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

Do you long for healing and mental and emotional freedom?  Do you wish you could skip the journey and just be at the destination of inner peace already?  It all starts with one next step to make it reality.  That's what we're talking about in today's episode. READY for REAL HEALING? Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even...

Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even in your therapy?  Would you love to incorporate deep healing in a way that aligns with God's Word and the evidence-based treatments for trauma healing?   I can help you with all of that.  If you would like to work with me, you can schedule a free 15 minute consultation call with me...

Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even in your therapy?  Would you love to incorporate deep healing in a way that aligns with God's Word and the evidence-based treatments for trauma healing?   I can help you with all of that.  If you would like to work with me, you can schedule a free 15 minute consultation call with me...

Do you feel like your anxiousness is out to get you?  Anxiety often gets a bad rap, but it's not completely unhelpful or bad.  If you would like to learn how to make friends with your nervous system so that you can live more peacefully in thoughts, emotions, and your body and spirit, today's episode will offer you practical tips you can use right now! FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you...

When you have experienced hard things, it is easy for your nervous system to get triggered into feeling unsafe again.  This doesn't have to be a permanent experience of distress and frustration.  In today's episode, I share 4 things you can do to start to take the edge off of the experience of stuckness. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I cre...

Do you feel overly responsible for other people's actions, feelings, thoughts, and emotions?  If you find yourself sacrificing what is good for you to keep other people's reactions at bay or neglect your own needs, wants, and self to try to keep the peace, you may be engaging in a trauma response called self-abandonment.  This leads to burn out, stress, and guilt whenever you stop the protective b...

Do you ever feel like there is a real way you feel deep inside and a way you think you "should or shouldn't" feel that drives your actions on the outside?  If you have strong feelings but feel that they are too much or wrong for a Christian woman to have, listen in.  You don't have to suck it up, ignore yourself, or throw yourself under the bus. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might...

Wonder why you people please, over explain, or shut down?  Here's what's going on and how to help yourself with it. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.  Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide   WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC: If yo...

Therapy is a great resource, but sometimes, it's not enough.  In today's episode, Michelle talks about some of the differences that make EMDR trauma therapy more effective than standard talk therapy. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not...

Have you found yourself fine one minute and completely blindsided by your reactions the next?  Today, Michelle shares 1 huge way to tell if you have unresolved trauma hiding in your nervous system.  Listen in!   FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why...

Have you ever struggled with thoughts you don't want, don't believe in, and wish would go away and leave you alone but the more you try to stop thinking them the worse the looping thought gets?  Today, Michelle shares her tip for how to deal with intrusive thoughts with God's help.  Listen in!   FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a fr...

How many Christian women think trauma healing happens and how it actually does happen are often not the same thing.  Today, Michelle shares how to look at healing so that you can be encouraged rather than feel defeated.  Listen in!   FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happe...

If you are tired of beating yourself up inside for trying harder and harder to make traction toward your emotional and mental freedom but feel like you are simply going in circles and feeling defeated, you may be asking yourself, "What is Wrong with Me?"  However, the problem isn't you!  The problem is that you are asking yourself the wrong question, and assuming that the problem is somehow you. ...

If slowing down makes you feel more anxious instead of calm, this episode explains why.  You'll learn how trauma trains the nervous system to equate safety with staying busy, in control, or on guard - and why true safety isn't something you need to seek after, but something your body experiences. In this episode, we explore how to orient your nervous system to the present moment, why rest can feel...

Feeling stuck doesn't mean your faith is weak.  It means your nervous system is likely carrying familiar survival responses that are getting in the way of your healing in a different way than you might think.  P.S. There is nothing "wrong" with you.  You are not the problem.   FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring...

What beliefs, feelings, and roles do you carry about yourself that aren't even fully true?  Learn how to find out in this episode of Trauma Healing for Christian Women to increase in mental health through a lens of Christian faith and effective psychology. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently exp...

Feeling pulled in too many directions with too much on your shoulders and to-do list this holiday season?  Today, Michelle gives a new framework for addressing the pull to do too much underneath the surface.  Listen in. Would you like to work with Michelle?  She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6 hours of focused therapy per day over 1–3 days) for those in Pennsylv...

When panic floods your nervous system and you start to experience the anxiety and frustration of terror, what can you do?  Well, in this episode, Michelle shares a recent panic attack doozy of an experience and how the 7 Tips she is sharing with you today helped her navigate it better than past panic attacks. Would you like to work with Michelle?  She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therap...

Expectations are rough this time of year!  This episode addresses a helpful framework for processing all the stuff that can feel heavy. Would you like to work with Michelle?  She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6 hours of focused therapy per day over 1–3 days) for those in Pennsylvania or willing to travel to Pennsylvania.  Therapeutic intensives can produce 2-3x...

Today is the second part of my interview with 19 Kids and Counting star, Amy Duggar King.  Amy talks about righteous anger, standing up for what is right, and taking back her power through truth and counseling therapy after gaslighting and emotional abuse throughout her life.  Listen in . Would you like to work with Michelle?  She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6...

Have you ever felt like something isn't quite right?  Yet, people are acting like you are the one with the problem in how you are seeing things?  That's gaslighting, my friend, and today, my guest Amy Duggar King of 19 Kids and Counting fame is talking about her pain and how God has helped her to overcome it as we discuss her new book, Holy Disruptor. Would you like to work with Michelle?  She is...

Do you wonder if therapy will work for you?  Are you tired of hurting and ready to do something different to get better results in your life?  Therapy definitely works, but there are some people it doesn't work for, and today, Michelle shares 10 Reasons that therapy may not work. Would you like to work with Michelle?  She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6 hours of...

Counseling, Psychotherapy, Coaching, you've heard the terms but when it's time to reach out for help, which one does what?  Well, in today's episode, Michelle shares an easy way to remember the difference to make sure you can build on a solid foundation and live your best life. Would you like to work with Michelle?  She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6 hours of f...

Are you one of the many Christian women who feel that you are not good enough for God and that He's mad at you?  Nothing could be further from the truth.  In this episode, Michelle shares key takeaways that can help you reframe your mindset and see yourself through God's eyes so you can go deeper in your relationship with Him and grow in empowered peace.   Would you like to work with Michelle?  Sh...

You've heard about self-care being essential, but you might have trouble implimenting it because it doesn't take priority with everything else you have going on in life.  In this episode, Michelle shares an alternative look at self-care that goes much deeper than a one-off type of thing. Would you like to work with Michelle?  She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6...