Love Without Collapse

Answer The Door: What Your Emotions Are Trying To Tell You

What if the emotions you've been trying to manage are actually trying to tell you something? In this episode, Christina explores what emotions really are — not a malfunction, not weak faith, but information that must be experienced before it can teach. From the raw honesty of the Psalms to Jesus sweating blood in Gethsemane, she makes the case that God never asked us to be emotionally invulnerable. He asked us to be honest. This is wide territory, held with clinical care, theological depth, and a lot of grace. Psalm 32:3–5 — "When I kept silent, my bones wasted away..." Psalm 13, 22, 42, 55, 88 — David's full emotional range before God John 11:35 — Jesus wept Matthew 26:36–46 / Mark 14:32–42 John 18:10 — Peter in the garden John 15:5 — "I am the vine, you are the branches" KEYWORDS : emotions, mental health, therapy, Christian mental health, feelings, emotional health, Psalms, Gethsemane, nervous system, anxiety, healing, faith and emotions, embodiment, The Wednesday Project

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is one of the most commanded and least understood topics in the Christian life. In this episode, Christina sits with the complexity honestly — not to soften the command, but to give it room to breathe. What does it actually mean to forgive? What does it not mean? And what does it look like to move toward forgiveness when your heart is willing but your body is still learning it's safe to let go? This is wide territory, held with clinical honesty, theological care, and a lot of grace. Email: thewednesdayprojectpod@gmail.com

Not A Shell: Rethinking Biblical Self-Denial

What if the version of self-denial you were handed was never what Jesus meant? In this episode, Christina traces the distance between biblical self-denial and the quiet self-erasure that has shaped so many believers — examining the original Greek and Hebrew, the jar of clay, the incarnation, and what the body knows when something is off. This is not a conversation about rejecting Scripture. It's about understanding it rightly. Because the calling God has placed on your life requires the person He made. Keywords: biblical self-denial, Christian identity, faith and mental health, theology and embodiment, Christian psychology, incarnation, spiritual formation, fasting, turn the other cheek, self-abandonment, Christian podcast, trauma and faith, somatic theology, Protestant church, Christian women, faith and wholeness, The Wednesday Project

The Way Back

At some point, something breaks. Not because you failed — but because you're human, and so are they. In this closing episode of The Wednesday Project's relational theology arc, Christina explores rupture and repair across every kind of relationship: parents and children, siblings, close friends, partners. But before repair is possible, something else has to happen first. Drawing from Colossians 3, Luke 15, and nervous system research, she asks what secure attachment actually looks like in motion — and why the capacity to repair with another person begins with having first been repaired with. The relationship isn't lost in the rupture. It's revealed in the repair. Keywords: rupture and repair, attachment theory, nervous system, Christian relationships, relational theology, prodigal son, Colossians, James, forgiveness, co-regulation, trauma-informed faith, The Wednesday Project, psychology of the soul

Before the First Word

What's really happening beneath the surface of your hardest conversations? In this episode, Christina explores why even the people we love most can miss each other — and why that doesn't mean something is broken. Following Love Without Collapse, this conversation names what walks into the room before a single word is spoken: two nervous systems, two histories, two stories already in motion. Drawing from Psalm 139, Matthew 7, and James 1:19, this episode offers a reframe for every relationship where care and history travel together — couples, friendships, parents and children, colleagues. And it begins with the most honest question: what are you carrying in? Keywords: nervous system, relational rupture, Christian relationships, Psalm 139, Matthew 7, James 1:19, attachment theory, emotional health, misattunement, self-awareness, embodied faith, secure attachment, identity in Christ, trauma-informed faith, co-regulation