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Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 10: Staying Grounded When Love Feels Conditional
Episode 10: Staying Grounded When Love Feels ConditionalHome for the Holidays SeriesFaith in Focus: A Moment for Your MindThe holidays often bring family together, but they can also expose relational patterns that are difficult to name, especially when love feels conditional, inconsistent, or withdrawn.In this episode of Faith in Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi gently and honestly guides women through how to stay grounded when intimacy, communication, or emotional connection feels uncertain. Through Scripture, neuroscience, lived experience, and faith-based...
2026-01-20
22 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 9: Regulated, Not Rushed at Home for the Holidays
The holidays can bring joy, connection, and comfort, but they can also awaken old memories, family dynamics, and nervous system responses we thought we had outgrown.In this episode of Faith in Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Gigi invites you into a slower, wiser way of showing up at home for the holidays. Through Scripture, lived experience, and gentle psychological insight, this conversation explores what it means to move from survival to stewardship, to stay present without shrinking, and to regulate your body without rushing your...
2026-01-12
20 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
From Survival to Stewardship: Entering the New Year with Wisdom
SEASON 4,Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your MindGeleta “Gigi” ParkerSurvival mode may have kept you alive, but it was never meant to be permanent.In this episode of Faith in Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Geleta “Gigi” Parker guides listeners through the powerful shift from survival to stewardship. Through Scripture, psychology, and lived experience, this conversation explores how trauma...
2026-01-05
19 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
The Healing Table, the Martha Mentality, and Entering the New Year Anchored in Christ
Faith in Focus: A Moment for Your MindGeleta “Gigi” ParkerComing out of survival mode is not an overnight shift. It is a holy rebuilding.In this episode of Faith in Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Geleta “Gigi” Parker, board-certified brain and mental health coach, reflects on the Healing Table gathering and the powerful lesson God revealed through what she calls the “Martha Mentality.” Through Scripture, lived experience, and psychological insight, this conversation explores how perfectionism, control, and overfunctioning can quietly exhaust the body, overload the nervous...
2025-12-31
19 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
SEASON 4 • EPISODE 6 — WHEN WE FEEL BEHIND: TRUSTING GOD’S TIMING DURING THE HOLIDAYS
SEASON 4 • EPISODE 6 — WHEN WE FEEL BEHIND: TRUSTING GOD’S TIMING DURING THE HOLIDAYSThe holidays have a way of amplifying comparison, pressure, and the quiet fear that we are somehow falling behind. In this episode, Coach Gigi speaks directly to the sister who feels late, overlooked, or out of step with where she thought life would be by now. Through Scripture, lived experience, and mental health insight, this conversation reframes delay, disappointment, and perceived lack as places where God is still deeply at work.Coach Gigi shares a personal story...
2025-12-28
15 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
SEASON 4 • EPISODE 5 — JESUS & FAMILY DYNAMICS: LOVING WITHOUT LOSING YOURSELF
SEASON 4 • EPISODE 5 — JESUS & FAMILY DYNAMICS: LOVING WITHOUT LOSING YOURSELFFamily relationships can become especially complex during the holidays, when expectations are high and old patterns resurface. In this episode, Coach Gigi explores Jesus’ own family dynamics and what Scripture teaches us about loving others without abandoning ourselves. Drawing from Mark 3 and other biblical truths, this conversation reminds us that even Jesus experienced misunderstanding, tension, and emotional pressure within family relationships, and that boundaries are not unloving, they are wise.Blending faith...
2025-12-22
17 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Season 4 Episode 4: Grief in the Garland: How to Hold Joy & Sorrow in the Same Season
SEASON 4 • EPISODE 4Grief in the GarlandHow to Hold Joy and Sorrow in the Same SeasonHome for the Holidays SeriesThe holidays can magnify what’s missing just as much as what’s present. In this tender and deeply reflective episode, Coach Gigi invites you into an honest conversation about grief, memory, and learning how to hold joy and sorrow in the same season. Grief in the Garland is for the sister who loves God, shows up for others, and yet feels the quiet ache of loss, change...
2025-12-17
19 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Home for the Holidays: When Peace Feels Complicated
Season 4, Episode 3Home for the Holidays: When Peace Feels ComplicatedWelcome back to Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind. I’m Coach Gigi, best-selling author, board-certified brain and mental health coach, and CEO and Founder of FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit where faith and mental health meet and where we believe healing is holy.In this episode, we continue the Home for the Holidays series by naming a truth many people carry quietly. The holidays can stir joy and grief at the same ti...
2025-12-14
15 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When Holidays Trigger Old Wounds: Finding Peace in a Season That Stirs Up More Than Joy
When Holidays Trigger Old Wounds: Finding Peace in a Season That Stirs Up More Than JoyThe holiday season can be beautiful, but it can also awaken memories, expectations, and emotional triggers we didn’t ask for. In this honest and deeply grounding episode, Coach Gigi explores why the holidays often stir old wounds, how emotional labor takes a toll on the mind and body, and how to stay centered when stress, disappointment, or pressure tries to steal your peace.You’ll hear a vulnerable personal story about carrying the...
2025-12-12
18 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
WHEN LOVE MEETS BLIND SPOTS: Season 4, Episode 1… HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS SERIES
WHEN LOVE MEETS BLIND SPOTSSeason 4, Episode 1Home for the Holidays SeriesAs we enter this Home for the Holidays season, we’re stepping into a conversation many hearts whisper about but rarely name aloud. What do we do when someone we love cannot see what we clearly see? How do we honor God, protect our peace, and navigate relationships marked by blind spots, wounded communication, or unhealed survival patterns?In this episode, Coach Gigi gently unpacks the emotional and spiritual weight of...
2025-12-10
19 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
THE BENEDICTION OF SHALOM: Season Three Finale
THE BENEDICTION OF SHALOMSeason 3 FinaleAs we close the Shalom Season, take a deep breath and settle into the truth that God restores the pieces we thought were gone forever. In this final episode, Coach Gigi speaks a blessing over your mind, your home, your nervous system, and your future. This is a benediction of peace that reaches into the places you’ve survived and gently leads you toward the wholeness you’re becoming.You’ll reflect, breathe, release, and receive. This is your invitation to step o...
2025-12-07
16 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
🌿 Episode 30 — The Making of Shalom
🌿 Episode 30 — The Making of ShalomShalom isn’t something you receive once. Shalom is something you learn how to build. In this powerful and transparent episode, Coach Gigi walks you through the real process of creating peace from the inside out — truth, boundaries, emotional regulation, trauma healing, and learning how to live with courage in hard places.You’ll hear a vulnerable conversation about marriage, emotional patterns, safe people, and the difference between a man’s brokenness and the spiritual battles behind it. This episode reminds you of something many women ne...
