Sr. Miriam James Heidland shares her experience of being adopted. Jake, Bob & Sister have worked together for years and start the conversation off by discussing her impactful ministry, finding identity in Christ & her healing journey. She then shares about finding out she was adopted & the struggles & graces experienced along the way.

Chris & Michelle Benzinger share their story of adopting two children from Haiti after a hurricane devastated the country. They share with Jake & Bob how they weren’t planning to adopt until the Lord put it on their heart. They discuss how they navigated integrating these children into their family & how there was joint restoration for everyone involved. Michelle also talks about her experience with Safe & Sound protocol & its role in her healing journey.

This may be the most special episode of the podcast yet! Jake & Bob are joined by Bob’s sister, her husband and his 48 year old nephew Brian that Bob just met for the first time this year! They gave up their son for adoption after a teenage pregnancy and the wounds were still there for everybody after over 40 years. Then, by nothing short of a miracle, the family was reconnected! It’s a beautiful story of grace, healing, reconciliation and God’s abundant love.

Jake & Bob kick off a new series on adoption. We have all been impacted by adoption, whether through family situations or spiritually since we are all adopted as sons and daughters of God. Jake & Bob tackle heart dynamics of adoption, separation anxiety & ruptures of primary relationships along with defining dissociation & attachment trauma. This series will have something for everyone!

Trust is vitally important to the healing process. Jake & Bob discuss broken trust, healing relationships where trust has been broken and the barriers we put up that prevent us from building trust in our relationships. They share about how trust issues can affect our relationship with God, those closest to us & how we can rebuild that trust.

Dr. Karl Lehman joins Jake & Bob to discuss his Immanuel Approach to healing. He shares from his years of training and extensive therapy work on how to use this approach to bring people to deeper healing. Dr. Karl has been a leader in the field for decades and we are overjoyed to share this conversation with you.

We’re back! Jake & Bob return after a summer break tan & ready to dive deep into the topic of what healing really is. They also share insight into the problem of suffering, how to shift mindsets when it seems like healing isn’t coming & a consistent reminder that God is always up to something good.

This week, Jake and Bob talk about what it means to “process your emotions” and give ways to practically do that. They share that the steps to regulate emotions include awareness, feeling the emotion, naming the emotion, and relationships. They create a scenario where they navigate someone through a lot of intense emotion and bring it back to a wound. Through this scenario, they share the importance of uncovering a wound in order to bring about healing.

This week, Jake and Bob dive deeper into their series on emotions. They discuss how the Church often seems to deemphasize our emotions and the culture overemphasizes them which can leave us confused about the role emotions play in our lives. They discuss how having emotions is natural and good and how we can best integrate them into a holy lifestyle. They also make the important distinction between an emotion, a wound, and a spirit.

Bob and Jake introduce a new series on emotions. Bob shares some personal exciting news to kick off the conversation & then he and Jake discuss what emotions are, where they come from & how we regulate them.

Jake and Bob answer questions submitted from the audience. They take time to diligently answer questions about spirituality & healing that Jake and Bob are able to answer based on experiences within their extensive careers in psychology. The questions range from what type of media we should be consuming, dealing with intrusive thoughts, working through vows & finding a spiritual director.

This is the final installment in our series on "Healing Our Primary Relationships." Jake & Bob close this series by discussing how we can love others better. They open up about areas of struggle that can arise in relationships and the various avenues available for coming towards solutions with your spouse, friends & coworkers. Jake and Bob also pull important lessons from the teachings and lives of prominent Catholic role models like St. Mother Teresa and Pope St. John Paul II.

Jake and Bob break open the conversation they had in the previous episode with Dr. Peter Malinoski and dive deeper into the key points from that episode. This leads to a discussion where Jake and Bob talk about their own struggles with feelings of rejection and how to process that. The guys also talk about forgiving and loving our past selves, dealing with anxiety & the dangers of self-reliance.

Jake and Bob bring on fellow podcast host & Catholic psychology leader, Dr. Peter Malinoski. Dr. Malinoski is a clinical psychologist and the president and co-founder of Souls and Hearts. In this episode, Dr. Malinoski talks about the different “parts” of ourselves and the process of getting those parts into a more perfect unity. This process will help us to live the Greatest Commandment more fully because when we love ourselves, we can love our neighbor more fully.

Following up on their series about healing and deliverance, Jake & Bob move into a conversation about healing our primary relationships with God, ourselves and with others. This stems from a recent talk that Bob gave with the assistance of his new book “Do You Want to be Healed.” Bob shares his own story of healing and how some key stories in the Gospels aided in his journey.

In this episode, Bob and Jake reflect on all of the great conversations that have happened with their guests through the course of the season. They share their favorite insights that they gleaned from their guests and share their own final thoughts on discernment & deliverance.

In this episode, Jake and Bob sit down with Fr. Boniface Hicks, the director of The Institute for Ministry Formation at St Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. They discuss the role that spirituality plays in the healing of trauma and the numerous ways that opportunities for healing reveal themselves. There are several instances in this episode in which the hosts discuss the ways that Father Boniface's advice has led to healing within their own lives.

Jake & Bob are joined by their friends from Unbound Ministry, Neal and Matt Lozano. The conversation takes us through the journey of lifelong faith and how to spot the tactics used by the enemy in attempts to shake our foundations set in Christ. Neal and Matt share experiences from their relationships with Christ and their interpersonal relationships. They also share their system called the 5 Keys to Freedom, that helps to re-aim our sights back to the Father in times of trauma which leads to deeper healing.

Jake & Bob are joined by Fr. Justin Brady who leads the Office of Healing, Deliverance and Exorcism in the Diocese of Boise and has a long history of connection to our hosts. Fr. Justin shares insights from his work in deliverance ministry on how we can be brought back into right relationship with God, ourselves and our neighbors.

Jake & Bob are joined by Fr. Timothy Gallagher for a discussion on how discernment and healing go hand in hand. Fr. Tim is the author of the incredible book “The Discernment of Spirits” that teaches us how to utilize St. Ignatius’ rules of discernment. He shares the process of discernment while Jake & Bob combine his knowledge with their expertise on healing.