Content note: This episode discusses emotional numbness and painful experiences in marriage. Please listen at your own pace. If you are being hurt, threatened, or controlled, please reach out to someone safe, or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

What if things got better tomorrow, and you still could not feel anything? After last week's question about becoming cold, this episode goes deeper, into the fear underneath it: what if I never feel soft again? I talk honestly about what numbness protected me from, what it cost me, and what softness really means. Softness is not going back to what you tolerated to keep the peace. Boundaries help you decide what you will do, and trust is rebuilt through time and consistent behavior, not one good evening. With Scripture from Ezekiel 36:26 and this week's GGism: "I miss my softness. I don't miss what I tolerated to keep the peace."

Journal prompt: When I say I miss my softness, what exactly do I miss? What is one small, safe way I can make room for that part of me this week?

Faith and Focus: A Moment for Your Mind with Coach Gigi Parker. Season 6: Diaries of the Depleted Wife. Sponsored by FOCUS: Faith and Mental Health, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization where we integrate faith and mental health.

Background music: "Be Still and Know," written by Geleta "Gigi" Parker, piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.