2025-12-04
24 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 29: The Still Waters
Episode 29: The Still WatersWhen life feels loud, heavy, or overwhelming, God still leads us beside still waters. This episode invites you into a calm space to breathe, release, reflect, and reconnect with the One who restores your soul. Coach Gigi walks you through grounding practices, gentle truth, and biblical encouragement to help you find peace in the middle of chaos.If you’ve been anxious, exhausted, or emotionally stretched, this episode will meet you with comfort and clarity.Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233Su...
2025-12-04
17 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 28: COMING OUT OF SURVIVAL MODE: God’s Way of Rebuilding You
Episode 28Coming out of survival mode is not an overnight shift… it’s a holy rebuilding. In this episode, Coach Gigi walks you through God’s gentle, intentional process of restoring your identity, regulating your mind and body, and bringing you into new circles of support and grace. You’ll hear scripture, reflection questions, a faith and psychology breakdown, and a celebration of everything God is doing through FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. Tune in and step into the healing that’s waiting for you.Background music: Be Still and KnowWritten...
2025-12-01
15 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 27: The Table God Prepares: Gratitude in Every Season
In The Table God Prepares: Gratitude in Every Season, Gigi reflects on the tender ways God prepares a place for us even when life feels overwhelming. Some seasons bring joy, some bring stretching, and some bring healing that unfolds slowly. Yet in all of it, God sets a table filled with grace, rest, and reminders that we are held.This Thanksgiving message honors every woman, child, and family connected to FOCUS. We are grateful for every door God is opening in this new season, including our connections with the Paulding and Douglas Chambers of...
2025-11-27
18 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
The Truth About Triggers: They Are Not Your Enemy
EPISODE 26 DESCRIPTIONThe Truth About Triggers: They Are Not Your EnemyIn this powerful episode, Coach Gigi explores the truth about triggers and why they are not signs of weakness. They are signals from a body that survived what the mind tried to forget. When trauma lives in the nervous system, moments, scents, sounds, or memories can pull you back into places you never asked to revisit. This episode helps you understand what is happening inside you and how God gently heals what still hurts.Gigi shares...
2025-11-26
16 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 25: The Slow Work of Becoming
Episode DescriptionHealing is slow, intentional, and holy work. In this heartfelt episode, Coach Gigi walks you through the tender but powerful process of becoming who God designed you to be after trauma. Together you explore how journaling releases the weight you have been carrying, how worship regulates the nervous system, and how therapy and faith based coaching can work together to rebuild your mind, heart, and identity.Gigi shares a vulnerable story about finding old letters from her husband and the deep grief that followed, and she opens...
2025-11-24
16 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 24 – Balancing Faith and Psychology: God’s Healing and the Science of the Mind
🎙️ Episode 24 – Balancing Faith and Psychology: God’s Healing and the Science of the MindFor survivors of abuse, the battle doesn’t always end when the relationship does. The mind keeps replaying what the body remembers. In this powerful episode, Coach Gigi explores how God designed the brain to heal and how faith and psychology work together to restore peace after trauma.Through personal reflection, practical tools, and biblical truth, she guides you to understand how prayer, worship, and journaling help retrai...
2025-11-10
15 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 23 — The Voice Within: Learning to Trust Your Discernment Again
After abuse or manipulation, trusting your own judgment can feel impossible. You start second-guessing your instincts, silencing your inner voice, and calling confusion peace. But discernment is not doubt, it is divine direction.In this heartfelt episode, Coach Gigi explores how trauma distorts your ability to hear and trust the Holy Spirit’s voice and how healing begins when you start believing that still, small voice again. Through Scripture, psychology, and real-life reflections, she reminds you that God’s whispers are never rushed, never manipulative, and always rooted in love. You will learn how to q...
2025-11-04
20 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 22: When Apologies Aren’t Repentance
Episode 22: When Apologies Aren’t RepentanceSome people say “sorry” just to stop you from hurting, not because they’re ready to change. In this episode, Coach Gigi breaks down the difference between remorse and repentance, how emotional abusers use fake apologies to reset control, and why true healing begins when you stop negotiating for peace.She also shares how to recognize the sarcastic or defensive “sorry” that’s meant to silence you instead of restore you. It’s time to set boundaries, stop managing other people’s comfort, and start walking...
2025-11-02
19 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
🎙️ Episode 21 – The Mirror Work: Healing the Image After Abuse
🎙️ Episode 21 – “The Mirror Work: Healing the Image After Abuse”After abuse, many of us struggle to look in the mirror and recognize the woman staring back.We see strength, but we also see scars — physical, emotional, and spiritual. In this episode, Coach Gigi invites you to pause and do the “mirror work,” the sacred practice of seeing yourself through God’s eyes, not through the pain of your past.You’ll discover how survival mode can disguise itself as productivity, how rest becomes resistance, and how the brain begins to heal...
2025-10-27
14 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
🎧 Episode 20 – Rebuilding the Inner Home — Finding Safety in Your Own Mind
🎧 Episode 20 – Rebuilding the Inner HomeEven after the storm settles, many survivors still can’t find peace within themselves. The arguments are gone, the chaos has stopped, yet the mind keeps replaying the past. In this episode, Coach Gigi helps you learn how to rebuild the home inside your heart and mind — one thought, one breath, one prayer at a time.She shares how trauma can make even your own thoughts feel unsafe and how God invites us to start opening the windows of our inner home again. Through psycholog...
2025-10-20
13 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 19: The Stillness After the Storm — Learning to Live Without the Chaos
Episode 19: “The Stillness After the Storm — Learning to Live Without the Chaos.”🎧 Episode 19 DescriptionAfter you leave chaos behind, peace can feel uncomfortable. The silence hums, the calm feels suspicious, and your body keeps waiting for the next storm. In this heartfelt episode, Coach Gigi shares how healing sometimes begins with trembling hands and tear-filled prayers.She opens up about the loss of her mother, the painful search for justice, and how God met her in that grief with the words, “Be still an...
