Heidi Mortenson, MA, LMFT
Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast
Strong Tower Mental Health is an authentic and encouraging podcast hosted by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Heidi Mortenson. Get ready for heaven to be unlocked in your soul with real life stories, skills, and amazing guests who will inspire you. Topics on this podcast include vulnerability, authenticity, how to have difficult conversations, keeping healthy boundaries with others, marriage, depression, anxiety, addiction, co-dependency and more. You will learn how to pull the gold from yourself and others, and walk in freedom no matter the circumstances surrounding you. Learn more at...
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Episodes
122. From Defensive to Curious 05.06.2023 26:19
Do you find yourself being defensive with others? Do you seem to turn to blame and get emotionally hooked? You might have others getting defensive with you as well. This can turn to manipulation and even gas lighting. In this episode, Heidi talks about how to not be so defensive. You will hear how to get at the root of the issue, identify the emotional hooks, and respond with curiosity instead. Wh...
121. When Words Don't Come Easy with Andy Howard 29.05.2023 35:54
Have you ever had a bad day become a bad week? And that bad week become a bad month and then a bad year? Andy "stumbled" into depression after the tough news about his daughter's health at her birth. He was a pastor and would put a fake smile on his face. He was believing lies that he was left alone and forgotten by God. With the encouragement of his wife, he went to counseling. Like many people,...
120. Grunt Work Deliverance with Dr. Mark Chironna 22.05.2023 34:20
Being hit by panic attacks and extreme anxiety for three and a half years, Dr. Mark Chironna couldn't run from the pain. He was forced to get healing from places he didn't know needed healing from. He had to do what he calls grunt work deliverance. There are many in the church who believe in magical thinking that they will be healed in an instant. Dr. Chironna is an ordained bishop, author, has a...
119. The Truth of How God Sees You – Ministry and Prayer 15.05.2023 21:58
We like to beat ourselves up and we like to stay small. But God has different ideas. He is God no matter what we're dealing with and the circumstances we are in. Neuroplasticity is the ability of our brains to change even if we've had difficult life situations. When we continue to focus on beating ourselves up, this change is hard. In this episode, you will experience ministry to bring yourself in...
118. Mental Emotional & Spiritual Miracles with Tony Kemp 08.05.2023 41:00
Tony Kemp operates in miracles, signs and wonders. Is this magical thinking or can this impact us with our spiritual emotional and physical healing? Tony shares many ministry testimonies of healings through the power of Jesus Christ and powerful stories from the Bible. He also shares his experiences with angels and seeing Jesus face to face. Tony also worked in the field of mental health before be...
117. Shining Your Identity in Christ 01.05.2023 24:04
Our identity is currently being attacked in this world and it can be hard to field through the lies to truly know who we are. As Christians we should look different from the rest of the world but often times we don't. I think some of the issue is that Christians lack a deep and intimate relationship with Father God. There is distance between God and we don't believe He is close. However, the veil...
116. Healing the Inner Soul with Teia Martinez 24.04.2023 37:35
If we could heal ourselves we would have already done it! We need help from God to heal our inner soul even after salvation. Teia Martinez got pregnant at age 14 and got married at 15. She was not raised in church, nor did she own a Bible. By the age of 22 she had 3 kids. At the age of 19 she got desperate from being miserable and depressed. She started to cry out to God to find out if He was real...
115. How to Think Like God from Negative Thoughts 17.04.2023 25:09
Have you been struggling with negative thoughts? There are times when we know what God says about us but we don't feel it and our experiences seem to tell us a different story than what God says. The Bible says that we have the mind of Christ. If we have the mind of Christ, how can we struggle so much with negative thoughts? In this episode, you will hear common negative thoughts, "lies" or "negat...
114. Self-Hate and Depression to a Renewed Lens with Jamie Lyn Wallnau 10.04.2023 35:33
Do you struggle with self-hate? Do you believe that depression is a chemical imbalance? Are you marinating on thoughts of death and negativity? God has given author and speaker Jamie Lyn a gift to deliver heavier words in the Kingdom of God with humor, love and grace. She is the daughter-in-law of Lance Wallnau and married to Lance Wallnau Junior. In this podcast, Jamie Lyn shares about her testim...
113. Message to the Church from a Mental Health Therapist 03.04.2023 27:15
Our world is hurting, and we need the church to lead by showing how to truly be free. God can shine through healthy people who are free, not in bondage. When I got into ministry, I innocently was surprised by how many wounded people are in churches and ministries. I thought they had it all put together. However, they are just like everyone else. But shouldn't Christians look different than the re...
112. Freedom from Jezebel and Python Spirit with Harmony Klingenmeyer 27.03.2023 40:41
You may have heard of the Jezebel Spirit and the Python Spirit, the controlling and twisting spirits. Are they real and if they are, what do they actually do to us? And how can we be aware of their influence and fight against them? In this episode, you will hear from a powerful woman of God, Harmony Klingenmeyer, who shares her wisdom from the Bible about the Jezebel and Python spirit, both of wh...
111. Frustration with the Transformation Process 20.03.2023 28:36
Do you feel frustrated with the process of healing? Do you wonder why you still have depression and are taking medication and it's been years? We can do all the things, read the books, take the classes and be in the best therapies, but still not get better. Why is this?? In this episode, you will hear about the process of change and transformation in the Kingdom of God. That sometimes there are hi...
