New Life Live!

By New Life Ministries

New Life Live! is America’s #1 Christian counseling call-in podcast. As a radio program that started in 1988, many people have received help. The hosts are counselors and psychologists answering call... more

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The podcast currently has 1,659 episodes available.

New Life Live! episodes:

July 16, 2025New Life Live: July 16, 2025
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Topics: Parenting, Guilt, Aging Parents, Adult Children, Intimacy, Depression, Medication
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Alice Benton, Dr. Jacqui Mack-Harris
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Alice shares a few ways that she and her husband manage their children’s squabbling.
I feel guilty for wanting to put my elderly mom with dementia in a nursing home so that I can have a life; what does God think?
My 37yo daughter in Europe had a meltdown after I dropped off her son late to soccer practice and told me to leave her house. Was I wrong to reach out to her husband?
What do you recommend I do if I feel empty and numb when I am intimate with my husband?
My primary doctor diagnosed me with severe depression and prescribed an anti-depressant; am I making the right decision to take medication?
Suggested Resources:
Take Your Life Back
How We Love
Boundaries
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Topics: Parenting, Guilt, Aging Parents, Adult Children, Intimacy, Depression, Medication
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Alice Benton, Dr. Jacqui Mack-Harris
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Alice shares a few ways that she and her husband manage their children’s squabbling.
I feel guilty for wanting to put my elderly mom with dementia in a nursing home so that I can have a life; what does God think?
My 37yo daughter in Europe had a meltdown after I dropped off her son late to soccer practice and told me to leave her house. Was I wrong to reach out to her husband?
What do you recommend I do if I feel empty and numb when I am intimate with my husband?
My primary doctor diagnosed me with severe depression and prescribed an anti-depressant; am I making the right decision to take medication?
Suggested Resources:
Take Your Life Back
How We Love
Boundaries
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July 15, 2025New Life Live: July 15, 2025
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Topics: Confession, Christian Walk, Medical Issues, Sexual Abuse, Custody, Caregiving, Self Worth, Grief, Purpose
Hosts: Brian Perez, Chris Williams, Dr. Jill Hubbard
Caller Questions & More:
Chris shares how changing the way he thought of himself, from a general sinner to a specific sinner, transformed his life.
My boyfriend has late-stage prostate and bone cancer, and the side effects from his medication make him irritable and jealous. Can you shed some light?
How do I deal with being raped at 16yo, having my kids taken away by my family, and having my mom live with me after she had a stroke?
I have been in recovery for 35yrs from drugs, alcohol, and even food, but I still have thoughts of inadequacy.
After losing my business during the pandemic, how do I find God’s calling for my life and my life’s purpose at 43yo?
Suggested Resources:
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Emotional Freedom Workbook
How You Think Determines the Course of Your Life
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Topics: Confession, Christian Walk, Medical Issues, Sexual Abuse, Custody, Caregiving, Self Worth, Grief, Purpose
Hosts: Brian Perez, Chris Williams, Dr. Jill Hubbard
Caller Questions & More:
Chris shares how changing the way he thought of himself, from a general sinner to a specific sinner, transformed his life.
My boyfriend has late-stage prostate and bone cancer, and the side effects from his medication make him irritable and jealous. Can you shed some light?
How do I deal with being raped at 16yo, having my kids taken away by my family, and having my mom live with me after she had a stroke?
I have been in recovery for 35yrs from drugs, alcohol, and even food, but I still have thoughts of inadequacy.
After losing my business during the pandemic, how do I find God’s calling for my life and my life’s purpose at 43yo?
Suggested Resources:
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Emotional Freedom Workbook
How You Think Determines the Course of Your Life
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July 14, 2025New Life Live: July 14, 2025
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Topics: Change, Grief, Estrangement, End of Life, Adult Children, Work Issues, Lying, Rejection, Christian Walk, Friendship
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Alice Benton, Dr. Jill Hubbard
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Alice discusses a line of poetry that says, “Why do you stay in prison when the prison door is open?”
What should I do to maintain a relationship with my 9yo niece and her mother after my brother passed away?
Any suggestions on how to watch my sister waste away after she had a stroke and went into kidney failure? We’ve been taking care of her for 6yrs.
