Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Regulate Emotions, Intrusive Thoughts, Nervous System, Anxiousness, Overthinking, EMDR

Do you have more discomfort in your nervous system than peace?  Are you getting through the day by surviving but not eally living and thriving? If you aren't at peace in your body and your nervous system is able to relax due to the effects of past trauma, a reset may be needed to get out of fight, flight, and freeze.   READY for REAL HEALING Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist wh...

Do you experience uncomfortable feelings in your body because of your past traumatic experiences?  Zings of adrenaline or moments of disconnection from the present moment may be trauma responses trying to tell you that more healing is needed. READY for REAL HEALING Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even in your therapy? ...

Do you find yourself stuck and overthinking your decisions and voice?  You may be giving away power that is rightfully yours.  Listen in to learn what to look for and why you don't have to. READY for REAL HEALING Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even in your therapy?  Would you love to incorporate deep healing in a way...

Do you try to do all the "right" things but still not feel good enough?  Do you wonder why you have to work so hard to be able to think right and why you still don't feel differently inside?  It's quite likely it's the way your nervous system has made sense of the traumas you've endured over a lifetime.  It's trying to tell you what it needs so that you can get in touch with the real you, but if y...

Have you been to the mall and seen the YOU ARE HERE arrow on the map?  Knowing your location and where you are trying to get to is necessary for an efficient trip.  The same is true for knowing where you are mentally, emotionally, and relationally.  It's important so that you can effectively heal and live.  Today's episode shares three ways that knowing where you are helps you to move forward. REA...

Have you been paralyzed by overthinking, overanalyzing, and fearful of the next right step to take?  If you get caught up in your thoughts, ruminate, and then get anxious or stressed out, today's pep talk is for you. READY for REAL HEALING? Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even in your therapy?  Would you love to incorp...

Have you ever wondered why you can know you're safe in your mind… but your body still feels anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted, or on edge? What if some of the things you or others have called weakness, overreacting, or "being too emotional" are actually signs that your nervous system has been trying to protect you? Could it be that your anxiety, emotional exhaustion, people-pleasing, or shutdown res...

Are you ready to get past the hurts of things like CPTSD, Trauma, and Difficult Relationships but find yourself stuck?  Is it a struggle to make progress because you can't seem to get over the mental and emotional blocks inside you?   If so, today's episode can explain why you may be falling under something called "learned helplessness."  Listen in to understand why you feel that way and how the d...

Have you ever felt plagued and disgusted by intrusive thoughts?   Have anxiety attacks caused you horrible symptoms?  Or, have grief and loss symptoms got you down?  It's hard when our experiences in our own minds and bodies isn't pleasant or what we want.  Yet, today, I'm going to share with you how to pull out the golden nuggets of wisdom that can help you find and experience more peace. READY f...

Are you tired of anxiety symptoms running the show in your life? Do you long to reduce anxiousness and try to do that by avoiding it or pushing it away? And would you just love to relieve the emotional stress already? Today I'm going to give you three tips that really do work to help anxiety to loosen up. Listen in. READY for REAL HEALING? Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who...

Have you tried Christian counseling, but find that you can't get very far in just one hour each week and long to go deeper?  Or, do you wish therapy to heal from your grief symptoms, emotional hurt, negative thoughts or anxiety symptoms could be faster?    Well, today I'm going to tell you about what a therapeutic intensive with me is like. So if you've been wondering about working with me and wha...

Have you heard EMDR and it sounds like just an  alphabet soup of letters that gets tossed around?  Have you wondered what EMDR therapy might be? Would you like to find out if  emdr-based Christian counseling could be a good fit for you as you work to heal from traumatic experiences or emotional pain? Well, in this episode, I've give you the deets as they say, the low down skinny on what EMDR is, a...

Have you ever considered what you are carrying that you can let go of to gain some more mental space, emotional peace, freedom, and clarity?  If you are wondering how to break free from being overwhelmed, are unable to relax, or are holding stress that doesn't belong to you, today's episode will give you a start toward letting go and feeling lighter with 4 Things You Can Let Go of So You Can Breat...

Do you long for healing and mental and emotional freedom?  Do you wish you could skip the journey and just be at the destination of inner peace already?  It all starts with one next step to make it reality.  That's what we're talking about in today's episode. READY for REAL HEALING? Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even...

Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even in your therapy?  Would you love to incorporate deep healing in a way that aligns with God's Word and the evidence-based treatments for trauma healing?   I can help you with all of that.  If you would like to work with me, you can schedule a free 15 minute consultation call with me...

Have you been looking for a Trauma-Informed Therapist who is also a Christian?  Do you want to honor your faith even in your therapy?  Would you love to incorporate deep healing in a way that aligns with God's Word and the evidence-based treatments for trauma healing?   I can help you with all of that.  If you would like to work with me, you can schedule a free 15 minute consultation call with me...

Do you feel like your anxiousness is out to get you?  Anxiety often gets a bad rap, but it's not completely unhelpful or bad.  If you would like to learn how to make friends with your nervous system so that you can live more peacefully in thoughts, emotions, and your body and spirit, today's episode will offer you practical tips you can use right now! FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you...

When you have experienced hard things, it is easy for your nervous system to get triggered into feeling unsafe again.  This doesn't have to be a permanent experience of distress and frustration.  In today's episode, I share 4 things you can do to start to take the edge off of the experience of stuckness. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I cre...

Do you feel overly responsible for other people's actions, feelings, thoughts, and emotions?  If you find yourself sacrificing what is good for you to keep other people's reactions at bay or neglect your own needs, wants, and self to try to keep the peace, you may be engaging in a trauma response called self-abandonment.  This leads to burn out, stress, and guilt whenever you stop the protective b...

Do you ever feel like there is a real way you feel deep inside and a way you think you "should or shouldn't" feel that drives your actions on the outside?  If you have strong feelings but feel that they are too much or wrong for a Christian woman to have, listen in.  You don't have to suck it up, ignore yourself, or throw yourself under the bus. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might...

Wonder why you people please, over explain, or shut down?  Here's what's going on and how to help yourself with it. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.  Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide   WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC: If yo...

Therapy is a great resource, but sometimes, it's not enough.  In today's episode, Michelle talks about some of the differences that make EMDR trauma therapy more effective than standard talk therapy. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not...

Have you found yourself fine one minute and completely blindsided by your reactions the next?  Today, Michelle shares 1 huge way to tell if you have unresolved trauma hiding in your nervous system.  Listen in!   FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why...

Have you ever struggled with thoughts you don't want, don't believe in, and wish would go away and leave you alone but the more you try to stop thinking them the worse the looping thought gets?  Today, Michelle shares her tip for how to deal with intrusive thoughts with God's help.  Listen in!   FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a fr...

How many Christian women think trauma healing happens and how it actually does happen are often not the same thing.  Today, Michelle shares how to look at healing so that you can be encouraged rather than feel defeated.  Listen in!   FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource.   I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happe...