What happens when faith becomes tangled with fear—and relief starts masquerading as peace?

This episode serves as a companion to Episode 254 of The Postscript Podcast, “Navigating Compulsive Behavior Biblically.” In this Sound Mind follow-up, Jonathan Kindler slows the conversation down and walks with listeners who feel stuck in the scrupulosity loop.

Blending biblical reflection, lived experience, and practical guidance, this episode explores why anxiety often attaches itself to the things we value most, how the for certainty in feelings keeps the loop alive, and what it looks like to trust God without waiting for relief.

Whether you wrestle with religious anxiety, intrusive thoughts about salvation, or the pressure to constantly “make sure” you’re okay, this episode offers a steadier path forward—one rooted in truth, not sensation.

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Why do New Year’s resolutions start strong and fall apart so quickly? And why does trying harder often leave us feeling more discouraged instead of changed?

In this reflective, Scripture-anchored episode, Jonathan Kindler explores why most resolutions fail not because of laziness or lack of desire, but because we plan from hope instead of reality. Blending biblical rhythm, lived experience, and pastoral insight, this conversation reframes growth away from pressure and toward formation. From Sabbath as design, to conditioning without shame, this episode invites listeners to slow down, tell the truth about their limits, and rediscover obedience that actually lasts.

If you’ve ever felt behind before the year even got started, this episode offers a gentler and wiser path forward. Not by doing more, but by walking faithfully within the life God actually gave you.

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Is relief really the answer? And is medication right for me?

In this second episode of the Thinking Through: Medication series, Jonathan Kindler slows the conversation down and invites listeners to examine what happens after relief arrives. When the volume lowers, when the edge softens, when life feels more manageable. What do we do with that space?

Blending Scripture, theology of the body, pastoral wisdom, and personal storytelling, this episode explores why relief is not a destination but a crossroads. Jonathan helps listeners discern the difference between mercy and replacement, stabilization and sanctification, quiet and true peace. Drawing from biblical examples of healing, limitation, and dependence, he asks whether relief is helping us walk more faithfully or quietly teaching us what we rely on.

Whether you’re considering medication, currently taking it, or wrestling with what feeling better actually means, this episode calls you to wisdom. To discernment. To a peace that doesn’t bypass formation, and a faith that knows what to do when the volume goes down.

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Is medication meant to help us heal, or has it quietly begun to replace the slow work of sanctification?

In this Thinking Through episode, Jonathan Kindler steps into one of the most sensitive conversations today: the rise of mental health medication and the growing confusion around what pills can help and what they can never do. With clarity, care, and biblical depth, he explores the SSRI boom, cultural promises of relief, and the quiet pressure to medicate pain that Scripture invites us to walk through with God.

Blending Scripture, neuroscience, humor, and pastoral reflection, this episode refuses easy answers. Instead, it holds tension: honoring medication as a possible mercy while drawing a clear line where only the Spirit can work. Through stories from Scripture and the counseling room, Jonathan invites listeners to rethink peace, suffering, and what true transformation actually requires.

Whether you are taking medication, considering it, or wrestling with how faith and mental health intersect, this episode calls you to slow down, think biblically, and trust God with both relief and formation.

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What is distraction really doing to your soul?

In this episode, Jonathan Kindler takes listeners beneath the noise of our digital world and into the deeper question our phones rarely let us ask: What direction is my life actually pointed right now? Through Scripture, storytelling, and a painfully accurate stand-up opener about nonstop notifications, Jonathan explores why distraction isn’t neutral. It forms us. It scatters our affection. It slowly pulls our gaze off the Lord.

Blending Proverbs 4, Ephesians 5, and Psalm 119 with clinical insight and a personal story about learning straight lines with a push mower, this episode reframes distraction not as a time-management problem, but a discipleship one. You’ll discover how digital noise reshapes the nervous system, why stillness feels like withdrawal, and how Scripture calls you back to a fixed point, a North Star, that steadies your steps.

If you’ve felt scattered, unfocused, spiritually thin, or pulled in a hundred directions before breakfast, this conversation offers five practical anchors to help you reclaim your gaze, recover your direction, and return your attention to the One who never drifts.

Whether you’re weary, overwhelmed, or simply tired of zig-zagging through the day, this episode invites you back to clarity. To presence. To the steadying gift of direction.

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Your mind is tired. Your phone won’t stop buzzing. Your to do list feels like a browser with forty open tabs.

So what do you do when focus feels impossible?

In this episode, Jonathan Kindler redefines attention as more than a productivity skill. Scripture treats it as worship and stewardship. Drawing from Colossians 3:2 and Psalm 16:8, Jonathan explores why the Bible speaks in terms of what we “set” our minds on, and how scattered attention often reflects a scattered heart.

Through a blend of biblical insight and clinical understanding, he explains how dopamine loops, overstimulation, and decision fatigue pull us in a hundred directions at once. Then he offers a different path forward: simple, worshipful attention. You will learn practical tools like sensory resets, single tasking as worship, and the “one thing” rule from Luke 10:42, where Mary chooses the better part in a room full of demands.

If your thoughts have felt noisy, fragmented, or out of your control, this conversation reframes focus not as a personality trait, but as a way of walking with God in a world that constantly pulls your eyes away.

Because attention is never just about getting things done.

It is about who you keep before you.

You care. You plan. You even set reminders.

So why do you still put things off?

In this episode, Jonathan Kindler takes an honest look at procrastination, not as laziness but as misplaced worship. Blending biblical wisdom with counseling insight, he unpacks how avoidance, perfectionism, and the fear of failure disguise a deeper heart issue: control.

Through humor, story, and Scripture, you’ll see why procrastination is less about time management and more about trust, and how grace - not grit - helps you finally follow through.

Because the war on procrastination isn’t really about getting more done.

It’s about learning to move when God says move.

What do you do when someone’s gratitude keeps slipping away?

In this Walking With episode, Jonathan Kindler equips pastors, counselors, and anyone listening to walk patiently with those whose thankfulness has faded. Through scripture, story, and real-life moments, he shows how forgetfulness isn’t failure—it’s the human drift of the heart—and how gentle reminders can help rekindle joy.

Blending biblical insight and counseling wisdom, Jonathan outlines how to name the drift, surface the lie, and build small rhythms of remembrance that actually stick. You’ll learn how to bring truth without pressure, create space for grace, and hand someone practical tools for remembering what God’s already done.

Whether you lead, counsel, or simply sit across from a friend who says, “I know I should be thankful, I just forget,” this episode gives you language and structure to walk with them well—helping gratitude become more than a feeling, but a practiced way of seeing grace again.

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