Rest in Peace, Genie Gigi | The Martha Mentality, Healing Through Community & The Power of the Pivot

Sometimes the healer needs healing too.

In this deeply personal episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi opens up about the emotional, physical, and spiritual realities behind hosting The Healing Table through FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. What began as preparation for a women’s healing gathering became a powerful lesson on nervous system overwhelm, overfunctioning, emotional regulation, healthy community, and the freedom that comes from releasing the “Martha mentality.”

Through raw storytelling, scripture, trauma-informed insight, and practical reflection, Gigi explores the emotional cost of constantly pouring into others, the difference between functioning and healing, the P.I.V.O.T. framework, intergenerational healing, safe community, and what it means to stop chasing validation, perfection, and performance.

This episode also highlights the upcoming Healing is Holy Summit happening June 20th at the Paulding County Airport, a restorative gathering created for leaders, caregivers, helpers, entrepreneurs, ministry workers, and those who spend their lives pouring into others.

Special thank you to Magnolia Commons for hosting The Healing Table so beautifully and to every helping hand, prayer warrior, volunteer, supporter, and attendee who helped create such a safe and sacred atmosphere for healing.

Read Coach Gigi’s book Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon: https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

Visit FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. for resources, events, and updates: https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org

Music credit: Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Sponsored by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. where healing is holy.

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You’re showing up… but something in you is tired.

In this deeply honest and spirit-led episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi invites you to take a real look at what it means to carry emotional weight in silence… and how to begin releasing it in a safe and sacred way.

This conversation explores the patterns many women don’t talk about openly—overgiving, emotional depletion, inconsistency in relationships, and the quiet ways we find ourselves chasing love instead of receiving it.

Through both Scripture and real-life reflection, Coach Gigi breaks down what it looks like to:

• ​ Recognize emotional starvation in relationships
• ​ Stop normalizing being drained and unseen
• ​ Set healthy, God-led boundaries
• ​ Shift from “Lord, fix them” to “Lord, lead me”
• ​ Trust God boldly… even when outcomes don’t match expectations

In this episode, Coach Gigi also shares a transparent moment from her own journey—how fear led her to set a small goal for The Healing Table, and the powerful lesson God revealed about planning small while expecting big.

Because healing is not about perfection.

It’s about alignment.

And sometimes… it starts with simply coming to the table.

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💛 ANNOUNCEMENTS & COMMUNITY

The Healing Table is a safe and sacred space created for women to gather, reflect, and heal together.

Although registration is now closed, you can still support this mission and help us continue serving families, providing resources, and creating spaces for healing.

Give here:

👉 https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org/

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🤝 PARTNERS & THANK YOU

Special thanks to our partners and community supporters:

Greystone Power

L7 Media

InnerLace Photography

Magnolia Commons

A heartfelt thank you to Tony for helping make this connection possible.

A special thank you to Sandy for her continued support, generosity, and for sponsoring seats for The Healing Table.

And to everyone who helped spread the word, donated, supported, or worked behind the scenes—your impact truly matters.

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📚 BOOKS BY COACH GIGI

📖 Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

📖 Now What? I Married a Narcissist: Finding Faith, Hope, and Healing Beyond Brokenness

https://a.co/d/8NzA35Z

📖 Additional titles and children’s books:

https://a.co/d/7cprHL7

https://a.co/d/5lUJ9Qy

https://a.co/d/iEwYbVx

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📚 RESOURCES & SUPPORT

If you are experiencing domestic violence or are not safe:

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233

Text START to 88788

If you are struggling emotionally or in crisis:

Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline)

You are not alone.

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📖 FEATURED SCRIPTURES

Galatians 6:2

Ecclesiastes 4:9–10

Isaiah 53:1

John 10:10

Psalm 5

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🎧 CALL TO ACTION

If this episode spoke to you, share it with someone who needs it.

Subscribe, follow, and leave a review to help us reach more women who are ready to heal.

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🌐 CONNECT WITH US

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org/

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🎵 MUSIC CREDIT

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

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You say they hurt you… but what if you’re the one who keeps putting your heart back in the same place?