How do I work with my 29yo twins who can’t keep jobs and don’t tell the truth about why they were let go?
I wanted to share about how people reject us because they are rejecting the Christ in us.
How do I address my best friend who didn’t call or come see me after I had a mastectomy?
Suggested Resources:
Healing Is a Choice
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Take Your Life Back
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
Topics: Change, Grief, Estrangement, End of Life, Adult Children, Work Issues, Lying, Rejection, Christian Walk, Friendship
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Alice Benton, Dr. Jill Hubbard
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Alice discusses a line of poetry that says, “Why do you stay in prison when the prison door is open?”
What should I do to maintain a relationship with my 9yo niece and her mother after my brother passed away?
Any suggestions on how to watch my sister waste away after she had a stroke and went into kidney failure? We’ve been taking care of her for 6yrs.
How do I work with my 29yo twins who can’t keep jobs and don’t tell the truth about why they were let go?
I wanted to share about how people reject us because they are rejecting the Christ in us.
How do I address my best friend who didn’t call or come see me after I had a mastectomy?
Suggested Resources:
Healing Is a Choice
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Take Your Life Back
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July 11, 2025New Life Live: July 11, 2025
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Topics: Grief, Enabling, Grandparenting, Teens, Grief, Suicide, Emotional Affairs, Affairs, Divorce
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Jill Hubbard, JJ West
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Jill shares that grief is the emotion you feel, but grieving is the process of learning in the letting go.
Am I enabling my 28yo grandson by sending him money to buy a new car? His father was a police officer who abused him.
I take care of my 16yo grandson; how do I get him to talk about his dad’s suicide 2yrs ago?
My husband finally admitted he had an emotional affair with a former classmate that he was helping. How do we stop her from contacting him?
My marriage ended because of my husband’s affair, and I am crushed financially; how do I handle being alone and everything going wrong after I moved?
Suggested Resources:
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Understanding and Loving Your Child as a Single Parent
Intimate Deception
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
Topics: Grief, Enabling, Grandparenting, Teens, Grief, Suicide, Emotional Affairs, Affairs, Divorce
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Jill Hubbard, JJ West
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Jill shares that grief is the emotion you feel, but grieving is the process of learning in the letting go.
Am I enabling my 28yo grandson by sending him money to buy a new car? His father was a police officer who abused him.
I take care of my 16yo grandson; how do I get him to talk about his dad’s suicide 2yrs ago?
My husband finally admitted he had an emotional affair with a former classmate that he was helping. How do we stop her from contacting him?
My marriage ended because of my husband’s affair, and I am crushed financially; how do I handle being alone and everything going wrong after I moved?
Suggested Resources:
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Understanding and Loving Your Child as a Single Parent
Intimate Deception
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
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July 10, 2025New Life Live: July 10, 2025
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Topics: Restoration, DID, Adult Children, Enabling, Narcissists, Divorce, Disagreements
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Jim Burns, Becky Brown
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Jim shares a prescription for refreshing and restoring our souls.
What is dissociative identity disorder and what do you do if your spouse has it?
Am I crazy to believe God has released me from my short marriage?
Are we enabling our adult daughter?
My son-in-law told me that I hurt my daughter because of how I voted in the election.
Suggested Resources:
100 Days of Peace
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
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Topics: Restoration, DID, Adult Children, Enabling, Narcissists, Divorce, Disagreements
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Jim Burns, Becky Brown
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Jim shares a prescription for refreshing and restoring our souls.
What is dissociative identity disorder and what do you do if your spouse has it?
Am I crazy to believe God has released me from my short marriage?
Are we enabling our adult daughter?
My son-in-law told me that I hurt my daughter because of how I voted in the election.
Suggested Resources:
100 Days of Peace
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
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July 09, 2025New Life Live: July 9, 2025
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Topics: Obstacles, Lying, Adult Children, Suicide, Enabling, Drugs, Intimacy, Narcissists
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Alice Benton, Dr. Jacqui Mack-Harris
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Alice shares a parable about a king who purposefully put an enormous boulder on the path to town to see how his people would respond.
