Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie finally talks about the topic she's been itching to discuss for months and months: The Proverbs 31 Woman. Since the beginning of her podcast, Katie has wanted to share her lessons from The Father about what a Proverbs 31 Woman really is. Spoiler alert - it's not a checklist for all the things a woman must...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce Apologies for the missed episode last week! Katie's podcast editor and manager lives in Northern Michigan, which was hit by an epic ice storm not seen since the early 1900s. The entire region was severely damaged and without power, and Katie's manager Maria is now on her second week without electricity. While she's currently do...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie continues her mini-series on "Lessons From the Father." Today's lesson is about love. Question: How do you see love? Is your view of love some kind of worldly version of love with romance and fireworks and continuous reel-worthy moments that resembles all the fairy tales you've loved as a little girl? If...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie begins a new mini-series on "Lessons From the Father." Today's lesson is about accountability. Question: How do you see truth? Is your truth ALWAYS the truth, or are you able to look outside of your feelings and beliefs to perceive the real truth? Growth as a daughter of God is best demonstrated and learn...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie teaches her listeners about "Selah" - pausing for an interlude so that we can listen to Christ. It's important to pause and recognize our emotions without acting on them, and learn what it is God is trying to teach us. Katie uses the wisdom of Proverbs to teach us about wisdom, and what a changed heart fo...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce "Ex-Mormon Interview" concludes with this episode! Katie shares a very recent interview she did on the television show "Meet the Ex-Mormons." In this part 3 of a three-part special edition mini series, Katie gets interviewed and shares her full, detailed testimony of what compelled her to leave the LDS church, why she struggled...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce "Ex-Mormon Interview" continues! In this episode, Katie shares a very recent interview she did on the television show "Meet the Ex-Mormons." In this part 2 of a three-part mini series, Katie gets interviewed and shares her full, detailed testimony of what compelled her to leave the LDS church, why she struggled with their teach...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie shares a very recent interview she did on the television show "Meet the Ex-Mormons." In this part 1 of a multi-part mini series, Katie gets interviewed and shares her full, detailed testimony of what compelled her to leave the LDS church, why she struggled with their teachings, and what brought her to Chr...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie addresses a huge topic for Christian women, particularly divorced single moms: What to do when we just can't find it in us to trust God's plan. Did you know how the first single mom came to be in the Scriptures? It was the result of Sarah's insecurities and resentment after she impulsively ignored God's p...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie continues her new series about being blessed in order to bless others, and today she talks about work. Bet you didn't realize that even GOD worked for 6 days and only rested for one. Balance does not always mean equal, and Katie teaches her listeners about the lies the enemy can tell us about work and res...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie continues her new series about being blessed in order to bless others. In this deeply segment, she talks about her own parents' divorce and what both her father and mother taught her as important lessons that impact kids. Sometimes it's difficult to remember that both the positive and negative ways we nav...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie continues her new series about being blessed in order to bless others. One of the things women (especially divorced women or single moms) struggle with the most is managing time. But do we really have the ability to "manage" time? We all have the same amount of time--no more, no less. And it is an absolut...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie begins a new series about being blessed in order to bless others. To begin, she defines for us what "love" and "truth" really mean, and how love doesn't always mean tolerance. There is no better definition or example of love than the love that comes from God. Katie Anne is a Woman of God, a Certified Life...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce Happy New Year! To start 2025 with this special two-part episode series called "Future Focus," Katie shares in part two an incredibly helpful exercise of writing a letter to our past selves. We often overlook how far we've come and how far we've gotten in this post-divorce healing process. As Christian women, we tend to feel mo...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce Happy New Year! To start 2025 with this special two-part episode series called "Future Focus," Katie shares a unique spiritual growth and life-coaching exercise with her listeners: writing a letter to your future self. One of the hardest things for a Christian divorced woman to deal with is the constant barrage of feelings of g...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie showcases that just like it's impossible to capture the beauty of nature in a paragraph, it is just as impossible to see other humans as the likeness of God, made in His image, without abiding in Him and harnessing our tongue as we watch carefully the words we say. She points us to the Book of James, in a...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce Today Katie invites her listeners to join in to listen to the second part of the interview she did with Christian Barr of Barr+Friends YouTube podcast, where she opens up about her divorce, her faith, and her struggles as a now single mom of five kids, one who has a disability. To view the original interview on YouTube, click t...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie addresses a hard topic for divorced Christian moms: the "mom guilt." There's nothing worse than seeing our kids suffer. As nurturing women who deeply care for our children, we want to solve ALL the problems, fix ALL the broken things. Yet that isn't always possible. Katie uses both Scripture and tools fro...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce Today Katie takes her listeners on a tough journey of healing by sharing the importance of "ugly cries" in our relationship with Christ. With that, she dives into the topic of narcissism, and how being in a relationship with a truly clinical narcissist (also known as narcissistic personality disorder) can cause serious trauma a...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce Today Katie invites her listeners to join in to listen to an interview she did with Christian Barr, where she opens up about her divorce, her faith, and her struggles as a now single mom of five kids, one who has a disability. To view the original interview on YouTube, click this link: https://youtu.be/YJiDpWevTCw?si=bBC0YvfT22...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce Today Katie takes her listeners on a journey through the single life, the dating life, and the married life. What should we be focusing on and working toward when looking for a new partner, especially post-divorce? Katie dives into the deeper meaning behind the words of Proverbs 31, and also examines scripture regarding God's s...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie provides her listeners with some profound insight into what it means to have the lens of God. So often we go through life expecting that people will see things from our point of view. Especially when we have disagreements or differences of opinions with another person, it's frustrating because our "worldl...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie shares an interview she did with Maria Lindbloom, host of the show Wild Testimonies on Conviction Radio. In this interview, she provides some insight into what it was like growing up in the LDS Mormon church... the things that didn't quite sit right in her spirit about the teachings she received in that c...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie shares the monumental news that as a single mother of 5, including a child who is deaf, she is going back to school! It's a time for new beginnings, but Katie explains that often times it can be disappointing, discouraging, or overwhelming to realize you haven't actually arrived at the summit of your life...

Welcome to Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce In this episode, Katie gently nudges her listeners to face a hard truth: sometimes we tend to tell our story as a victim, while firmly believing that we aren't. Life is hard, and divorced women and single moms especially endured a lot of hard things. But did you know that the word "victim" actually has a Biblical meaning, and i...