Restore The Glory Podcast

This week, Jake and Bob welcome Heather Khym, co-host of the Abiding Together Podcast (and Jake's wife), to conclude their series on healing in women. Heather shares about the long, hidden season of raising young children, how God was using that time to quietly form her heart in prayer, and why she is grateful for that time of formation now that she ministers to women on a larger scale. They also talk about the two most common wounds women carry, how the enemy seeks to twist women's self-perception, and why Scripture is so important in combating those lies.

Key Points:

• Hidden, ordinary seasons of life are not wasted; God often works in the quiet places.
• Many women carry a deep grief in seasons of waiting, whether for marriage, children, or a sense of calling that has not yet come to fruition.
• The betrayal of pornography and loss of safety in a relationship are two of the deepest and most common wounds women carry today.
• The enemy's goal is to convince us that God is not safe, leading us to isolate ourselves from the very One who can heal us.
• Holding the truth of Scripture up against the lies we believe exposes the work of the enemy.
• Healing is often a choice between two narratives. The lie often feels easier to believe because of our wounds.
• Security in the Father's love frees us to be vulnerable in friendship, even knowing we may be hurt again.
• Communion with God in the ordinary moments of life is available to everyone; it simply takes practice.

Resources:

• The Abiding Together Podcast
• The Identity of A Woman Video Series
• Abide: A Pathway to Transformative Healing and Intimacy with Jesus by Heather Khym
• Encountering Emmanuel by Heather Khym
• Ascension x Abiding Together 2027 Daily Planner
• The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence (or read it online free here)
• Episode 35: Healing in Marriage with Heather Khym
• Episodes 104-107: The Four Identities with Heather Khym

Chapters:

• 00:00 Introduction

• 03:30 Heather's Background

• 08:02 The Hidden Quiet Place

• 12:14 A Woman's Heart in the Season of Waiting

• 17:50 The Wounds of A Woman's Heart

• 27:18 How to Begin to Recognize Our Wounds

• 36:25 Living As If It Were True

• 40:54 Choosing Which Narrative to Believe

• 47:34 The Gifts and Wounds of Friendship

• 54:37 Trusting in God Helps Build Healthy Friendships

• 59:55 Resources

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This week, Jake and Bob welcome Carrie Schuchts Daunt to begin a series on the healing and restoration of the feminine heart. They talk about three aspects of the feminine genius, relationship, receptivity, and beauty, and how each reflects God's design for women. They discuss why women long for relationship, how receptivity goes beyond simply receiving, and how true beauty draws others toward goodness and God rather than being defined by outward appearance. Carrie also explores the progression of the feminine heart from its original, unwounded design, through the wounds introduced by the Fall, to redemption and restoration in Christ.

Key Points:

• Relationship is fundamental to the way women are created and called to love.
• Women can offer motherly love, encouragement, and intercession to others, even when they have no biological children.
• A woman's capacity for relationship, receptivity, and beauty, uniquely reflect God's goodness.
• Beyond its physical meaning, receptivity includes a spiritual openness to receive, nurture, and bring forth life.
• True beauty goes beyond outward appearance; it draws others out of themselves and toward goodness, love, and ultimately God.
• Healing does not mean returning to an idealized cultural image of womanhood, but recovering the fullness of the identity God intended.
• Where Eve grasped at the fruit, Mary received God's invitation with openness and trust, participating in the work of redemption.

Resources:

• Unveiled Marriage Conference and Marriage Prep Online Course
• Undone Women's Conference
• Carrie's Books
• JPII Healing Center
• Episode 108: Parenting w/ Duane and Carrie Daunt

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

03:06 Carrie's Upbringing

09:58 The Gift of Being A Wife and Mother

14:08 Spiritual Sisterhood and Motherhood

17:40 Woman is Relationship Incarnate

25:00 Receptivity

27:29 Beauty

34:18 Wounded Woman

45:29 Redeemed Woman

50:44 Mary as A Model of WOmanhood

57:44 Resources

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This week, Jake and Bob explore how our experiences with parents, caregivers, and other mentors shape the way we see God. Our relationships, especially those in childhood, can give us a beautiful image of the Father, but they also can leave us with distorted images that make it difficult to trust Him. Their conversation looks at the wounds that can shape our image of God, the subtle ways culture can influence those images, and the people God uses to help redeem them.