How do I deal with my husband not telling the truth? It started 15yrs into our marriage when I started caring for my deathly-ill daughter, and my husband got upset.
How do I help my 38yo suicidal son who lost everything after using psychedelics for his depression? He now lives in his car on our property, and my husband wants him to leave.
Should I stay with my narcissistic wife of 49yrs when we haven’t been intimate for 22yrs?
Suggested Resources:
Trust
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
How We Love
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
Topics: Obstacles, Lying, Adult Children, Suicide, Enabling, Drugs, Intimacy, Narcissists
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Alice Benton, Dr. Jacqui Mack-Harris
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Alice shares a parable about a king who purposefully put an enormous boulder on the path to town to see how his people would respond.
How do I deal with my husband not telling the truth? It started 15yrs into our marriage when I started caring for my deathly-ill daughter, and my husband got upset.
How do I help my 38yo suicidal son who lost everything after using psychedelics for his depression? He now lives in his car on our property, and my husband wants him to leave.
Should I stay with my narcissistic wife of 49yrs when we haven’t been intimate for 22yrs?
Suggested Resources:
Trust
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
How We Love
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
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July 08, 2025New Life Live: July 8, 2025
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Topics: Identity, Purpose, Adult Children, Young Adults, Sexual Integrity, Christian Walk, Transgender, Divorce
Hosts: Brian Perez, JJ West, Dr. Jill Hubbard
Caller Questions & More:
JJ asks the thought-provoking question, “What are you known for?”
Should I talk with my daughter about her husband who seems to have fallen back into his old patterns?
My 17yo granddaughter wants to model and had professional photos taken while her mother was present; what do I say now that the suggestive photos are posted?
My parents and I converted from Hindu faith to Christianity, but I am the only one pursuing healing. How do I step out in faith?
How do I cope with my husband transitioning to a woman? We are going through a divorce, and family and friends blame me for everything!
Suggested Resources:
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
How People Grow
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
Topics: Identity, Purpose, Adult Children, Young Adults, Sexual Integrity, Christian Walk, Transgender, Divorce
Hosts: Brian Perez, JJ West, Dr. Jill Hubbard
Caller Questions & More:
JJ asks the thought-provoking question, “What are you known for?”
Should I talk with my daughter about her husband who seems to have fallen back into his old patterns?
My 17yo granddaughter wants to model and had professional photos taken while her mother was present; what do I say now that the suggestive photos are posted?
My parents and I converted from Hindu faith to Christianity, but I am the only one pursuing healing. How do I step out in faith?
How do I cope with my husband transitioning to a woman? We are going through a divorce, and family and friends blame me for everything!
Suggested Resources:
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
How People Grow
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
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July 07, 2025New Life Live: July 7, 2025
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Topics: Disasters, Peace, Chronic Pain, Grief, Suicide, Autism, Boundaries, Enabling, Adult Children, Protective Order, Estrangement
Hosts: Brian Perez, Becky Brown, Dr. Jill Hubbard
Caller Questions & More:
Becky asks, “What do you do with all of the devastating news when there is a disaster?”
I’ve had chronic pain with vomiting and nausea for a decade; my counselor and coaches have dropped me; everyone in my life is dead.
After I found out I was autistic and told my deceased sister’s husband, he told me he already knew; am I being too extreme in not wanting to have anything to do with him?
How do I move on after being divorced 5yrs and afraid my ex will turn my 13yo son against me like he did my older daughter?
Did we enable our son and his wife by letting them stay in our home for 7yrs when they moved back to the States?
My daughter-in-law is an atheist and put a restraining order against my wife for trying to see the grandkids.
Suggested Resources:
Healing Is a Choice
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Understanding and Loving Your Child as a Single Parent
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
Topics: Disasters, Peace, Chronic Pain, Grief, Suicide, Autism, Boundaries, Enabling, Adult Children, Protective Order, Estrangement
Hosts: Brian Perez, Becky Brown, Dr. Jill Hubbard
Caller Questions & More:
Becky asks, “What do you do with all of the devastating news when there is a disaster?”
I’ve had chronic pain with vomiting and nausea for a decade; my counselor and coaches have dropped me; everyone in my life is dead.
