EP 49 | Thinking Through: Identity — When Formation Becomes Definition

EP 53 | The Sound Mind Help Desk

What happens when Jonathan tries to take a break… and somehow still records an episode? In this lighter episode, Jonathan celebrates 52 straight weeks of Sound Mind by turning episode 53 into an automated help desk. Instead of a normal deep-dive, this “day off secret show” gives listeners a quick guide for how to use the first year of episodes, where to start if they’re new, how to search by topic at lfbi.org/soundmind, and how to share episodes with people who might need them. Along the way, Jonathan reflects on what year one has revealed: people are hungry for something real, honest, rooted, and biblical in a world that often feels filtered, managed, and distant from what is actually happening in us. He also looks ahead to year two, with more listener questions, conversations, practical tools, and episodes that help bring real life into the light of Scripture. Whether you’ve been here since episode one or you’re just now finding the show, this episode is a quick breather, a thank-you, and a practical guide to help you start where you are. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live

EP 52 | The Storm: When Control Comes Apart

What do you do when life gets bigger than your ability to control it? In this episode, Jonathan Kindler continues The Places We Find Ourselves series by moving from the desert to the storm. Through Psalm 107:23–30, he explores what happens when the thing beneath you starts moving, when your plans stop holding, and when your soul feels like it is melting under the weight of what you cannot fix. Blending scripture, storytelling, and honest reflection, this episode looks at the difference between faithful responsibility and anxious control. The storm exposes what we trust when control comes apart, but Psalm 107 reminds us that the waves are not sovereign. The Lord still rules the deep. He hears the cry. He calms what man cannot. And He knows how to bring His people to haven. Whether you are at your wit’s end, trying to hold everything together, or learning the hard mercy of dependence, this episode calls you back to the One who is not shaken by the storm. To trust. To cry out. To remember that the waves over your head are not over His throne. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live

EP 51 | The Desert: When Thirst Tells the Truth

What do you do when life feels dry, empty, and strangely hard to explain? In this immersive episode, Jonathan Kindler begins a new series called The Places We Find Ourselves by exploring the desert seasons of the soul through Psalm 107. Sometimes hardship does not look like crisis. Sometimes it looks like responsibility. You are still showing up, still working, still caring for people, still doing what needs to be done, but underneath it all, something feels faint. Blending Scripture, storytelling, biblical counseling insight, and honest reflection, this episode gives language to the dry places where comfort gets thin, thirst starts telling the truth, and false relief begins to look like water. Through Psalm 107 and the promise of Christ as the bread of life, Jonathan points listeners back to the God who hears, leads, and satisfies the longing soul. Whether you are wandering, weary, spiritually dry, or just realizing that the things you keep reaching for cannot finally satisfy, this episode is an invitation to bring your thirst honestly before the Lord. The desert may tell the truth about your thirst, but it does not get the final word. The Lord does. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live

EP 50 | Conviction vs. Condemnation

How do you know if what you’re feeling is conviction from God or condemnation crushing you into shame? In this “This vs. That” episode, Jonathan Kindler slows down the difference between two voices that often show up in the same moment. After failure. After awareness. After something gets exposed. Conviction is specific, honest, and leads you toward repentance. Condemnation is vague, heavy, and tries to rename you by your worst moment. Blending scripture, counseling insight, and real-life scenarios, this episode walks through Romans 8:1, the work of the Spirit, the accusation of the enemy, and the internal belief cycle that can turn one moment into an identity. Jonathan helps listeners discern what is actually happening when guilt, shame, correction, and spiritual heaviness all feel tangled together. Because conviction tells the truth without redefining you. Condemnation gives you a name God never gave you. Whether you are someone who feels crushed by your failures or someone who avoids correction because it has always felt like rejection, this episode invites you to slow down and ask: Where is this leading me? One voice restores. The other relabels. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live

EP 49 | Thinking Through: Identity — When Formation Becomes Definition

What happens when something that formed in you… starts to define you? In this episode, Jonathan Kindler walks through the cultural conversation around identity and gently exposes the shift from understanding who we are… to constructing and protecting it. With clarity and depth, he explores how identity forms over time—through repetition, experience, and belief—and why what feels most true about you isn’t always what defines you. Blending Scripture, counseling insight, and everyday analogies, this episode reframes identity through a biblical lens. Not something you build. Not something you perform. But something given—anchored outside of you, stable enough to hold you. If you’ve ever felt the pressure to figure yourself out, defend who you are, or carry the weight of your past as your identity… this episode invites you into something more grounded. Not what formed in you. But what’s been given to you. Visit: Instagram: soundmind.live