About Karissa
Karissa Washburn serves as Senior Producer at Soul Refiner, where she helps create Christ-centered resources designed to bring healing, freedom, and restoration to individuals, couples, and families. Passionate about storytelling and discipleship, she works closely with the Soul Refiner team to develop content that addresses life's deepest struggles with biblical truth and practical hope.
Karissa writes on topics including marriage, family, emotional healing, spiritual growth, and Christian living. Her heart is to encourage others to discover that no situation is beyond God's ability to redeem and restore. Karissa lives in Florida with her family and remains committed to helping others experience lasting transformation through Christ.
Latest from Karissa
Porn RecoveryThanksgiving as Warfare: How Gratitude Renews the Mind
Around the Thanksgiving table, gratitude sounds like a seasonal feeling. It is closer to a weapon. Brain imaging and Scripture point the same direction: giving thanks calms the survival brain, strengthens the region addiction damages most, and rewrites a story defined by what was taken. Gratitude is an act of resistance.
Porn RecoveryPorn is burning the house down
Three out of four Christian men admit to viewing porn, and so do most pastors, yet almost nobody says it out loud. Silence is what lets the fire spread. Here is why pornography has become the church's most corrosive hidden problem, and what a congregation can do to fight for freedom instead of whispering about it.
MarriageHow Do I Know If My Marriage Is Over?
Her silence is not the verdict you think it is. Distance, rage, and numbness are what betrayal does to a woman's nervous system, not proof the marriage is finished. Here is what actually signals the end, what does not, and the one thing that still gives you a fighting chance.