After I found out I was autistic and told my deceased sister’s husband, he told me he already knew; am I being too extreme in not wanting to have anything to do with him?
How do I move on after being divorced 5yrs and afraid my ex will turn my 13yo son against me like he did my older daughter?
Did we enable our son and his wife by letting them stay in our home for 7yrs when they moved back to the States?
My daughter-in-law is an atheist and put a restraining order against my wife for trying to see the grandkids.
Suggested Resources:
Healing Is a Choice
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Understanding and Loving Your Child as a Single Parent
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
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July 04, 2025New Life Live: July 4, 2025
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Topics: ADD, Anxiety, Boundaries, Work Issues, Adult Children, Guilt, Parenting, Sexual Abuse, Physical Abuse, Incarceration
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Jill Hubbard, Dr. Jim Burns
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Jill discusses living day to day with ADHD.
How do I balance boundaries with my family and being present with them? My mom tells me that I don’t make time for her.
How do I support my husband in a healthy way when he hates his job? He comes home so shut down that I get lonely.
My kids were raised in church, but they don’t follow God now; how do I get rid of grief and guilt over how I parented them?
I am a domestic violence and sex trafficking survivor and killed my trafficker in self-defense. After an organization helped me get out of jail, how do I deal with the pain from everything I went through?
Suggested Resources:
Take Your Life Back
You Are What You Think
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
How You Think Determines the Course of Your Life
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
Topics: ADD, Anxiety, Boundaries, Work Issues, Adult Children, Guilt, Parenting, Sexual Abuse, Physical Abuse, Incarceration
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Jill Hubbard, Dr. Jim Burns
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Jill discusses living day to day with ADHD.
How do I balance boundaries with my family and being present with them? My mom tells me that I don’t make time for her.
How do I support my husband in a healthy way when he hates his job? He comes home so shut down that I get lonely.
My kids were raised in church, but they don’t follow God now; how do I get rid of grief and guilt over how I parented them?
I am a domestic violence and sex trafficking survivor and killed my trafficker in self-defense. After an organization helped me get out of jail, how do I deal with the pain from everything I went through?
Suggested Resources:
Take Your Life Back
You Are What You Think
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
How You Think Determines the Course of Your Life
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
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July 03, 2025New Life Live: July 3, 2025
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Topics: Medications, Teens, Counseling, Church Life, Suicide, Siblings, Difficult Conversations, Borderline, Adult Children, Weddings
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Jill Hubbard, Dr. Jim Burns
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Jill discusses the importance of evaluating medication over time because the risk may start to outweigh the benefit.
My 17yo son is hanging out with guys who have threatened suicide; how do I find a counselor he will feel comfortable with?
How do I confront injustice in church? My husband committed suicide after talking to our pastor, and my kids say to just let it go.
My brother’s wife is a non-believer and smothers him. He is in a hotel because he can’t deal with her anymore; how can I support him?
How do we deal with our Catholic brother texting us that we need to read the Catholic Bible and be more reverent?
My borderline daughter cut me off for several months; should I go to her wedding?
Suggested Resources:
How We Love Our Kids
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Boundaries
Why I Believe
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
Topics: Medications, Teens, Counseling, Church Life, Suicide, Siblings, Difficult Conversations, Borderline, Adult Children, Weddings
Hosts: Brian Perez, Dr. Jill Hubbard, Dr. Jim Burns
Caller Questions & More:
Dr. Jill discusses the importance of evaluating medication over time because the risk may start to outweigh the benefit.
My 17yo son is hanging out with guys who have threatened suicide; how do I find a counselor he will feel comfortable with?
How do I confront injustice in church? My husband committed suicide after talking to our pastor, and my kids say to just let it go.
My brother’s wife is a non-believer and smothers him. He is in a hotel because he can’t deal with her anymore; how can I support him?
How do we deal with our Catholic brother texting us that we need to read the Catholic Bible and be more reverent?
My borderline daughter cut me off for several months; should I go to her wedding?
Suggested Resources:
How We Love Our Kids
Life Recovery Workbook for Grief
Boundaries
Why I Believe
Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Subscribe to the NEW LIFE LIVE! podcast via iTunes or download the New Life Ministries App.
Watch on YouTube
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