Gardening Your Life (GYL)

Let's take a lesson from Corrie Ten Boom. She was willing to tell her story - a terrible story which turned into a testimony that encouraged millions! We bless others and participate in our own healing as we tell our stories. During this session, Heidi will also guide you through a simple way to write out your own autobiography. Keep writing and see how God will use this good work in your life...

This episode will help you to write out your good goodbye step by step with honesty and working through your emotions mindfully and prayerfully.

This is a powerful and effective step to help you work through unresolved grief. As you write out your grief, you allow yourself to reprocess it and bring closure to your hurts, losses and hang-ups.

We've all been hooked by this three pronged hook...it's a Satanic hook implemented at the time of humanity's fall into sin. Become aware of this three pronged hook, or three lies, and let them go, replacing them with the love and presence of God's truth for your life!

This episode with empower you with insight of how you can let go of insane habits and refocus on life giving habits. This habits keep you grounding in truths, rooted in love and hope and God's goodness in this present present.

Does it feel like you are getting stuck in the same pattern of grief? Catch, Release, Replace - check it out!

Thank you, Linda Wilson! We are talking through 5 C's she shared with me years ago to encourage people as they work through very difficult times. Allow her words and more good grieving skills to encourage you today!

Let's dig into some tools to help us work through grief with effective skills and with supportive others. Let's keep learning how to pivot away from old, unhelpful grief habits and grow into recovery and new growth.

How do you get stuck in grief? What is your pattern? Here is how your catch-release-replace bad habits of grief. Use the tool called "chain analysis." Keep up the good grief!

Building Self Awareness - step one of good grieving. And working through your "old stuff" one step at a time. Reprocessing hurts with affirmation and love.

We welcome Lisa back. She has much to share about how Grounding and now starting Grieving has shaped her life and ministry. Be encouraged by her stories!

Time to learn about GOOD grief. Grief is good (not fun or enjoyable) and very important for our growth. Do you ever get stuck in a stage or season of grief? We all do. Learn to recognize the stage you are in and work through it, rather than getting stuck there.

We have spent a lot of time together on Grounding and developing Grounding skills, rooted and built up in Christ. Now we move on to the realities that we all must face as we garden our lives, pruning! The Master Gardener uses pruning, as any good gardener would, to cut off the branches that are not needed and make way for New Growth. Human pruning results in Grieving, and we need every one of thos...

Jen is a counselor and art therapist. She took a Grounding group through an experiential journey using art therapy! Check this out!

Join Heidi as she interviews Adrian Aswegen, therapist and group facilitator of Grounding with teens and adults.

Lucas has been running Grounding groups for the last year. He and Heidi discuss some of his favorite stories and grounding skills from his experience and reflection.

Heidi talks with Lisa Nelson about how Grounding has impacted her life and ministry.

Dr. Heidi Vermeer-Quist continues her conversation about Grounding with clinician Gabrielle Llewellyn, T-LMFT. Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy. D. Psychologist, Director of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and author of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Gardening Your Life

Heidi is joined in the studio by Heartland Christian Counseling's own Gabrielle Llewellyn, T-LMFT! In this first episode of a two-part interview, Gabrielle shares about her experience with the "Grounding" skills. Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy. D. Psychologist, Director of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and author of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Gardening Your Life

Join us for an interview with special guest Amy Deace! Amy is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist, and is trained in DBT, IFS, and EMDR. In this conversation, Amy shares some ways grounding has been helpful in her own life, and she and Heidi discuss some more practical applications of grounding skills! Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy. D. Psychologist, Director of  ⁠...

Join us for an interview with Gabrielle Andrews, assistant director of AON Studios and host of The Witness Spot podcast! In this episode, Gabrielle joins Heidi to discuss how recognizing the O-Zone and applying some of the skills from "Gardening Your Life" have made a difference in her life and relationships. Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy. D. Psychologist, Director of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Heartland Christian...

In this final session on her Grounding book, Heidi recaps the core of this season of the podcast and rounds out the topic of thankfulness. Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy. D. Psychologist, Director of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and author of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Gardening Your Life

In this episode, we begin our final session from Grounding! Heidi discusses some examples of radical gratitude, and she calls back the topic of distress tolerance, sharing some more tools for managing stressful situations. Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy. D. Psychologist, Director of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and author of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Gardening Your Life

This final episode on the topic of distress tolerance discusses developing resiliency. Heidi explores living wholeheartedly for the Lord and shares skills called the "4 C's" of resiliency! Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy. D. Psychologist, Director of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and author of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Gardening Your Life .

This week, Heidi unpacks how Psalm 23 and Ephesians 3:16-19 can help us as we manage the weeds of crisis in our lives! If you haven't heard the previous episode on this topic, go check out "Manage Weeds of Crisis (Part 1)" first for the introduction to successful crisis management and distress tolerance. Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy. D. Psychologist, Director of  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠⁠⁠⁠...