Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind

💠 Gigi Parker, Brain and Mental Health Coach (BCMHC, BCBHC)
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A Christian mental health podcast for healing, faith, and emotional wellness. Supporting women and families on their mental health journey through Christ-centered conversations. Welcome to Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind. I’m Gigi, a best-selling author and board-certified brain and mental health coach. This is where faith meets real life, where broken places are met with truth, and healing begins. You are not alone. You are not too broken. Healing is possible. If you are walking through grief, listen to my audiobook, Jesus, Lover of My Soul: Helping Women Worship Through Grief.

  1. Oct 6

    He Murdered His Neighbor’s Entire Family. Now They Live in the Same Village.

    Would you live in the same small community as the person who murdered your entire family? During my mission trip to Rwanda, I visited the Reconciliation Village and heard a testimony that left me wrestling with that question: a man who murdered his neighbor’s entire family now lives in the same community as the survivor. How do people begin rebuilding a relationship after harm that profound? In this episode of Diaries of the Depleted Wife, we explore what that testimony reveals about repentance, forgiveness, and the work of reconciliation. Through Scripture and a mental health perspective, we consider what genuine change looks like, how trust can be rebuilt, and why forgiveness does not automatically mean restoring someone’s access to your life. This conversation invites us to examine our own relationships without comparing our pain or rushing anyone’s healing. Whether you’re married or single, a woman or a man, there’s room for you here. Content note: This episode discusses genocide, murder, family loss, and relational hurt. Learn more about FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc.: https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org For photos and video clips from my Rwanda journey, follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1CZpRXyEUu/?mibextid=wwXIfr Book mention: Not Defined by Yesterday, co-authored with Dawn Vecchio, available on Amazon. Music: “Be Still and Know” by Geleta “Gigi” Parker. Piano by Debary Thompson. Love & Light, Gigi Bee 🐝

    He Murdered His Neighbor’s Entire Family. Now They Live in the Same Village.

  2. Sep 17

    I Can Support You, But I Cannot Heal You: When His Unhealed Wounds Become Her Burden

    What happens when supporting the person you love slowly turns into carrying the healing work they refuse to do? In this episode of Diaries of the Depleted Wife, Coach Gigi Parker explores the difference between compassion and unhealthy carrying. Through the picture of a wife climbing back through her own thorns to reach her wounded husband, we confront a painful truth: love can offer support, but healing still requires participation. This conversation makes room for wives, husbands, and singles as we discuss childhood trauma, emotional responsibility, boundaries, accountability, and the exhaustion that comes from managing another adult’s unresolved pain. Using the FOCUS Healing Framework, you will learn how to: • Face what hurts
• Observe the impact
• Connect to safe support
• Unlearn survival patterns
• Step into wholeness Today’s Gigiism: “I can reach for you, but I cannot climb for you.” Content note: This episode discusses childhood trauma, anger, emotional harm, abuse, and unhealthy relationship patterns. Please listen with care. SAFETY SUPPORT If establishing a boundary could lead to threats, stalking, violence, forced sexual contact, financial retaliation, or danger to you or your children, contact a qualified domestic violence advocate for individualized safety planning. National Domestic Violence Hotline
Call: 1-800-799-7233
Text: START to 88788
Visit: TheHotline.org If you are in immediate danger, call 911 when it is safe to do so. SPONSOR Faith & Focus is sponsored by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc., serving women, children, and families through faith-centered mental-health education, community support, and pathways toward healing. Visit: focusfaithmentalhealth.org MUSIC CREDIT “Be Still and Know”
Written by Geleta “Gigi” Parker
Piano by Debary Thompson Follow Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind and share this episode with someone who keeps climbing back into the thorns to rescue everybody else. #FaithAndFocus #DiariesOfTheDepletedWife #HealingIsHoly #MentalHealthMatters #HealthyBoundaries

    I Can Support You, But I Cannot Heal You: When His Unhealed Wounds Become Her Burden

  3. Sep 7

    God Hates Divorce, But Doesn’t He Also Hate Abuse?

