Soul Therapy with Dr. Dee

What happens when insecurity gets behind the wheel of your relationships? On Week 7 of Soul Therapy, Dr. Dee unpacks the REAL Communication Framework — a four-part approach to having honest, healing conversations even when you're still in process. REAL stands for: Respectful, Empathetic, Assertive, and Listen. When you do all four, you can reach a breakthrough even in your most difficult relat...

If you struggle with  anxiety, overthinking, or negative thoughts  — and you've prayed about it, journaled about it, and you're STILL stuck — this episode is for you. The problem isn't that you haven't tried. It's that  healing and renewing your mind have to happen together.  One without the other keeps you in the cycle. In this episode,  Christian life coach  Dr. Dee walks you...

Episode 4: Release the Pressure Not every delay is denial—some are development. In this episode, Dr. Dee unpacks how pressure, discomfort, resistance, and misalignment can slow progress—and how learning contentment and surrender shifts everything. Connect: drdeehester.com | @drdeehester

You’re not just dealing with what you feel—you’re dealing with what’s feeding it. In this episode, we uncover the hidden agreements behind your patterns and why healing can feel incomplete even when you’re doing all the “right” things. Because you can’t heal what you’re still using as protection. Through the FIRST Framework, reflection, and truth, you’ll begin breaking agreement with the belief th...

Last week, we talked about “A Slip Is Showing.” This week, we’re not covering anything up—we’re facing it. Because this is how you heal from insecurity: you start by being honest about how painful it is to stay the same. In this episode, we begin the healing process—Face the Pain, Identify the Root, Release the Pressure, Shift Your Thinking, and Trust God with the Outcome—by focusing on the first...

You can say you’re confident. You can pretend like you’re healed. But eventually… your reactions will tell the truth. This podcast is for self-awareness, emotional healing, and personal growth —helping you understand insecurity, triggers, and the root of your patterns so you can experience real change. Because the truth is: You can’t hide what hasn’t healed. 🗣️ You keep saying “I don’t know,” but...

Why Are You So Insecure? In this episode, we go beyond the surface of insecurity to discover what's driving it. Insecurity is not just a lack of confidence. It's internal instability rooted in past experiences, beliefs, and unhealed soul wounds. From triggers to truth, this episode breaks down how insecurity keeps showing up in your reactions, and how it impacts the way you treat others. W...

Season 2 is focused on healing from insecurity—but before healing begins, the heart must be prepared. In this episode, Dr. Dee shares a powerful reflection from her 40-day Soul Detox, revealing that what often feels like waiting is not punishment—it is preparation. This conversation centers on internal stability, releasing the need to prove yourself, and learning how to trust what God has already...

Today marks the completion of the 40-Day Soul Detox and the closing of Season 1 of the Soul Therapy Podcast. This isn’t just an ending. It’s a sealing. In this final episode, we anchor in Psalm 112:7 — “They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.” Steadfast means anchored. Rooted. Immovable. Unshakable. Over these 40 days, we have confronted fear at its ro...

On Day 39 of the Soul Detox journey, we reflect on Revelation 12:11 and the truth that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. This fast has revealed five toxic C’s that fear produces: criticism, comparison, complaining, competition, and confusion. When fear operates beneath the surface, it steals joy, contentment, peace, clarity, and rest. In this episode, I share what...

🎙️ In today’s Soul Therapy Podcast, we rest in a powerful truth: God is our refuge. Not a backup plan. Not a last resort. But our present help and safe dwelling place. This episode invites you to release the urge to self-protect, self-manage, and self-defend—and instead, to dwell in God’s covering. When life feels loud, uncertain, or emotionally heavy, refuge is not found in control or clarity. It...

As we approach the end of this fast, today’s soul therapy work calls us to stand firm—not emotionally reactive, not driven by fear, and not shaken by uncertainty—but rooted in truth. Fear often doesn’t arrive loudly. It whispers doubts, questions our worth, and tries to pull us out of alignment. But James 4:7 reminds us that resistance is not passive—it is an active decision to submit to God and r...

Fear often becomes powerful not because it is loud, but because it is repeated. In this episode of the Soul Therapy Podcast, Dr. Dee explores Day 36: Authority Over Fear, focusing on how repeated thoughts form strongholds—and how those strongholds can be dismantled through awareness, truth, and spiritual authority. Grounded in 2 Corinthians 10:5, this episode invites listeners to stop agreeing wit...

