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How to Love an Avoidant Partner Without Losing Yourself | Let’s Get JADE-d

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Loving an avoidant partner can feel confusing, lonely, and emotionally exhausting. In this Home for the Holidays episode of Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind, Geleta Gigi Parker (Coach Gigi) explores how to love well without losing yourself.

Using biblical truth, psychological insight, and practical tools, this episode walks you through what avoidant attachment is, why it forms, and how it shows up in relationships. Geleta Gigi Parker teaches how to regulate your emotions, stop over-functioning, set healthy boundaries, and discern the difference between patience and permission. This episode also revisits the powerful concept of Let’s Get JADE-d, reminding listeners that you do not have to justify, argue, defend, or over-explain to be heard or valued.

This episode is grounded in Exodus chapter 15, where God declares, “I am the Lord who heals you.” At Faith & Focus, we believe healing is holy. You’ll hear a real-life example of regulated communication, five reflection questions to journal and pray through, a closing prayer, and a Home for the Holidays blessing spoken over you and your home.

Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind is sponsored by FOCUS: Faith & Mental Health, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving women, children, and families through faith-centered mental health education, coaching, prayer, food insecurity support, and community outreach.

Just last weekend, during the storm, FOCUS launched a last-minute community initiative and, by the grace of God, was able to serve 35 plus families with nourishing food items. Every family that reached out received support, and we give God thanks for provision and community.

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Books by Geleta Gigi Parker

Chef Gigi Serves Today: 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 titles: https://a.co/d/8NzA35Z | https://a.co/d/a4AViP5 | https://a.co/d/bBCiNIw

Withholding Love: When Intimacy Becomes a Weapon (ebook): https://a.co/d/8sD1MEq

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Music Credit

Written and composed by Geleta Gigi Parker. Arrangement and piano accompaniment by Debary Thompson.

Breathe deep. Stay prayed up. Remember, you don’t have to JADE. You are not too far gone. You are never alone. Healing is holy. Stay focused.

Love & Light

Gigi Bee 🐝