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.