Key Points:

• Our childhood relationships influence how we understand and experience God.
• Parents are the first representatives of God for their children.
• Distorted images of God can affect our trust in His presence, love, mercy, and providence.
• The culture around us can subtly shape our understanding of what a father, mother, man, or woman should be.
• Priests, mentors, teachers, coaches, grandparents, and other influential people can become powerful sources of healing through the way they love us.
• A person's faithful relationship with God can communicate something of the Father's heart even when that person does not realize the impact they are having.
• We can start to heal our image of God by recognizing our false beliefs or emotions and bringing them into the presence of Jesus.
• When we renounce a lie or false belief, we also need to replace it by proclaiming the truth. Healing our image of God does not require examining every wound at once but can happen through small, daily acts of trust and surrender.

Resources:

• CCC Paragraph 239
• CCC Paragraph 2779
• Anatomy of A Wound Series
• The Healing Process Series

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:16 How Parents Shape Our Image of God

18:39 Seeing Beyond Distorted Images of God

25:55 How the Culture Shapes Our Image of God

33:47 The Influence of Your Parish Priest and Church Community

45:32 The Healing of Paternal and Maternal Images

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This week, Jake and Bob continue their conversation about the wounds that can form between parents and children. They discuss how legitimate human needs can become disordered when we no longer trust that those needs will be met and how these wounds can then quietly shape the ways we relate to our spouses, children, friends, and parents. Bob shares how his mother's childhood wounds affected him and how his own protective responses later surfaced in his marriage. Jake also reflects on his relationship with work, his struggle to receive help, and discovering the ways he unknowingly carried patterns from one generation to the next. Recognizing these patterns in our own lives can open the door to greater freedom, healing, and deeper relationships.

Key Points:

• Sin is contrary to what it means to be fully human and can diminish our capacity to live according to our nature.
• The family is the primary environment in which a child learns what it means to be human.
• Wounds can come from things that should have happened but didn't or from things that should not have happened but did.
• Healthy desire is an essential part of love and human maturation.
• Human needs give rise to desires, while unmet and wounded needs can lead those desires to become disordered.
• Wounds can move through generations as parents' unresolved wounds influence their children and those children later carry similar patterns into their own relationships.
• We can also wound our parents when our own protective patterns cause us to withdraw, become overly busy, fail to communicate, or resist receiving their love.
• Healing does not necessarily mean constantly digging into the past but can involve noticing subtle movements in the heart and giving the Lord permission to reveal what needs attention.

Resources:

• Episode 125: Forgiveness & Transformation

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:16 Becoming Fully Human

06:55 Our Families Form Us First

09:05 Understanding Desire, Needs, and Wounds

16:18 Examples of An Anatomy of A Wound

30:08 Seven Fundamental Needs

40:17 Wounding Our Parents

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This week, Jake and Bob talk about the relationship between parents and children and what it means to honor one another while also being honest about the wounds we've experienced. They explore the dignity of parenthood, the responsibility parents have to create a loving and secure home, and their call to model honor by honoring their children first. They also discuss the honor our parents deserve, how to honor someone who has wounded us, and how to create healthy boundaries in family relationships.

Key Points:

• Many times, in families, we must learn how to honor others while remaining honest about the ways they have wounded us.
• Parents are a child's first representatives of God. But parents have their own wounds and sin and have the capacity to distort a child's understanding of God.
• While children are called to honor their parents, parents are not meant to occupy the place that belongs to God alone.
• Getting married involves a healthy separation from one's parents so that a new family can be established.
• The honor owed to parents is connected to their dignity and role, even when they do not always live according to the dignity of that role.
• Understanding the stories and wounds of both parents and children helps us to form healthier relationships with family members.
• A child's wounds do not excuse disrespect, just as a parent's wounds do not excuse harmful behavior.
• Forgiveness is essential to breaking the cycle in which parents and children continually wound one another.
• Forgiveness does not mean returning to an unsafe relationship or abandoning the boundaries necessary to protect one's dignity and family.
• Healthy boundaries can create enough space for love to remain without allowing unhealthy attachment or enmeshment to continue.
• The amount of distance necessary in a relationship can change as circumstances, maturity, trust, and safety change.
• Parents have a responsibility to pursue their own holiness and healing rather than expecting their children to compensate for their wounds.
• Children are also called to examine their own hearts, repent of disrespect, and take responsibility for the ways they have wounded their parents.

Resources:

• Submit a Question for a Future Show

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

03:38 What Does the Church Say About Family Wounds?

11:15 What Does it Mean to Honor One Another?