In this powerful and deeply reflective episode, Coach Gigi walks you through the emotional patterns that keep you stuck in cycles of overgiving, under-receiving, and self-abandonment. This is not about blame. This is about awareness, alignment, and healing.

And for many of us, if we’re honest… this is where the pattern begins. Not just being hurt by others… but continuing to return to what isn’t meeting us. Learning to recognize that pattern is a part of what it means to stop chasing love… and start choosing what’s healthy for us.

We explore what it really means to set boundaries without guilt, how your nervous system plays a role in your relationships, and why healing requires both spiritual surrender and practical action. You’ll also be guided through a grounding somatic exercise designed to help you reconnect with your body and respond from a place of peace instead of reaction.

This episode speaks to both sides of the pattern, the one who keeps overextending and the one who may not realize the impact of their responses. If you’ve ever felt unheard, unseen, or emotionally drained in relationships, this conversation will meet you right where you are.

Healing is not weakness. It’s obedience… even when it means choosing not to return to what keeps hurting you.

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💛 ANNOUNCEMENTS & COMMUNITY

Join us for The Healing Table on May 2nd, a safe and sacred space for women to gather, connect, and heal. This experience includes a guided journal written specifically for attendees, a professional photographer, a beauty consultant, and a nourishing brunch. Most importantly, it’s a place where healing is honored and community is built.

Reserve your seat here:

👉 https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/the-healing-table

Learn more and connect:

👉 https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org/

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🤝 PARTNERSHIPS & COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. is honored to partner with Infinite Pathways Living, founded by Kristy Fleming. Their organization provides supportive housing and resources for adults transitioning toward stability and independence.

Special thank you to Alaysha Harding for her excellence and generosity. She will be capturing moments at The Healing Table event.

And thank you to Susan for organizing a neighborhood garage sale and supporting our mission to help feed children this summer. Your impact matters.

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📚 BOOKS BY COACH GIGI

📖 Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

📖 Now What? I Married a Narcissist: Finding Faith, Hope, and Healing Beyond Brokenness

https://a.co/d/8NzA35Z

📖 Additional titles and children’s books:

https://a.co/d/7cprHL7

https://a.co/d/5lUJ9Qy

https://a.co/d/iEwYbVx

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📚 RESOURCES & SUPPORT

If you are experiencing domestic violence or are not safe, please reach out:

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788

If you are struggling emotionally or having thoughts of harming yourself:

Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline)

You are not alone.

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📖 FEATURED SCRIPTURES

Luke 5:16

Proverbs 4:23

James 1:19

Isaiah 26:3

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🎧 CALL TO ACTION

If this episode spoke to you, share it with someone who needs it. Healing grows in community.

Subscribe, follow, and leave a review to help us reach more people who need faith-centered mental health support.

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🌐 CONNECT WITH US

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org/

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🎵 MUSIC CREDIT

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

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📝 You opened your heart. You tried to communicate. You made yourself vulnerable.

And instead of being met with care…

you were met with a receipt.

In this powerful and deeply relatable episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi unpacks the emotional weight of what it feels like to be unheard, dismissed, or responded to with defensiveness when all you needed was understanding.

Because there’s a difference between someone hearing your words…

and actually holding your heart.

And maybe, without even realizing it, this is where we begin to learn what it looks like to stop chasing love… and start allowing it to meet us.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What it means when someone gives you a “receipt” instead of a real response

• Why people default to defensiveness and self-protection

• How trauma and past experiences shape the way we communicate

• The emotional impact of feeling unseen and dismissed

• How to respond when your vulnerability is not received well

• What it looks like to grow if you recognize yourself as the one giving “receipts”

This is not about blaming others.

This is about awareness, healing, and learning how to communicate with emotional maturity and care.

Because healthy relationships are not built on who is right…

They are built on who is willing to listen, understand, and respond with intention.

🎧 Listen now and learn how to recognize the difference between a response that heals… and one that harms.

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📣 Call to Action

If this episode spoke to you, share it with someone who needs this message.

