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How to Love an Avoidant Partner Without Losing Yourself | Let’s Get JADE-d

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Loving an avoidant partner can feel confusing, lonely, and emotionally exhausting. In this Home for the Holidays episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Geleta Gigi Parker (Coach Gigi) explores how to love well without losing yourself.

Using biblical truth, psychological insight, and practical tools, this episode walks you through what avoidant attachment is, why it forms, and how it shows up in relationships. Geleta Gigi Parker teaches how to regulate your emotions, stop over-functioning, set healthy boundaries, and discern the difference between patience and permission. This episode also revisits the powerful concept of Let’s Get JADE-d, reminding listeners that you do not have to justify, argue, defend, or over-explain to be heard or valued.

This episode is grounded in Exodus chapter 15, where God declares, “I am the Lord who heals you.” At Faith & Focus, we believe healing is holy. You’ll hear a real-life example of regulated communication, five reflection questions to journal and pray through, a closing prayer, and a Home for the Holidays blessing spoken over you and your home.

Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind is sponsored by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving women, children, and families through faith-centered mental health education, coaching, prayer, food insecurity support, and community outreach.

Just last weekend, during the storm, FOCUS launched a last-minute community initiative and, by the grace of God, was able to serve 35 plus families with nourishing food items. Every family that reached out received support, and we give God thanks for provision and community.

If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence or emotional abuse, confidential help is available. You can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788. If you are in emotional distress or crisis, you can call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. We share these resources because faith and safety go together, and no one should walk through harm alone.

To submit prayer requests, access mental health resources, learn about community initiatives, invite Geleta Gigi Parker to speak, or partner with FOCUS, visit https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com/.

To stay connected with Geleta Gigi Parker’s writing, speaking, and office updates, visit https://geletaparker.com/.

Books by Geleta Gigi Parker

Chef Gigi Serves Today: 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: https://a.co/d/8NzA35Z | https://a.co/d/a4AViP5 | https://a.co/d/bBCiNIw

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon (ebook): https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

Support the Mission

Help us continue serving women and children by donating through our Amazon Wish List:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3DUJNOXS1DPDA?ref_=wl_share

We are currently expanding our outreach to include hygiene items so families can receive care that honors dignity as well as need.

Music Credit

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Breathe deep. Stay prayed up. Remember, you don’t have to JADE. You are not too far gone. You are never alone. Healing is holy. Stay focused.

Love & Light

Gigi Bee 🐝

Episode 13: When Healing Changes the Way You Love

Home for the Holidays Series

Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind

Healing does not just change how you think.

It changes how you love, how you respond, and what you no longer tolerate.

In this episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Coach Geleta “Gigi” Parker invites listeners into a deeper conversation about what happens when healing begins to take root in the heart and nervous system. As we move through the holiday season and into a new year, many women find themselves loving differently, more slowly, more wisely, and with greater discernment.

Through Scripture, neuroscience, and lived experience, this episode explores how healing reshapes attachment, boundaries, expectations, and emotional safety in relationships. Listeners will learn why healed love feels unfamiliar at first, why growth can disrupt old relational patterns, and how to remain grounded without shrinking, chasing, or abandoning yourself.

Rooted in Exodus 15, this episode reminds us that healing is holy and that God is deeply concerned with how our bodies, minds, and spirits experience love. This conversation offers practical grounding tools, biblical truth, reflection questions, prayer, and next steps for support.

This episode is for women who are learning to love from a healed place, even when others are still operating from wounds.

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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.

Season 4, Episode 12

When Community Becomes the Covering

Home for the Holidays Series

Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind

When winter storms hit and resources feel scarce, community becomes more than support — it becomes covering.

In this special Home for the Holidays episode, Coach Geleta “Gigi” Parker reflects on a real-time storm response where collaboration, compassion, and faith met urgent food insecurity needs. This episode is dedicated to Buddy’s Hope, whose partnership ensured families on the waitlist were not left without food when resources were depleted.

Through Scripture, psychology, and lived experience, this episode explores why asking for help is not weakness, how pride can block provision, and why stewardship, honesty, and heart posture matter when serving and receiving support. Special appreciation is extended to Paulding County school social workers and Dr. Quick of Austin Middle School for their tireless work supporting families and feeder programs.

This episode encourages listeners to choose connection over competition and reminds us that small acts of generosity, multiplied, change communities.

Featured Book:

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon

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

Author site: https://geletaparker.com/

Support, coaching, prayer, and programs:

https://focusfaithmentalhealth.com/

FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Important Resources

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788

Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988

Reaching out is wisdom, not weakness.

Podcast Disclaimer

This podcast is for faith-based education and support and is not a substitute for professional therapy, counseling, medical advice, or crisis services.

Music Credit

“Be Still and Know That I Am God”

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Season 4, Episode 11

Learning to Love Without Losing Yourself

Home for the Holidays Series

Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind

As the holiday season continues to stir family dynamics, emotional expectations, and relational pressure, many women find themselves asking a quiet but important question: How do I love without losing myself?

In this episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Geleta “Gigi” Parker leads a grounding and compassionate conversation about discernment, boundaries, and emotional stewardship. Through Scripture, neuroscience, and lived experience, this episode explores why love can begin to feel unsafe when it requires self abandonment, and how women can remain soft, faithful, and wise without shrinking, chasing, or overexplaining.

This episode addresses the danger of prioritizing potential over protection, the importance of recognizing red flags as information, and the spiritual and psychological cost of ignoring what the body and spirit are trying to communicate. Listeners are invited to reflect on how healing changes attachment patterns, increases clarity, and calls us into a more anchored way of loving.

Rooted in biblical wisdom including Romans 12, Proverbs 4, and Exodus 15, this episode reminds us that healing is holy and that God’s design for love never requires the loss of self.

Listeners will receive practical grounding tools, reflection questions, prayer, and clear next steps for support.

This episode is especially for women who are learning to love from wholeness, honor discernment without guilt, and walk in wisdom during emotionally charged seasons.

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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.

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.

⸻

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.

⸻

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.

⸻

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.

⸻

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.

Faith in Focus: A Moment for Your Mind

Geleta “Gigi” Parker

Coming out of survival mode is not an overnight shift. It is a holy rebuilding.

In this episode of Faith in Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Geleta “Gigi” Parker, board-certified brain and mental health coach, reflects on the Healing Table gathering and the powerful lesson God revealed through what she calls the “Martha Mentality.” Through Scripture, lived experience, and psychological insight, this conversation explores how perfectionism, control, and overfunctioning can quietly exhaust the body, overload the nervous system, and pull us away from the presence of God.

Geleta shares how releasing control, letting go of unrealistic expectations, and trusting God with who He brings to the table created space for authentic connection, prayer, and healing. This episode is a reminder that the function is never more important than the fellowship and that God often does His deepest work when we stop striving and start abiding.

Listeners will hear a heartfelt recap of the Healing Table impact, gratitude for donors and community partners, an anonymized impact moment, Scripture-based encouragement, reflection questions, a spoken blessing, and a closing prayer to help enter the new year anchored in Christ rather than exhaustion.

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.

🎶 Music Credit

“Be Still and Know”

Written and composed by Jalita G.G. Parker.

Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

📚 Books by Geleta “Gigi” Parker

My Body Is God’s Gift

Chef Gigi Serves Today

Gigi’s French Bakery

Beautifully Broken

Catch & Release: Seeds of Deception

Jesus Lover of My Soul: Helping Women Worship Through Grief

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon (ebook available, paperback coming soon): 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 not alone. Healing is holy.