In this week’s conversation, I sit down with my friend Kelli to talk about what we jokingly call being “toxically open” – oversharing, social hangovers, and that next-day spiral where you replay every word and wonder if you were “too much.” We explore how shame sneaks into our relationships, what it looks like to build safe community, and why the simple question “Who told you that?” can be such a game-changer for our view of ourselves and God.

We also get into what it means to invite Jesus into our actual stories (not the cleaned-up versions), why many of us learned to intellectualize our feelings to survive, and how practices like silence, solitude, and “coffee with Jesus” can help us reconnect with our own hearts. Along the way, there’s talk of therapy, faith, IFS parts language, the gospel ladder, and finding little “taste like  ...