Subscribe and follow for more faith-based mental health conversations that challenge, heal, and transform.

Visit: https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org/

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📚 Book Mention

📖 Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

📖 Now What? I Married a Narcissist: Finding Faith, Hope, and Healing Beyond Brokenness

Available now on Amazon.

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📅 Upcoming Events

✨ The Healing Table – May 2

✨ Healing Is Holy Symposium – June 20

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⚠️ Podcast Disclaimer

This podcast is for faith-based education and support and is not a substitute for professional therapy, counseling, medical advice, or crisis services.

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🎵 **Music

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

You love God. You pray. You show up. So why are you still struggling?

In this powerful Season 5 premiere of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi opens up a real and necessary conversation about the intersection of faith and mental health. Many believers silently wrestle with anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and unresolved pain while feeling like their faith should be enough to fix it.

But what if the struggle is not a lack of faith… but a lack of understanding, tools, and support?

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why your brain and nervous system don’t reset just because you prayed

• How unprocessed trauma shows up in your daily life

• What the Bible actually shows us about emotional struggles through Elijah’s story

• The difference between praying for healing and participating in your healing

• How rest, boundaries, and self-awareness are spiritual acts of obedience

This episode will challenge what you’ve been taught, remove shame, and give you practical, faith-centered tools to begin aligning your life with the peace you’ve been praying for.

Healing is not weakness. Healing is obedience.

🎧 Listen now and step into a deeper understanding of faith, healing, and wholeness.

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📣 Call to Action Section

If this episode spoke to you, share it with someone who needs this reminder.

Subscribe to stay connected for more faith-based mental health conversations.

Visit: https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org/

Explore resources, upcoming events, and ways to support the mission.

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📚 Book Mention

📖 Now What? I Married a Narcissist: Finding Faith, Hope, and Healing Beyond Brokenness

Available now on Amazon.

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📅 Upcoming Events

✨ The Healing Table – May 2

A safe space for women to heal, reflect, and grow. Includes brunch, a professional photographer, a beauty consultant, and a self-guided journal created by Coach Gigi.

✨ Healing Is Holy Symposium – June 20

A transformative experience for leaders and those who pour into others, focused on faith, mental health, and intentional healing.

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⚠️ Podcast Disclaimer

This podcast is for faith-based education and support and is not a substitute for professional therapy, counseling, medical advice, or crisis services.

🎵 Music Credit (ADD TO BOTTOM OF DESCRIPTION)

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

This episode is deeply personal.

Today, I honor a woman who was more than a friend… she was family. My “mother dearest.” A safe place. A covering. A love that changed me.

Susan Detro went home to be with the Lord on Resurrection Sunday, and in this special Home for the Holidays finale, I reflect on her life, her love, her faith, and the legacy she leaves behind.

From her gift of playing hymns on the piano… to her love for K-pop and storytelling… to the way she opened her home and heart without hesitation… Susan lived a life that reflected God’s love in action.

This episode is for anyone who has ever loved deeply… and is learning to carry that love forward through grief.

We also take a moment to pray for her husband, Steve, her children, grandchildren, our church family, and the community who is grieving this loss.

If someone is on your heart… don’t wait. Say the words. Give the love. Show up while you still can.

Because love like this doesn’t end… it echoes.

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📖 Scripture:

Psalm 34:18

Numbers 6:24–26

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📚 Books by Coach Gigi Bee:

Chef Gigi Serves Today: https://a.co/d/7cprHL7

Gigi’s French Bakery: https://a.co/d/5lUJ9Qy

My Body Is God’s Gift: https://a.co/d/iEwYbVx

Faith & Focus Devotional (Worship Through Grief): https://a.co/d/8NzA35Z

Jesus, I Love You With All of My Soul: https://a.co/d/a4AViP5

Now What? I Married a Narcissist: Finding Faith, Hope, and Healing Beyond Brokenness: https://a.co/d/02bz5J8d

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon (ebook available): https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

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🍽️ The Healing Table (Monthly Gathering):

Join us for a safe, faith-centered space for women to heal, reflect, and grow.

