Are you controlling your destiny over God? Are you wanting to overthrow past mindsets and get unstuck? We need to have honest and difficult conversations with God but we often stay comfortable with the safety net of our hurt and pain. There are dreams and goals we all have but often don’t get there because we are victimized by our mindset and limitations. Teresa is a speaker and growth coach who shares her powerful testimony of getting uncomfortable with brutal honesty. Until we address the boulders of our life, it is hard for us to move forward. God met her at her kitchen table with a cup of coffee. These boulders were impacting her relationship with her family, friends and the people around her. She had to answer, is she going to stop there or move forward with God? She helps others have these honest conversations with God and helps us in this podcast interview to get unstuck ourselves. We need to find the joy of what is ahead instead of the fear. Our job is to say YES to God today and trust God with the outcome. “But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” ~Matthew 19:26 Teresa’s website: https://courageouscoup.com/ To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024 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 struggle in your conversations with others? Do you wish you could improve with your skills in communication? Sometimes we just need some quick and simple basic skills to help be effective with other people. In this episode, you will hear some basic Interpersonal Effectiveness skills taken from DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). This is a curriculum that was developed by Marsha Linehan. Many people have remastered these skills and people do these groups all over the world. They are structured and to the point of teaching skills, not diving into healing trauma. Normally my podcasts talk about trauma, but this episode is simply about skills.   “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen”. ~Ephesians 4:29  “May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer”. ~Psalms 19:14  To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024   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! 

Do you think your partner might struggle with Christian narcissism? Have others told you that you that you maybe be in an emotionally abusive relationship? Christians often don’t truly know what real hypocrisy is, and we just throw this word around, along with the narcissist diagnosis. In this episode, you will hear a deep conversation about a tough topic with pastor and author Jake Kail. Jake knows a thing or two about deliverance, hypocrisy, and religious narcissism. Jake shares things that there’s a difference between a moral failure than someone who has been living in hypocrisy. Also, we talk about the divorce crisis and not the abuse crisis. This episode is a bit sensitive in nature and the discussion is an important one that the church cannot avoid. “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” ~Matthew 10:16 “[Jesus] began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.” ~Luke 12:1b Jake’s website: www.jakekail.com To purchase the book Hypocrisy Exposed: https://www.amazon.com/Hypocrisy-Exposed-When-Evil-Pretends/dp/1082036137/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FRYHIHBK8KQ6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jV938vggrtNTHoHTVwGsUZKXPDm0Ts3sSiJvK6SW004.7Dx01O4E5RvM5YnUg-BT5rZqQ0xBGz4AghY8OENfD54&dib_tag=se&keywords=hypocrisy+exposed+jake+kail&qid=1708783823&sprefix=hypocrisy+jake+%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1 To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024 Heidi’s website: https://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!

Are you worried about the mental health crisis in your community? We know we are saved when we give our lives to Jesus, but we may continue to struggle. We have depression, anxiety, relationship issues, eating disorders, addictions, emotional issues and many more. Why do we continue to battle as Christians? In this episode, I will dive into the statistics with mental health and the power of the gospel. We need to do better as a church instead of it always be outside of the church. I still see people in churches not talk about mental health. Or if they do, they just refer out to a counselor. They aren’t dealing with deliverance or inner healing, they just believe you can take a pill for depression. We need to level up and understand that Jesus has authority over all things. Not just some things. ALL things.  ~Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. ~ Philippians 2:12–13 To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024 To purchase Magic Mind, you can get a subscription with up to 50% off at this link: https://www.magicmind.com/strongtower, with my code: STRONGTOWER20 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!

Are you struggling in your marriage? Do you feel like you continue to get offended at your spouse? For Brad and Marilyn, the honeymoon was over before the honeymoon was over. They both found themselves disillusioned and disappointed. So many of us live in a performance based marriage and focus on what we do or our spouse does. We also live too much on the surface and keep score. We need to shift from an offense mentality to a grace and help mentality. Grace and love make better change agents than pressure and consequence. Hear this powerful testimony and beautiful insight and wisdom from the Bible to bring grace into your marriage. “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” ~Romans 6:14 “For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” ~James 2:3 Grace Marriage website: https://gracemarriage.com/our-team/ To purchase The Grace Marriage: https://www.amazon.com/Grace-Marriage-Intentionality-Transform-Relationship/dp/0802421482/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1V0LO6W09WDZ0&keywords=the+grace+marriage+by+brad+and+marilyn+rhoads&qid=1707574520&sprefix=grace+marriage%2Caps%2C284&sr=8-1 Heidi’s website: https://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!