    “God hates divorce.” But what happens when those four words are used to keep someone trapped in betrayal, fear, control, emotional abandonment, or abuse? After watching The Death of a Pastor’s Wife, Coach Gigi confronts a painful question many believers are afraid to ask: Does honoring God mean continuing to accept harm in the name of saving a marriage? This conversation reaches beyond wives. It is for women and men, married or divorced, and anyone who has been told to pray harder, submit longer, forgive faster, or remain silent while slowly disappearing inside a relationship. There is a difference between fighting for a covenant and being sacrificed to preserve its appearance. Press play, and let’s talk honestly about what God values, what Scripture should never be used to excuse, and why protecting your life is not the same as dishonoring your faith. CONTENT NOTICE: This episode discusses domestic abuse, emotional and spiritual abuse, infidelity, sexual withholding, and relationship trauma. Please listen with care and honor your emotional capacity. Written and hosted by Coach Geleta “Gigi” Parker. Presented by FOCUS Faith & Mental Health, Inc. https://focusfaithmentalhealth.org Theme music: “Be Still and Know,” written by Geleta “Gigi” Parker, with piano by Debary Thompson.

    God Hates Divorce, But Doesn’t He Also Hate Abuse?

  4. Sep 1

    Everybody Showed Up, But I Still Felt Alone

    What happens when a room is filled with people celebrating you, yet your heart still feels the absence of the one person you expected to be emotionally present? In Episode 3 of Diaries of the Depleted Wife, Coach Geleta “Gigi” Parker explores the painful difference between physical proximity and emotional presence. Through a personal birthday experience, she gives language to emotional neglect, attachment injuries, hypervigilance, and the quiet loneliness that can exist within a relationship. This conversation is not about publicly punishing a spouse. It is about naming what hurts, recognizing what emotional safety should feel like, and refusing to overlook the people who genuinely show up because one person did not. Whether you are married, single, divorced, or recovering from an emotionally neglectful relationship, this episode reminds you that your need for attentive, truthful, and emotionally safe love is not unreasonable. GGism: “Proximity is not presence.” Featured Scripture: “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.” Romans 12:15 Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind is written and hosted by Coach Geleta “Gigi” Parker and presented by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. Theme music: “Be Still and Know,” written by Geleta “Gigi” Parker, with piano by Debary Thompson. Visit focusfaithmentalhealth.org.

    Everybody Showed Up, But I Still Felt Alone

  5. Aug 26

    Quiet Quitting: When You’re Still There, But You’ve Stopped Trying

    Can you quit a marriage without ever leaving? Sometimes you don’t walk away. You just stop reaching. In Episode 2 of Diaries of the Depleted Wife, Coach Geleta “Gigi” Parker explores quiet quitting in relationships, that place where the relationship may still be functioning, but emotionally, something has gone quiet. What happens when asking feels harder than going without? When fewer arguments look like peace but may actually be resignation? And how do you know whether you’ve emotionally checked out or finally surrendered what was never yours to control? This conversation brings faith and mental health together as we unpack emotional withdrawal, learned silence, boundaries, accountability, communication, and the difference between doing your part and trying to do another adult’s work for them. And this conversation isn’t only for wives. Husbands and singles, there’s a seat at this table for you too. GGism: “Don’t mistake my silence for peace. Sometimes silence is what happens when hope gets tired.” Reflection Question: Have I found peace in this relationship, or have I simply stopped expecting anything from it? 🏆 VOTE FOR GELETA “GIGI” PARKER FOR AUTHOR OF THE YEAR My book Now What? I Married a Narcissist has been nominated, and I would be honored to have your vote. Vote here:Author of the Year Voting Form⁠ 🎙️ Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your MindPresented by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. Learn more:FOCUS Faith & Mental Health⁠ 🎵 Music Credit“Be Still and Know”Written by Geleta “Gigi” ParkerPiano by Debary Thompson

    Quiet Quitting: When You’re Still There, But You’ve Stopped Trying

  6. Aug 17

    I Wasn’t Tired. I Was Depleted.

