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. The groups of people are: those who don’t believe God is good, those who don’t believe God isn’t big, those who believe in all gods, and those who are really, religious and hypocritical (and don’t know it). Whether these people attend church or not, each one of these groups is getting hit with depression, anxiety and relationship issues. Be encouraged as you will be led into prayer at the end of the podcast to be more connected to God and increase in confidence with who you truly are in Christ. God is non-religious, non-hypocritical, good, big and real!  “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty”. ~Psalms 91:1 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!  

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 hardships, and how God uses our emotions. When we ignore emotions, we ignore an important part of our self to allow the Word of God in. We can’t let our emotions be in charge but we need to be emotionally mature so we can believe what God says about us. When we are immature in our emotions, we don’t believe what God says about us. Psalm 19:12 says “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.” We are meant to hear His spoken word over us so He can transform us into His likeness through the Bible, rhema words, spirit-filled friends and counselors.  God is awesome at shepherding us. We need to quit being afraid to hear what is wrong with us. We are incomplete but God is doing a work, so we are complete in Him. 1 Timothy 1:18-19 “This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience.”   Kellie’s website: www.kelliecopeland.com Instagram: @kellieshow The Kellie Show on Victory: https://snipfeed.co/kellieshow Victory Channel: https://www.govictory.com/ If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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 part of your identity. We aren’t meant to just deal with our trauma. The blood of Jesus is powerful enough to heal us of our trauma. “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” ~ Psalms 34:18 In this powerful episode, you will be walked through actual healing of stuck lies that you didn’t know you had and be aligned with the truth of the trinity (Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit). When we have unhealthy relationships in our life, it can affect our connection with our maker, Father God. If we don’t have an intimate and right standing with God, we will be off with how we see ourself. As we receive healing and truth with our identity, we need to maintain a healthy soul that God desires for us on a daily basis. “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly”. ~John 10:10 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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 Owner. She tells the honest truth in this powerful episode about couples counseling and healing from sexual trauma. We want our marriage to be fixed in 6 sessions and marriage therapists rarely tell the truth about how long it actually takes. This episode is jam packed with thick clinical information about trauma, sexual dysfunction, painful sex, orgasm struggles and intimacy issues. The most pervasive and basic foundational conceptual things that trauma does is take away power, choice, voice and agency. If we have experienced sexual trauma, or any kind of trauma, it is so frustrating when our body is in pain or responds in ways we don’t like. Trauma wants to perpetuate itself, maintain itself and repeat itself. Jenna talks about the real clinical way for couples and individuals to get healing. We need to learn how to not skip over the difficult conversations and emotions, and know that on this side of eternity, we are never done. Healing doesn’t take us back to Eden’s gate. Instagram @thejennamountain Website: www.jennamountain.com Practice website: https://www.aspenhausassociates.com/ Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

Mary Whitman Ortiz, Christian sex educator, discusses struggles in a Christian marriage, finding healing after divorce, and the importance of honor and self-value in a marriage. She shares personal stories about overcoming pain and embracing God's love. Connect with Mary Whitman Ortiz for more resources on healthy sex in Christian circles.

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 renewed mind comes from allowing God’s hand to come in and reach inside those choices, thoughts and feelings and stir it up for Him to show us His glory. The summary points from this podcast are: why is the wrong question, people aren’t our enemies, Jesus is the prize and learn to listen to Jesus. “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will”. ~Romans 12:2 Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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 chances, maybe even start to develop depression because our confidence has decreased. We don’t have as much hope, don’t believe in ourselves as much. Has this happened to you? This is NOT what God wants. Here are 5 ways to live with increased confidence and decreased anxiety: Talk. Don’t hide shame. Feel your feelings. Don’t push them away. If there’s a lie, find it, break it and declare the truth. Identify anything you could change or improve. Give God control and trust Him. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind”. ~2 Timothy 1:7 You are meant to live with a sound mind, full of God’s power and love. You are to be so full of the Holy Spirit and the presence of God that everywhere you go, God leaks out and gets onto others. People are to be transformed by being around you because you are so full of the Holy Spirit. “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus”. ~Philippians 4:6-7 Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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 judge people by how we see them on the outside or by what we think is going on in their lives but we need to get to know people to really see inside. Emotional intelligence comes from the Holy Spirit. Self control is about emotional intelligence and the Holy Spirit is who guides us. Our world might be a mess but we always have something to offer. There is healing in helping other people. That is where Jesus is. We can’t outgive God. With their experience with sex trafficking, Troy and Leanna have learned that pornography has teeth. It will grow. Other issues like self-harm, eating disorders and addictions can take hold of us and keep us captive. Jesus came to bring us freedom. The devil is a liar. Every time that we hear a lie we are being shackled. We need to talk about mental health in the church because we all have a head, a brain and a soul. We need to understand the difference between soul and spirit. The body of Christ needs to be the champion of mental health so we can learn to walk in supernatural sanity. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full”. ~John 10:10 Open Door Church: https://opendoorexperience.com/ Spark Worldwide: https://www.sparkworldwide.org/ Troy Brewer: https://troybrewer.com/ Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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 over your soul so that you can operate from His kingdom the way He desires for you. You were made to be healed, whole, saved and delivered. You can’t operate from that place if you continue to go back to lies that you always thought were truths about yourself. This episode will walk you through many different scenarios of possible hurt, shame, and lies. You will experience breakthrough as you allow yourself to go back to the beginning and allow God to re-write your story to align with the Word of God. We can gain healing from prayer, and we can gain healing from hearing Truth over our stories. Allow this episode to bring healing to missing pieces of your soul. You are worthy and loved. “Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.” ~Luke 12:7 Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 Find more: www.heidimortensonlmft.com If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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 priority for our identity. We are to honor our earthly parents, love them and receive all sorts of wisdom of guidance, but they cannot be first. If we want to truly grow, we are seek first the Kingdom of God. If your parents truly are amazing parents, they will show you that their ceiling is your floor. You are to honor them and fly higher and further than they ever could. So the apple falls very far from the tree. When you open your eyes to see, there is a whole entire orchard in front of you, not just one little apple. “But Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you”. ~Matthew 6:33 Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1   Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 Find more: www.heidimortensonlmft.com If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!