Wounds Wisdom and The Word

Doug Gregory & Jamie Shepperd

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Christian care for stuck and hurting places.

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Wounds Wisdom and The Word is a warm, plainspoken Christian living show about pain that does not resolve neatly. Jamie and Doug move between Scripture, mental-health language, personal examples, and practical next steps for people trying to heal without pretending it is simple.

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About Wounds Wisdom and The Word

Wounds Wisdom and The Word is a Christian living show built around the hard middle ground between knowing something is wrong and knowing what to do next. Jamie and Doug talk like people trying to make painful subjects usable at the kitchen table, not like a panel trying to impress anyone. The show is warm, but it does not drift into sentimentality. It has a steady interest in what keeps people stuck: fear, comfort, uncertainty, avoidance, people pleasing, low resilience, and the lonely feeling of being unprotected. Scripture matters here. So does the body. Episodes move comfortably from biblical passages into grounding techniques, panic symptoms, trauma responses, counseling plans, and the need to ask for help before the spiral gets worse. That mix gives the show its shape. A biblical point usually becomes a practical question, and a mental-health term usually gets pulled back into ordinary life. One episode may use frogs in Egypt to talk about staying too long in familiar misery. Another may use a duck seeming calm on the water to ask who is struggling beneath the surface. The conversations are loose, sometimes repetitive, and often lightly funny. That looseness is part of the appeal, because the teaching sounds worked out in real time rather than packaged. Jamie brings counseling language and practical tools, especially around anxiety, grounding, communication, and healing work. Doug brings pastoral reflection, Scripture, and a habit of turning abstract ideas into memorable pictures. Together, they keep returning to the same moral center: wounds need attention, wisdom has to be practiced, and faith should move people toward care rather than denial. The show is not a replacement for therapy, and it says so when the topic calls for real support. It is most useful as a companion for listeners who want Christian framing around emotional health without pretending that prayer, advice, or one good conversation erases years of pain.

Made for: For Christians who want plainspoken help with trauma, anxiety, avoidance, relationship strain, and spiritual discouragement. It also suits friends, spouses, and communities trying to recognize distress and respond with care.

What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its practical bridge between Scripture and counseling language. Jamie and Doug keep difficult topics grounded in everyday examples, then turn them toward concrete steps like calling, checking in, breathing, grounding, and seeking help.

In their own words

A preacher and a trauma counselor tackle life’s hardest problems with biblical truth and evidence-based therapy. Each episode blends Scripture, psychology, and practical tools you can use today—so you can move from wounds to wisdom, with the Word lighting the way

As heard by us

Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Faith, personal experience and practical mental-health tools meet in candid conversations about trauma, anxiety, relationships and recovery.

Jamie Shepard and Doug Gregory make difficult mental-health subjects feel discussable without sanding down their seriousness. Their conversations move between personal experience, counseling examples, biblical passages and ordinary humor, with recurring attention to trauma,…

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Scripture meets the dentist's drill here, so your anxiety gets more than a pep talk.

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  • faith that can sit beside ERP, medication, and self-advocacy without turning pain into a punchline
  • Doug and Jamie to turn conflict into words you might use before a grudge gets grandchildren
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trauma and healingbeing stuck and getting unstuckpanic attacks and anxietyOCD and intrusive thoughtspeople pleasinghard conversationsresilience and rootshelping hurting people

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Ep. 12 - Consider the Ducks: Spotting the Struggle Beneath the CalmApr 8, 2026

A plain talk on noticing when someone close is trying to look fine.

Doug and Jamie move the conversation from private struggle to the harder work of noticing when someone close is not quite right. The episode gives small signals room to breathe, from a smile that can mean, "I am here," to a body that seems to sound an alarm, and then to the…

EP.11 Out of the Rut: Finding Help, Hope, and a New PathMar 10, 2026

A plainspoken look at why familiar misery can feel safer than change.

The episode closes the series by laying out why people stay put: they can feel unprotected, unsure, insecure, afraid, and, above all, settled into what is familiar.

The Doubter’s Disease: Understanding OCD | Wounds, Wisdom, and the Word Ep. 7Dec 1, 2025

A plainspoken look at OCD, intrusive thoughts, and the work of getting help.

Chandler Kaufman treats OCD as a pattern where a useful instinct can slip into a trap, sending a person back into intrusive thoughts and endless self-checking.

Ep.6 - How to Have Hard Conversations | Wounds, Wisdom, and the Word PodcastNov 6, 2025

Plainspoken advice for saying the hard thing first.

Jamie Shepard and Doug Gregory spend the episode on difficult conversations, and the point they return to is simple: say what needs saying before the problem has time to harden.

Ep. 5 - Hope For HealingOct 30, 2025

A steady, faith-forward conversation about trauma, anxiety, and the work of healing.

Wounds, Wisdom, and the Word stays close to trauma, generational pain, panic attacks, and the hard choice between getting better or getting bitter.

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Episodes

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    Ep. 12 - Consider the Ducks: Spotting the Struggle Beneath the Calm

    Hidden gem

    Doug shifts the conversation from being stuck to the quieter work of noticing when someone close is struggling.

    Apr 8, 2026·44m·3 clips
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    EP.11 Out of the Rut: Finding Help, Hope, and a New Path

    Hidden gem

    Jamie and Doug wrap up their stuck-in-the-mud series by naming the reasons people stay put.

    Mar 10, 2026·38m·2 clips
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    Episode 10: People Pleasing and Getting Unstuck

    Jamie and Annetta discuss people pleasing and getting unstuck as part of a series on the wounds wisdom and the word podcast.

    Feb 10, 2026·1h 31m
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    EP.9: Unstuck: Resilience & Roots - Coming Back, Not Bouncing Back

    Jamie and Doug discuss lack of resiliency and roots as reasons people get stuck, using a Rihanna song as a biblical analogy.

    Dec 24, 2025·58m
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    Ep. 8 - Being To Comfortable In The Mud

    Dec 9, 2025·53m
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    The Doubter’s Disease: Understanding OCD | Wounds, Wisdom, and the Word Ep. 7

    Hidden gem

    Doug Gregory and Chandler Kaufman use Wounds, Wisdom, and the Word Ep.

    Dec 1, 2025·1h 23m·2 clips
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    Ep.6 - How to Have Hard Conversations | Wounds, Wisdom, and the Word Podcast

    Hidden gem

    Jamie Shepard opens by naming the topic plainly: how to have difficult conversations.

    Nov 6, 2025·51m·3 clips
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    Ep. 5 - Hope For Healing

    Hidden gem

    Doug Gregory compares trauma therapy to moving junk from a messy closet into a filing cabinet.

    Oct 30, 2025·1h 2m·2 clips
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    Ep.4 - Why Do I Do That? | Breaking Generational Patterns Through Faith and Psychology

    Jamie and Doug explore why people repeat behaviors and how to break generational patterns through faith and psychology.

    Oct 11, 2025·51m
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    Ep. 3 - Sometimes Life Happen

    Jamie and Doug apologize for missing last week and discuss the concept of 'life happens' using a Forrest Gump analogy.

    Sep 24, 2025·52m
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    Ep.2 - Trauma 101: Big T, Little t, or Mr. T

    Doug and Jamie introduce their podcast, thank listeners for episode one's success, and preview a discussion on different types of trauma.

    Sep 12, 2025·55m
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    Ep.1 - Introductions & Hope

    Doug and Jamie introduce their podcast for struggling Christians, emphasizing hope and the shared nature of human struggles.

    Sep 5, 2025·57m