19:35 Recognizing Our Own Parent's Imperfections

26:23 Forgiveness within Families

32:48 The Responsibility of Parents

38:01 The Responsibility of Children

42:36 Discernment in Setting Boundaries

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This week, Jake and Bob welcome John Edwards (Just a Guy in the Pew) back to the show to continue his story of conversion and the long journey of healing that followed. John opens up about what happened after his powerful encounter with Christ in a jail cell, including the hard work of rebuilding trust with his wife and children, learning to be vulnerable, and surrendering control. He also talks about the struggle to reconcile with himself, especially the self-hatred and false identities that can remain even after receiving forgiveness from God and others. Through his story, John reminds us that conversion and healing is not a one-time event, but an ongoing invitation to allow Christ to transform every part of our lives.

Key Points:

• Radical conversion does not instantly repair the relationships damaged over years of destructive behavior.
• Simply stopping addictive behaviors is many times not enough for complete healing. This is because deeper wounds like selfishness and self-focus also need to be healed.
• Life is not ultimately about ourselves but about loving and serving the people God had entrusted to us.
• Self-reliance, control, and selfishness are not merely struggles unique to addicts but can quietly affect the lives of many people.
• Vulnerability is not weakness but an act of courage that allows a person to acknowledge the truth about himself and receive help.
• Reconciliation reveals God not as an angry judge waiting to punish us but as a loving Father who desires our good and wants to walk with us.
• The reconciliation of our relationships requires us to examine our own responsibility rather than waiting for other people to change.
• Reconciling with ourselves requires confronting the lies that attack our identity and continually renewing our minds with the truth of who God says we are.
• Self-forgiveness is essential because refusing to receive God's forgiveness for ourselves can keep us bound to the identity of our past.

Resources:

• Power Made Perfect by John Edwards
• Just a Guy in The Pew Website
• Redeemed Men's Retreat with the JPII Healing Center
• Episode 149: Healing in Men (Part 1) w/ John Edwards

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:10 John's Unmasking

07:18 The One Priest Who Changed His Life

12:06 From Self-Focus to Self-Gift

19:41 The Courage to Become Vulnerable

26:20 Reconciliation with God

33:51 Reconciling with Yourself

37:28 Breaking the Voice of Self Hatred

49:11 The Long Road to Rebuilding Trust

57:30 Finding Freedom from Addiction

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This week, Jake and Bob discuss the subtle ways the enemy gains influence in our lives through the interpretations, judgements, and conclusions we draw in the ordinary moments of everyday life. They explore how these footholds can gradually become strongholds, why fear and shame often lie beneath our attempts to protect ourselves, and how distorted images of God shape the way we see the world. No matter where you may find footholds in your life, there is hope. Through simple acts of trust each day, we can learn to let God become our true stronghold.

Key Points:

• The enemy often gains influence through subtle interpretations in everyday life rather than obvious temptations.
• Strongholds are built through repeated agreements with lies, judgments, and false beliefs.
• Fear frequently lies underneath anger and drives many of our defensive reactions.
• Footholds become believable because they attach themselves to existing wounds and vulnerabilities.
• Pride convinces us that we fully understand another person's motives or God's actions.
• A lack of peace and the absence of the fruits of the Spirit can reveal areas of bondage.
• Confession is a powerful place to bring our agreements with lies and receive grace.
• Renouncing lies and proclaiming truth is a simple but effective daily practice to loosen the bonds of footholds.
• Lasting freedom grows through repeated, small acts of trust that allow God to become our true stronghold.

Resources:

• Healing Prayers and Renunciations Booklet

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:41 How the Enemy Gains A Foothold

10:07 Anger, Fear and Speaking Truth

14:45 Fear: Emotion vs Wound

24:44 Recognizing Strongholds in Daily Life

33:28 Breaking Agreements and Experiencing Freedom

42:35 The Power of Small Acts of Trust

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This week, Jake and Bob are joined by Andrew Laubacher, the Executive Director of Humanality, to explore how our digital world is reshaping our attention, attachments, and relationships. After stepping away from social media and smart phones to overcome addiction, Andrew realized that healing sometimes requires more than better habits, fasting, or more prayer—it requires recovering the way God created us to live and relate. Together, they discuss the false intimacy of online community, the loneliness epidemic, and why technology is never as neutral as we assume. Andrew also shares practical steps you can begin today to live intentionally with technology.

