LDS Mental Health Podcast

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. You may not know this, but I have a full time job working as a therapist on the Navajo Reservation. As part of this job, I consult with a Navajo traditional counselor frequently. In order to help create healing with not only western medicine, our behavioral health department also creates traditional healing with Navajo...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. I know just how powerful the words of God can be in my life and I want you to feel that too if you are on the struggle bus when it comes to scripture study. A lot of women get caught up in the idea of what scripture study is “supposed to look like.” I have too! This can be overwhelming and make it feel like it’s not wo...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. As a mental health therapist and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I care deeply about the mental health of full time missionaries. Being a missionary is an incredible experience that also involves trials and tribulations. Especially when it comes to mental health.  In this episode I am joined b...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Are you a faithful woman who is feeling stressed, unmotivated, confused or emotional? Or are you struggling with your mental health, know someone else who is struggling with their mental health? Or perhaps you know that you have the potential to struggle with your mental health in the future. If you answered yes to any...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. I have been spending the month focusing on fortifying your mental health by looking at ways you might be sabotaging it. Now this is part 3 of 3 in a series. So if you haven’t already, check out part 1 and 2 from the last two week’s episodes. In the last two episodes, I have covered 6 of the 7 common sabotagers that wom...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Usually around January, I see an influx of patients coming into my office who are really struggling with their mental health. There are some themes that I notice with people who struggle with their mental health in the winter and in general.  These are certain things that someone might be doing or not doing that lead t...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. As a mental health therapist, I am always on the lookout for small and simple ways people can fortify their mental health. Fortifying your mental health means looking for ways attacks are coming in and then building strategies to help combat the attack next time it comes. Sometimes you might not even know it, but YOU m...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Women who come to me often don’t realize that even though they may be facing opposition they can actually have peace in their life regardless. They just need the right tools to take them from being a doer of the gospel instead of a receiver. When they learn how to do that, everything changes for them. So in this episod...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. I think it’s safe to assume that you have some unpeaceful things going on in your life right now correct? That’s because there is no shortage of unpeaceful things in the world today. As a therapist, and seeing patients who are experiencing most often some of the more difficult times of their lives, I have noticed a the...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. As Courtney started her business venture she felt that something was missing in her plan. She had the skill set, the mindset, and an idea but wasn't sure how to meld them all together.  When she felt prompted to join the Removing Roadblocks to Revelation Group Coaching Program she signed up and hoped it would help...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Every time I’m at church and someone makes the comment “never pray for patience” I get a little more sad on the inside. Well not really, but it does make me think they must not truly understand what they are missing by having that thought process.  Now it’s not just the act of not praying for patience that I am concern...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Emma has struggled the majority of her life with body dysmorphia and eating disorders. She tried different types of therapeutic modalities to help her heal and live a more full life. What she needed was mental health tools through a spiritual lens. The Removing Roadblocks to Revelation Group Coaching Program was exactl...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. As a mental health therapist, people usually come and see me because they are experiencing a trial. Each time I can usually pin it down to one or all of 3 things that people are doing to make their trials worse. Even the scriptures are littered with examples of people who made their trials worse right? I bet you can lo...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Stefanie is someone who loves to learn new skills. Having watched the podcast multiple times she knew she wanted to learn the mental health tools I teach in the Removing Roadblocks to Revelation Group Coaching Program . She joined the group because she was seeking help in connecting with Christ.  She wanted to remove t...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Raise your hand if you are stress free? I can’t see you but my guess is that you didn’t raise your hand. You know how I know that? Because most women I talk to these days are stressed out about one thing or another. It seems there is always something in our lives we can look at and be stressed about. There really isn’t...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Moms are BUSY and Anna is no exception. Before the Removing Roadblocks to Revelation Group Coaching Program, she was overwhelmed with too much to do and plagued with guilt if she took time for herself. Exhaustion and stress made it difficult for her to hear the spirit and feel comforted with the difficult situations sh...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. You know the number one thing that causes decision fatigue in your life? Not knowing if you’re having a thought or a prompting. I see so many women making one very big mistake in this regard. They start thinking that every good thought is the spirit telling them it’s a prompting. So then they start acting in the name o...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Lee Ann is a wife and mom who owns a wedding floral business, and also works with me as my media manager. She has always felt anxious in specific situations but motherhood took her anxiety to a whole new level. Allowing her children to leave each day became debilitating when she quit her job and had more time at home a...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Each time I talk to women who are struggling in some way with their spiritual habits I have found it’s at least one of three things. What I mean by spiritual habits, is things like reading your scriptures, saying your prayers or going to the temple. Yes, there are many more spiritual habits than those but in this episo...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. A few months before Emily began the Removing Roadblocks to Revelation Group Coaching she was given a mental health diagnosis that left her in an identity crisis. She struggled to distinguish her own thoughts from spiritual promptings and was unable to trust herself. As always she turned to a spiritual routine but felt...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Like many women, Krystal has struggled to calm her thoughts of self-doubt and the idea that she needed to be perfect in all areas of her life.  She strived for that perfection by always being busy and doing more. This only lead to more overwhelm, more chaos, more stress. As she began implementing what she learned in th...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Perfection is a topic I teach women about almost daily and is one of the most misunderstood terms in the gospel. Women often think the term perfect when used in the scriptures means to be without mistake. This then leads to them searching to crack the code of never making a mistake in order to live up to what God wants...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Have you ever wondered what the difference is between having a coach or a therapist? I get this question a lot since I am actually both. Women are often asking me which they would benefit from each and what the differences are.  I decided to do an episode on the LDS Mental Health Podcast because there is a lot more to...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. On this BONUS Episode, I sit down with Emmalee Thompson. She participated in the Removing Roadblocks to Revelation Group Coaching Program just before she had her last child. She resides in Utah with her husband Julian. She and her husband own and run a restaurant while raising their six kids.  Before the program, Emmal...

Send us a text message if you have a question you want answered on the podcast. Women are really OVERWHELMED! There are many reasons why as I worked with women and really listened to them I have noticed 3 main reasons why. You want to know what helps? Using mental health skills to connect with Christ. This is why I have felt prompted to change the name and focus of the podcast. Now this is THE LDS...