    You can be functioning and still be depleted. You can love your family and still admit that carrying everything has become too heavy. What if you’re not just tired? What if you’ve been pouring from yourself for so long that depletion has started to feel normal? In the Season 6 premiere of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Geleta “Gigi” Parker opens Diaries of the Depleted Wife with an honest conversation about emotional depletion, relational imbalance, boundaries, faith, and the difference between sacrificial love and slowly disappearing inside the life you’re trying to hold together. And this conversation isn’t only for wives. Husbands, singles, and anyone who has ever carried too much for too long are invited into the room. Ask yourself: What have I gotten so used to carrying that I stopped recognizing its weight? Presented by: FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc.
Learn more: focusfaithmentalhealth.org Music Credit: “Be Still and Know” | Written by Geleta “Gigi” Parker | Piano by Debary Thompson

    I Wasn’t Tired. I Was Depleted.

  7. Aug 11

    I Finally Stopped Begging for What I Should Have Been Given Freely | No Longer Chasing Finale

    At what point does asking become begging? There’s nothing wrong with communicating what you need. Healthy relationships require honesty, vulnerability, and conversation. But when you’ve expressed the same hurt, asked for the same basic consideration, and waited years for a pattern to change, eventually, you have to ask a different question: What am I learning from the response I keep receiving? In this season finale of No Longer Chasing, Coach Gigi has an honest conversation about the moment asking crosses over into begging, and what happens when you finally recognize that some things should never have required you to plead for them in the first place. Love. Respect. Honesty. Consideration. Affection. Partnership. Accountability. There is a difference between communicating your needs and repeatedly trying to convince someone that your needs matter. And sometimes the answer isn’t hidden in what someone says. The answer is in the pattern. This episode is not about becoming bitter, shutting down, or pretending you no longer have needs. It is about recognizing when you have spent too much of yourself chasing reciprocity, accountability, affection, or change. Sometimes healing begins when you stop asking, “How do I get them to understand?” and start asking, “What has their response already taught me?” This is the finale of No Longer Chasing. And maybe the greatest lesson of the entire journey is this: You can stop chasing without stopping loving.
You can stop begging without becoming bitter.
And you can release what you cannot control without losing yourself in the process. 🎙️ Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind
Hosted by Coach Gigi Parker Sponsored by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc.
Where mental health meets the ministry of hope. Music Credit 🎵 “Be Still and Know”
Written by Gigi Parker
Piano performed and arranged by Debary Thompson
Used with permission. All rights reserved

    I Finally Stopped Begging for What I Should Have Been Given Freely | No Longer Chasing Finale

  8. Aug 3

    The Hidden Cost of Abandoning Yourself | No Longer Chasing

    What happens when you’ve spent so much time taking care of everyone else that you’ve slowly stopped taking care of yourself? In Part 6 of the No Longer Chasing series, Coach Gigi explores the hidden cost of self-abandonment through Proverbs 4:23 and the story of Mary and Martha. Together, we’ll unpack how over-functioning, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional exhaustion can quietly pull us away from the life God intended. This episode invites you to courageously pray, “Lord… show me me,” while discovering that guarding your heart isn’t selfish. It’s faithful stewardship. Through biblical truth, personal reflection, and practical application, you’ll be encouraged to stop surviving and begin living with intentional faith. Key Scripture: Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) If this episode encouraged you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs the reminder that healing begins when we surrender our hearts to God. Join us for Healing Table: Tea & Testimony 📅 Saturday, August 22, 2026 🕙 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. 📍 Magnolia Commons, Hiram, Georgia Theme: “What’s Tea for You? It’s God’s Testimony for Me.” Register at focusfaithmentalhealth.org or through the Zeffy link in the show notes. Music: “Be Still and Know” written and composed by Geleta “Gigi” Parker. Piano composition and arrangement by Debary Thompson.

    The Hidden Cost of Abandoning Yourself | No Longer Chasing
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A Christian mental health podcast for healing, faith, and emotional wellness. Supporting women and families on their mental health journey through Christ-centered conversations. Welcome to Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind. I’m Gigi, a best-selling author and board-certified brain and mental health coach. This is where faith meets real life, where broken places are met with truth, and healing begins. You are not alone. You are not too broken. Healing is possible. If you are walking through grief, listen to my audiobook, Jesus, Lover of My Soul: Helping Women Worship Through Grief.

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  • Creator
    💠 Gigi Parker, Brain and Mental Health Coach (BCMHC, BCBHC)
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    136
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 💠 Gigi Parker, Brain and Mental Health Coach (BCMHC, BCBHC)
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