Key Points:

• Modern technology offers a false intimacy while leaving us increasingly isolated, lonely, and craving real in-person community.
• Human beings are biologically designed for face-to-face connection, not constant digital interaction.
• Technology is not neutral because every platform is intentionally designed to keep us using it.
• AI offers remarkable benefits but also presents significant dangers when it replaces authentic human relationships.
• Healing requires real encounter, attention, and attachment that technology can never fully provide.
• Many of today's mental health struggles exist alongside a broader crisis of addiction and overstimulation.
• Constant digital stimulation weakens our capacity for focus, presence, contemplation, and prayer. It also affects sleep, physical health, eyesight, and overall well-being.
• Living intentionally with technology allows people to recover creativity, purpose, authentic relationships, and a deeper encounter with God.

Resources:

• Humanality

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

06:49 How Technology Diminishes our Humanity

14:04 Artificial Community and False Intimacy

21:03 Can AI Heal Us?

31:10 The Tension of Virtual Communication

36:54 Attention, Attachment, and Addiction

52:33 Reclaiming Your Attention

57:07 Resources and Encouragement

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This week, Jake and Bob conclude their series on confession with Fr. John Horn and explore the root system behind two deadly sins: sloth (acedia) and lust. Through personal examples, they uncover the deeper attitudes, fears, and wounds that drive these struggles and keep us from intimacy with God. They also discuss how self- reliance, discouragement, and isolation can distort our desires and lead us away from the freedom God offers us through the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Key Points:

• Virtue grows when our desires are reordered toward God through love rather than fear.
• Sloth, or acedia, is often misunderstood as just laziness. It can also manifest as overactivity, restlessness, and self-reliance.
• Discouragement is frequently rooted in the belief that we must transform ourselves without God's help.
• The remedy for acedia begins with surrendering control and accepting poverty of spirit.
• Lust reflects a deeper attempt to satisfy desires apart from God.
• Shame, hopelessness, and a lack of purpose often lie beneath struggles with lust.
• Confession becomes more fruitful when we bring our underlying attitudes and beliefs rather than only our behaviors.
• The Sacrament of Reconciliation restores communion with God, ourselves, the Church, and others.
• Freedom grows as we learn to receive the Father's delight and stop holding our sins and weaknesses against ourselves.

Resources:

• Institute for Priestly Formation
• Confession Fourfold

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:26 The Goal is Not the Removal of Sin

10:57 What is Sloth (Acedia)?

18:40 Personal Examples of Acedia

27:19 Emotion is Not A Sin

38:15 What is Lust?

44:14 A Lack of Hope

65:45 Resources

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This week, Jake and Bob are joined by Fr. John Horn, co-founder of the Institute for Priestly Formation, to continue their series on confession. They explore how the sin of pride often hides beneath the surface of our spiritual lives and can even affect the way we approach the Sacrament of Reconciliation itself. Using the parable of the Prodigal Son, they also uncover how fear, shame, and self-reliance can keep us from fully receiving the Father's love. At its core, Confession is an encounter with a Father who rejoices over His children and allowing our hearts to receive this love leads us toward deeper healing and freedom

Key Points:

• Zephaniah's image of God rejoicing and singing over His people reveals the Father's true posture toward repentant sinners.
• Many of us approach confession assuming God is disappointed in them rather than delighting in their return.
• St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that "whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver." Which means, the disposition of our hearts is connected with our ability to receive the Father's love.
• Self-condemnation and self-hatred can be hidden forms of pride rather than genuine humility.
• Many deeply rooted patterns of sin become so familiar that we mistake them for normal life instead of areas needing healing.
• The younger son's demand for his inheritance reflects a desire for God's gifts apart from relationship with God Himself.
• The younger son's return reveals how shame can continue to operate even after repentance begins.
• The Father's embrace, kiss, robe, ring, and feast demonstrate God's extravagant response to repentance.
• The older brother reveals a different form of pride expressed through resentment, self-righteousness, and comparison.
• Resentment often exposes deeper fears, wounds, and unmet desires hidden beneath the surface.
• Joy can be difficult to receive when we are attached to self-protection, control, or self-judgment.
• True healing involves uncovering and renouncing the lies that keep us from trusting God's love.
• The Holy Spirit restores our original beauty by healing the places where we have rejected ourselves and doubted God's love.

Resources:

• Institute for Priestly Formation
• Zephaniah 3:14-18

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

03:25 The Father Rejoices Over His Children

13:38 Disposition Changes Everything

22:42 Entering into the Prodigal Son Story

33:02 Shame and the Younger Son

39:14 The Father's Embrace and Mercy

43:33 The Older Brother's Hidden Pride

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