Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast

Many of us say "I don't need church, I just need God. My faith is private. I pray on my own. I read devotions on my own." Each one of us is shaped by our environment, and that means church.  With the pandemic many people started watching church online and haven't gone back in person. This has affected our mental health. There is a pattern of beliefs that keep us stuck from what God truly desires....

Many Christians have been taught to be led by the Bible and not their emotions. Kellie Copeland, the daughter of Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, has faith in the Word of God. But when it came to her emotions, she was ignoring them. God revealed to her a powerful truth about her emotions when she went through a difficult season in her life. Kellie shares what God revealed to her through worship, her h...

We can receive salvation through Jesus Christ but can still operate with a shattered soul. Why do we still feel broken or wounded when we love and follow Jesus? Do you blame yourself? Do ever wonder why there is such a disconnection between what the Bible says and what we feel? If you are feeling anything except loved, peace, joy, and confidence in being a child of God, then the enemy has stolen p...

If you can learn how to fight well you will have better sex. When you have an imbalance in power, you can't have intimacy. Efforts do not equal outcome. Fault and responsibility are very different. Trauma is the enemy, not people. Embrace imperfect healing. Safety is key. Keep it complex. Jenna Mountain is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Sex Therapist, Business Coach and Business Owne...

There isn't enough lace on the planet to make up for low self-value and trust in the marriage.   Have you ever felt like you were in the "dog house"? Mary Whitman Ortiz, MA, CLC is a Christian sex educator, relationship coach, author, and speaker. In this revealing episode, she talks about all the sexual things you maybe are afraid to talk about. She shares her testimony of being in a "Christian"...

When our circumstances in life are not good, we can doubt and question God. We can ask why. While God is absolutely okay with these questions, He wants to draw us closer to Him in the midst of our difficult circumstances. We don't always let Him in so that He can.  No matter where you are at, there is more from God. Whatever your circumstance is, there is more. Open your eyes to the more. A renewe...

Do you feel like you are confident one moment but then anxiety hits and that insecurity sets in? I have seen many of us very smart, capable and successful people start to go downhill because of our anxiety. Little by little, the anxiety starts to creep up and take over, saying lies that make confidence decrease and less joy and hope. The anxiety starts to "win" and we do less things, take less cha...

We all need to be set free enough to set others free and live in redemption. Troy and Leanna Brewer have a large ministry but they started small, they stay intentional about their passions and continue to stay personally involved in everything they do, even saving girls and boys out of sex trafficking. You will be forever changed from the authentic words of wisdom in this podcast. It's easy to jud...

In the therapy office, I see many people with missing links that they don't even realize. If we had a great childhood, there might still be some missing links and things that we gained like anxiety or control. If we didn't have a great childhood, we could have bigger missing links like worthiness or value. No matter what your childhood was like, God can reveal His truth, His heart, His healing ove...

Do you see yourself with many characteristics of your parents? Maybe you try to be as different as you can from them, or perhaps you do everything they do because they are amazing. Either way, this phrase can cause harm or good, depending on the way it's used. See, if we only look to our earthly parents for wisdom, guidance and truth, we will fall short. Our heavenly Father needs to be our priorit...

What if you've played right into the enemy's hands just so you will sit on the sidelines? Pamela experienced sexual abuse as a young girl and heard these words from her abuser: "God brought you into my life for me to teach you to be a wife." This is a lie from the enemy. She also has experienced people in the church telling her hurtful comments about why her son died.  There was a lot of misinform...

Do you feel like your emotions are hijacking your life and you feel out of control? Do you have times where you make choices and you don't know why you even made them in the first place? I see so often that we ignore emotions in the church. We ignore them either because we don't understand, because of pride or some theological belief that it has to do with psychology and we shouldn't go there. It'...

Even as a Christian, we can still be miserable. Marcie knew there had to be more to the Christian life than what she was experiencing. She knew she was missing something and found herself sitting in church complaining to God—crying out for Him to show her something. It did not take long before God put people in her path that led to her life being completely turned around. After living with a spiri...

