Restored: Where Psychology Meets Grace
by Dr. Malorie Schneider
Restored is a podcast where the science of the mind meets the heart of grace. Each episode explores how psychological insights and timeless spiritual wisdom work together to heal wounds, renew hope, and help you thrive. Whether you're navigating life's challenges, seeking deeper purpose, or simply wanting to grow, Restored offers practical tools, compassionate conversations, and faith-infused guidance to help you live whole and free.
Episodes
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The Need for Control: Why Uncertainty Feels So Threatening
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When Your Mind Won't Stop: Overthinking, Rumination, and Finding Mental Peace
Does your mind ever feel like it just won't turn off? Subscribe for access to the Restored Reflection Journal Library, where you'll find guided exercises and reflection prompts to help you recognize unhelpful thinking patterns, explore what keeps them going, and practice responding differently....
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More Than Mom: Loving Your Family Without Losing Yourself
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When Everything Feels Important: Saying No Without the Mom Guilt
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The Invisible Load Why Moms Feel Like They're Always Behind
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Am I Doing Enough? Social Media, Comparison, and the Anxiety of Modern Motherhood
Subscribe for access to the Restored Reflection Journal Library: Reflection Journal Library Modern motherhood comes with an extraordinary amount of information about how to raise children well. But more information hasn't necessarily made mothers feel more confident. Sometimes it has done the...
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Loving People Without Losing Yourself: How to Stay Connected Without Abandoning Who You Are
Subscribe for access to the Restored Reflection Journal Library: Reflection Journal Library Healthy relationships ask something of us. We make room for another person's needs, allow ourselves to be influenced, compromise, support, and sometimes sacrifice. But how do we stay deeply connected to…
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What Relationships Teach Us About Ourselves: Understanding the Schemas We Bring Into Connection
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When Relationships Change: Grieving What Was Without Living in the Past
Want to go deeper with this episode? Subscribers have access to the Restored Reflection Journal Library, with companion prompts designed to help you reflect on what you're learning and apply it to your own life. Access the Reflection Journal Library Some relationships end clearly. Others remain…
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Forgiveness Without Pretending It Didn't Hurt: Making Room for the Pain Before Letting Go
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When a Marriage Ends: Divorce, Grief, Identity, and Faith
Want to go deeper with this episode? Subscribers have access to the Restored Reflection Journal Library, with guided prompts designed to help you continue reflecting on each episode in your own time. Access the Reflection Journal Library Divorce doesn't always come with a clear villain or a…
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When Growth Creates Distance: How to Protect the Me Without Losing the Us
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When Family Relationships Hurt: Boundaries, Healing, and Honoring Without Losing Yourself
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What Makes a Relationship Healthy? Trust, Attachment, and Emotional Safety
Go Deeper with the Restored Reflection Journal Library If today's episode resonates with you, continue the journey through the Restored Reflection Journal Library. Subscribers receive exclusive access to the complete library of companion reflection journals, designed to help you move beyond...
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What Makes Life Meaningful? Finding Purpose Beyond Happiness
Subscribe to receive the companion reflection journal and additional resources for every episode: Reflection Journal Library: https://subscribepage.io/restored-reflection-guide We spend so much of our lives pursuing happiness. The next accomplishment. The next promotion. The next milestone. The...
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What Healthy People Do Differently
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Restoring Wonder: What Awe Does to the Brain and Soul
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The Psychology of Joy: Why We Miss What's Good
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The Art of Becoming More Fully Yourself
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Becoming Someone You Trust: Rebuilding Confidence From the Inside Out
What if confidence isn't something you find—but something you build? Many of us spend years wondering why we don't feel more confident, more certain, or more secure in ourselves. We assume confidence arrives first and then we take action. But what if confidence is actually the result of something...
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The Power of Small Things: Why Tiny Habits Change Lives
Want deeper reflection and free companion journals for each episode? Subscribe to the Restored reflection library here: https://subscribepage.io/restored-reflection-guide Listen & follow Restored here: https://pod.link/1864576270 We often think change happens through dramatic breakthroughs, big...
