Healing the Unresolved
de Fr. Joshua Makoul, and Ancient Faith Ministries
When Performance Hurts: Understanding Emotional Memory
À propos de ce podcast
Many people suffer silently, who have suffered painful experiences and are confused about what to do with them, living in shame and isolation. Fr Joshua Makoul, through this podcast, serves as a guide or a lighthouse to give them hope and relief.
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- When Performance Hurts: Understanding Emotional MemoryToday’s podcast answers a question from someone who experiences fear and debilitating physical symptoms anytime they try to engage in music. In the past they had experienced…
- Running from OurselvesToday’s podcast discusses specific examples of self avoidance and how subtle they are. As a result, we often overlook them and don’t see how they are feeding the larger struggles…
- Why We Struggle with BoundariesToday’s podcast explores why boundary setting sometimes goes overboard or is overactive. The various reasons discussed can help explain both our over active boundary systems and…
- Surprised by the Love of GodToday’s podcast offers a brief reflection on how we tend to be drawn to what is familiar even if what is familiar is negative. So often we anticipate anger and punishment…
- The Stewardship of Having ChildrenToday's podcast answers a question from someone struggling over whether or not they should have another child. They have many conflicting feelings and worries. In those worries…
- The Safe Presence of Self in the Spiritual LifeToday’s podcast is a discussion of the paradox of our sense of self. In order to become selfless, we have to have some sense of self. To completely abandon any sense of self can…
- The Great Doubter: Religious Scrupulosity OCDToday’s podcast answers a question from someone who has struggled with obsessive compulsive disorder and has noticed it affecting their orthodox Christian spiritual life…
- Surviving an Enmeshed FamilyToday’s podcast answers a question from someone who is struggling to cope with an enmeshed family of origin. Despite being married and having their own kids, and their siblings…
- The Robbery of RescuingToday’s podcast answers a question from someone who is struggling with why God doesn’t just grant them healing from the effects of their experiences after so many years of doing…
- The Empty Tomb ApologyToday’s podcast discusses the healing power of apologies. Each apology has the ability to create the space of the empty tomb in the heart of another. Apologies often wield a…
- EFT Tapping: Friend or Foe?Today’s podcast answers a question from somebody seeking reassurance that EFT, otherwise known as emotional freedom therapy, is spiritually safe and consistent with the orthodox…
- Growing Our Mustard Seed MomentsToday's podcast is a reflection on Matthew 13:31-36. In this gospel reading, there are two parables, the parable of the mustard seed and the parable of the leaven. In our…
- To Parent or Not to ParentToday’s podcast answers a question from someone who is recently engaged and fears having children. Specifically, they fear that they will re-create their own life experiences in…
- A Deeper Confession: Combining the Healing Work and RepentanceToday’s podcast explores how the healing work, which is the resolving of our fallen experiences, sharpens our spiritual tools and deepens our confessions. There is a unique…
- Be Wise as a Serpent: Spotting Unhealthy SystemsToday’s podcast draws upon the scripture verse in which Jesus tells us, “to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove”. We are called to do no harm, but that does not mean to…
- An Encounter with the Holy Spirit is a Test of PatienceToday’s podcast reflects on the Leave-taking of the feast of Pentecost. We often acknowledge the presence of the Holy Spirit, but miss encounters with the Holy Spirit due to our…
- Somatic Experiencing Therapy: Is it Spiritually Safe?Today’s podcast answers a question from someone who has been going through somatic experiencing therapy. They are concerned that it is not rooted in the Orthodox Faith and does…
- Where we Begin and Leave off: Awareness of Spiritual BoundariesToday’s podcast discusses three ways in which we may often violate the spiritual boundaries of another without realizing it. When this occurs, it is often due to an inability to…
- A Most Beautiful Inheritance: Simple GriefToday’s podcast talks about a most beautiful inheritance that we can all leave our children. As parents we often worry about leaving a financial inheritance. However, we often…