Waiting can feel uncomfortable, uncertain, and heavy—but Scripture reminds us that waiting on God is never wasted. In today’s episode of the Soul Therapy Podcast, Dr. Dee reflects on Lamentations 3:25 and explores what it means to place our hope fully in God, not as wishful thinking, but as settled trust. This episode invites you to release pressure, realign your heart, and recognize how misplaced...

Waiting can feel harder than a clear “no.” In today’s Soul Therapy Podcast episode, Dr. Dee reflects on Galatians 6:9 and the weariness that can surface when answers feel delayed. This episode names the fear many of us carry—that by the time the harvest comes, we’ll be too tired to enjoy it—and reframes waiting as a season of transformation, not punishment. Rooted in Soul Therapy Work, this conver...

What happens when the reward you expected doesn’t come—and you realize your heart was leaning on the wrong thing? In this deeply honest Soul Therapy episode, Dr. Dee reflects on the pain of unmet expectations around compensation, the grief of realizing misplaced motives, and the freedom that comes from returning to full dependence on God. This conversation explores what it means to release self-re...

Have you ever felt like you were behind—even when things were finally coming together? In today’s Soul Therapy episode, we reflect on Ecclesiastes 3:1 and the truth that our lives unfold in divine order, not delay. This conversation explores how fear distorts our sense of timing, while wisdom anchors us in trust. Dr. Dee shares a personal reflection on servant leadership—how maturity changes the w...

What do you do when God’s promise feels slow—but Scripture says it isn’t delayed? In today’s Soul Therapy episode, we reflect on Habakkuk 2:3 and explore the tension between lingering and delay. Fear often interprets waiting as denial, but God reminds us that timing is part of the promise—not a contradiction of it. This conversation is for anyone navigating uncertainty, waiting on clarity, or wres...

How do you trust God when you can’t see the full picture? In today’s Soul Therapy episode, we reflect on Proverbs 16:9 and explore the tension between planning and trusting. Fear often shows up as second-guessing and overthinking, especially when outcomes feel uncertain. But Scripture reminds us that while we make plans, God establishes our steps. This conversation is for anyone navigating decisio...

When life feels unpredictable, fear often tries to take the lead. In today’s Soul Therapy episode, we reflect on Hebrews 13:8 and the truth that Jesus never changes—even when everything else does. This conversation invites you to anchor your heart in God’s consistent nature rather than shifting circumstances. If you’re navigating transition, uncertainty, or unwanted change, this episode offers gro...

What if faith isn’t about fighting harder—but about knowing when to release? In today’s Soul Therapy episode, we reflect on Exodus 14:14 and the truth that God fights on our behalf. Fear pushes us to overextend, overexplain, and engage in battles that drain our energy and focus. This episode invites you to choose clarity over conflict, trust over tension, and faith over fear. Some things don’t req...

When fear whispers that God is taking too long, His Word reminds us that we are never without direction. Psalm 32:8 reassures us that God instructs, teaches, and guides us with intention and care. This Soul Therapy reflection is an invitation to rest in God’s guidance — even when clarity feels delayed — and to trust that He is leading with love. 🎧 Listen, reflect, and realign. 🌿 More Soul Therap...

In today’s Soul Therapy episode, we reflect on Isaiah 43:19 and explore how God works in seasons of surrender, grief, and uncertainty. This episode is for anyone who feels tired of waiting, unsure of what’s next, and learning to trust God without clarity. To learn more about Soul Therapy resources, visit www.drdeehester.com or reach out at info@drdeehester.com.

What happens when faith collides with uncertainty? In today’s episode, we anchor ourselves in the truth of Ephesians 3:20—that God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all we ask or think, not according to our effort or control, but according to His power at work within us. Fear often doesn’t question if God can move—it questions when and how. That tension is where small thinking quietly...

In Day 24 of the 40-Day Soul Detox, Dr. Dee explores transformation not by might, nor by power, but by God’s Spirit. This episode connects the Law of Alignment, divine timing, hunger, and hidden preparation to eliminating fear and the toxic patterns of comparing, criticizing, and complaining. Learn how strategic delays, unmet hunger, and hidden seasons are often God’s way of restoring alignment an...