Faith & Feelings

Faith & Feelings is a podcast designed to help you untangle & honor your emotions, authentically practice your faith, and integrate both into your everyday life so that you can experience the goodness & delight that comes from living in relationship with yourself, God, and others.Join author and therapist in training Taylor Joy every Monday, where she’ll share therapeutic insight and spiritual truth aimed at helping you implement small shifts into your daily rhythms and routines.

Faith & Feelings is a religion podcast hosted by Taylor Joy Murray, with 118 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Taylor Joy Murray hosts Faith & Feelings, a religion show with 118 episodes published.

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  What I'm Learning About My Limits

  Apr 26, 20269 minS0

  <p>In this episode, I’m sharing something that feels both really right and really hard to say out loud.</p> <p>After years of showing up weekly, I’ve recognized that I don’t have the space I want to give this podcast. Not just time, but energy, creativity, and depth. And I care too much about what we’re cultivating here to keep showing up in a way that feels rushed or stretched thin.</p> <p>So I’m shifting this podcast into seasonal series.</p> <p>This conversation is about learning to let my limits be real. Not someth...

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  What Emotional Safety Really Looks Like

  Apr 19, 202619 minS0

  <p>What does emotional safety actually look like in real life? </p> <p>We use that language all the time — “I don’t feel safe” — but it often holds a wide range of experiences, from true relational harm to simple discomfort or vulnerability. In this episode, we slow that phrase down and explore the difference. Drawing on insights from author and psychiatrist Curt Thompson, we unpack why emotional safety isn’t about always feeling calm or at ease, but about the ability to stay connected, even in moments of tension, uncertainty, or emotional exposure.</p> <p>We also walk through six signs of...

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  5 Communication Types That Impact Your Friendships with Jason VanRuler, LPC

  Apr 12, 202626 minS0

  <p >The depth of our relationships is often shaped by the depth of our communication. Not just what we say, but how we say it...and even more than that, why we say it.</p> <p >Communication isn’t just a skill we learn. it’s something that’s been formed in us. Through our stories, our families, our attachment, the environments that shaped us long before we had language for any of it.</p> <p >In today’s conversation, I’m joined by therapist and author Jason VanRuler to explore the different communication patterns we tend to fall into, how those...

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  Mutual Vulnerability and the Art of Sharing Your Inner World

  Apr 5, 202619 minS0

  <p >Vulnerability is often talked about as openness, but what if it’s actually about capacity?</p> <p >In this episode, we continue our series on friendships by exploring what it really takes to share our inner world with one another in a meaningful way.</p> <p >Drawing from Dr. David Schnarch’s work on the Four Points of Balance, we look at vulnerability not just as something we do, but as something we practice within relationship. From developing a Solid Flexible Self, to cultivating a Quiet Mind & Calm Heart, to practicing Grounded Responding and Meaningful Endurance, this episode unpacks how...

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  The Ache for Deeper Friendship

  Mar 30, 202617 minS0

  <p>How do we actually cultivate deeper friendships? The kind where we don’t have to perform, hide, or carry the weight of our lives alone?</p> <p>In this episode, we begin a new series on soul friendships: relationships marked by honesty, presence, and a shared attentiveness to God’s work in our lives. But before we talk about how to build them, we start with something more honest: the tension so many of us feel between our longing to be known and our instinct to hide.</p> <p>We also unpack what soul friendships really are, where the idea...

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