What happens when the world tries to define your identity — but God invites you to walk a different path?

In this powerful episode of Calibrate Conversations, Brady sits down with Jason Mellard to hear his deeply personal story of growing up with same-sex attraction, navigating confusion, trauma, and shame, and ultimately discovering healing and clarity in Christ.

Jason shares how cultural labels, childhood wounds, and internal conflict shaped his journey — and why rejecting identity labels didn’t mean denying his experience, but refusing to let it define him. This conversation explores faith, forgiveness, trauma, recovery, identity, and what it looks like to walk with God through confusion rather than trying to escape it.

This episode offers hope, honesty, and wisdom for anyone wrestling with identity, sexuality, or finding clarity in a confusing world.

Key Themes:

-Same-sex attraction without identity labels

-Healing from childhood trauma and abuse

-Identity in Christ vs cultural labels

-Walking with God through confusion

-Forgiveness, boundaries, and redemption

-Why behavior management isn’t the gospel

-Faith, recovery, and emotional healing

Timestamps:

0:00:37 — From Confusion to Clarity

0:02:00 — Walking Into the Fog

0:03:39 — “What’s Wrong With Me?”

0:05:01 — When Suppression Breaks

0:07:54 — The Relief of a Label

0:08:49 — “They Told Me I Was Gay”

0:11:17 — Searching for Belonging

0:13:24 — Why Men Felt Mysterious

0:18:42 — The Hidden Wound

0:21:24 — How My View of God Was Formed

0:23:02 — God Walks Into the Fog

0:31:17 — “You’re Gay Because of Your Jacket”

0:34:53 — Don’t Bury Your Life

0:39:41 — Being Fully Known

0:51:10 — “No One Gets to Define Me”

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