The Road To Happiness

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , our NICC® therapists are back for another My Counselor Says conversation! Host Megan Hughes is joined by Amy Bark and Greg Cooney to explore a question that sounds simple but can become surprisingly complicated: "Who am I?" Maybe you've recently experienced a major life change. Your kids are growing up, your caree...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , our NICC® therapists are back for another My Counselor Says conversation! Host Megan Hughes is joined by Amy Bark and Greg Cooney to talk about something every single one of us will face at some point: Uncertainty. Maybe you're facing a major life transition. Maybe you're waiting for an answer about your health, financ...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , our NICC® therapists are back for another My Counselor Says conversation! Host Megan Hughes is joined by Amy Bark and Greg Cooney to talk about something almost all of us have done at one time or another: The cost of pretending you're fine. You know how it goes. Someone asks, "How are you doing?" And before you&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , our NICC® therapists are back for another My Counselor Says conversation! Host Megan Hughes is joined by Amy Bark and Greg Cooney to talk about something most of us would probably rather avoid: Hard conversations.   You know something needs to be said, a boundary needs to be communicated, feelings have been hurt, expectations ar...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , our NICC® therapists are back for another My Counselor Says conversation! Host Megan Hughes is joined by Amy Bark and Greg Cooney to tackle something that can look productive on the outside while creating anxiety, exhaustion, and pressure on the inside: Perfectionism. Maybe you call it having high standards. Maybe you just reall...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! We're doing something new today on The Road to Happiness Podcast! We're introducing My Counselor Says , conversations with MyCounselor. Online's own NICC® therapists about the questions, struggles, and challenges they help people navigate every day. For this first conversation, your host Megan Hughes is joined by Amy Bark and Greg Cooney to talk about so...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, we've made it to the final episode of The Anxiety Signal! ❤️ Throughout this series, Josh & Cassie have explored anxiety through the lenses of neuroscience, relationships, trauma, emotional health, Scripture, community, therapy, medication, and healing. Now we're wrapping things up with one of the more complicated conversations in anxiety and trauma treat...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series. When you're struggling with anxiety, there are a LOT of things people tell you to try. Medication. Exercise. Better sleep. Therapy. Prayer. Changing your diet. Managing stress. And many of those things really can help. But here's the bigger question: 👉 Which one actually helps anxiety the most? Today on The Road to...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series. After spending this series unpacking what anxiety is, why it happens, and what healing can look like, we're tackling one of the biggest questions of all: 👉 Can anxiety actually be cured? Can you reach a place where anxiety no longer controls your life? Does healing mean you'll never feel anxious again? And if anxiet...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  When someone you love is struggling with anxiety, what role are you supposed to play? And if you're the one struggling, where does the Church fit into your healing? Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie explore the role of the Church in healing anxiety and why caring for one another's emotional...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  What if some of the people in your life are making your anxiety harder to heal, while others are actually helping your nervous system learn peace? Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie explore something we were never designed to do alone: 👉 Heal. God created us for relationship, and both Scripture and ne...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series! Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie tackle one of the biggest myths in modern self-help culture: 👉 "I should be able to fix this on my own." Books can help. Podcasts can inspire. Prayer can strengthen your heart. Personal growth matters. But a common misconception is healing was never meant to...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series!  Have you ever noticed that change - even good change - can make you anxious? A new job. A new relationship. Becoming a parent. Moving to a new city. Even stepping into the person God created you to be can feel surprisingly overwhelming. Why? Because change stretches your nervous system. So when anxiety shows up, our natural i...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie tackle one of the most overlooked contributors to anxiety: 👉 Unprocessed emotions. Many of us were never taught what to do with our emotions. We learned to suppress them, avoid them, spiritualize them, or simply power through them. But healing doesn't come from...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  Have you ever noticed that when anxiety hits, it's almost impossible to think clearly? Your mind races. Your heart pounds. You forget simple things. And even though you know the truth, you can't seem to access it in the moment. You're not losing your mind. Your brain is doing exactly what it was designed to do...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie dive into one of the most frustrating experiences for people living with anxiety: 👉 Being anxious... about becoming anxious. Maybe you've noticed yourself avoiding certain places, conversations, or situations, not because something bad has happened, but because...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie introduce one of the most practical frameworks around personal growth: 👉 The 5 Capacity Domains. Maturity isn't just something that happens with age. God designed specific areas of your life to grow, and anxiety, trauma, and past wounds have limited your capacit...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie explore one of the most foundational concepts in the NICC® model: 👉 Soul DNA. Just as your physical DNA contains the blueprint for how your body develops and grows, Soul DNA is a term used within Neuroscience Informed Christian Counseling® to describe the blueprint G...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series. Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie tackle a struggle many Christians know all too well: 👉 Feeling like you have to be "fine" when you're really not. Maybe you've learned to smile through the pain. Maybe you've convinced yourself that if you just stay positive enough, pray hard...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie explore a topic that hides beneath the surface of anxiety for many Christians: 👉 Perfectionism. People pleasing. The False Self. What if the pressure you feel to get everything right, keep everyone happy, or constantly prove your worth isn't actually helping you...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie tackle one of the most important - and often misunderstood - pieces of the anxiety puzzle: 👉 Trauma. When many people hear the word "trauma," they immediately think of major life events. But what if trauma is broader than that? What if some of the anxiety y...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie tackle one of the biggest misconceptions people have about anxiety: 👉 "If I can just calm down, I’ll finally heal." But what if constantly trying to “manage” your anxiety symptoms is actually keeping you stuck on a hamster wheel? In this episode, Josh &...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! Welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series.  Today on The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie are diving into something that impacts every part of your anxiety journey: 👉 Your emotions. For many of us - especially in Christian spaces - we were never really taught what to do with emotions. In fact, we may have received messages like: Big emotions are bad, weak...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend, welcome back to The Anxiety Signal series!  In this episode of The Road to Happiness Podcast , Josh & Cassie continue the conversation by diving deeper into what anxiety actually feels like and what’s really happening under the surface. Anxiety isn’t just a thought problem. It shows up in your body, your reactions, and your relationships. But how do you know what’s...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! We’ve been working behind the scenes for a while to bring this to you, and we’re so excited to finally start this journey together. Josh & Cassie are back behind the mic to kick off a brand new series on The Road to Happiness Podcast : 👉 The Anxiety Signal Anxiety is something so many of us face , especially as Christians trying to make sense of faith, fear, and w...