

The Healing & Freedom Journey
Mark DeJesus
Experience Mental, Emotional and Relationship Health
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Aug 3, 2025 • 1h 52min
🔴Sun Live: Parenting When you come from Legalism | Healing from Narcissistic Family Trauma | Healing Memories
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or just need some hope, this broadcast could be a great resource to your journey. Melissa and I had a great time addressing questions while having lots of laughter along the way. We unpacked a number of topics from questions that address: I also addressed a number of intrusive thought […]

Jul 31, 2025 • 41min
Working Through Overwhelm and Shutting Down
When life hits us with emotional challenges, we typically respond in one of two ways: we either become overwhelmed, with our stress response kicking into hyperdrive, or we shut down and check out entirely. Both responses can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves and unable to process what we’re experiencing in healthy ways. If you’ve […]

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Jul 29, 2025 • 30min
Jesus’ Remedy for Rumination and Worry
A conversation about how repetitive worry and rumination trap people in fear and exhaustion. Biblical reflections on Matthew 6 show common anxieties like provision, appearance, and future needs. Practical reminders such as watching birds, considering lilies, and staying present offer ways to break obsessive mental loops. Emphasis on shifting priorities toward trust and seeking God's kingdom.

Jul 28, 2025 • 1h 50min
🔴Sun Live: Discerning that God is Greater | Recovering from Condemning Preachers | Finding a Church When You Have OCD
Join us for our Sunday live broadcast, as we share our lives with you to encourage you in your own healing and freedom journey. Based on 1 John 4:1-6, I share a Bible study to help us grow in our discernment, especially in treasuring who Jesus is. Yet in all our biblical perspectives, we must […]

Jul 24, 2025 • 1h 15min
Recovering Emotional Safety
Our hearts yearn for it. We long for a sense of emotional safety with God, with others, but also within ourselves. Yet for many of us, there’s a war going on within us over our sense of emotional safety, and there can be a lot of confusion as to what it even means. View Post […]

Jul 22, 2025 • 15min
This One Thing Can Really Help You Overcome Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive thoughts can be a relentless battle, often feeling like they come out of nowhere, hitting us off guard, or sneaking their way in. They create a disturbance, forming a narrative that aims to hook us in, potentially focusing on any subject of disturbance, which kicks up a lot of anxiety or condemnation. This disturbance […]

Jul 20, 2025 • 1h 48min
🔴Sun Live: Breaking Through Condemnation | Being Hard on Yourself | Sexual Intrusive Thoughts
In this Sunday live, I want to share an important area of discernment that opened up my freedom and Christ and transformed my mental health–breaking free from condemnation. I dove deep into 1 John 3, unpacking how many believers get trapped in a cycle of self-accusation, self-criticism, shame, and law based bondage. Its important that […]

Jul 16, 2025 • 2h 14min
🔴Wed Live: Bible Avoidance | Compulsive Confession | Healing from Church Pain
In this mid-week Q&A, I dive deep into some challenging topics that many of you are wrestling with. We’ll explore OCD and spiritual struggles, navigating Bible reading with anxiety and avoidance, overcoming scrupulosity, dealing with intrusive thoughts, and understanding God’s unconditional love. I walk through James chapter 5 and speak to the battle of compulsive […]

Jul 15, 2025 • 1h 13min
Healing Through the SHAME of Trauma
When we embrace the journey of trauma healing, we quickly encounter what could be called the “frontline enemy” – toxic shame. Even though other emotions can be very challenging, shame has a particularly toxic quality: it’s intense, infectious, and insidious. It doesn’t just affect one area of our lives; it wants to contaminate everything. Understanding […]

Jul 6, 2025 • 2h
🔴Sun Live: Struggles with Being Alone | Separation Anxiety | Treating the Bible Like a Magic 8 Ball
In our Sunday live broadcast, I dive deep into understanding genuine love, mental health, and Christian living. Join me as I share a vulnerable story about helping my son Max through a panic attack, exploring how love, grace, and patience can transform challenging parental moments. I’ll break down First John 3:16-19, revealing what sacrificial love […]


