Have you experienced a controlling person? Or are you someone who like you have control? Control is something that can be “relieving” for some people and scary and abusive for others. How do we get to this place of control? What does Jesus say about it? And is there a connection between anxiety and control? Hear this powerful episode about the impact and connection between anxiety and control. I share examples from people who have gone to extreme measures to “control” their own life. I also share regular examples that we do every day and not even realize it. Being in control is something that can make us “feel” less anxiety but is it real? This episode will also outline how we can live in true freedom instead of anxiety. “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 comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” ~Philippians 4:6-7   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 believe you have a gift but also feel like you’re loosing a grip on reality? Have you felt a dark presence in the world and not sure how to handle it? If you have struggled with depression you may have a spiritual seeing gift that has been untapped. There are many who have mental health struggles like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and others who are unaware of how to utilize the seeing gift God gave them. Hear this fascinating interview between seer prophet John and his friend Dave, whom Heidi went on a mission trip with. John used to hear voices but felt like he was going crazy because he wasn’t sure who’s voice it was. He shares how he learned to hear the voice of God, how to discern which voice is speaking, and to stand strong that he has a creative seeing gift. John also shares the importance of having someone guide you and teach you to heal your heart from discouragement and rejection. He also talks about the value of taking medication along with learning how to use the gift and hear God’s voice. The problem with the gift of seeing is that you often want to look “normal” to the rest of the world. If this is you, the world needs your creative gift! You aren’t meant to shrink and stay small!    “In Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.“ ~Colossians 2:10 “There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” ~1 Kings 19:9 To get a hold of Dave or John, email Heidi@heidimortensonlmft.com  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 feel stifled? Do you feel like there is more to who you are but aren’t sure how to get there? There could be something you need to give yourself permission for. The original design of how God made us is to be SEEN and KNOWN. When something goes against this, it impacts us to not feel worthy and thus, in relationships we can become defensive and not loving. Due to our inability to not give ourselves permission, we end up becoming less than God designed for us to be and thus does not give glory to God. When we know who we are and operate from this confidence, God gets the glory. People see the light you carry and it shines everywhere you go. If you continue to live life stunting yourself from feeling your feelings and giving yourself permission to look into your life, you can become less and stunted. In this episode you will hear about how and why we need to give ourselves permission and to identify what you need to give yourself permission for. This episode also blends the importance of healthy boundaries and what Danny Silk calls being a powerful person. There are dreams, passions and purpose that God intended for you that are ready to be awakened! “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeramiah 1:5 “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” ~Psalm 139:16 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 see or hear things in the unseen world? Or have you desired the deeper things of God but are not sure how to learn about without feeling like you are weird? Margaux Nelson has learned how to listen and partner with God with difficult circumstances. She has always been an emotionally sensitive and spiritually sensitive person. She had many deep experiences she had no language for. She finally realized there wasn’t something wrong with her and she wasn’t “weird”, but she learned that there is a real spiritual realm and the things she was sensing and feeling were real. She realized she is wired to have authority in the unseen realm. She experienced freedom from this and is now learning how to steward the gifts and operate in this wisdom. Each one of us was born to be in the deep unseen things with God. Margaux’s podcast is called “Breathing Under Water” and this podcast interview will do just that: bring you in the deep things of God like dreams and visions. You will hear a deep dive into the mysterious language of dream interpretation and how you can operate from your true identity in Christ. “’In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.” ~Acts 2:17 Margaux’s website: https://www.permissiontoreign.com/ To listen to the Breathing Under Water Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breathing-underwater-a-dream-interpretation-podcast/id1674097621 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 we doomed to struggle with depression because our great-grandma and grandma and mother did? Or have anger issues because it’s in the family? When you go to the doctor, they often ask you what is in your family. It’s automatically assumed that if it’s in your family you have a chance you will get it. Science supports this. What about generational curses? Are they a thing? What does God say about it? In this episode you will hear about mental health issues running in the family and when to tell if something is a generational curse. You will also hear how to get free from these patterns and even hear science behind the support of breaking these patterns. In the book, “It Didn’t Start With You”, author Mark Wolynn talks about how inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how we can end the cycle. You will also hear how powerful the blood of Jesus is to end these cycles and start the new cycle of our new creation with Jesus. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. ~2 Corinthians 5:17 “The Lord is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love, forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion. But he does not excuse the guilty. He lays the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations.” ~Numbers 14:18 “On the other side of surrender are insights that would otherwise be unavailable to me.” ~Mark Wolynn 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 with insecurity and fear? Do you give more than you take? Susie Larson learned the devil was real at a young age at the hands of abusers that left her confused and full of fear. She has also experienced many attacks from health issues, bill collectors and hurtful comments from others. She got to a place where she was just trying to get through the days. Fortunately, God came through a powerful word of encouragement that Jesus was giving her a platform that He was building with her pain. She was to lean in and learn what she could so she could speak from it. Because she has a story to tell. And so do you! Susie Larson is a powerful and dynamic author, speaker and radio host. Her testimony is one many can relate to and why she continues to draw people into her story and her passion for Jesus. This interview is full of so much wisdom and revelation that you will want to listen to it again! Susie shares about her testimony and health struggles and how she lives life as a victor and not a victim. She talks about her experience in counseling and her support for mental health in the church.  We need to let the truth get in and shift our weight on the promises of God. Susie found promises in the Bible that leaped off the page for her. When the Lord gives you a vision and a purpose you find something to fight for. This interview will leap out for you to be empowered for your own story to tell. Your inner “sissy” or the enemy will NOT have the last say, God will! “You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.” ~Psalm 18:39 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” ~James 4:7 “We have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” 1 John 4:16 Susie’s website: https://www.susielarson.com/ To Purchase Strong in Battle: https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Battle-Humble-Will-Prevail/dp/0764231715/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1QNW6SBPJILI3&keywords=susie+larson&qid=1688899958&sprefix=susie+larson%2Caps%2C116&sr=8-2 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 ever feel like you can’t truly be yourself, but you can’t quite figure out why not? We hear about boundaries a lot. We also hear about emotional abuse. What about the impact of boundaries and emotional abuse together? When it comes to boundaries, it gets really difficult when others don’t respect ours and we are forced to have to keep a healthy boundary ourselves. It takes emotional maturity to recognize this, and it can be PAINFUL. Boundaries are there for a purpose and Jesus had healthy boundaries. In this episode, you will learn about unhealthy and manipulative behaviors of others, even if they look kind on the outside. This episode will dive into the deeper struggles of emotional abuse and boundaries. You will hear how the Holy Spirit was sent to guide us in these difficult circumstances. “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.” ~John 14:26-28 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 get frustrated when you want to change but seems that you still struggle with what you think you need to do? Do you start praying for your loved ones to change when they are driving you crazy? We often don’t know the true way to transform and really live the out the way God intends for us. Unfortunately, the church teaches us how to behave instead of how to change. Dr. Rob Reimer was focused on what to do like read his Bible and pray but he wasn’t seeing any transformation and his marriage. At the time he says his wife didn’t like him very much. God led him to start a ministry focusing on seeing the kingdom of God advance through spiritual renewal, starting with himself. There can be no transformation where there is no revelation. We cannot overcome that which we will not admit. We can’t fix the problems of the soul with a change in behavior only. In this powerful episode, Dr. Reimer talks about the secrets to transformation and how integrate this into our life.   He is the original author of the best selling book called “Soul Care” and does training worldwide. Dr. Reimer is a traveling author and speaker who equips leaders, pastors and churches internationally. His books and his teachings have soul world side. We are broken – body, soul and spirit – and we need the healing touch of Jesus. “For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.” ~Matthew 12:34-35 Dr. Rob Reimer’s website: https://renewalinternational.org/ To purchase the book Soul Care: https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Care-Transformational-Principles-Healthy/dp/1942587457/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LIBY7QNMIJ3L&keywords=soulcare+dr+rob+reimer&qid=1687691568&sprefix=dr.+rob+reimer%2Caps%2C102&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 by the slow process of change? Have you felt like maybe God left you out and forgot about you? We hear about the power of deliverance ministries and how someone was miraculously saved and delivered at the same time. Why didn’t that happen to you? We often miss the importance pieces of deliverance that God desires us all to know: deliverance is comfort. The Holy Spirit is our comforter. This IS what deliverance truly us. This IS what mental health counseling truly is. Jesus is our true counselor, and He is comforting when He heals our mental health struggles. We will miss God’s true purpose and story for us if we think it’s going to be quick. Many of us don’t learn that way and we don’t get to truly know the depth of who we are. Be encouraged to be drawn into the comfort of deliverance for us to be who God designed us to be. “And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD”. ~Joel 2:32 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 people don’t discern that there are demons in someone. Bible colleges don’t always teach deliverance and aren’t clear on Christians having a demon. Our worldview in the west doesn’t always line up with the Bible. There are also people who understand deliverance but are afraid of what people think of them because of what they do discern. Churches are often run like a business and don’t want to take spiritual risks. Rafe Ronning has a powerful testimony of getting free from alcohol and porn addiction. It is unique because the power of God came upon Rafe the same way in Acts of the Apostles.  Rafe has since answered the call to lead a church and it's his passion to teach people the uncompromised truth of the Word of God and help them experience the true freedom that comes through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Rafe's desire is for people to be set free from addictions/bondages and discipled into a new life of purpose and destiny in Christ. Be inspired and filled with the power of the Holy Spirit as you listen to this interview.   “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” ~Acts 1:8    “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.” ~Luke 4:18   Rafe’s church: www.truthandfreedomchurch.com     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!