2025-10-17
14 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Breaking the Trauma Loop: Why the Mind Keeps Going Back
Breaking the Trauma Loop: Why the Mind Keeps Going BackYou ever catch yourself replaying the same moments again and again? The arguments, the apologies, the “maybe this time will be different.” That cycle is called the trauma loop. It’s when your mind keeps revisiting pain, hoping for peace.In this episode, Coach Gigi unpacks why the brain struggles to let go, how trauma rewires our thoughts, and how faith can help us renew our minds. Through psychology, scripture, and personal reflection, she re...
2025-10-14
14 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 17 — False Peace: When Silence Feels Safer Than Healing
Episode 17 — False Peace: When Silence Feels Safer Than HealingPeace can feel strange after chaos. When the noise stops, your body might still wait for the next hit of conflict. This episode explores why silence can feel unsafe, and how God meets us there — steady, patient, and kindMusic Credits “Be Still and Know That I Am God,” written by Geleta “Gigi” Parker, arrangement by Debary Thompson.ResourcesNational Domestic Violence Hotline — 800-799-7233 | thehotline.orgFocusFaithMentalHealth.comBooks by Geleta...
2025-10-07
13 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 16 – The Withdrawal: What Happens When You Stop Feeding the Cycle
Have you ever noticed that peace can feel uncomfortable after chaos? That silence can feel louder than shouting? When you stop reacting to the same old triggers, when you stop arguing, defending, or chasing, something inside you starts to shake. That’s called withdrawal.Psychology calls it trauma-bond withdrawal—the emotional crash that happens when you cut off the very thing that used to control you. Your body and brain start asking, where’s the chaos I’m used to? Romans 12:2 reminds us, do not conform to the pattern...
2025-10-06
15 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 15: (SEASON 3): Cycles of Control - How Abuse Becomes a Pattern
Episode 15: (SEASON 3): Cycles of Control - How Abuse Becomes a PatternAbuse and its aftershocks do not stop at home. They spill into every corner of life — even into the workplace, relationships, and the way we see ourselves. In this milestone episode, Coach Gigi brings both honesty and hope, reminding you that God’s love is steady even when life feels unstable.Through real stories and biblical truth, you will find encouragement, practical steps, and the reminder that you are not alone. Healing takes time, but God’s presence is con...
2025-09-28
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 14: Love-Bombing, Breadcrumbing, and Stonewalling — The Manipulation Tactics of Abusers
Episode 14: Love-Bombing, Breadcrumbing, and Stonewalling — The Manipulation Tactics of AbusersAbuse does not always leave bruises. Sometimes it hides in patterns that confuse and control: love-bombing, breadcrumbing, and stonewalling. These tactics can feel like passion, mystery, or just 'space,' but in reality, they are tools of manipulation.In this episode, best-selling author and board-certified brain and mental health coach Coach Gigi breaks down these three tactics through both psychology and Scripture, showing how they distort love and starve the soul. With honesty and hope, she reminds you that God is not th...
2025-09-28
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
🎧 Episode 13 (Season 3): Strong but Silent — The Hidden Pressure Survivors Carry
🎧 Episode 13 (Season 3): Strong but Silent — The Hidden Pressure Survivors Carry“You’re so strong.”It sounds like a compliment, but for many survivors it feels like dismissal. Always being told to “stay strong” can create silent pressure, emotional suppression, and loneliness.In this episode, best-selling author and board-certified brain and mental health coach Coach Gigi opens up about hearing “you’re so strong” her whole life — even while surviving sexual abuse, narcissistic abuse, physical and financial abuse. She explores the hidden psychological toll of being labeled strong, and what Scripture real...
2025-09-28
11 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
🎧 Episode 12 (Season 3): How Abuse Impacts Work and Career
🎧 Episode 12 (Season 3): How Abuse Impacts Work and CareerAbuse doesn’t clock out when you do. It follows survivors into the workplace draining focus, stealing energy, and sometimes even costing promotions or jobs. Too often, employers don’t understand the hidden battles survivors are carrying.In this episode, best-selling author and coach Gigi Bee shares how abuse shows up in careers and workplaces, weaving together Scripture, psychology, and personal reflection. She offers hope, compassion, and practical steps to help survivors know they are not alone and that healing is possibl...
2025-09-26
13 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 11 (Season 3): Abuse in Dating Relationships — Not Just Marriage
Episode 11 (Season 3): Abuse in Dating Relationships — Not Just MarriageAbuse doesn’t wait for vows. It can begin in dating, engagements, or casual relationships — and it’s just as real and harmful. Survivors of dating abuse often feel dismissed, but their pain is valid.In this episode, best-selling author and coach Gigi Bee uncovers the signs of dating abuse, why it often gets minimized, and how to recognize red flags before it’s too late. She also shares the five pillars of a godly relationship — showing the contrast between how the worl...
2025-09-22
12 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 10 : Trauma Bonding — Why Leaving Is Harder Than It Looks
Episode 10 (Season 3): Trauma Bonding — Why Leaving Is Harder Than It Looks“Why don’t you just leave?” It’s a question survivors of abuse hear too often — but leaving is not that simple. Trauma bonding creates an unhealthy attachment that feels impossible to break.In this episode, best-selling author and coach Gigi explains what trauma bonding is, why it feels so powerful, and how survivors can begin breaking free. With Scripture, psychology, and personal reflection, she offers clarity, compassion, and hope.📞 If you or someone you kno...
2025-09-14
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 9 : Gaslighting and Manipulation — The Silent Killers of Confidence
Episode 9 (Season 3): Gaslighting and Manipulation — The Silent Killers of ConfidenceGaslighting and manipulation are some of the most common tactics in abusive relationships — and some of the most damaging. They chip away at confidence, create confusion, and keep survivors trapped in silence.In this episode, best-selling author and coach Gigi unpacks how these tactics work, why they’re so effective, and how survivors can begin reclaiming their confidence. With Scripture, psychology, and personal reflection, she reminds listeners that God is not the author of confusion — He is the God of truth...
2025-09-14
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 8 : The Double Life — When Abusers Look Perfect in Public
Episode 8 (Season 3): The Double Life — When Abusers Look Perfect in PublicSome abusers live a double life — charming and generous in public, but controlling and cruel at home. Survivors often feel unseen, disbelieved, and silenced by the mask their abuser wears.In this episode, best-selling author and coach Gigi unmasks the double life of abusers, validating the confusion survivors carry. With Scripture, psychology, and personal reflection, she reminds listeners that God sees what happens behind closed doors even when no one else does.📞 If you or...