Register here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/the-healing-table

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🎤 Healing is Holy Leadership & Workplace Wellness Summit:

Secure your seat here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/the-healing-is-holy-summit

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🛍️ Support the mission:

Amazon Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3DUJNOXS1DPDA?ref_=wl_share

🌐 Learn more about FOCUS:

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com/

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🎵 Music Credit:

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

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This podcast is sponsored by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving women, children, and families through faith-centered mental health support, education, and outreach.

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Disclaimer: This episode is for faith-based encouragement and education and is not a substitute for professional counseling, therapy, medical advice, or crisis services.

🎙️ SPOTIFY METADATA (EPISODE 19)

Episode Title:

Whose Report Do You Believe? | Faith, Identity & Overcoming Opinions

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Episode Description:

What happens when people question your calling because of what you’re going through?

In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Coach Gigi shares a real moment where her ability to serve women was questioned because of challenges in her own marriage.

Instead of shrinking, she leans into one life-changing question:

Whose report do you believe?

Through transparency, testimony, and truth, this episode reminds you that being human does not disqualify you from being called.

From building a nonprofit against the odds to serving families while walking through her own season of need, Gigi unpacks what it means to trust God’s voice over public opinion.

If you’ve ever felt disqualified, overlooked, or questioned… this episode is for you.

Healing is holy. And your story is not over.

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🗳️ Vote for Author of the Year:

Support Geleta Parker for Author of the Year

Book: Now What? I Married a Narcissist

👉🏽 Your vote makes up 40% of the final decision.

Cast your vote here:

https://apply.internationalimpactbookawards.com/public-voting-form

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📖 Get the New Book:

Now What? I Married a Narcissist: Finding Faith, Hope, and Healing Beyond Brokenness

https://a.co/d/02bz5J8d

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🌐 Stay Connected & Support:

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com/

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📩 Submit Topics / Contact:

[email protected]

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💛 About FOCUS:

FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving women, children, and families through faith-centered mental health support, outreach, education, and community initiatives.

Because healing is holy.

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⚠️ Disclaimer:

This podcast is for faith-based education and encouragement and is not a substitute for professional therapy, counseling, medical advice, or crisis services.

If you are in an unsafe or abusive situation, please seek help immediately. You can call or text the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788.

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🎵 Music Credit:

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Episode Title:

There Is No Healing Without Honesty

Episode Subtitle or Short Tagline:

Speaking truth in love, refusing bitterness, and healing beyond brokenness

What happens when telling the truth about your life makes other people uncomfortable? In this powerful Episode 18 of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi opens up about a real conversation she had in Orlando that sparked a deeper reflection on healing, honesty, bitterness, marriage, intimacy, and the courage it takes to speak truth in love.

Rooted in Lamentations 3, this episode reminds us that God does not approve the crushing of people, that honesty is not the same as bitterness, and that healing cannot grow where truth is constantly being buried. Coach Gigi also shares why intimacy was never meant to be used as a weapon, how brokenness leaks into every part of a relationship, and why silence is not always the same thing as peace.

This episode is for the woman who has been trying to stay godly without going blind, trying to stay soft without being silenced, and trying to heal without pretending it did not hurt.

Featured in this episode:

Lamentations 3:24–26 and 33–38

The difference between honesty and bitterness

Why intimacy reflects the health of the whole relationship

How to tell the truth without becoming cruel

Why a quiet spirit is not the same thing as a silenced one

Reflections from Coach Gigi’s books Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon and Now What? I Married a Narcissist: Finding Faith, Hope, and Healing Beyond Brokenness

This episode is sponsored by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc., where mental health meets the ministry of hope.

Be sure to check out Coach Gigi’s award-winning book, Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon, and stay tuned for the upcoming release of Now What? I Married a Narcissist: Finding Faith, Hope, and Healing Beyond Brokenness.

Visit FocusFaithMentalHealth.com to learn more about FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc., support the mission, and stay connected.

