Season 5, Episode 13 | The Difference Between Attention and Intimacy: When Someone Finally Sees You

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What if you’re not falling for a person?

What if you’re falling for the feeling of finally being seen?

In this powerful episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi explores the difference between attention and intimacy through the lens of Scripture, psychology, emotional neglect, trauma recovery, and healing.

Many women spend years feeling emotionally unseen, emotionally neglected, emotionally disconnected, and emotionally exhausted. Then someone remembers a detail, asks a thoughtful question, notices their pain, or simply listens. Suddenly, emotions begin to surface.

But is that intimacy?

Or is it attention?

Through the story of the Woman at the Well in John 4, Psalm 139, and 1 John 4:18, Coach Gigi unpacks how emotional starvation impacts the brain, why a starving heart can mistake attention for intimacy, and how healing teaches us to appreciate connection without abandoning wisdom.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• ​ The difference between attention and intimacy
• ​ Why emotional neglect changes perception
• ​ How trauma and loneliness affect attachment
• ​ Why healthy attention does not exploit vulnerability
• ​ How to stop chasing validation and start embracing healing
• ​ Why consistency reveals character
• ​ How to recognize healthy connection without rushing the process
• ​ What Scripture teaches about being seen, known, and loved by God

If you’ve ever felt invisible, overlooked, emotionally neglected, or confused about your feelings after finally being noticed, this episode is for you.

Today’s episode is sponsored by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc., where we believe healing is holy.

Thank you to our listeners in 58 countries and growing. Your support, prayers, messages, and willingness to heal alongside us mean more than you’ll ever know.

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JUNE COMMUNITY IMPACT CHALLENGE

Today is June 2nd, and we’re doing something radical.

This week, we’re believing God to raise $5,000 by Friday to support families, food assistance, mental health education, outreach efforts, and healing-centered community programming through FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc.

If this podcast has encouraged you, challenged you, or helped you on your healing journey, would you consider partnering with us?

Together, we can remind people that they are seen, valued, loved, and never alone.

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Website:

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GROCERY ASSISTANCE

If you are located in Paulding County, Cobb County, Douglas County, or surrounding communities and need grocery assistance, please contact:

[email protected]

BOOKS BY COACH GIGI

My Body Is God’s Gift

https://a.co/d/iEwYbVx

Chef Gigi Saves the Day

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

Gigi’s French Bakery

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

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

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

Beautifully Broken

https://a.co/d/a4AViP5

Catch and Release: Seeds of Deception

https://a.co/d/bBCiNIw

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

eBook Available Now

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

Connect with FOCUS:

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org

Music Credit:

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Before anyone noticed you, God saw you. Before anyone remembered your story, God knew it. Before anyone valued you, God established your worth.

FAITH & FOCUS: A MOMENT FOR YOUR MIND

Season 5 | Episode 11

WHEN YOU’RE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED: PEACE SHOULD NOT FEEL FOREIGN

What happens when you’re finally sick and tired of being sick and tired?

What happens when the chaos you’ve survived for years starts feeling heavier than the fear of change?

In this deeply faith-integrated episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi explores the intersection of trauma, theology, emotional exhaustion, nervous system healing, and emotional safety.

Together, we’ll unpack why peace often feels foreign after years of survival, how distorted beliefs can keep people trapped in unhealthy situations, what Scripture really says about peace, wisdom, emotional safety, and boundaries, and why becoming sick and tired of being sick and tired may be the first sign that healing has already begun.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why chronic stress changes the nervous system

• How trauma can make chaos feel familiar

• Why some Christians confuse suffering with holiness

• What Elijah’s burnout teaches us about emotional exhaustion

• How Jesus modeled healthy boundaries and withdrawal

• The biblical meaning of shalom and why God calls us to peace

• How emotional abuse impacts the mind, body, and spirit

• Why wisdom, planning, and preparation are biblical

• How to begin choosing healing without acting impulsively

This conversation is for every woman who has spent years carrying the emotional weight of survival and is finally ready to ask:

“Is this peace?”

“Am I emotionally safe?”

“What would wisdom require from me now?”

Because healing is not just about leaving pain behind.

Healing is learning to recognize peace when it arrives.

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HEALING IS HOLY SUMMIT

Join us for the Healing is Holy Summit, a transformational gathering focused on faith, mental health, emotional wellness, resilience, healing, and community.

Register here:

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/healing-is-holy-summit

For sponsorship opportunities, coaching, resources, and event information visit:

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org

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FOOD NOURISHMENT TABLE INITIATIVE

FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. is actively serving children and families facing food insecurity through our Food Nourishment Table Initiative.

