Faith & Feelings

Faith & Feelings

Hosted by: Taylor Joy Murray

Faith & Feelings is a podcast designed to help you untangle & honor your emotions, authentically practice your faith, and integrate both into your everyday life so that you can experience the goodness &...

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7 Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life

As we practice receiving and remaining in God’s love, the question becomes this: how are we responding and loving Him back? And not necessarily in the big moments, but in the small and ordinary moments of every day...
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Discovering the Security of a Life Held by God with Stephanie Stewart

What if you could walk into every room knowing—deep in your bones—that you are safe, seen, soothed, and secure? Not because of the what’s happening around you, but because the face of Jesus is always turned toward...
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When You Feel Unworthy of God's Goodness with Chesed Dent

We all have these complicated tangles of belief, identity, and narrative, and one of the early stories many of us often begin telling ourselves is a one of our own scarcity.  “Maybe I don’t matter.” "Maybe I’m not...
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The God We Meet in Our Stories

Even though you’ve heard God described as full of compassion and always present, do you sometimes feel confused as to why you experience him as distant, disapproving, or absent? Our experiences, from childhood to...
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Why Is It Hard to Receive Love From God? with Sharon Garlough Brown

So many of us long to rest in God’s love, but we feel at war with actually receiving it. Why do we resist the very thing that we claim we want? This is what author and spiritual director Sharon Garlough Brown and I...
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Experiencing the Kind Presence of God

Just like any other relationship, intimacy with God isn’t something that can be forced or manufactured. It’s the byproduct of a genuine desire to know God and be known by Him. But before we can really desire God, we...
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Series 7 Trailer | From Knowing to Experiencing God

Have you ever felt like you know about God—but you don’t really know Him? Like you’re going through the motions of faith but longing for something deeper, something real?  In this next podcast series, we’ll explore...
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How to Practice Self-Awareness in Relationships

What messages did you receive about self-awareness as a child? Many of us grew up in environments that did not nurture self-awareness. Over the years, we’ve practiced disconnecting from our tears, grief, desires, or...
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Why Self-Awareness Leads to Deeper Intimacy With God with T.J. MacLeslie

At the heart of the spiritual journey is relationship. Growing in self-awareness is not an end in itself, but the heart and the means to deeper intimacy with God. As author and ministry leader T.J. MacLeslie and I...
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Sorting Through the Competing Voices in Your Mind with Gem Fadling

"You're not good enough.” "You need to try harder." "You’ll never keep up.” “There isn’t enough time.” These are the sorts of voices that can hum just beneath the surface of our minds, pushing us to act in...
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How to Begin Listening to Your Body (And Why It’s So Hard to Do)

God designed our bodies to tell us incredibly important things when it comes to growing and healing. In fact, I believe that one of the primary places we can grow in self-awareness is not books or podcasts or...
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Learning to Listen to the Story Your Body Is Telling with Chuck DeGroat

While the work of self-awareness begins with pursuing a better understanding of our lives and stories, so many of us can stop there.  As licensed therapist, author, and professor Chuck DeGroat and I talk about today,...
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