2025-09-14
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 7 : Financial Abuse — The Silent Chain
Episode 7 (Season 3): Financial Abuse — The Silent ChainFinancial abuse is one of the most common and controlling forms of domestic violence — but it often goes unseen. Survivors may be trapped by hidden bank accounts, job sabotage, or total dependency.In this episode, best-selling author and coach Gigi unpacks the reality of financial abuse, how it keeps survivors bound, and how God can provide a way out. With Scripture, psychology, and personal reflection, she offers practical steps to begin breaking free and rebuilding independence.📞 If you or...
2025-09-14
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 6 : The Church’s Silence and the Survivor’s Pain
Episode 6 (Season 3): The Church’s Silence and the Survivor’s PainThe church is meant to be a refuge — but too often, survivors of domestic violence are met with silence, minimization, or judgment.In this episode, best-selling author and coach Gigi exposes the painful reality of the church’s silence and how it compounds abuse. With Scripture, psychology, and personal reflection, she offers hope that God’s voice is never silent, and a vision of what the church can do better.This episode will encourage...
2025-09-14
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 5 – The Cost to Community, Friends, and Family in the Fallout
Abuse doesn’t just wound survivors — it ripples out to families, friends, and communities. In this episode, Geleta “Gigi” Parker shares how to release guilt, set boundaries, and let God use even your tears for healing.
2025-09-06
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 4 – The Ripple Effect: How Abuse Hurts Children Too
Abuse leaves marks children can’t hide. In this episode, Geleta “Gigi” Parker reveals how domestic violence impacts kids and shares how God’s love can restore what was stolen.
2025-09-06
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When Faith Is Used as a Weapon
When Faith Is Used as a WeaponAbuse is painful enough on its own, but when scripture or faith is twisted to control or silence, it leaves spiritual wounds that cut even deeper. In this episode, best-selling author and coach Geleta Parker unpacks the reality of spiritual abuse when God’s word is weaponized. With scripture in context, psychology, and personal reflection she reminds listeners that God is not the author of oppression but the refuge who delivers. This episode will help you untangle lies from truth, rebuild your faith, and rest in the sa...
2025-09-06
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 2: When Love Hurts – Naming Domestic Violence
⸻Episode 2: When Love Hurts – Naming Domestic ViolenceDomestic violence isn’t just bruises and broken bones — it’s emotional wounds, financial control, spiritual manipulation, and isolation. In this Shalom season episode, bestselling author and coach, Geleta “Gigi” Parker, helps us name abuse for what it is: the first step toward healing and freedom. Through scripture, psychology, and personal reflection, she reminds listeners that abuse is not love, and God’s heart breaks over oppression. This episode empowers you to name the truth, break the silence, and take the first s...
2025-09-05
11 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When Love Hurts: Naming Domestic Violence
When Love Hurts: Naming Domestic ViolenceDomestic violence isn’t just bruises and broken bones. It’s emotional wounds, financial control, spiritual manipulation, and isolation.In this opening episode of the Shalom Season, bestselling author and coach Gigi Bee lets us name abuse for what it is — the first step toward healing and freedom. Through scripture, psychology, and personal reflection, Gigi reminds listeners that abuse is not love, and God’s heart breaks over oppression. This episode will empower you to name the truth, break the silence, and take the firs...
2025-09-05
08 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 40: Closing Reflections, Carrying Grief, Carrying Grace
Episode 40: Closing Reflections, Carrying Grief, Carrying GraceAs we close this season, we pause to reflect on the journey of grief and the surprising ways God’s grace has carried us. Grief is heavy, but grace is steady. In this final episode of the series, Gigi shares heartfelt reflections on what it means to live with both grief and grace in hand. Together, we will remember that healing is not about forgetting, but about learning to walk forward with hope, strength, and God’s unfailing presence.✨ Books by Gigi ...
2025-09-02
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 39: Rediscovering Purpose After Loss
Episode 39: Rediscovering Purpose After LossLoss can leave us feeling empty, directionless, and uncertain about the future. Yet even in grief, God has a way of breathing new life into our stories. In this episode, Gigi shares encouragement and practical steps for rediscovering your God-given purpose after loss. We will explore how faith, healing, and intentional focus can help you rebuild with meaning, hope, and strength.✨ Books by Gigi • Beautifully Broken: https://a.co/d/fKGbUSL • Catch and Release: Seeds of Deception: https://a.co/d/frRr...
2025-09-02
08 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 38: The Things People Say and What We Wish They Knew
Episode 38: The Things People Say and What We Wish They KnewWords have power. When you are grieving, navigating loss, or walking through mental health struggles, the things people say can either build you up or break you down. In this episode, Gigi explores the weight of careless comments and the comfort of Spirit-led words. Together, we will look at what we wish others knew about supporting us in seasons of grief, and how we can extend grace even when words fall short.✨ Books by Gigi • Jesus, Love...
2025-09-02
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 37: When Being “Too Strong” Becomes Too Heavy
Episode 37: When Being “Too Strong” Becomes Too HeavyWe live in a world that praises strength, especially in women. But what happens when being told you are strong feels more like a burden than a blessing? In this episode, Gigi Bee shares the hidden exhaustion behind always holding it together. You will be encouraged to lay your armor down, admit when you are weary, and lean on God and community for the support you were never meant to carry alone.Your strength does not come from pretending to be unbr...
2025-08-31
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Grief and Faith Fatigue: When Believing Feels Heavy
Grief and Faith Fatigue: When Believing Feels Heavy🎙️ Episode 36 – Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your MindSometimes believing feels like lifting bricks with bare hands.When you’ve been praying, waiting, hurting, and hoping all at once, it can wear you down.That’s called faith fatigue.And if you’re feeling it, you’re not alone.In this episode, Gigi gets real about the weight of grief and the moments when even faith feels hard to hold.We’ll talk...
2025-08-30
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode Title: Grieving the Loss of Your Health
Episode Title: Grieving the Loss of Your HealthDescription:Welcome to Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind with Gigi Bee Bestselling Author, Board-Certified Brain and Mental Health Coach, and your sister in Christ on the journey toward healing.In today’s episode, we talk about one of the most personal and often hidden forms of grief grieving the loss of your health. When your body no longer moves, feels, or functions the way it once did, it can shake your identity, your confidence, and even your fa...
2025-08-28
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 34 – Inherited Grief: Carrying the Pain of Generations
Episode 34 – Inherited Grief: Carrying the Pain of GenerationsSome grief is not just our own. Families can carry pain for decades, passing down unspoken wounds and unresolved losses. This is inherited grief, and it can feel heavy because it does not just belong to you — it is the weight of generations.In this episode, GGB, your sister, your coach, and your companion in healing, opens the conversation about generational pain and how God’s love can break cycles that have lasted for years. We will talk about how inherited grief...
