Story Matters Podcast
In the Story Matters Podcast, Hosts Ryan and Emily Baker discuss the intersection between theology and psychology helping listeners to better grasp how their particular stories have shaped them.
Podcasting since 2024 • 37 episodes
Story Matters Podcast
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37. Are You At War With Desire?
A simple question can expose a lifetime of scripts: what do you want? We unpack why that prompt can feel threatening, trivial, or strangely blank, and trace the roots back to childhood moments where wanting was ignored, shamed, or made expensiv...
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36. Seeing Triggers as Invitations to Healing (Part 2)
We explore how triggers reveal unhealed wounds, and how integrating top‑down truth with bottom‑up practices helps the body and mind trust each other again. A biblical story of David’s overreaction, real‑life examples with horses and rivers, and...
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35. Understanding “Triggered”: What's Happening in Your Brain and Body (Part 1)
The word “triggered” has wandered far from its clinical roots, but we all hear it referenced often. We pull the term back into focus by walking through what actually happens when the brain’s alarm system misfires and how prior wounds teach the ...
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34. Why Story Work: For the Lovers, the Haters and Everyone Not Sure.
We make a clear, biblical case for "story-work" or anything under the umbrella of understanding your narrative in view of God's redemptive story. We explore why people resist it—from theological objections to fear of feeling—while offerin...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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33. Redeeming “Just Sit in It”: From Avoidance to Honest Waiting with God
What if the advice you hate—“just sit in it”—isn’t a brush‑off, but a doorway to God’s presence, clarity, and change? We unpack why the phrase so often feels passive or even harmful, especially for those with abandonment wounds, and then rebuil...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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