How Mary Taught Me to Pray by Listening | Sonja Corbitt | EP 196

Healing through Scripture sounds simple, but my guest Sonja Corbitt learned it the hard way. She came out of childhood with a deep father wound and a rage she was terrified of passing on to her own children, so she begged God for help and went looking for it in His Word. Sonja is the Catholic Evangelista and creator of the LOVE the Word Bible study and prayer method, and in this conversation she shares how one verse, Mark 12:30, became her template for healing the whole person: heart, soul, mind, and body. She tells the story of her conversion from Protestant Bible teacher to Catholic, the painful years when her husband could not follow her, and how holding on to Mary carried her through. She also explains how watching the way Mary prayed, by listening first, shaped the method she teaches today. If this conversation speaks to you, tell me in the comments what stayed with you, and subscribe so you don't miss the next one. In this episode we talk about Catholic inner healing and prayer for emotional wounds, Sonja's STOP tool from Psalm 4 for being angry without sinning, and what she calls pop quizzes, the everyday conflicts where God is already at work. We look at how emotions, judgments, unforgiveness, and even physical symptoms can lead us toward healing, and how Mary's Magnificat teaches us to listen, observe, verbalize, and entrust. For more of Sonja's teaching on Mark 12:30, see her book Love Heals, and for her study on Mary and the Magnificat, see Exalted. Find more from Sonja: Love Heals, Ave Maria Press: https://www.avemariapress.com/product... Website: https://sonjacorbitt.com/ YouTube:    / @sonja_corbitt   Connect with me: My Website: http://tammympeterson.com Instagram:   / tammy.m.peterson   Facebook:   / tammypetersonpodcast   TikTok:   / tammypetersonpodcast   Twitter:   / tammy1peterson   Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TammyPetersonPod... Chapters: 00:00 - Welcome Sonja Corbitt 00:57 - Faith and Healing at the Heart of Her Work 01:35 - A Father Wound and a Rage Problem 04:54 - Teaching Scripture at 21 in a Small Southern Church 06:15 - Two Church Splits and an Easter Vigil 09:39 - You Can't Seriously Want Me to Be Catholic 14:47 - Reading the Early Church Fathers 16:35 - Becoming Catholic Without Her Husband 19:25 - Learning to Cling to Mary 22:39 - You Remind Me of Joseph 25:30 - Mark 12:30 as a Template for Healing 28:04 - The STOP Tool From Psalm 4 32:27 - Pausing in the Middle of Conflict 38:45 - Can Scripture Help With Anxiety and Depression 43:45 - A Child Will Do Anything to Be Loved 48:28 - Books, Speaking, and One on One Work 50:10 - Why People Stay Stuck and the Pop Quiz 54:39 - Anxiety and the Mother Wound 59:16 - Judgments as Projections 1:01:52 - Praying for Past Generations 1:06:34 - How the LOVE the Word Method Began 1:07:54 - What Her Bishop Said About Mary 1:10:07 - Listen, Observe, Verbalize, Entrust 1:12:38 - Mary as Spouse of the Holy Spirit 1:17:31 - Emotional Unavailability as the Core Wound 1:22:37 - Remembering the Brother I Never Met 1:26:00 - Loving God With Your Body Through Chronic Illness 1:34:30 - A Surgeon Whose Body Said No 1:38:48 - Ask Your Body What It Is Trying to Say