2025-08-27
08 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Episode 33: Grieving the Loss of Long-Term Employment
🎙️ Episode 33: Grieving the Loss of Long-Term EmploymentLosing a job after years of dedication can feel like losing a part of yourself. The grief of long-term employment ending carries questions of identity, stability, and worth. In this episode, Gigi offers biblical encouragement and mental health insights to help you process unemployment, face the pain of starting over, and discover fresh hope for the future.You are not defined by a paycheck or a position. You are defined by the God who created you and still has a plan for your...
2025-08-26
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
The Weight of Special Days: Grief, Holidays, and Seasonal Depression
Episode 32 – The Weight of Special Days: Grief, Holidays, and Seasonal DepressionSpecial days — holidays, anniversaries, birthdays — can feel impossibly heavy when you’re grieving. What used to bring joy may now stir sadness, loneliness, or even guilt. Add the reality of seasonal depression, and the weight can feel overwhelming.In this episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, we talk about how to navigate those days with honesty and faith. Together we’ll explore: • Why holidays and anniversaries often intensify grief • How to...
2025-08-22
08 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When Grief Lingers
Episode 31: When Grief LingersGrief has a way of lingering in places we least expect. It does not always end with a goodbye. Sometimes it stays in the quiet moments, in the memories that resurface, and in the prayers whispered in the night. In this episode, I dedicate this space to honor my two beloved grandmothers, Olive Blance Miller (MUM) and Hester Bowe (Ma Bowe), whose love and legacy continue to shape me.I also want to celebrate my sister’s new book, Still Becoming by Thea V. Russell, no...
2025-08-22
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
🎙️ When Memories Blur the Future: Faith in the Fog of Grief
🎙️ When Memories Blur the Future: Faith in the Fog of GriefGrief has a way of clouding our vision. Memories of what was can feel sharper than the hope of what is ahead. In today’s episode, I share encouragement for those carrying sorrow, silence, and questions that have no easy answers.Even when the fog feels thick, God’s presence is steady. His love does not blur. His promises do not fade. You are not alone in this valley.🎶 Sp...
2025-08-19
12 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
🎙️ 47 Years of Grace — My Birthday Testimony
🎙️ Episode 29: 47 Years of Grace — My Birthday TestimonyWhat do you do when trauma tells you your story is over… but God says, “Live”?In this special birthday episode, Gigi reflects on 47 years of survival, scars, and the relentless grace of God. From childhood abuse to toxic relationships, from grief to healing, she shares how the enemy tried to bury her but couldn’t stop her testimony.This is more than a birthday celebration. It is a declaration...
2025-08-16
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
🎙️ When Freedom Feels Lonely
🎙️ Episode 28: When Freedom Feels LonelyFreedom is beautiful… but sometimes it feels lonely.Walking away from toxic people, breaking generational cycles, or saying yes to healing can mean fewer phone calls, fewer invitations, and fewer people who understand your new life.In this episode, Gigi opens up about the grief hidden inside freedom. She shares why leaving what was harmful doesn’t always feel like celebration at first, and how God meets us in the quiet places where old voices no longer follow.
2025-08-16
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When God Says No
Episode 27 – When God Says NoWhat do you do when you’ve prayed, fasted, believed… and God still says no? For some, it shakes their faith. For others, it becomes the doorway to a deeper trust. In this raw and honest conversation, I share why God’s “no” can be an act of love, protection, and redirection. We’ll explore how to handle disappointment without drifting from Him, and why His silence is not His absence.This episode will challenge you to see God’s “no” not as rejection, but as divine protec...
2025-08-10
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
I Miss Them… But I’m Better Without Them
Title: I Miss Them… But I’m Better Without ThemDescription:Missing someone doesn’t mean they deserve you back.In this raw and unfiltered episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on a chapter of my past that looked picture-perfect to the outside world but behind closed doors was filled with betrayal, manipulation, and abuse. My first marriage taught me the hard truth that not everyone you miss is meant to be in your life.If you have ever wrestled with missing...
2025-08-09
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Grieving the Relationship That Was Never What You Hoped
Update: This episode has been re-released with improved audio for a clearer listening experience.Episode 24 – Grieving the Relationship That Was Never What You HopedSometimes the hardest grief is for something we never really had.An absent parent. A distant partner. A marriage that looked good on paper but left you empty.We grieve what could’ve been and what never was.In this episode, we discuss the silent sorrow of unfulfilled expectations, how to honor the ache without getting stuc...
2025-08-08
08 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When Grief Changes Your Worship
🎙️ Episode 23: When Grief Changes Your WorshipWhat happens when worship no longer sounds like singing, but like silence? What do you do when the songs that once brought joy now bring tears?In this tender episode, Gigi invites us into a sacred conversation about how grief transforms the way we connect with God. Whether it’s sitting in stillness, weeping through worship, or barely whispering His name, this is still worship. And God still hears it.You’ll be reminded that even when your praise so...
2025-08-06
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Rebuilding from the Rubble – Who Am I Now?
Episode 22: Rebuilding from the Rubble – Who Am I Now?After grief, after heartbreak, after the storm who are you now?In this powerful episode, Gigi opens her heart about what it means to lose the version of yourself you once knew. When life shakes the foundation of your identity, it can leave you feeling unrecognizable even to yourself. But there’s hope in the ruins.Together, we’ll talk about: The grief of identity loss after trauma or a major life change Why rebuilding...
2025-08-03
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Letting Go of the Old You: When Grief Changes Who You Are
Episode 21: Letting Go of the Old YouWhen Grief Changes Who You AreGrief doesn’t just break your heart. Sometimes, it breaks your identity. The version of you that existed before the loss may never return. And while that can feel scary, it can also be sacred.In this episode, Gigi opens up about what it means to let go of the version of yourself that once survived chaos, tolerated pain, and stayed silent in unhealthy spaces. She reflects on the ache of pr...
2025-08-02
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When Grief Triggers Anxiety
Episode 20: When Grief Triggers AnxietyGrief doesn’t always look like sorrow. Sometimes it looks like sleepless nights, racing thoughts, and an anxious heart that just won’t settle.In this episode, Gigi shares how grief can stir up anxiety in unexpected ways. She gently unpacks how your nervous system responds to loss, why even little things can feel overwhelming, and how faith and breath can help calm the storm inside.This is for the one who can’t explain the heaviness they feel. For th...
