Episode 214

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5th Sep 2025

214. Breaking the Silence on Domestic Violence

Pastor Michael Neely shares his personal journey as a male survivor of domestic violence, discussing the impact of faith, the struggles within his marriage, and the role of the church in addressing domestic violence. He emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility, how embracing truth brings freedom, and how forgiveness and reconciliation are two different issues. Pastor Neely also highlights his advocacy work for domestic violence victims and the healing power of storytelling.

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R.E.S.T. With Virginia Dixon
Helping People Reason Significance and Find Significance in Reason
Discipleship Counselor and Educator, Virginia Dixon, shares her Reconstitution Approach to Healing: R.E.S.T.™ (Relational, Emotional and Spiritual Truths) seeking to help her listeners and clients release confusion, chaos, and dis-ease in order to find clarity, order, and ease.
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Virginia Dixon

The R.E.S.T.™ with Virginia Dixon Podcast features numerous resources, authentic client stories and experts in various disciplines to provide each listener practical tools for their own journey to freedom and healing. Confusion often leads to chaos and dis-ease, causing imbalances that lead to illness infecting the body, soul and spirit. Therefore, learning how to reason and reconcile unresolved emotional conflicts within yourself and others is imperative to find R.E.S.T.™ (Relational, Emotional and Spiritual Truth) and establish clarity, order and ease. Years of working in the field of neuroscience technology as well as collaborating with medical practitioners while serving as the Director of Inner Healing at both the Center for New Medicine and Cancer Center for Healing, strengthened Virginia's commitment to help those she serves find increasing measures of freedom, reconciliation and transformation.