Episode 10: Staying Grounded When Love Feels Conditional

Home for the Holidays Series

Faith in Focus: A Moment for Your Mind

The 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also expose relational patterns that are difficult to name, especially when love feels conditional, inconsistent, or withdrawn.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 tools, this conversation explores how conditional love impacts the nervous system, why withholding intimacy can become a form of emotional harm, and how women can remain anchored in truth without shrinking, chasing, or losing themselves.

This episode is rooted in Exodus 15, reminding us that healing is holy and that God cares not only about our faith but about how our bodies and hearts are responding to relational stress. Listeners will receive practical grounding tools, biblical wisdom, reflection questions, prayer, and clear next steps for support.

This episode is for women who are learning how to steward their hearts wisely, especially during the holidays.

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Books by Coach Gigi

Featured Book

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

Available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

Author website: https://geletaparker.com/

Children’s Books

Chef Gigi Saves the Day

https://a.co/d/7cprHL7

Gigi’s French Bakery

https://a.co/d/5lUJ9Qy

My Body Is God’s Gift

https://a.co/d/iEwYbVx

Adult Faith and Healing Titles

Beautifully Broken

Catch and Release: Seeds of Deception

Jesus Lover of My Soul: Helping Women Worship Through Grief

Amazon links:

https://a.co/d/8NzA35Z

https://a.co/d/a4AViP5

https://a.co/d/bBCiNIw

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Support, Coaching, and Community

Learn more about our work, request prayer, book coaching, or explore our programs at

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com/

FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization where mental health meets the ministry of hope.

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FOCUS Academy Lite 2.0

FOCUS Academy Lite 2.0 is a faith-based, neuroscience-informed program designed to help women build emotional regulation, clarity, and spiritual grounding. Information and access are available in the Focus Academy section of our website.

FOCUS Academy Lite 2.0 is not a replacement for professional therapy, professional counseling, or treatment with a licensed mental health professional. It is designed to support growth and grounding alongside appropriate professional care, not instead of it.

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Important Resources

If you are experiencing domestic violence, help is available through the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Call 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788.

Help is available 24/7, confidential, and free.

If you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed or in distress, you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Reaching out is wisdom, not weakness.

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Podcast Disclaimer

This podcast is intended for faith-based education, encouragement, and support. It is not a substitute for professional therapy, counseling, medical advice, or crisis services. If you are experiencing significant emotional distress or safety concerns, please seek care from a licensed professional or local emergency resources.

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Music Credit

“Be Still and Know That I Am God”

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

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 healing.

You will learn how renewal begins in the mind, how memory lives in the body, and why wisdom sometimes looks like pacing yourself, setting boundaries, and letting certain fires cool before touching them again.

This episode is for anyone who loves their family, has grown in faith and maturity, and is learning how to remain steady in familiar spaces.

Healing is holy.

📚 Books by Coach Gigi

Children’s Books

Chef Gigi Saves the Day

https://a.co/d/7cprHL7

Gigi’s French Bakery

https://a.co/d/5lUJ9Qy

My Body Is God’s Gift

https://a.co/d/iEwYbVx

Adult Faith and Healing Books

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

Catch and Release: Seeds of Deception

Beautifully Broken

Jesus Lover of My Soul: Helping Women Worship Through Grief

https://a.co/d/8NzA35Z

https://a.co/d/a4AViP5

https://a.co/d/bBCiNIw

🖥 Author Website

https://geletaparker.com/

🌐 Nonprofit, Programs, Giving, and Support

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com/

🎧 Learn more, listen, book, or support the mission

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com/

💛 FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc.

Serving women, children, and families where mental health meets the ministry of hope.

🎶 Music Credit

“Be Still and Know That I Am God”

Written and composed by Geleta Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson

SEASON 4,

Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind

Geleta “Gigi” Parker

Survival 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, illness, and prolonged stress train the mind and body to remain in crisis mode, and how God lovingly invites us into a life of intention, wisdom, and regulated peace.

Geleta explains why survival drains but stewardship sustains, how nervous system overload impacts decision-making and faith, and what it looks like to steward the body, boundaries, energy, and calling with care rather than urgency. This episode also introduces the heart behind her upcoming devotional Faithful with the Few and calls listeners into a more intentional way of living in the new year.

Listeners are invited into practical reflection questions, a Scripture-based declaration, supportive resources, and a closing prayer designed to help them enter this season anchored in Christ, not anxiety.

This podcast is sponsored by Focus Faith and Mental Health, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization where faith and mental health meet and where healing is holy.

📚 Books by Geleta “Gigi” Parker

Available on Amazon, including My Body Is God’s Gift and her newest release, Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon, now available in ebook and paperback:

https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

🖥 Author Website

https://geletaparker.com/

🌐 Nonprofit, Programs, Giving, and Support

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com/

If you are experiencing domestic violence, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

If you are feeling overwhelmed or in crisis, call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

You are not too far gone.

You are never alone.

Healing is holy.