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

You have the power to build a healthy home or to harm your family.  Today, we reflect on stopping what is not working and encouraging the importance of making necessary changes. As, it creates a mentally healthier environment when we choose to speak only God's truth and words that build up instead of tear down. The episode suggests approaching this choice from a grounded, restful, wise, and though...

In this episode, we delve into the importance of making choices for your family and edifying your kids without comparison, guilt, or peer-pressure.  Join us as we explore strategies for celebrating uniqueness, prioritizing values, and fostering a nurturing environment for our children. Tune in to gain valuable insights and practical tips for navigating the parenting journey. The parenting relation...

Parenting is so important because it teaches our children how to have strong relationships and when done well, models for children how to live and communicate wisely. The relationship between parents and children is more important than just enforcing rules. Understanding the feelings, needs, and developmental capabilities of children is crucial. Instead of insisting on compliance or using harsh co...

If you wonder how to stop falling to the comparison trap, how to stop wondering what others will think about you or your decisions, and how to break free from fear of judgment, it all starts with getting your focus on the only One who can free you and lead you on a solid foundation of peace over anxiety.

Do you listen to that negative, self-sabotaging voice in your head? It's a voice you would not use with others, but you do with yourself. That voice is not God's truth about you. Let's recognize the thoughts for what they are and find grace.  If you are ready for a better mindset, self-care, self-compassion, self-esteem, and some grace and kindness like you give to others, this episode is for you.

Do you ever feel like you can't take one more thing or you will burst?  It's like you can tolerate thing after thing, until the accumulation of all the feelings and thoughts and stressors and expectations or anxiety is too heavy a burden, and the next thing you know, you feel like an awful person for exploding?  If you would like to better manage your feelings, understand your mindset and body sig...

When you need a Scripture meditation or a Biblical truth, it helps to focus and calm your body, mindset, and anxiety by focusing on a passage of scripture.  Jesus is a calmer of storms, peace in the midst of anxiety and pain. Listen in!

How can you face anxiety and panic when all you want to do is stay in your protective bubble?  Listener Marie is afraid to date because it may result in her being "stuck" in a marriage, so she bolts and then feels relief from the anxiety.  She finds she bolts from therapists, too.  Listen in as Michelle coaches her to find her next steps forward toward the life she really wants to live.

When you want to make positive changes to move forward in your life, it is important to stay true to your values, surrounding yourself with the right relationships, and focus on taking action steps toward your goals.  There is power in  making small, positive changes over time to achieve big transformations.

Today's Scripture meditation has us focusing on the Biblical truth about our freedom in Christ and the fact that out of that God-given freedom we have the opportunity to love and serve others well.  If you are ready to break free from the things that hold you back and overcome the lies, focusing on the freedom you have from Jesus is a great place to start living out scripture truth.

Michelle and Anne discuss the difficult situations that Anne and her husband have been through, and touch upon topics such as dealing with addiction, unhealthy or unsupportive relationships, coping with frustration, and codependency.  Emphasizing the importance of taking responsibility for one's actions, understanding one's needs, and finding effective ways to handle emotions, seeking out a commun...

What or Who are you holding onto that no longer is serving you well?  What or Who do you need to reach for to get to the goals you and God have set before you?  A framework of your Core Values, People, and Tasks can help you to explore the important next steps to get unstuck, thrive, and move forward toward your goals in all areas of life.  From relationships, to overcoming anxiety, to trying some...

Today's Scripture meditation will center you on your focus on living and working and doing all that you do as unto God.  Life has purpose and meaning when we live them in all that we do for the Lord.

In this Listener Coaching Call episode, Pam discusses with Michelle her struggle with self-care for anxiety. They acknowledge the challenges of life but emphasize Jesus' power and encourage listeners to take action steps. Together,  the concepts of taking every thought captive from a biblical and scientific perspective, and having grace with oneself are addressed. They also aim to dispel the notio...

There are four key road blocks that often get in the way when Christian women are trying to reach their goals, and they can have similar roots from your mindset, to your beliefs, and your traumas.  To reach your goals, you need to be aware of each of these four ways you may be accidentally sabotaging yourself so that you can strategically navigate them and get unstuck.  These four things, if addre...

As we focus today's Scripture Meditation of Psalm 103, we can turn our anxiety and trauma, pain, and fear, into praise and greatfulness.  As we focus on the blessings God has already provided and who He is, we can speak truth and life into the core of our beings, orienting us in a healthy posture before the Lord who is capable of all good things and the giver of all good gifts.

The Duggars are a well known family for their 19 Kids and Counting Show, but some of the beliefs that the organization they belong to taught were actually man-made and cultivated practices that caused fear and abuse in people under the IBLP organization's authority.  Today, we explore part 2 of Michelle's mental health therapist perspective as well as Biblical and Scriptural basis for truth verses...

A kernel of Biblical truth in the hands of a manipulator who is out for themselves and personal power over the care of their flock or family is evil and dangerous, yet these wolves in sheep's clothing masquerade in our churches and families as undetected toxins because of the gaslighting that they can use to make it seem as if the victims are the problem for having a problem with their behavior. ...

Today's Scripture meditation is based on Proverbs 10:9, where Michelle guides listeners to meditate on the things that need to be made right behind the scenes to have integrity in private as well as with others in public in words and actions.  Integrity can help reduce anxiety, heal relationships, and help you to grow closer to God.  

Michelle coaches listener Amy who is struggling with anxiety from what she hears on the news and how she wants to keep her kids safe but also let them live in freedom.  Amy shares about having intrusive thoughts and anxiety, and tips are given for self-care, dealing with intrusive thoughts, and living out healthy Christian parenting, and anxiety management tips and trusting God.

Michelle shares her personal journey in hearing God's voce through the Holy Spirit and wise counsel as she takes steps toward the goals and leading of what God is calling her to do with the Mental Health With Christian Women podcast and the exciting changes that will be coming soon and offerings for listeners from goal-setting, to training your thought life, to self-care tips, to anxiety managemen...

Have you ever just been so flat out exhausted, hot, and miserable that you weren't showing up as the best version of yourself?  Have you ever had such great plans that didn't work out that way in real life?  If you've been maxed out with no margin in your life, you aren't alone.  Michelle shares of a time when she was outside of her window of tolerance and the lessons we can all take from it.

Christian women are sometimes afraid to have strong feelings, concerned that they are sinning or "shouldn't" be that way for some reason.  However, strong feelings are not sin.  Strong feelings are just letting us know that something isn't right in our environment or within ourselves.  If you have strong feelings and feel guilty or wrong about it, Michelle offers some insight for you.

Today's Scripture meditation is based on the fact and embodiment of the fact that you are a new creation in Christ.  Let the old go, and step into the truth and freshness of your identity today in Christ.

Michelle coaches listener Tara, an ER nurse and mom of young children, who finds herself angry and with a short fuse at home with her kids and apathy at work with her patients and wonders if she needs counseling or coaching and what steps to take to deal with these concerns that seem to be the result of the stress on the medical community from going through COVID.