Music Credit to Include in Show Notes:

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Book and Support Links to Include in Show Notes:

Website: https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com/

Children’s books:

Chef Gigi Serves Today: https://a.co/d/7cprHL7

Gigi’s French Bakery: https://a.co/d/5lUJ9Qy

My Body Is God’s Gift: https://a.co/d/iEwYbVx

Adult faith and healing books:

https://a.co/d/8NzA35Z

https://a.co/d/a4AViP5

https://a.co/d/bBCiNIw

Withholding Love ebook:

https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

Amazon Wishlist:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3DUJNOXS1DPDA?ref_=wl_share

If this episode blessed you, share it with someone who needs this reminder: healing is holy, honesty matters, and you are not too far gone to heal.

There is a kind of pain that doesn’t leave bruises, doesn’t raise voices, and doesn’t break things… it just slowly disappears. In this powerful and transparent episode, Coach Gigi shares a deeply personal story that reveals what emotional disconnection and withholding love really looks like behind closed doors. If you have ever felt alone in a relationship, confused by inconsistent affection, or questioned your worth because someone showed up physically but not emotionally, this conversation will meet you right where you are. Through scripture, lived experience, and practical truth, Gigi walks you through how to recognize emotional withholding, reclaim your voice, and begin choosing yourself in a God-honoring way. This episode is not just about relationships, it is about wholeness, clarity, and healing that begins within. If this message speaks to you, share it with another woman who needs to be reminded that she is not too much, she is not forgotten, and she is still worthy of real, consistent love. Visit https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com to learn more about our work, support the mission, or get connected. If you or someone you know needs immediate support, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788.

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon is now available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover. Get your copy here: https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

🎵 Background music: “Be Still and Know That I Am God”

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Love & Light

Gigi Bee 🐝

Sometimes faith looks less like pushing harder and more like learning when to rest. In this episode, Coach Gigi shares why she stepped back, what God taught her in the pause, and how you can still show up for your life without burning out.

In this episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi has an honest and heartfelt conversation about what it means to keep showing up even when life requires you to slow down.

After a short pause between episodes, Coach Gigi shares why rest and recovery became necessary, how God has been stretching her through preaching, speaking engagements, community service, and ministry, and why honoring your body is not weakness but wisdom. She also shares the exciting news that her book Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon has received the 2026 International Impact Book Award.

Through scripture, personal reflection, and mental health insight, this episode reminds listeners that healing is not linear, exhaustion is not failure, and faith does not require us to prove our strength through burnout.

Coach Gigi also highlights the work of FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to serving women, children, and families through coaching, education, and community care. During school breaks, the organization provides food support for families facing food insecurity thanks in part to the generous sponsorship of Publix and Greystone Power.

If you have ever wondered how you can make a real difference in someone’s life, supporting this mission helps place food on a child’s table and peace in a mother’s heart.

Learn more or connect with us at:

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com

Email:

[email protected]

Books by Coach Gigi

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon (International Impact Book Award Winner 2026)

https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

My Body Is God’s Gift

https://a.co/d/iEwYbVx

Chef Gigi Serves Today

https://a.co/d/7cprHL7

Gigi’s French Bakery

https://a.co/d/5lUJ9Qy

Additional faith and healing titles

https://a.co/d/8NzA35Z

https://a.co/d/a4AViP5

https://a.co/d/bBCiNIw

Music Credit

“Be Still and Know That I Am God”

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Domestic Violence Support

If you are experiencing domestic violence or unsafe conditions in your relationship, help is available.

National Domestic Violence Hotline

Call: 1-800-799-SAFE (1-800-799-7233)

Text: START to 88788

Online chat: https://www.thehotline.org

If you live in Paulding County or surrounding areas and need support, please connect with us at https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com or email [email protected]. When funds are available, FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health Inc. helps sponsor counseling sessions for individuals who are underinsured or uninsured.

Disclaimer

Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind is a faith-based educational podcast intended to encourage mental and emotional wellness. It is not a substitute for professional therapy, medical advice, or crisis services. If you need professional support, please reach out to a licensed therapist, counselor, or mental health professional.