“Love Heals” is theme for women’s ministry fall events with Sonja Corbitt
To be held Oct. 17 and 18, 2025, in the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Jefferson City
How does a young Christian woman who punched holes in walls; ripped a door off its hinges; broke dishes, remote controls, and the heart of her beloved; and used her car to run someone off the road in a rage become the Catholic evangelista?
Women who attend this year’s Ladies Night Out and Fall Retreat with author and speaker Sonja Corbitt will find out.
“Jesus never said to anyone who was suffering, ‘Offer it up,’” Ms. Corbitt noted. “He ALWAYS healed.”
The Ladies Night Out will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17. The doors will open at 6 p.m.
The $25-per-person cost includes dinner.
The Fall Retreat will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18. The doors will open at 9:30 a.m.
The $15-per-person cost includes lunch.
The theme for both events, which are sponsored by Women’s Ministry of the Jefferson City diocese, will be “Love Heals.”
Ms. Corbitt suffered from a deep, raw father wound that caused habitual rage and toxic sin-habits.
“God taught me how to cooperate with him in my suffering — especially through his Word — and he grew me out of that pain and behavior,” she said.
“Only love heals”
Drawing on decades of experience and training at the Holy Apostles College and Seminary; Catholic Psychotherapy Association; NICABM; Compassionate Inquiry; Encounter School of Ministry; JPII Healing Center Ministry Training; and Unbound®, Ms. Corbitt teaches how to feel better and how to be better.
She has written eight books; studied, lived, and taught from biblical principles for over three decades — internationally and 1:1 — to over 300 souls and tens of thousands of podcast listeners, readers and masterclass participants.
She pointed to Pope Benedict XVI’s assertion that healing is the “entire content of redemption.”
“Only love heals, and there is no way to heal fully without an intimate relationship with the Healer, Jesus Christ, in which he pours his love into us and our suffering — heart, soul, mind and body,” Ms. Corbitt stated.
Therefore, she has taken it as her mission to write, speak and teach from Scripture exactly how to receive and cooperate with Jesus’s healing love.
Christians begin hearing in their youth that the first and greatest commandment is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength.”
“But no one ever told you how,” said Ms. Corbitt.
“Love is God,” she stated. “Jesus is the Way. We’ve heard it our whole lives but barely understand it because we think Jesus is giving us morality lessons rather than revealing how reality works.”
“What the Church needs”
Ms. Corbitt acknowledged that this is a busy time of year, and that coming to these events might require some sacrifice and maybe a realignment of priorities.
She’s convinced that any extra effort and sacrifice will be worth it.
“They can’t afford not to come if they are Christians who are hiding and sick of living in misery, confusion and pain,” she said.
She stated with certainty anyone who attends either or both of these events will experience Jesus and will return home with a measure of healing, and tools that will give them immediate, visible results for continued measurable progress.
The music director for a retreat that Ms. Corbitt recently led said her message is “what the Church needs today.”
“I’ve been doing this professionally for years, and in all the events I’ve been to I’ve never been given practical tools to stopping sinning, except ‘Sacraments and pray more,’” the music director attested.
Something was clearly missing, because that hasn’t worked, the music director stated.
However, “This weekend, I got catechized, I got mysticism, I got psychology, I got real healing and actual tools, and I got unstuck,” the music director stated. “Thank you!”
Ms. Corbitt insisted on the importance of women of faith carving out time to have fellowship with one another.
“Love heals, and it’s found in community,” she stated. “The community of the Sacred Holy Trinity, and the family of God.”
She suggested that women who hope to attend the event will sign up for her free pop quiz mini course at sonjacorbitt.com.
“Remember in school when the teacher would suddenly spring an unexpected test on you?” she asked. “God offers us pop quizzes too.”
These “pop quizzes” look like conflicts that cause inward or outward emotional eruptions that seem to come out of left field.
They involve wounded emotions and memories (heart); painful judgments (soul); anxious, negative thoughts and fears (mind); and physical symptoms (strength).
“The Bible calls these things ‘vomit,’” she said, citing Proverbs 26:11.
“Sometimes they feel almost volcanic,” she said. “And there’s a pattern to them.”
The pop-quiz mini course will help participants learn how to stop the “emotional vomit” of anger, bitterness, resentment and pain right now, she said.
For more information or to sign up for either or both events, visit diojeffcity.org/wm-love-heals-event-2025.
