๐ด Boundaries with Unhealthy Parents | Borderline Personality Disorder | Fear of Death
Mark DeJesus
teaching
March 22, 2026
In Sunday Live, we dig into boundaries with dysfunctional and unhealthy parents, neediness, borderline personality disorder, religious OCD, scrupulosity and more! I start off with why Paul was able to break through the fear of death and end the broadcast addressing a 68-year-old pastor who has spent decades tormented by the fear that his past sin permanently separated him from God.
We also get into:
๐น OCD + Borderline Personality Disorder โ What happens when these two collide, why the emotional storms feel constant, and how Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) principles can help you stop being a victim of your own mood swings
๐น Blasphemous and intrusive thoughts โ Why God is NOT mad at you, and how to stop interpreting every anxious feeling as spiritual condemnation
๐น Frozen in indecision โ A woman dealing with chronic illness, a traumatic medical experience, and spiritual abuse from prosperity gospel teaching asks how to include God in her decisions without becoming paralyzed by fear of "missing His will." I challenge a common distortion Christians carry about what God's will actually looks like โ and why you have more freedom to make decisions than you think
๐น Rejection wounds and attention-seeking โ Why the obsessive need to be seen or noticed isn't something to shame yourself over, but a wound pointing to places that need healing โ and why the answer is never suppression
๐น Parenting a teenager with ODD and addiction โ The one principle I keep coming back to: all change happens out of a bond, and like Emmanuel, God with us, the path forward is entering your child's world, not forcing them into yours
๐น Boundaries with difficult people โ Four levels of relational boundaries and how to navigate toxic or narcissistic relationships with grace and wisdom
Throughout, I keep coming back to something that shapes everything I do: the body of Christ is full of people who are suffering and hiding in shame. Whether it's a pastor who is struggling with religious OCD, a woman frozen by trauma and bad theology, or someone tormented by thoughts they can't make stop โ you are not alone, and there is hope. And this is exactly why Melissa and I show up every Sunday.
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0:00 Intro
2:15 How To Find Freedom
8:25 Blessed Usherance
18:25 What was Certs w/Retsyn?
22:25 Greet The Chat
26:52 Philippians : 20-26 When The Fear Of Death Loses It's Power
1:04:35 Dance Break
1:06:20 How Do I Laugh More?
1:10:50 Boundaries With Unhealthy Parents & Dysfunctional Family
1:21:10 Spinning When I Don't Receive Attention
1:27:20 Religious OCD & Borderline Personality Disorder
1:36:40 Frozen With Indecisiveness. About Getting Surgery
1:45:35 Helping Teenager With ODD & Drug Abuse?
1:51:40 Hard to Move Forward With OCD?
1:54:47 Pastor With Religious OCD
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