Recovery & Restoration with Mandy Creed Green

In this episode, Mandy compares venomous snakes to harmful people in faith communities, exploring how hidden sin and false teachings poison the church from within. Through scripture and personal stories, she urges listeners to protect the spiritually vulnerable and stand firm in truth. The episode challenges believers to strongly confront sin while extending redemption to the repentant.

Picking up where Part 1 left off, Mandy explores the emotional toll of masking ADHD, introducing what she calls "the four horsemen of ADHD burnout". She unpacks executive dysfunction, comorbid anxiety, rejection sensitivity, and demand avoidance, weaving in scripture and personal reflection to encourage listeners toward unmasking and authentic living. The episode closes with a message of grace, restoration, and the reminder that "You're not defective, you're just mid-process."

In this vulnerable episode, Mandy shares her journey toward an adult ADHD diagnosis, using the metaphor of her broken nose to explain improperly healed coping mechanisms. She challenges misconceptions about ADHD, especially in women, while offering biblical hope that what feels broken can still be part of God's workmanship. The episode concludes with a call to unmask and embrace authentic healing.

In this episode, Mandy examines how our modern culture's focus on individual freedom and narcissistic entitlement breeds disconnection and hopelessness. Mandy contrasts the Stoic rejection of hope with the Christian call to hold fast to it, framing hope as a deliberate, defiant trust in a faithful God rather than naïve optimism.

After explaining her decision to homeschool and telling some funny stories from her own homeschooling journey, Mandy discusses different types of narratives, how context changes how we view our own personal narratives, and then she teaches how to use the "3 to 1 Rule for Complaining" in order to protect your interpersonal relationships.

In this episode, Mandy discusses sensory issues, stagnation vs. growth, the importance of building your resilience and the danger of letting anxiety limit your potential.

In this episode, Mandy takes on the subjects of love and vanity and how vanity can affect how we see ourselves, how we approach relationships and even how we worship God. She uses Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis to explain the difference between embracing self-love and learning to be your authentic self, resting in God's love.

SPOILER ALERT! In this episode, Mandy fully indulges her love of C.S. Lewis and gives a quick summary of the major events of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and part of Prince Caspian in order to use the different characters in that second story to establish 5 types of people and explore how they differ when it comes to listening and pursuing God's will for their life. Listen and find out which character you are.

Don't let the kids listen with you for this one because in this episode Mandy gets into a very controversial subject... Santa Claus. Also discussed, cultural terrorism, comfortable lies vs offensive truth, assessing those who are "teachers" in your life, and how to be a good accountability partner.