Have you felt discouraged lately? Do you have circumstances and people in your life that have drained you and brought you down? We can get so discouraged by the situations that don’t go our way, and it can be hard to see God’s perspective. Sometimes we just need a little boost, a re-focus and shift to bring us back to the plumbline of Jesus Christ. In this episode you will be encouraged yourself. Heidi goes through some of the teachings from her book The Brave Encourager and speaks life into the listener for themselves and others. You will hear examples and ways to speak life instead of death for the purpose of encouragement and bringing the Kingdom of God here on earth. We have a real enemy who tries to twist our conversations to where we believe the lie is the truth.   “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” ~Proverbs 18:21 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you have been doing. ~1 Thess 5:11 To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024 To purchase Magic Mind, you can get a subscription with up to 50% off at this link: https://www.magicmind.com/strongtower, with my code: STRONGTOWER20 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!

Do you have a child that has gotten far from God? Have you been praying for your prodigal son or daughter and are losing hope? This episode will give you hope! Jolene feist grew up in a Christian home but was in rebellion for 10 years. She felt it was easier for her to “fit in” than to be set apart with Christ. This led her to struggle with anxiety, depression, lust, suicidal thoughts and panic attacks. She eventually let Jesus in but continued to live as a lukewarm Christian. We have to respond and fully surrender to God, not live with one foot in and one foot out. We have a choice to continue to live in shame or to fully surrender to God. Be encouraged as you hear Jolene’s powerful story of real surrender and freedom in Christ. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” ~2 Corinthians 5:17 Jolene’s website: www.kingdom-mama.com To purchase Jolene’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Bye-bye-Fear-Here-Jolene-Feist/dp/1664275576/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OEZT2LTRN0FC&keywords=jolene+feist+bye+bye+fear&qid=1706449291&sprefix=jolene+feist+bye+bye+fear%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-1 Heidi’s website: https://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 wonder if you should get counseling, life coaching, deliverance or inner healing? Is there a line between ministry and counseling? Can counselors and people in ministry do the same thing? In this episode, you will hear about the difference between mental health counseling, life coaching, inner healing and deliverance. You will hear specifics about which one to pursue and when. Sometimes we want to make referrals and you aren’t quite sure which one to make a referral to. Whether we are in a personal or professional setting, it is good to know some of the things to look for to know when and where to refer to for counseling, deliverance or inner healing. Are they Biblical and which one is for you? You will also be encouraged with prayer and ministry to seek and get the right help that you need, if that is what you are needing. “The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” ~Psalm 34:18 “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” ~Psalm 147:3 To purchase Magic Mind, you can get a subscription with up to 50% off at this link: https://www.magicmind.com/JANstrongtower, with my code: STRONGTOWER20 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!

Have you felt like you have had shameful secrets that you kept hidden from everyone? Beyond the lights and the camera, Melissa Huray spent her nights in darkness blacking out in bars and was spiraling. What started as an escape from her oppressive childhood had become a crippling addiction to alcohol. She kept the secret hidden for 15 years. Along with alcohol, Melissa also would seek men for love, struggled with anxiety and panic attacks and food obsession. God was always seeking her out through people and circumstances. She finally realized that it wasn’t a “what” that could save her, but “Who” and that was Jesus. Melissa is currently the Executive Director of the Lindell Recovery Network and host of The Hope Report. She has written the book “Blackout to Blessings”, which is a thrilling and captivating story of the details of her painful life of drunken’ blackouts to eventual salvation in Jesus Christ. Be encouraged as you hear God’s redemption in this powerful testimony of recovery. “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” ~Ephesians 2:10 Melissa’s website: https://melissahuray.com/ To purchase Melissa’s book : https://www.amazon.com/Blackout-Blessing-Perfect-Jesus-Highway/dp/0825309921?crid=LD363QMLX4ZM&keywords=9780825309922&qid=1694788832&sprefix=9780825309922,aps,161&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=mmd066-20&linkId=5d4e4cd91eddfb9cceedc74c6605efc0&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Heidi’s website: https://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!

As a Marine healed of PTSD and a burned out youth pastor, Jared is an example of someone who would not be on fire for God. But he is!! He says it’s because of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He wrote a book about it and has a podcast called Adventures in the Spirit. Jared grew up in a Cessationist church and started to have prophetic dreams and experiences that he knew was God. Jared talks about the importance and power of the Holy Spirit and the gifts that God intends for us to walk in. He also talks about what Cessationism is and interpretation around the verses in the Bible about this. Our capacity is limitless but this only happens when we surrender. You will be inspired by Jared’s absolute love for God and his gift of teaching. As Jared says, “Life is brutal, but God is good!” “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” ~Matthew 3:11 Jared’s website: https://www.firebornministries.com/ To purchase Jared’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Baptism-Holy-Spirit-Jared-Laskey/dp/B0CFZH1BKK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QDTH2UQFPZD1&keywords=jared+laskey&qid=1704661614&sprefix=jared+laskey%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-1 Heidi’s website: https://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!