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The Science of Becoming: Why Growth Feels Uncomfortable
Want to go deeper? Subscribe for companion reflection journals, guided prompts, and deeper resources designed to help you move beyond listening and into meaningful reflection and growth. ✨ Reflection journals & deeper resources: https://subscribepage.io/restored-reflection-guide Have you ever...
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The Hidden Psychology of Hope
What if hope matters more than we realize? When life feels heavy, growth feels slow, or healing seems farther away than we hoped, discouragement can quietly begin shrinking our sense of possibility. Yet psychology—and faith—both point to something important: Hope matters. In this opening episode…
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What culture is Doing-Episode 5: Grief--The Losses We Don't Name in a Fast, Changing World
What if some of the heaviness you've been carrying… is grief? Not only grief after losing a person. But grief from change. From disappointment. From relationships that shifted. From dreams that didn't unfold the way you hoped. From seasons of life that quietly ended before you were ready. In the...
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What Culture is Doing Episode 4: Fragmented— Comparison, Performance, and the Scattered Self
Why do so many of us feel disconnected from ourselves—even while appearing high-functioning on the outside? In Episode 4 of What Culture Is Doing to Our Nervous Systems and Souls, Dr. Malorie explores the hidden cost of living in a culture shaped by comparison, performance, productivity, and...
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What Culture is Doing Episode 3: Always On
Episode 3: Always On — Chronic Urgency, Hypervigilance, and Why Rest Doesn't Feel Restful Why does it feel so hard to truly slow down? In Episode 3 of What Culture Is Doing…, we explore the nervous system impact of living in a culture that rewards speed, urgency, constant availability, and…
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Mother's Day Bonus Episode: The Many Layers We Carry
Mother's Day is often portrayed as a simple celebration filled with flowers, gratitude, and joy. But for many people, this day carries far more complexity than the world around them acknowledges. In this special bonus episode of Restored: Where Psychology Meets Grace, Dr. Malorie explores the…
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What Culture is Doing: Episode 2-When Caring Costs Too Much
You're not just tired. There's a kind of exhaustion that doesn't come from doing too much—but from caring deeply in an environment that continually asks more of you than your system can sustain. In Episode 2 of What Culture Is Doing…, we explore moral fatigue—a form of emotional and nervous…
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What Culture is Doing: Episode 1-The Water We are Swimming In
Episode 1: The Water We're Swimming In What Culture Is Doing to Our Nervous Systems and Souls (Series) We live in a culture that moves fast, asks much, and rarely pauses. Many of us feel overwhelmed, distracted, tired, or disconnected—and assume something is wrong with us. But what if much of…
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Held Together: Healing Childhood Trauma-Bonus episode: Post-Traumatic Growth
If this episode resonates with you, take a moment to like, follow, and subscribe to the podcast. When you do, it helps others find these conversations—and gives you access to the resource library, including reflection journals and tools designed to help you go deeper in your healing journey. As…
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Healing Childhood Trauma Episode 6: Rebuilding Trust: Learning to Feel Safe Within Yourself
If this episode resonates with you, take a moment to like, follow, and subscribe to the podcast. When you do, it helps others find these conversations—and gives you access to the resource library, including reflection journals designed to help you go deeper in your healing journey. Have you ever...
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Held Together: Healing Childhood Trauma-Healing Happens in Relationship
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Held Together: Healing Childhood Trauma Episode 4 – When Your Body Remembers: Understanding the Nervous System
If this episode resonates with you, take a moment to subscribe, follow, and leave a review. When you do, it helps others find these conversations—people who may be quietly struggling and need to know they're not alone. Have you ever felt like you understand your story… but your body still reacts…
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Held Together: Healing Childhood Trauma Episode 3– Trauma, Shame, and the False Self
Continue your Restored journey by subscribing: https://greater-things.com/restored-podcast Why do so many of us carry a quiet sense that something is wrong with us… even when we can't explain why? In this episode of Held Together: Healing Childhood Trauma, we explore the connection between…
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Held Together: Healing Childhood Trauma – The Roles We Learned to Survive
Held Together: Healing Childhood Trauma Episode 2: The Roles We Learned to Survive Why do certain patterns in relationships feel automatic—even when we want to change them? In Episode 2 of the series Held Together: Healing Childhood Trauma, we explore how children often develop survival roles in...
