Practical counsel for boundary trouble, with enough live-radio texture to feel real.
New Life Live centers on a familiar but difficult boundary problem: what to do when a church-group acquaintance keeps getting physically too close.

Christian counsel for real-life stuck places.
New Life Live brings real listener problems to a panel of Christian counselors, psychologists, and marriage therapists. The tone is warm but direct, moving from tangled backstory toward boundaries, grief work, repair, and one practical next step.
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New Life Live is a Christian counseling call-in show shaped by ordinary crisis, long patience, and practical next steps. The format is simple. Brian Perez introduces the hour, names the open invitation, and brings callers into a panel conversation with psychologists and marriage and family therapists. The calls are not polished. They carry the hesitations, repeated details, embarrassment, and pain of people trying to say out loud what has been hard to face. That texture is part of the value. A woman in a church small group needs help responding to unwanted physical closeness from a married man. A caller in a long marriage describes sexual distance, despair, and a list of options that all feel morally or emotionally impossible. Another caller is trying to understand loneliness and family rejection without pretending the family system is healthy. The panel does not rush to a slogan. It asks clarifying questions, names patterns, and then points toward a concrete action such as speaking to a leader, grieving an unchangeable family dynamic, entering individual therapy, or changing expectations. Faith is present throughout, but the show is not framed like a sermon. God's word, prayer, and Christian conscience sit alongside attachment style, trauma, emotional immaturity, depression, codependency, and boundaries. That mix gives the program its particular lane. It can sound faith-shaped in one minute and therapeutically precise in the next. It is also comfortable with uncomfortable subjects: divorce threats, addiction substitution, adult children making choices parents dislike, family favoritism, traumatic brain injury, and the strain of caregiving. The show has a steady belief in growth, but it does not sell growth as cheerful self-improvement. Change may mean confronting someone kindly. It may mean detaching from relatives who will not grow. It may mean admitting that food, resentment, avoidance, or fantasy has become a way to survive pain. The panel's strength is turning a caller's messy account into language that can be used after the episode ends. New Life Live suits listeners who want Christian counsel that is relational, emotionally literate, and more interested in repair than performance. It is gentle, but it is not vague.
Made for: For listeners who want faith-shaped guidance on relationships, recovery, marriage, family conflict, loneliness, and emotional healing. It especially suits people who prefer real caller stories over scripted teaching.
What sets it apart: The show pairs live caller vulnerability with a rotating counseling panel, so advice is relational, layered, and grounded in both Christian language and therapy practice.
Christian Counseling & Faith-Based Support
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Christian belief meets practical counseling as callers receive direct guidance on boundaries, safety, trauma, and troubled relationships.
New Life Live turns listener phone calls about damaged relationships and emotional distress into public counseling sessions framed by Christian belief. Brian Perez usually guides the conversation, while Becky Brown also takes the host chair.
A caller's crisis becomes your boundary check, with Brian Perez keeping the counsel warm and moving.
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Practical counsel for boundary trouble, with enough live-radio texture to feel real.
New Life Live centers on a familiar but difficult boundary problem: what to do when a church-group acquaintance keeps getting physically too close.
A practical live call-in hour about how parents can respond when adult sons and daughters make choices they do not accept.
The hour centers on the friction parents feel when adult sons and daughters make choices they do not accept. It is at its best when it slows down enough to look at awareness, confrontation, and gentleness as separate moves, instead of treating them like the same thing.
A blunt hour about divorce threats, children absorbing the conflict, and caregiving that has turned resentful.
New Life Live centers on a blunt marriage question: whether couples are trying to divorce-proof a relationship or keeping divorce too close at hand. The panel's concern is plain enough: children hear the arguments, feel the strain, and start making their own sense of it.
A steady guide to catastrophic loneliness, family hurt, and healthier boundaries without panic.
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A calm, practical call-in conversation about weariness, with a little family-band warmth up front.
New Life Live does what it has done for years: a caller brings a heavy personal problem, and Dr. John Townsend and Becky Brown answer with calm, biblical advice and practical talk.
Faith-forward counseling with a clear push toward the next step.
New Life Live stays rooted in practical faith counseling. Chris Williams treats the Christian life as ongoing work rather than a finished state, and the exchange with Greg keeps returning to concrete next steps.

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Brian Perez opens New Life Live with Dr.
Adult children choose differently.
A marriage can be pushed toward safety or toward divorce.
Catastrophic loneliness is named without dressing it up.
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Brian Perez starts fast.
A little band talk loosens the room first.
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Greg calls with old shame still doing too much steering.
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Jennifer's question is heavy.
Mark opens with betrayal.
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A hidden leak gives the hour its first picture.
Pornography is the first hard turn.