If you are located in Paulding, Cobb, Douglas, or Bartow Counties and need assistance with groceries or food support, please contact:

[email protected]

Support our mission through our Amazon Wishlist:

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

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BOOKS BY GELETA GIGI PARKER

Now What? I Married a Narcissist

https://a.co/d/a4AViP5

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

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

Jesus, Lover of My Soul: Helping Women Worship Through Grief

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

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

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CONNECT WITH COACH GIGI

Website:

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org

Email:

[email protected]

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MUSIC CREDIT

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

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Thank you to our listeners in 58 countries around the world for supporting Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind.

Remember:

You are not too far gone.

You are never alone.

You are no longer chasing.

Healing is possible.

And stay focused.

What happens when love stops feeling safe and starts feeling emotionally exhausting?

In this deeply honest episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi explores the painful reality of emotional consumption in relationships. From parentification and emotional labor to withholding love, trauma bonds, nervous system exhaustion, emotional neglect, and cheating as emotional escapism, this conversation goes beyond surface-level relationship advice and uncovers the emotional and psychological patterns many people silently live through.

This episode is for the woman who feels emotionally unseen while constantly pouring into everyone else.

The woman who feels physically present in a relationship but emotionally abandoned.

The woman who has confused being needed with being loved.

In this episode, Coach Gigi discusses:

• ​Emotional regulation and unhealthy relationship dynamics
• ​Why some people seek relief instead of intimacy
• ​Emotional neglect and nervous system exhaustion
• ​Trauma bonds and emotional inconsistency
• ​Withholding affection and emotional withdrawal
• ​Why emotional safety matters in relationships
• ​Healing attachment wounds and reclaiming peace

This episode also includes reflection questions, prayer, encouragement, and a blessing over listeners navigating heartbreak, emotional exhaustion, betrayal, trauma, and healing.

Visit FocusFaithAndMentalHealth.com for coaching, resources, donations, upcoming events, and information about the Healing is Holy Summit 2026 hosted by .

Healing is Holy Summit Tickets & Donations:

FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. is actively seeking donations for our Food Nourishment Table Initiative helping provide meals and support for children and families during summer breaks, school closings, and difficult seasons.

Support the Food Nourishment Table Initiative and Amazon Wishlist here:

Books by Geleta Gigi Parker:

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

Now What? I Married a Narcissist

My Body Is God’s Gift

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Music Credit:

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

Thank you to our listeners across 58 countries around the world for supporting Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind.

Because healing is holy.

And sometimes healing looks like groceries too.

Love & Light

Gigi Bee 🐝

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You Keep Rebuilding What Broke You | Why Healing Requires Different Choices

Podcast Description:

You prayed for healing…

but do you keep rebuilding the very thing that broke you?

In this deeply reflective and psychologically grounded episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi explores why so many people unintentionally recreate emotional cycles, unhealthy attachments, survival patterns, and familiar dysfunction even after becoming aware of the pain those patterns cause.

This episode dives into:

• emotional familiarity and nervous system conditioning

• why familiar does not always mean safe

• rebuilding from loneliness instead of alignment

• trauma repetition and emotional attachment

• validation wounds and overcommitting

• discernment versus emotional impulsivity

• healthy boundaries and inner-circle access

• Lot’s wife and emotional attachment to old seasons

• renewing the mind through healing and spiritual growth

• why healing requires different choices

Coach Gigi also shares a transparent personal reflection about saying “yes” to an incredible opportunity before first seeking God, and how the Holy Spirit lovingly corrected her understanding of alignment, discernment, timing, stewardship, and emotional decision-making.

This episode reminds listeners:

Healing is not just leaving unhealthy things behind.

Healing is learning not to rebuild them.

Scriptures referenced include:

• Romans 12:2

• Ecclesiastes 3

• Matthew 7:24-27

• Genesis 19

• 1 Corinthians 14:33

If this episode challenged you, encouraged you, or helped you reflect differently, please share it with someone who may be silently rebuilding what broke them.

Follow the podcast.

Leave a review.

And stay connected with FOCUS Faith & Mental Health to learn more about:

• The Healing Table

• The Healing Is Holy Summit

• emotional wellness resources

• coaching opportunities

• community outreach initiatives

• and ways to partner with us.

Register for the Healing Is Holy Summit:

Healing Is Holy Summit Registration

Vote for “Now What? I Married a Narcissist” for International Impact Author of the Year:

International Impact Book Awards Public Voting

Books by Geleta Gigi Parker:

Now What? I Married a Narcissist

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

My Body Is God’s Gift

If you are experiencing domestic violence or emotional abuse, call or text 1-800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org.

If you are struggling emotionally or experiencing thoughts of suicide or hopelessness, call or text 988.

Music Credit:

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Not every meaningful conversation happens when life is polished and easy. Sometimes healing conversations happen right in the middle of exhaustion, uncertainty, prayer, and real life.

