Pure Desire Podcast 411 - Jay Stringer on Mental Health, Healing, & Transformation
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May 20, 2025 
Jay Stringer, a licensed mental health counselor and author, shares his insights on mental health, trauma, and unwanted sexual behavior. He emphasizes the importance of curiosity over condemnation in the healing process. Jay discusses how unresolved wounds shape current struggles and urges listeners to explore their stories to understand their behaviors. He highlights the significance of attachment needs and the value of self-compassion. With practical steps for breaking unhealthy patterns, Jay illustrates how faith and psychology work hand in hand for profound transformation.
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Gospel Enters The Body
- Jay Stringer reframed the gospel as God entering our embodied struggles, not just a power to escape them.
- This invites healing by allowing faith to sit with trauma instead of demanding instant elimination of symptoms.
Look To Reactions, Not Only Memories
- Trauma shows up more through present reactions than through tidy memories, so study reactions to relationships first.
- Building that bridge from present behavior to past story reduces self-condemnation and reveals the real battle.
Old Shame Repeats In Parenting
- Jay recounts feeling shame dropping his kids off because of an old memory of his family's dated car.
- His present reactions revealed a childhood wound shaping current behavior and parenting impulses.