The questions that God asks Adam and Eve are therapist questions: Where are you? Who told you? What have you done? Pastor Tim Ross, from Embassy City Church in Irving, TX shares his powerful testimony about sexual abuse and pornography. He was able to get out of the lie that vulnerability is dangerous and is now walking out vulnerability as a successful pastor. He had loving parents who allowed th...

We can have constant noise, feedback, chaos, confusion, opinions, analyzation and fear in our head that can keep us captive. It's hard for us to know if these voices are from us, God or somewhere else. Sometimes deliverance and spiritual concepts can be hard for us to understand. Katlyn Scherping shares about her struggle with criticism and anxiety and how the Lord brought her freedom and delivera...

Are you 2 feet in the Kingdom of God? Many Christians live one foot in the world and one foot in the Kingdom. We think they are 2 feet in but we are stressed, frustrated and are always looking for something more. Dr. Jessica Rothmeyer, Christian coach, author and teacher, shares how she struggled with perfectionism, comparison, anxiety and striving. God drew her into a deep place of intimacy to sh...

Do you have people in your life who are passive-aggressive with you? It's confusing and difficult when people are like this with us. They are kind and loving then manipulative the next moment. We don't want to but we do it too. Jesus was assertive and honoring to others. We can be too. But how? Come listen to this powerful episode about how to be assertive with people in your life. Being assertive...

 Are you a really nice person that loves to help other people? Do you know someone who is always there to lend a hand, give an encouraging word but you watch as their person life is in shambles? Having a servant heart is exactly what Jesus calls us to have, but He doesn't want us to do it at the expense of our own life and our own family. He doesn't want us feeling good because we see people happy...

Do you want to know what happens to our mental health when we choose to have an abortion? We want to think we can get on with our life and it doesn't affect us, but we can't hide from life. Gina, a wife, mom and advocate, shares her powerful story before and after her and her boyfriend decided to have an abortion. Initially she didn't regret it and continued on with her life as usual. But after a...

Most of us don't feel emotions. We offload emotions. Is this you? Do you find yourself avoiding feelings? I have seen so many mental health clients not be aware of their emotions, or even know the lack of awareness they have. I am not immune to this and have done it as well. Many of us do it without realizing it and have learned it from watching others and how we grew up. Some of us have certain p...

Do you find yourself reacting to something strong and wonder how you got there? Maybe you emotionally eat, react quickly to your spouse, or get irritated for seemingly no season. These could be emotional triggers. In this episode, you will learn how to identify when you get triggered, or emotionally heightened from people and situations. If we continue to live without self-awareness of triggers, w...

We don't realize we are emotionally eating until we are emotionally eating. Emotional Eating Expert & Coach, Gabrielle J. Chery, didn't realize until she had gained 30 pounds. She was insecure, hiding, experiencing depression. She started going to the gym but didn't change her eating habits. She realized she was using food as a reward – this is misaligning the way God made food. However, when she...

Are you ready for some new life, new clarity, a new level of freedom? I think we can miss the mark with having freedom from mental health. We declare amazing verses but we can still be stuck. Take a listen to the powerful revelations from the Lord that Heidi shares from John 15. She takes you into a deep dive into the heart of God, into secrets that often go missed. His desire is better than we ev...

Your soul might be under attack. In this powerful episode, Heidi interviews pastor Kristi Graner, founder and director or Dare To Believe Ministries in Burnsville, MN. The Lord doesn't require that we get beat up in the process of moving forward with God's intent and getting our soul healed. Kristi had to come to terms with the fact that when you walk with Jesus, He walks you through the broken wo...

Do you hear that it's important to encourage but when it comes down to it you only encourage the ones that are easy to encourage? The vulnerable ones who are open with you, the ones who encourage you so you encourage back. What about those who seem to criticize you, just you, or seem to make life more difficult for you? Or those who seem to struggle to be in a good mood? You find yourself avoiding...