HeyJaredReal with Melanie: Journal-Led Lessons on Faith, Wholeness, and Focus
Journal-led lessons on faith, wholeness, and focus.Hosted by certified Focus Coach and your Focus Bestie, Melanie Reyes, Real with Melanie is a raw, faith-fueled space where multi-passionate women come to heal, grow, and walk boldly in purpose.Each episode blends honest…
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35: An Open Letter to the Woman Who Needs Everyone to Be Okay (opens the original)
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What if being the caring one, the dependable one, the peacemaker, or the person everyone calls is quietly costing you your peace? In Episode 35 of Real with Melanie, Melanie begins a four-part series on emotional sobriety for Christian women. This open letter explores how codependency, people-pleasing, fear of rejection, the need for reassurance, overexplaining, rescuing, and trying to manage other people's emotions can hide underneath qualities we often call loving, helpful, empathetic, or fait
34: Christian Dating After Healing | An Open Letter to the Woman Learning to Choose Differently (opens the original)
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What does dating after divorce as a Christian woman look like after you have spent years doing the emotional healing work? In this episode, Melanie shares what three dates in ten months revealed about dating after healing, relationship discernment, emotional safety, boundaries, and learning to choose differently. This Open Letter is for the Christian woman who wants love but no longer wants to lose herself trying to find it. It explores why a good Christian man can still not be the right man for
33: What Do You Do When You Are Not Okay as a Christian Woman | Real Talk on Emotional Sobriety (opens the original)
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What do you do when you're not okay as a Christian woman? In this episode I get honest about a hard week, two funerals, and what it means to stay present with your emotions instead of performing peace you don't feel… A little about this show: Real with Melanie is a faith-based podcast for Christian women navigating mental health, emotional healing, and the journey to wholeness in Christ. Every episode speaks into codependency recovery, shame and guilt, boundaries, people pleasing, and identity i
32: Starting Over as a Christian Woman | 5 Things to Hold Onto When You're Starting Over (opens the original)
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Why do you keep starting over and never finishing what God called you to do? This episode walks you through the five things I make sure I have every time I start over, whether that's from divorce, a season change like empty nesting, or healing from past hurt and trauma. These five things are not a formula. They will not earn you a new life. They're the practical, day-to-day things I do while God does what only God can do. For each one, I'm giving you a real example of how it played out in my lif
31: Healing From Shame, Codependency & Alcohol | Why I Went Silent for 6 Years (opens the original)
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Why did I go silent on this podcast for six years? This full-length episode is the honest answer, covering a toxic on-and-off relationship, codependency, alcohol, and the shame that silenced a faith-based coach from telling her own story. This is the most personal episode I have ever recorded. For six years I told you "life happened." That was true, but it wasn't the whole truth. In this episode, I'm sharing the whole truth: a relationship I was too ashamed to post publicly, alcohol that quietly
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