2025-08-02
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Living with Questions: When You May Never Know Why Something Happened
Episode 19: Living with QuestionsWhen You May Never Know Why Something HappenedSome grief leaves us with silence. Not because we don’t want answers, but because they never come.In this episode, Gigi gently walks us through the pain of not knowing why. Why someone left. Why the healing didn’t happen. Why the loss was so sudden. Why the breakthrough never came. Sometimes the most painful part of grief is the question that lingers.But even when we d...
2025-08-02
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Grief Without Goodbye
Title: Grief Without GoodbyeIn this deeply personal episode, Gigi opens up about the pain of sudden loss when there’s no time to say goodbye, and grief leaves more questions than answers. She shares the heartbreaking story of her dear friend Kareem, who passed away alone, just hours after they were laughing together over WhatsApp.This episode is for anyone who’s lost someone unexpectedly. Anyone still carrying the weight of words unsaid. And anyone wondering how to heal when the door to goodbye was neve...
2025-08-02
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When Grief Becomes a Shrine – Remembering Without Idolizing
Episode 17: When Grief Becomes a Shrine – Remembering Without IdolizingGrief can make us cling to anything that reminds us of who we lost a shirt, a room left untouched, a social media page that never goes dark. But what happens when remembering turns into idolizing? In this tender and truth-filled episode, Gigi shares a personal story of walking alongside a grieving friend whose mother turned every item into a shrine. Together, they gently explored how to honor the dead without losing the living.This episode invites you to take an honest look at...
2025-07-31
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
A Sacred Selah: Breathing Through Grief
Episode 16 – A Sacrad Selah: Breathing Through GriefGrief can take your breath away.It shows up in your body before your mind can even name it—tight chest, shallow breaths, clenched jaw.Sometimes, the healing begins not with words, but with a single inhale.In this special episode, Gigi invites you to pause and reconnect with your body through the sacred act of breathing.You’ll be guided through simple, Spirit-centered breathwork to help settle your nervous system, ground your though...
2025-07-31
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
God, I Don’t Feel You: When Grief Numbs Your Spirit
Episode 15 – God, I Don’t Feel You: When Grief Numbs Your SpiritThere’s a kind of grief that goes beyond tears.It numbs you.It silences your prayers.It makes you wonder, “God… where are You?”In this honest and tender episode, Gigi opens up about the spiritual disconnection that often accompanies deep sorrow. When worship feels far away. When Scripture doesn’t hit the same. When your spirit feels too tired to feel.You’ll hear: Why numbness...
2025-07-31
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Unfinished Healing: Living in the In-Between
Episode 14 – Unfinished Healing: Living in the In-BetweenWhat do you do when you’re not where you were, but not yet where you hoped to be?In this tender and truthful episode, Gigi speaks to the space in between the messy middle of grief, where healing is happening, but your heart still feels sore. It’s the space where you’re showing up, but silently aching. The space where joy feels possible, but distant.If you’ve ever asked, “Why do I still feel like this?”...
2025-07-30
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Healing Isn’t a Race: When Grief Feels Slow
Episode 13 – Healing Isn’t a Race: When Grief Feels SlowIn a world that celebrates speed and strength, what happens when your healing feels like it’s dragging behind?When everyone else seems to be bouncing back, posting smiles, making moves, and starting over, but you’re still trying to breathe through the ache?In this honest and soul-settling episode, Gigi addresses the quiet guilt that creeps in during grief. The pressure to “be okay by now.” The fear that you’re doing it wrong. The shame that whispers...
2025-07-30
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Tears as Testimony: Letting Grief Speak
Episode 12 – Tears as Testimony: Letting Grief SpeakWhat if your tears are not signs of weakness, but sacred echoes of your story? In this powerful episode, Gigi invites you to slow down and sit with the sorrow, not as an enemy to escape, but as a teacher to listen to. Grief has a voice, and sometimes the loudest healing comes in the quiet of your tears.You’ll explore how unspoken pain can be the deepest kind, why it’s okay to not “move on” quickly, and how scripture reminds us...
2025-07-30
08 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
🎙️ The Body Remembers – Grief in Our Muscles, Minds, and Breath
🎙️ Episode 11: The Body Remembers – Grief in Our Muscles, Minds, and BreathSeason 2 – Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your MindGrief doesn’t just visit your thoughts.It lingers in your shoulders, your breath, your sleep.In this powerful episode, Gigi explores how the body holds onto loss long after your mind tries to move on.From racing hearts to tight jaws, she explains why physical symptoms of grief aren’t random — they’re messages.You’ll learn how to recognize your b...
2025-07-28
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
The Guilt That Comes with Grief
🎙️ Episode 10: The Guilt That Comes with GriefSeason 2 – Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your MindGrief doesn’t just break our hearts it can also burden them.In this tender episode, Gigi explores the heavy guilt that often walks hand-in-hand with loss:The guilt of surviving.The guilt of not doing enough.The guilt of laughing too soon, or crying too long.You’ll learn how grief rewires our thoughts, how guilt distorts our memories, and what it mea...
2025-07-28
05 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When Grief Steals Your Motivation
Episode 9: When Grief Steals Your MotivationSome days, even brushing your teeth feels like too much.Grief has a way of not only breaking your heart, but draining your will, your focus, and your ability to move.In this episode, Gigi speaks gently to the woman who feels stuck.The one who hasn’t been herself in a while.The one who’s quietly grieving, quietly surviving, and wondering if it’s ever going to feel better.You’ll hear...
2025-07-28
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Sitting with God in the Silent Seasons
Episode 8: Sitting with God in the Silent SeasonsWhat do you do when God feels quiet?When grief leaves you still… and the heavens seem silent?In this gentle episode, Gigi speaks to the sacredness of silence in a season of sorrow. Whether you’ve lost someone, something, or simply feel like you’ve lost your way, this episode offers space to breathe, reflect, and just be.You’ll be reminded that God doesn’t leave when the noise dies down.He’s in...
2025-07-28
05 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Healing in Layers – The Long Road of Grief
Episode 7: Healing in Layers – The Long Road of GriefWelcome back to Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind.In this tender episode, Gigi shares encouragement for those walking through the long, winding road of grief. Healing doesn’t happen all at once. It unfolds over time, in layers, in silence, and in unexpected moments.Whether you are grieving the loss of a loved one, a relationship, a dream, or a version of life you once hoped for, this space is for you. You’ll be remind...
