Transformed You With Mark & Melissa Dejesus

As you become aware of how your upbringing impacted your life, it can be helpful to understand some themes of dysfunction you may have grown up with. Today I want to talk about dysfunctional families and five types that I have seen impact the mental and emotional health of people negatively. Video Broadcast: Watch on […]

If you want to experience greater mental, emotional and relationship health, it will be important to understand your relationship with your parents. A healthy upbringing contributes to greater mental health. Studies have shown that a strong parent-child relationship leads to a healthy sense of identity and how to relate to your thoughts and emotions. On […]

What does it look like in day to day life to work through people pleasing struggles? Melissa and I take some time to give examples of how people pleasing has impacted our journey and preventing us from experiencing greater mental and emotional health. We talk through some of the factors in our upbringing that contributed […]

The inner critic seeks to block and create resistance to the work of love and grace in your life. It is the voice in our thoughts that constantly judges our thoughts, behaviors, decisions, and emotions. Learning to recognize and discern the inner critic can be a powerful tool in helping us to become more self-aware […]

Are You at War with Yourself? Many are noticing that within their struggle to heal and overcome, they have become an enemy to themselves. The brokenness of our hearts has driven us into living with a lie that being an enemy to yourself is the way to live. Too many are in a war called […]

In order to break through patterns of people pleasing, we have to learn how to help the heart of a people pleaser to experience healing and find new directions that are healthy and empowered. Today my purpose is to look at your heart and equip you to walk away from the trap of pleasing and […]

To break free from people pleasing, we have to become self-aware and discern its patterns in our life. What does the life of a people pleaser look like and why do so many get trapped underneath this bondage? in this broadcast teaching, I will share about patterns of people pleasing so that you can discern […]

As we grow in our walk with God, many share a struggle they have in working through the past. In our discussion, we want to bring out the journey of healing and growth regarding the “past you.” Not just the “you” before you accepted Christ, but even the “past you” as a believer, the immature […]

How do you practice compassion on your past mental health struggles? How do you also deal with people who hold you to the “old you” and the old issues of the past? How do you walk into the new when people around you are holding you to the past? In today’s broadcast, I address the […]

Do you struggle with ruminating about the past and have a hard time letting go? Today’s broadcast involves addressing a question that was sent in, asking about how to deal with past events recall that triggers rumination. I will answer the question by walking through healthy perspectives about your past and how to relate to […]

Welcome to our conversation, as Mark and Melissa have a discussion around sharing of mental health struggles? Do you find that you talk about mental health too much? Do you share too much? Or not enough? As we discuss this issue, we will highlight some example we have observed and what it can look like […]

Do you feel a pressure that works in your prayer life, where you feel a constant guilt about not praying enough or “just right.”? Most likely, you are under the influence of religious perfectionism. When it comes to prayer, many believers can be highly influenced approach spiritual routines as perfectionists. We want our prayers to […]

When we are under the influence of a shame attack, our emotional response typically ends up going into two unhealthy directions that do not allow us to remain in sobriety. They can keep us stuck in patterns of denial, stubborn and defensiveness or drowning despair and hopelessness. In today’s broadcast, I want to spend some […] The post 2 Unhealthy Responses to Shame Attacks appeared first on Mark DeJesus.

Do you find that you constantly feel stuck? Are you observing that you keep repeating the same story, like a broken record? Do you feel discouraged, feeling like you are going around the same mountain? Today I want to share with you about what these things can mean and how we can approach it more […] The post What Does It Mean When You Feel Stuck Are a Broken Record or Going Around the Mountain? appeared first on Mark DeJesus.

When we think of the word “sober,” we often equate it solely with describing a person who has substance abuse issues, specifically alcohol. We think of sobriety only from a view of someone who is not drunk or intoxicated. But from a biblical perspective, there is so much more to what living sober means. Sobriety […] The post The Biblical Importance of Living SOBER appeared first on Mark DeJesus.

The influence of perfectionism can be so all-consuming, it can leave us ultimately feeling joyless. One of the biggest manifestations of perfectionism is the pressure it brings and the joy it steals. If you find yourself constantly striving under the pressure of perfectionism, it may be time to take back your joy. Video Broadcast: Watch […] The post Take Back Your Joy from Perfectionism appeared first on Mark DeJesus.

When you experience a shame attack, you may feel like you are not good enough or that you are unworthy of being loved. A tremendous weight of embarrassment can fall on your emotional state. These feelings can be overwhelming and can cause you to feel like you are not worthy of love or respect. Today […] The post 10 Signs of a Shame Attack appeared first on Mark DeJesus.

Join in the celebration as I take some time on my 46th birthday to address questions you may have about my journey. Video Broadcast:   The post 46 Years of Learning (Birthday Q&A) appeared first on Mark DeJesus.

Is religious perfectionism stealing the fruit of enjoying the Scriptures and your Bible reading experience? Are you trying to read the Bible “just right,” but its the influence of perfectionism? Today I want to talk about some ways that we can get bogged down by perfectionism when it comes to engaging the Word of God […] The post Bible Reading and Religious Perfectionism appeared first on Mark DeJesus.

Start off the new year with a live broadcast, where I address the importance of addressing the questions you ask yourself. We ask ourselves, others and God questions all the time. Many of them leave us disempowered. We are often asking question that lead us into destructive paths and dead ends. Today I want to […] The post 7 Questions to Enhance Your Mental Health Journey appeared first on Mark DeJesus.