Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Regulate Emotions, Intrusive Thoughts, Nervous System, Anxiousness, Overthinking, EMDR

The Bible is the good news, but so many times, our minds want to go to fear or lack.  In today's meditation, Michelle speaks of Jehovah Rohi, the Lord is our Shepherd, who gives us love, peace, joy, kindness, goodness, and mercy, and so much more for abundant life even on this side of Heaven.       michellecroyle | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Pam, a listener from Colorado, asks Michelle to share her journey to overcoming PTSD, anxiety, and panic attacks as well as how to meet other women who have experienced traumas, anxiety, and panic, and Michelle shares her answers in today's episode.

Your life story is different from anyone elses, and like most of us, it has had some points of pain.  However, we can choose to bury the pain only to have it eventually bubble up and cause more pain, or we can work to gently bring small bits of our pain story to life with safe people, one step at a time as we can tolerate it.  Safe and helpful relationships are possible, and healing is possible. ...

Anxiety, despair, self-doubt, or confidence, security, and stability are the results of developmental stages of development.  While they can be strengths or drawbacks, the important things is to know that it is never too late to grow and develop new skills, healthier relationship interactions, and to grow into all Jesus has for you to be.

Our attachment styles start off in childhood but continue throughout our relationships as we get older.  While they can improve, attachment styles that are not secure attachments cause some difficulties with emotional regulation, anxiety management, relationship communication and connection, and self-care needs in and out of relationship.  They can also cause issues with healthy boundary setting,...

Do you long for peace? In this Scripture meditation, we talk about God being Jehovah Shalom. Whether you are battling anxiety, fear, depression, or struggles, it doesn't change the power and truth of God and who He is and who He is to you today and always. 

If you feel stuck in life and want to move forward toward your goals, to heal from anxiety, heal from relationship pain, or overcome mental or emotional pain or obstacles, this episode will help you to identify common stuck points and how to move past the stuck points and into your best life yet.  It's a matter of faith, mindset, awareness of emotions, goal setting, and taking action steps.  Let's...

Emotions and Feelings can feel good or bad, but they are simply messengers that are alerting us to our experience and environment, they can help us to identify our needs and take positive action steps to manage ourselves in ways that move us closer toward our goals as we respond rather than react.

In our Framework of being a human series, we are now on to the topic of feelings and emotions.  Often used interchangeably, they are actually two different things.  If you want to have more awareness for your mental health, to be able to understand yourself better and use what you know to have better relationships with others, understanding emotions and feelings is a good place to start.  When you...

Anxiety can result when we compromise our inherent values system or fail to set effective boundaries.  Awareness of our values and self-care through self-management that can both set and honor our values and boundaries helps our mindset, our mood, emotions, and offers healthy action steps to be aligned with integrity through our parts of self.

As we continue our meditation series on the character traits depicted by the names of God as to WHO God is, we can continue to grow in our understanding of His majesty and love for us.  If you want to overcome anxiety, have hope for depression, feel grounded emotionally, and have a solid launch pad for life, Scripture meditation and who God is is a great place to focus.

Our mindset can tell us the truth or lies about our identity, and as believers, our identity is found in Christ.  So, if you are believing lies or negative things about yourself, identifying them and replacing them with truth is necessary to take every thought captive and think on what is good, pure, lovely, and true.  Break free from the cognitive thought distortions, and exchange them for the tr...

Our mindsets are either fixed or flexible and growth-oriented, and a lot of our painful experiences can be lightened when we check our assumptions and mental distortions against what is true, possible, and Godly.  Learn effective questions to challenge your mindset to see if it is giving you all of the information you need to have an accurate perception of reality. Listen in.

You are a being with many parts, and your mindset, the brain, mind, feelings, soul, spirit, and behavior choices you make are all a part of it.  By taking the role of observer of your parts of self, you can gain wisdom and make healthy choices to effectively manage and cope with life in alignment with what you want and what God wants.  Explore the CBT triangle, scriptures, and better self-manageme...

Today, you get two Michelle's talking about mental health and physical health and the care and ways that they impact each other in mindset, motivation, self-care, and self-advocacy to be our healthiest selves as Christian women.  LIsten in!

In the names of God series of meditations, we are focusing today on the ever-present name of I AM who will never leave us and is always our strength. Listen in.

The body is a miraculous creation, and our nervous system is built for survival.  Yet, sometimes, our system reacts in ways that over respond to the level of threat, and anxiety, discomfort, rumination, ocd, or ptsd can keep us feeling like the past is still threatening or the future will threaten, and that can make the present pretty uncomfortable.  If you want to understand the overwhelming sens...

The body and nervous system offer the first clues as to whether we are safe or in danger, and they sometimes send signals of danger, even when we are not in peril.  In today's episode are easy tips to calm anxiety in your body and ground yourself to a felt sense of safety.

Continuing the series on the different parts of us that give insight as to where mental health healing and trauma recovery may affect us, Michelle shares about noticing the responses in the body with curiousity and awareness to learn of areas which may need care.

Even though you are a woman of faith, you may have experienced pain from others misrepresenting the name of Christianity, or you may have some areas of struggle in regard to your spiritual life or walk.  If you find that you could use some help in knowing God as Good and Loving, listen in for three tips to make His truth of love easier to grasp and reframe your mindset.

Focusing on the names of God, today's meditation is a Scriptural meditation on the mindset that God is Jehovah Rapha, "The Lord who heals."  

This is Part 3 of the Spiritual segments of Michelle's framework for conceptualizing the parts of a person which may need attention to heal as she sees it.  In this episode, Michelle shares how it isn't helpful for one to be misunderstood and shames, guilted, or minimized by others who want to just slap a Scripture or platitude on something that needs compassionate care and attention.  In this ser...

This is Part 2 of the Spiritual Base segments of Michelle's framework for conceptualizing the parts of a person which may need attention to heal as she sees it.  In this episode, Michelle shares her personal spritual struggle from her past as she provides you with insights from Scripture, psychology, and personal experience in this multi-part series which will address the spiritual, mental, physic...

This is Part 1 of the Spiritual Base segment of Michelle's framework for conceptualizing the parts of a person which may need attention to heal as she sees it.  She will provide you with insights from Scripture, psychology, and personal experience in this multi-part series which will address the spiritual, mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational aspects of the whole person and the h...

This episode offers a very brief introduction to a new series of podcast episodes that will begin tomorrow in which Michelle will share her specific thoughts and framework for how to approach people dealing trauma in such as way as to lead people to heal according to how God designed us.