2025-07-28
05 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Grief and the God Who Stays
🎙️ Episode 6: Grief and the God Who StaysSome grief doesn’t show up right away.It waits until the room is quiet.Until the hospital doors have closed.Until everyone else has moved on.In this honest episode, I share what it felt like to come home after nearly losing my life.The house was the same, but I wasn’t.The silence was heavy, and I felt alone in my healing.But eve...
2025-07-28
05 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Learning to Trust Again After Loss
🎙️ Episode 5: Learning to Trust Again After LossTrust is hard to rebuild when both hearts are hurting.Sometimes grief doesn’t just break your peace. It breaks your connections too.Maybe you said something that caused pain.Maybe she pulled away.And now the silence feels heavier than the misunderstanding ever did.In this tender episode, I reflect on a friendship that unraveled during one of the hardest seasons of my life.No...
2025-07-27
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Grieving What Could’ve Been — Dreams, Expectations, Timelines
🎙️ Episode 4: Grieving What Could’ve Been — Dreams, Expectations, TimelinesWhat do you do when the life you prayed for… doesn’t happen?When the marriage stays broken?When the baby doesn’t come?When the proposal never does?This episode is for the silent griefs.The ones you can’t quite name out loud because they aren’t tied to a casket or obituary, but to a dream that just… didn’t bloom.I open up about my own journey of...
2025-07-27
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Grief in Unexpected Places
🎙️ Episode 3: Grief in Unexpected PlacesSometimes grief doesn’t show up in the funeral line.It sneaks into laughter, lingers in joy, and hides in the quiet moments we thought would be healing.In this tender episode, I share a personal story of a broken friendship how a misunderstanding, stirred by a third party, led to loss.We talk about discernment, timing, and how to sit with sorrow without letting it define you.This episode is for the woman who’s grievin...
2025-07-27
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
What to Do with the Silence
🎙️ Episode 2: What to Do with the SilenceWhen grief quiets your soul and faith feels faint, God is still near. In this episode, Gigi shares honest reflections, gentle encouragement, and a tender prayer for those navigating loss in silence.📘 Jesus, Lover of My Soul: Helping Women Worship Through GriefAvailable in paperback, digital, and audiobook:https://a.co/d/iihQWlm📅 Book a session with Gigi:https://profile.christiancareconnect.com/my-account/
2025-07-27
05 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Grief and Worship Can Coexist
🎙️ Episode Title: Grief and Worship Can CoexistIn this gentle, heartfelt opening to Season 2, Gigi invites you into the sacred space of grief a space where sorrow and worship are not enemies, but companions. With honesty and encouragement, she unpacks what grief really is, shares the psychological definition and emotional phases, and reminds us that it’s not a linear process.You’ll hear about how Gigi herself coped in unexpected ways including a humorous moment of “dough-pression” in the kitchen and how worship became her lifeline through loss....
2025-07-27
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Grief Without Goodbye
✨ Episode 20:Grief Without GoodbyeThis is the episode between letting go and beginning again.In the final chapter of our narcissism mini-series, we sit in a sacred space—the grief that follows what never was. Not all losses come with funerals. Some leave no goodbye, only silence. And that silence? It can be loud.In this deeply personal episode, I invite you to grieve what they never gave you the apology that never came, the parent who...
2025-07-27
11 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Why Closure Isn’t Always Christian
✨ Episode 19:Why Closure Isn’t Always ChristianSometimes healing comes without an apology. Sometimes peace comes without a conversation.In this episode of Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, I unpack the lie that closure is always necessary, always possible, or always Christian. For many of us who have walked away from narcissistic relationships, closure never came. And it might not ever come.But that doesn’t mean you can’t heal.
2025-07-27
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Spiritual Gaslighting: Manipulating Others Through Religion
✨ Episode 18 Spiritual Gaslighting: Manipulating Others Through ReligionThere is no healing in a house of confusion.In this episode of Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, we shine a light on a painful and often hidden truth how narcissists use scripture, faith, and spiritual authority to manipulate, control, and shame. This isn’t just emotional abuse. It’s spiritual distortion.As a five-time published author and board-certified brain and mental health coach, I walk with you through:Wha...
2025-07-27
08 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When the Narcissist Is in the Church
✨ Episode 17:When the Narcissist Is in the ChurchNot every wolf wears a suit. Some carry Bibles.In this episode of Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, we take a sober look at how narcissism can hide in spiritual spaces. When charisma replaces character and control is disguised as calling, people get hurt—and often, that pain runs deep because it’s wrapped in the language of God.As a five-time published author and board-certified brain and mental health coach, I unpa...
2025-07-27
08 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
The Spirit Behind Narcissism
✨ Episode 16:The Spirit of Deception Behind NarcissismThis isn’t just a personality issue. It’s a spiritual one.In this episode of Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, we explore the deeper root behind narcissism: deception. Narcissistic behavior is more than emotional harm it’s often a manifestation of a spirit that distorts truth, manipulates perception, and damages relationships.As a five-time published author and board-certified brain and mental health coach, I walk you through:How narcissism thrives on decepti...
2025-07-27
09 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Why Narcissists Rewrite the Past
✨ Episode 15:Why Narcissists Rewrite the PastWhen the truth doesn’t fit their version of the story, narcissists change the story.In this episode of Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, we take a closer look at one of the most confusing and painful patterns in narcissistic relationships: revisionist history. I share how rewriting the past is not just manipulation, but a survival strategy for people who fear accountability and are addicted to control.As a five-time published author and boar...
2025-07-26
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Narcissistic Fathers and the Wounded Child
✨ Episode 14 Some wounds don’t bleed. They echo.In this powerful episode of Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, I explore the lasting impact of growing up with a narcissistic father and how it shapes a woman’s sense of self, trust, and spiritual identity. As a five-time published author and board-certified brain and mental health coach, I guide you through the intersection of trauma, psychology, and faith.We talk about: What a narcis...
2025-07-26
10 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Sharing a Child with a Narcissist: Grieving What Should Have Been
Co-parenting with a narcissist isn’t just hard it’s heartbreaking.In this episode of Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, I speak directly to the mothers raising children with someone who rewrites history, gaslights truth, and weaponizes love. If you’ve ever wept for what should’ve been… this space is for you.We talk about the invisible grief of watching your child pulled into cycles of manipulation, the mental anguish of not being believed, and the sacred strength it takes to mother through sp...