110. Come Out in Jesus Name with Pastor Greg Locke 13.03.2023 44:01
Pastor Greg Locke is one of the most controversial pastors in America. Something happened in his church that completely took him and his wife off guard and he will never be the same. In this powerful interview, Pastor Greg Locke shares about how he realized that he didn't know how to truly bring people to freedom and that he needed it himself. In a quest to see others set free, him and his wife di...
109. Sozo - Emotional and Heart Healing with Dr. Margaret Nagib 06.03.2023 33:48
Do you have wounds from your past or lies that you are believing about yourself? Do you believe God in your head but struggle to believe in your heart? Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Margaret Nagib, shares her personal testimony of knowing God in her head but not in her heart. A friend invited her to a church where she experienced God in a whole new way. She then learned about the inner healing techni...
108. Gen Z Mental Health and the Asbury Revival 27.02.2023 26:19
Teen's mental health has been an issue before the pandemic but grew to be even worse afterwards. There are so many stressors Gen Z has and adults can overlook it. We can often put judgments on them and not truly see them for how God does. What if Gen Z has a hunger that stirs the nations? As we have seen from the revival in Asbury University and the other schools, God is moving. The hunger is real...
107. God's Design for Intimacy and Sex in Marriage With Ruth Buezis 20.02.2023 41:10
We hear the myth that if you have more sex it will create more intimacy in your marriage. Or the myth that men want sex more than women. What does God say about this? What if you have a trauma history or had multiple partners or struggled with a porn addiction? In this episode, you will hear from the amazing and gentle teacher and author Ruth Buezis. She wrote the book Awaken Love and teaches cla...
106. Secrets of the Secret Place with God 13.02.2023 25:54
You hear about needing to spend quiet time with God or the meditate on scripture, but how do you do that when your mind is racing? How do we actually slow down to "be still and know that God is God"? In this episode, you will hear about the secrets of the secret place, taken from the book by Bob Sorge. The term "secret place" appears in both the Old and New Testaments and is the way our soul (mind...
105. Healing a Broken Marriage with Brian & Elisha Magill 06.02.2023 39:23
After years of abandonment, mental abuse and multiple affairs, their marriage resembled more of a war zone coming to an end. They both grew up in Christian homes but were churched out. Brian and Elisha Magill were both at the end of their steadily fraying rope. Elisha was consumed with anger. The plan of the enemy was for their marriage and their family to be destroyed. Then one day, everything ch...
104. Depressed as a Christian? Listen to be Encouraged and Experience Freedom 30.01.2023 26:19
Can Christians be depressed? If you are does that mean you have a demon? How do you actually get free from depression? Many people are struggling with stress, depression and hopelessness, even as Christians. This comes from difficult circumstances like financial instability, relational stress, physical health issues, and general society issues. As Christians, is this okay and normal? There are som...
103. Jesus Loves Diversity with Lambers Fisher, LMFT 23.01.2023 33:00
Diversity has become a word that many have polarized away from the original intent that God had for His people. God designed us to be unified and diverse from the beginning of time. Jesus is the originator of the word diversity, not politics. Lambers Fisher, author, mental health therapist, and speaker, talks candidly about the discomfort people have with the topic of diversity. He breaks down the...
102. Heavenly Aligned Emotions 16.01.2023 21:26
We are made in the image of God but then why do we feel "off" with our emotions? It's okay to not be okay. But as Christians, we don't want to stay there. We need to learn how to access heavenly emotions and be aligned with what God intends for us, even when we experience pain. When we are born, we experience hurt, disappointments and abuse that can shift our emotional circuits to not be aligned w...
101. A Free and Healed Heart with Jennifer Eivaz 09.01.2023 45:01
Although Jennifer Eivaz is a very successful itinerant minister, she knows what it's like to be in emotional turmoil and pain. She knows what it's like to have to choose life because she had to herself. In this powerful interview, Jennifer teaches how to walk in our true authority in Christ and not be afraid of demons. You will hear fascinating discussions around deliverance, inner healing, mental...
100. Biblical New Year's Resolutions for Increased Freedom 02.01.2023 23:23
I get it. You want to start of fresh and new. You want to hit your goals. You want to make New Year's Resolutions and you want to hit by the end of 2023. In this episode, you will hear New Year's Resolutions that are Biblical and you will receive increased freedom. You can pick one of them, some of them or all of them as long as you have a plan for the end of the year. Be encouraged as you step in...
99. The Impact of Lukewarm Christianity on Mental Health 26.12.2022 26:31
Are you ALL in for the Kingdom of God? Do you know if you are a lukewarm Christian? I had no idea I was a lukewarm Christian until I was forced to get on my face because I was struggling. I needed Jesus. Most people love Jesus and believe in Jesus but aren't ALL in, surrendered for the Kingdom of God. They are essentially, lukewarm. This is a tragedy with our current world because it causes many t...
98. Unique Refining by the Holy Spirit with Megan Nilsen 22.12.2022 35:21
Do ever have any expectation that something would not be too hard? Or you question if you heard God correctly ? Megan Nilsen, Kingdom coach and author, shares her testimony of adopting 2 children from Ethiopia with her husband. She shares the trials and difficulties they all went through and the huge help she got from an amazing counselor who pulled the gold from her. In a shocking twist, she lear...
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