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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What Emotional Safety Really Looks Like

What does emotional safety actually look like in real life?Ā  We use that language all the time — ā€œI don’t feel safeā€ — but it often holds a wide range of experiences, from true relational harm to simple discomfort or...
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5 Communication Types That Impact Your Friendships with Jason VanRuler, LPC

The depth of our relationships is often shaped by the depth of our communication. Not just what we say, but how we say it...and even more than that, why we say it. Communication isn’t just a skill we learn. it’s...
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Mutual Vulnerability and the Art of Sharing Your Inner World

Vulnerability is often talked about as openness, but what if it’s actually about capacity? In this episode, we continue our series on friendships by exploring what it really takes to share our inner world with one...
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The Ache for Deeper Friendship

How do we actually cultivate deeper friendships? The kind where we don’t have to perform, hide, or carry the weight of our lives alone? In this episode, we begin a new series on soul friendships: relationships marked...
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Experiencing Jesus in Guided Prayer | Luke 5:17-20 & 24-26

In this episode, I invite us into a guided time of imaginative prayer — a contemplative practice rooted in the early church mothers and fathers that helps us encounter God in a personal, embodied way. Together, we...
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Series 12 Trailer | The Art of Soul Friendship

I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately. Not the surface-level kind, but the kind that actually sees you. The kind that knows the messy, unedited parts of your life…and stays. In my own life and in my work...
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Moving From Survival to Choice

Most of us learn early in life who we need to be in order to survive. We adopt roles and masks that help us belong and stay safe. But often, somewhere along the way, the soul initiates a crisis. The strategies that...
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Bringing the Truth of the Gospel to Bear On Our Stories with Ministry Leader Pete Sharp

Many of us go through life unaware of how our histories influence the way we relate: to God, to ourselves, and to the people closest to us. Old patterns and unresolved pain often surface in subtle ways, shaping our...
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Healing From the Wounds of Rejection with Trauma Therapist Tabitha Panariso

Sometimes the places in our hearts that feel most tender are also the places we avoid looking. Rejection can leave quiet echoes, forming the way we see ourselves, the lens through which we trust others, and the story...
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The Sacred Practice of Paying Attention

We speak of spiritual transformation as if it should be obvious: visible, measurable, steady. Yet many of us quietly wonder what participation in God’s work of transformation actually looks like. Beneath our theology...
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When Effort Isn't Enough Anymore with Pastor Ray Jones

There are seasons in life when no matter how much we give, how hard we try, it feels like effort isn’t enough. The work we put into our relationships, our faith, our responsibilities meets walls we can’t move,...
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How Healing Changes the Way We Love with Spiritual Director Barb Boatner

There comes a moment in many of our lives when we begin to notice that the way we love has been shaped by pain we haven’t fully tended to. Old wounds resurface, familiar patterns repeat, and our unhealed places begin...
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