2025-07-25
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When the Narcissist Is a Parent: Healing the Wounds of a Stolen Childhood
Some wounds start in childhood and they aren’t always physical.When a parent is narcissistic, love becomes conditional, validation is rare, and the child learns to survive by shrinking.But survival isn’t the same as healing.In this deeply compassionate episode, Gigi speaks directly to daughters and sons who were never allowed to be children only performers, protectors, or scapegoats.You’ll hear:• What narcissistic parenting looks like (and why it’s not your fault)• How those early...
2025-07-25
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Healing the Inner Narrative: Rewriting the Lies Narcissism Left Behind
The wounds from narcissistic abuse don’t just live in your past.They linger in your thoughts.They become the inner narrator whispering,“You’re not enough.”“You’re too much.”“No one will believe you.”In this powerful episode, Coach Gigi gently uncovers the hidden messages narcissists plant in your mind and how to rewrite those lies with the truth of God’s Word.You’ll learn:• What a trauma-shaped inner narrative sounds like• How gaslighting confuses y...
2025-07-25
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Grieving What Never Was: The Silent Pain of Narcissistic Loss
When you leave a narcissist, you don’t just grieve the relationship you grieve the fantasy.The potential.The version of them that never existed.In this powerful and compassionate episode, Coach Gigi explores the complex grief that follows narcissistic abuse—the kind of loss that doesn’t come with a funeral, but still breaks your heart. Blending psychology, Scripture, and deep personal insight, she offers healing truth for women who feel unseen in their mourning.You’ll learn:• Why grieving a narcissist is often d...
2025-07-25
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Spiritual Narcissists: When Scripture Is Used as a Weapon
When someone uses Scripture to control, shame, or silence you it’s not righteousness. It’s manipulation.In this episode, Coach Gigi gently but boldly exposes the spirit of narcissism that hides behind religion. You’ll learn how spiritual narcissists twist God’s Word to gain power while refusing to submit to it themselves. Through Scripture, psychology, and personal reflection, this episode shines a healing light on spiritual abuse and brings comfort to those who’ve been spiritually shamed.You’ll learn:• How to recognize the signs of spiritual n...
2025-07-25
05 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When They Say It’s You: The Blame Game of the Narcissist
“You’re the problem.”If you’ve heard that from a narcissist, this episode is for you.In Episode 8, Coach Gigi gently exposes the manipulative tactic of blame-shifting when narcissists accuse you of the very things they’re doing. Blending psychology and Scripture, she unpacks the painful cycle of projection, emotional confusion, and the spiritual toll of constantly being the scapegoat.You’ll learn:• What projection looks and feels like in narcissistic relationships• How to break free from the mental trap of self-blame• What Scri...
2025-07-25
05 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Freedom from The Fog: Clarity After Narcissistic Confusion
Confusion is not love. And if you’ve been caught in the cycle of fear, obligation, and guilt this 7th episode is for you.Coach Gigi dives into what survivors of narcissistic abuse call “the fog,” breaking down the psychological tactics like gaslighting and emotional manipulation that keep you bound. You’ll learn why narcissists thrive in chaos, how they use confusion to control, and most importantly how to reclaim your clarity.Through Scripture, lived wisdom, and spiritual insight, this episode will help you:• Understand the “FOG” of fear, oblig...
2025-07-25
04 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
The Narcissist’s Need: Control, Supply, and The Cycle of Destruction
Narcissists don’t want love they want control. And in this episode, Coach Gigi breaks down why.Blending psychology and Scripture, this powerful teaching walks you through the narcissistic cycle of idealization, devaluation, and discard. You’ll gain clarity on what “narcissistic supply” really is, why it’s never been your job to fix them, and how to spot the difference between real repentance and spiritual manipulation.You’ll also discover how the enemy uses pride, charm, and confusion to keep you trapped—and how God equips you to walk free....
2025-07-25
07 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
The Spirit of Narcissism: Not Just Personality, but Principality
What if the battle you’re facing isn’t just emotional… but spiritual?In this powerful continuation of the narcissism mini-series, Coach Gigi unpacks the truth behind narcissistic abuse and how it often goes deeper than personality. With wisdom from Ephesians 6:12 and 2 Corinthians 10:4, she reveals that narcissism can operate as a principality a spiritual stronghold that won’t break by conversation alone, but by the power of God.You’ll learn:• The difference between behavior and bondage• How to recognize when you’re battling a spirit, not just...
2025-07-25
05 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Boundaries - Not Walls but Gates with Wisdom
🎙️ Podcast Description – Episode 4Title: Boundaries – Not Walls but Gates with WisdomPodcast: Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your MindHost: Gigi, Board-Certified Mental and Brain Health CoachDescription:Boundaries are not about building walls they’re about building gates with wisdom. In this episode, Coach Gigi explores what it means to guard your heart without hardening it. You’ll hear how even Jesus set boundaries, withdrew from the noise, and moved with purpose.With Scripture as...
2025-07-25
05 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
When The Narcissist is In the Mirror… Part of the “Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind” Mini-Series on Narcissism
What happens when the person causing chaos… is you?In this episode, we bravely and honestly examine how narcissistic tendencies can manifest in our own hearts and why acknowledging them isn’t condemnation but the beginning of healing. Through a biblical lens, Coach Gigi explains how pride, manipulation, and spiritual blindness can take root in anyone if left unchecked. But there is good news: repentance is powerful, and Jesus is still in the business of restoring the humble.Whether you’re navigating a difficult relationship or reflecting on your own growth, this moment...
2025-07-25
06 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Narcissism Isn't Just Toxic - It’s Spiritual…What You’re Fighting Isn't Flesh & Blood
In this powerful episode, Coach Gigi shares why narcissism isn’t just a personality issue it’s a spiritual battle.With the warmth of a sister and the wisdom of a mental health coach, she walks listeners through biblical truth, psychological insight, and personal experience.If you’ve ever felt spiritually drained in a relationship that looks fine on the outside but feels wrong in your spirit, this episode is for you.🌿 Scripture: Ephesians 6:12, 2 Timothy 3:1–5🎧 Music: “In His Presence” by Brock Hewitt💛 Connect: fa...
2025-07-25
04 min
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Welcome to Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your MindHost: Gigi (Geleta Parker)Episode Title: Season 1, Episode 1 – RemasteredWelcome to Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind — where faith and mental health meet in sacred conversation.I’m Gigi, your sister in Christ, a board-certified brain and mental health coach, and a woman who knows what it means to walk through deep waters. With a degree in psychology and a heart for healing, I created this space for anyone who’s grieving, growing, or simply t...
2025-07-25
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