The Wednesday Project

After a season away, Christina returns with her most personal episode yet. When her niece disclosed abuse by Christina's father, the lights came on in a family long organized around silence. Drawing on Ephesians, John 8, Colossians 2, and Romans 8, Christina explores who our real enemy is, how painful experiences can warp our picture of God, and why victory in Christ doesn't depend on the person who hurt us ever saying sorry. Honest and full of hope for the road ahead. Content note: this episode discusses abuse.

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What if the emotions you've been trying to manage are actually trying to tell you something? In this episode, Christina explores what emotions really are — not a malfunction, not weak faith, but information that must be experienced before it can teach. From the raw honesty of the Psalms to Jesus sweating blood in Gethsemane, she makes the case that God never asked us to be emotionally invulnerable. He asked us to be honest. This is wide territory, held with clinical care, theological depth, and a lot of grace.

Psalm 32:3–5 — "When I kept silent, my bones wasted away..."

Psalm 13, 22, 42, 55, 88 — David's full emotional range before God

John 11:35 — Jesus wept

Matthew 26:36–46 / Mark 14:32–42

John 18:10 — Peter in the garden

John 15:5 — "I am the vine, you are the branches"

KEYWORDS : emotions, mental health, therapy, Christian mental health, feelings, emotional health, Psalms, Gethsemane, nervous system, anxiety, healing, faith and emotions, embodiment, The Wednesday Project

Forgiveness is one of the most commanded and least understood topics in the Christian life. In this episode, Christina sits with the complexity honestly — not to soften the command, but to give it room to breathe. What does it actually mean to forgive? What does it not mean? And what does it look like to move toward forgiveness when your heart is willing but your body is still learning it's safe to let go? This is wide territory, held with clinical honesty, theological care, and a lot of grace.

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What if the version of self-denial you were handed was never what Jesus meant? In this episode, Christina traces the distance between biblical self-denial and the quiet self-erasure that has shaped so many believers — examining the original Greek and Hebrew, the jar of clay, the incarnation, and what the body knows when something is off. This is not a conversation about rejecting Scripture. It's about understanding it rightly. Because the calling God has placed on your life requires the person He made.

Keywords: biblical self-denial, Christian identity, faith and mental health, theology and embodiment, Christian psychology, incarnation, spiritual formation, fasting, turn the other cheek, self-abandonment, Christian podcast, trauma and faith, somatic theology, Protestant church, Christian women, faith and wholeness, The Wednesday Project

At some point, something breaks. Not because you failed — but because you're human, and so are they. In this closing episode of The Wednesday Project's relational theology arc, Christina explores rupture and repair across every kind of relationship: parents and children, siblings, close friends, partners. But before repair is possible, something else has to happen first. Drawing from Colossians 3, Luke 15, and nervous system research, she asks what secure attachment actually looks like in motion — and why the capacity to repair with another person begins with having first been repaired with. The relationship isn't lost in the rupture. It's revealed in the repair.

Keywords: rupture and repair, attachment theory, nervous system, Christian relationships, relational theology, prodigal son, Colossians, James, forgiveness, co-regulation, trauma-informed faith, The Wednesday Project, psychology of the soul

What's really happening beneath the surface of your hardest conversations? In this episode, Christina explores why even the people we love most can miss each other — and why that doesn't mean something is broken. Following Love Without Collapse, this conversation names what walks into the room before a single word is spoken: two nervous systems, two histories, two stories already in motion. Drawing from Psalm 139, Matthew 7, and James 1:19, this episode offers a reframe for every relationship where care and history travel together — couples, friendships, parents and children, colleagues. And it begins with the most honest question: what are you carrying in?

Keywords: nervous system, relational rupture, Christian relationships, Psalm 139, Matthew 7, James 1:19, attachment theory, emotional health, misattunement, self-awareness, embodied faith, secure attachment, identity in Christ, trauma-informed faith, co-regulation

What does it actually look like to stay connected to people without losing yourself? In this episode, we move from understanding into practice. Following Why Rejection Still Hurts, Attachment Is Not Idolatry, and Secure People Still Feel Pain, this conversation explores the pattern many people quietly live inside: relational collapse. The instinct to adjust, over-function, or disappear in order to preserve connection. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 13, Genesis 2, and Galatians 2:20, this episode reframes what love actually is — not self-erasure, not performance, but two selves staying present to each other. And what makes that possible is not trying harder. It’s being anchored enough that you don’t have to disappear to keep the relationship alive.

Keywords: relational collapse, love and identity, Christian relationships, 1 Corinthians 13, Genesis 2, Galatians 2:20, attachment theory, emotional health, people pleasing, over-functioning, self-erasure, nervous system, embodied faith, secure attachment, identity in Christ

This episode is released in honor of my mom's birthday — a woman who overcame more than most, who carried a cloud, and who always had oil close by. She is perfected in Christ now. This one is for her.

We all walk around with some version of a cloud — the wounds we carry, the limits of our nervous systems, the ways our survival has shaped what we can and cannot give. And sometimes that cloud makes it hard to see clearly: the love that is present, the light that is there. In this episode, we sit with what it means to be perfectly imperfect in faith. We look at what neuroscience tells us about state-dependent perception, what Paul means when he says we see in a mirror dimly, and what it looks like when God's power is made perfect not around our weakness — but in it. A reflection on imperfection, grief, and the holiness of being human.

If you've ever wondered why things still hurt — even after growth, healing, or deepening faith — this episode is for you. Completing the trilogy begun in Why Rejection Still Hurts and Attachment Is Not Idolatry, this episode addresses the quiet assumption many people carry: that maturity should mean feeling less. Drawing from Isaiah 53, Hebrews 4, Psalm 34, Romans 8, and the emotional life of Jesus at Lazarus's tomb and in Gethsemane, we explore what security actually looks like from the inside. It doesn't reduce what you feel. It changes what the feeling does to you. The goal was never to feel less. It was to learn to stay.

Keywords: emotional maturity, secure attachment, Christian mental health, Isaiah 53, Hebrews 4, Psalm 34, Romans 8, grief, pain and faith, spiritual growth, stoicism and Christianity, embodied faith, trauma, identity in Christ, feeling deeply

If you've ever wondered whether needing people means you've made them an idol, this episode is for you. Following Why Rejection Still Hurts, we sit with the fear that quietly lives underneath a lot of Christian relational theology: at what point does attachment cross a line? Drawing from 1 John 4, John 15, and Ezekiel 14's concept of idols of the heart, this episode makes a careful distinction — not between caring and not caring, but between staying grounded in yourself and losing yourself entirely. Attachment is not idolatry. Displacement is. And the path forward isn't to need people less. It's to stay rooted enough in God that your love for people can flow from freedom instead of fear.

Keywords: idolatry, attachment theory, Christian relationships, emotional health, 1 John 4, John 15, identity in Christ, spiritual maturity, relational theology, psychology of faith, fear of closeness, embodied faith, trauma, belonging