
Feb 09, 2022
Healing Christian Compulsions
Feb 07, 2022
My Review of The Jesus Music Movie and My Journey with Christian Music
Feb 03, 2022
Are You Obsessive Compulsive About “Fixing Yourself”?
Feb 01, 2022
Loneliness Part 4: Learning to Minister to Yourself
Jan 28, 2022
Healing the Inner Critic
Jan 26, 2022
Loneliness Part 3: Interpreting Your Lonely Feelings
Jan 24, 2022
Loneliness Part 2: What’s Influencing Your Lonely Feelings?
Jan 21, 2022
Let’s Talk About Your Parents
Jan 20, 2022
Loneliness Part 1: Are You Lonely?
Jan 17, 2022
Love Heals Irritability
Jan 14, 2022
3 Areas of Healing Your Family History
Jan 12, 2022
10 Important Keys for Mind Renewal and Mental Health
Jan 10, 2022
Healing Family Brokenness
Jan 06, 2022
Love is Not So Easily Triggered
Jan 04, 2022
7 Ways Writing Can Be Good for Your Mental Health
Jan 03, 2022
10 Reasons Why a JOURNEY MINDSET is So Important for You
Dec 17, 2021
The Power of Mercy and Surrender for Mind Renewal
Dec 16, 2021
Working Through Procrastination
Dec 16, 2021
Change Your Relationship with Your Thoughts
Dec 15, 2021
Freedom from Self-Centeredness
Dec 10, 2021
Working Through Health Anxiety
Dec 09, 2021
Working Through Anxiety Symptoms
Dec 09, 2021
I’m Not Running Anymore
Dec 07, 2021
Fire Your Thought Interpreter
Dec 06, 2021
Stop Taking Your Thoughts So Seriously
Dec 03, 2021
Can You Control Your Thoughts?
Dec 03, 2021
7 Reasons Why Intrusive Thoughts Grow
Dec 01, 2021
6 Ways to Heal Perfectionism
Nov 19, 2021
Confronting “What If” Thinking
Nov 18, 2021
These Thoughts are Not You
Nov 17, 2021
3 Things Your Fears Reveal
Nov 16, 2021
Is Fear Dominating Your Thinking?
Nov 15, 2021
Cutting Through the Culture of Rudeness
Nov 12, 2021
Mind Reading What Other People Think About You
Nov 10, 2021
Is Black and White Thinking Hindering Your Life?
Nov 08, 2021
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #04
Nov 05, 2021
Working Through 3 Enemies to Peace
Nov 02, 2021
Love is Not Narcissism
Oct 29, 2021
Confusion About Symbols Dreams and Signs
Oct 27, 2021
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #03
Oct 25, 2021
Can You Repent and Confess Too Much?
Oct 21, 2021
Parenting a Special Needs Child
Oct 20, 2021
Freeing Our Hearts from Envy
Oct 19, 2021
Envy and the Trail of Broken Relationships
Oct 18, 2021
Exposing the Toxic Work of Envy
Oct 16, 2021
I Address Your OCD Questions Live! #02
Oct 12, 2021
Addressing the Ache, Emptiness and Discontent in Your Heart
Oct 08, 2021
Holy Spirit Confusion and Raised by a Narcissistic Father
Oct 07, 2021
Healing is Not Just a “You and God Only” Thing
Oct 05, 2021
I Answer Your Questions Live! #04
Oct 01, 2021
I Answer Your Questions Live! #03
Sep 30, 2021
Understanding Your Thought Battles, Spiritual Warfare and the Fear Factor
Sep 28, 2021
I Address Your Questions Live! #02
Sep 28, 2021
The Transforming Power of Kindness
Sep 24, 2021
Learning to Feel Safe in Your Thoughts When By Yourself
Sep 22, 2021
I Address Your OCD Questions Live!
Sep 21, 2021
I Answer Your Questions Live!
Sep 21, 2021
The Healing Power of Patience
Sep 10, 2021
12 Ways I Optimize My Mental Health Journey
Sep 09, 2021
Can Worship Improve Your Mental Health?
Sep 08, 2021
Are You Neurotic?
Sep 03, 2021
OCD: Sin, Scrupulosity, Unpardonable Sin, Guilt and More . . .
Sep 02, 2021
What Love is NOT
Aug 31, 2021
How to Love God with All Your Heart Soul Mind and Strength
Aug 30, 2021
Mental Health and Nutrition
Aug 27, 2021
Healing the Pain of a Woman’s Heart
Aug 25, 2021
5 Things I Need to Know During Troubled Times (Psalm 46)
Aug 24, 2021
Spirit Soul Body and Mental Health
Aug 23, 2021
Working Through Feeling Overwhelmed
Aug 20, 2021
Working Through Catastrophic Thinking
Aug 17, 2021
Why is Love the Greatest?
Aug 16, 2021
What is Love? (Part 6)
Aug 13, 2021
Working Through Religious OCD and Scrupulosity
Aug 11, 2021
What is Love? (Part 5)
Aug 10, 2021
What is Love? (Part 4)
Aug 06, 2021
Sharing Salvation in a Healthy Way with Non Believers
Aug 04, 2021
What is Love? (Part 3)
Aug 02, 2021
What is Love? (Part 2)
Jul 28, 2021
Learning to Work Through Your Emotions
Jul 27, 2021
What is Love? (Part 1)
Jul 26, 2021
Are You Ruminating, Venting or Processing Your Emotions?
Jul 23, 2021
Does God Have My Back? (And What Does that Even Mean?)
Jul 21, 2021
How to Connect to Emotions When You Feel Dead
Jul 20, 2021
Do You Need to Learn to be More “Present”?
Jul 15, 2021
Freedom from a Punishment Based Relationship with God
Jul 13, 2021
OCD and the Danger of “Checking” Yourself
Jul 09, 2021
3 Key Factors that Influence How We Respond to Trials
Jul 07, 2021
When You Pray for God to Take Away Your Anxiety
Jul 06, 2021
The Main Mission Fear Has Against Your Life
Jul 05, 2021