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
Thanksgiving 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
Porn addiction is silently destroying the Church from within - wrecking marriages, dulling faith, and feeding global exploitation. It's time to face the truth.
Intimacy Anorexia10 Signs Your Partner is an Intimacy Anorexic
Withholding love. Rarely praising. Months without touch. Outwardly religious, spiritually silent at home. Living with an intimacy anorexic can feel like emotional abuse, and millions of couples endure it quietly. Here are the ten warning signs, and why this pattern usually traces back to a wound that can be healed.