In this special behind-the-scenes beta guest episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi welcomes her sister Thea for a heartfelt test conversation as we prepare for future guest episodes and deeper conversations around healing, faith, family, and emotional wellness.

Before recording, prayer filled the room.

We also want to lovingly acknowledge that this conversation was recorded while Thea was spending her second day at the hospital supporting her daughter, McKenzie, during an extreme sickle cell pain crisis. We are continuing to pray for complete healing, restoration, comfort, strength, and peace for McKenzie and for every caregiver carrying heavy things quietly.

“This episode is part of our beta journey as we begin welcoming guest conversations into the Faith & Focus family. We are currently exploring new platforms and growing through the process, so you may hear a few audio imperfections along the way. Still, we believed the conversation was too meaningful not to share. Thank you for growing with us.”

Because sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is simply remain present in the middle of hard moments.

Sponsored by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. where healing is holy and no one should have to carry pain alone.

Music Credit:

“Be Still and Know”

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Website:

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org

Podcast Description:

What happens when you finally realize the betrayal wasn’t only what THEY did to you…

but how many times you abandoned yourself trying to keep them?

In this deeply honest and transformational episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi explores the painful reality of self-abandonment, survival mode, people pleasing, emotional exhaustion, and what healing looks like when God begins opening your eyes to the patterns you normalized just to keep connection.

This episode dives into:

• self-abandonment and emotional neglect

• people pleasing and overfunctioning

• nervous system survival patterns

• shame versus accountability

• why familiar does not always mean healthy

• emotional wandering and repeated cycles

• grief attached to old versions of yourself

• psychological and biblical healing

• practical ways to pivot toward alignment

Coach Gigi also breaks down how unresolved trauma and chronic survival mode can train the body and brain to normalize dysfunction, causing many people to repeatedly tolerate environments, relationships, and behaviors that grieve their spirit.

With real-life examples, biblical truth, psychological insight, and practical reflection questions, this episode reminds listeners that healing is not perfection.

Healing is awareness followed by alignment.

Scriptures referenced include:

• Ecclesiastes 3

• Romans 8:1

• 1 Corinthians 14:33

If this episode blessed you, challenged you, or helped you see yourself differently, please share it, follow the podcast, and leave a review.

To our Faith & Focus family listening in 56 countries and growing, thank you for being part of this healing community.

Stay connected with FOCUS Faith & Mental Health to learn more about:

• The Healing Table

• The Healing Is Holy Summit

• coaching and wellness resources

• community outreach initiatives

• and ways to partner with us as we continue serving women, children, and families.

Register for the Healing Is Holy Summit:

Healing Is Holy Summit Registration

Explore Coach Gigi’s books and healing resources:

Now What? I Married a Narcissist

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

My Body Is God’s Gift

If you are experiencing domestic violence, call or text 1-800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org.

If you are struggling emotionally or experiencing suicidal thoughts, call or text 988.

Music Credit:

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Podcast Description:

What happens when the things you once tolerated… start grieving your spirit?

In this deeply personal and transformational episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi unpacks what healing really looks like when your nervous system, your spirit, and your awareness begin rejecting what once felt normal.

From emotional attunement and people-pleasing to chronic stress, survival mode, and learning how to stop abandoning yourself just to keep the peace, this episode bridges faith, psychology, and lived experience in a way that is raw, relatable, and restorative.

Coach Gigi breaks down:

• why healing changes your tolerance

• how the body keeps score

• the difference between peacekeeping and peacemaking

• why feelings are not facts

• emotional responsibility and self-awareness

• what “PIVOT” looks like in real life

• and why awareness without alignment keeps us stuck in cycles

This episode also explores:

• nervous system healing

• emotional attunement and performative concern

• why your spirit grieves environments your survival mode normalized

• and how healing is not perfection… healing is awareness followed by alignment.

Because what good is success… if your spirit is grieving the entire time?

Special thank you to the 23 incredible women who attended The Healing Table and to Amber Feist, our amazing back office bestie, for truly coming in clutch and helping make the event beautiful.

To our listeners in 56 countries and growing… thank you for being part of this global healing community.

If this episode blessed you, challenged you, or helped you see yourself differently, please share it, follow the podcast, and leave a review.

Stay connected with FOCUS Faith & Mental Health to learn more about our programs, The Healing Table, coaching, mental health resources, and ways to partner with us as we continue serving women, children, and families.

🎟️ Register now for the Healing Is Holy Summit & Leadership Wellness Symposium:

Healing Is Holy Summit Registration

Explore Coach Gigi’s books and healing resources:

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

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

My Body Is God’s Gift

If you are experiencing domestic violence, call or text 1-800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org.

If you are struggling emotionally or experiencing suicidal thoughts, call or text 988.

Music Credit:

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

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.

Got you. Here’s your full, polished description with the Stop Chasing Love thread woven in naturally, ready to copy and paste:

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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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