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Held Together: Restoring What was Shaped Early
Held Together: Healing Childhood Trauma Episode 1: Restoring What Was Shaped Early How Childhood Trauma Shapes the Brain & Body Many of the patterns we carry as adults didn't start in adulthood. They were shaped early. In this first episode of our new six-part series Held Together: Healing...
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Untanging Anxiety: Becoming Whole
Becoming Whole Anxiety, Integration, and the Path to Wholeness Episode Overview What if healing isn't eliminating anxiety… but integrating it? In this final episode of the Untangling Anxiety series, we move from management to integration — from trying to silence anxiety to understanding its...
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Untangling Anxiety: Living in the Middle
What happens after you've named the storm… but the skies aren't fully clear? In Episode 2 of Untangling Anxiety, we explore what it means to live in the middle — not in crisis, but not completely free either. Most of life isn't lived in extremes. It's lived in the in-between. The restless nights....
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Untangling Anxiety: Naming The Storm
Untangling Anxiety: Grace in the Tension Episode 1 — Naming the Storm In this opening episode of our three-part anxiety series, we begin with the most powerful first step in healing: naming what's happening. Anxiety often arrives without language. It feels physical, overwhelming, and sometimes...
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Protect The Rhythm: Staying Regulated When Life Speeds Up
Healing doesn't mean life gets quieter—and rhythms don't protect themselves. In this final episode of our burnout recovery series, Dr. Malorie explores how to protect the rhythms you've rebuilt when stress returns, responsibilities increase, and old patterns start pulling you back into urgency....
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Rebuild the Rhythm: From Burnout to Boundaries That Hold
Join the Restored family by subscribing: https://greater-things.com/restored-podcast Burnout doesn't happen all at once—and healing doesn't end with rest. In this episode, Dr. Malorie traces the full arc from chronic boundary erosion to burnout, from rest without guilt to the slow, intentional...
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Rest Without Guilt
Rest Without Guilt Restored: Where Psychology Meets Grace Burnout doesn't heal by pushing harder. It heals by restoring what's been depleted. In this episode, Dr. Malorie continues the conversation on burnout by exploring why rest can feel so difficult—and even unsafe—for so many of us. Drawing...
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Burnout: When the Fire Fades
Burnout doesn't usually arrive all at once. It builds quietly—through chronic stress, constant responsibility, and long seasons of pushing past your limits. In this episode of Restored: Where Psychology Meets Grace, Dr. Malorie explores what burnout really is—and what it isn't. Moving beyond the...
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2026-Growth that Sticks
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Start Here: The Heart Behind Restored | A Christian Mental Health Podcast
Prefer a readable version of the show notes? Visit: https://greater-things.com/restored-podcast In this intro episode, Dr. Malorie—clinical psychologist, Jesus follower, and podcast host—shares the heart behind Restored. If you've ever wondered how faith and psychology can work together, you're…
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Coming Soon--Restored: Where Psychology Meets Grace
Restored: Where Psychology Meets Grace Step into a new kind of healing space. Hosted by Dr. Malorie—a clinical psychologist and Jesus-follower—Restored is a podcast for those craving emotional depth, spiritual honesty, and grace that meets you where you really are. If you're entering the new year...
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Boundaries: Walking in Love and Grace
If this space has been supportive for you and you'd like to keep walking this path of restoration together, you're warmly invited to explore more episodes, reflection guides, and resources here: www.greater-things.com/restored-podcast Show Notes: Boundaries are often misunderstood as walls—but in...
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Anxiety: When Your Mind Won't Rest
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About this show
Restored is a podcast where the science of the mind meets the heart of grace. Each episode explores how psychological insights and timeless spiritual wisdom work together to heal wounds, renew hope, and help you thrive. Whether you're navigating life's challenges, seeking deeper purpose, or simply wanting to grow, Restored offers practical tools, compassionate conversations, and faith-infused guidance to help you live whole and free.
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