mental health for christians

In this episode, we explore the challenges of building relationships, particularly for individuals who have experienced past betrayals or have anxiety, emphasizing the importance of taking things slow, engaging with safe individuals, and becoming a safe and healthy person oneself.  Encouragement for open communication, setting boundaries, and assessing the character and circumstances of others before making judgments. Trust, safety, and expressing past hurts and boundaries are highlighted as key factors in building healthy friendships. The episode concludes with practical tips on finding and cultivating genuine friendships while being open to the possibility of ending relationships that are not mutually beneficial or safe.

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What "good" fight are you fighting today with God's direction.  How will you show up?  Envision yourself taking those steps as you offer up prayer for God's direction for your day.

In this "Healthy Conversation", Meghann Lightfoot opens up about her journey as a Christian with the struggles of Mental and Emotional Health. Meghann and Cody discuss how God views Christians who struggle with mental health challenges and what you can do about it. We hope this blesses you and helps you be Better Equipped for your journey of faith ahead.

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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 management tips, to meet-up connection, to a new podcast schedule, and more.

We all can be prone to falling into the could have, would have, should have trap, and if only trap.

Dealing wtih regrets can cause sleeplessness, anxiety, depression, and pain and emotional hurt and suffering.  

It's time to think of it a more helpful way.  Listen in to get freed from your regrets from hindsight bias.

Do you feel like you're stuck or even going backwards?  Do you wonder, "Where is God in the midst of my suffering?" Or, "Where is God in the midst of my stuggle and pain?"  It's not God keeping any good gift from you, but you may need to reach for it.  If you want to change your life, reframe your mindset, and take effective actions steps toward your goals, from overcoming anxiety to having healthy relationships, to doing things for better self-care and peace in your life, listen in.  The cookie is already yours.

Your life story is different from anyone elses, and like most of us, it has had some points of pain.  However, we can choose to bury the pain only to have it eventually bubble up and cause more pain, or we can work to gently bring small bits of our pain story to life with safe people, one step at a time as we can tolerate it.  Safe and helpful relationships are possible, and healing is possible.  If you would like to overcome anxiety, emotional hurt, or mental pain, it starts with getting honest about where you need help and healing and then taking a small brave step to recognize you are worth it.  From there, you can bring your pain to light to get hope and help.

In our Framework of being a human series, we are now on to the topic of feelings and emotions.  Often used interchangeably, they are actually two different things.  If you want to have more awareness for your mental health, to be able to understand yourself better and use what you know to have better relationships with others, understanding emotions and feelings is a good place to start.  When you can observe, identify feelings, and ascribe healthy meaning, you can reduce anxiety, anger, fear, and other uncomfortable feelings by effectively sharing them with others and acknowledging them in yourself for better self-care and self-management.

In the names of God series of meditations, we are focusing today on the ever-present name of I AM who will never leave us and is always our strength. Listen in.

Have you ever wondered how to make difficult decisions?  It can be overwhelming at times, for sure.  To take away some of the anxiety, stress, and tension and be able to have peace and mental health with decisions with which you can live, consider trying one or more of these effective tips for making difficult decisions with success.

How can we love God and others well if we treat ourselves differently and speak to ourselves with our "self-talk" with harsh words?  Noticing our words can help us to be more intentional and to be more in line with the love God has for us so we can better love Him and others when we also live that love out towards ourselves with our words and kindness towards ourselves.

Have you been wondering if you are in a narcissistic relationship?  Are there toxic behaviors that you do to others or that someone is doing to you that you may not even be aware are emotionally abusive?  Emotional and mental abuse is sometimes difficult to pinpoint because there can be times where things are great, and in wanting things to get back to great, we might tolerate things we typically wouldn't with other people.  If you think you might be being treated toxically by a narcissist, listen in.

We serve a loving God who will always come through for us.  When we put our lives, our hopes, our cares, and our days into His hands, He is faithful to protect us and guide us. 

If you're struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, frustration, fear, sadness, or confusion, meditation on Scripture and the truths of Scripture meditation can help align your eyes, heart, mind, body, and spirit to the One who will never fail you and loves you most of all.

What is the difference between a crisis and a problem?

Hint: A crisis is not a few missed household chores but can be an unhinged mom yelling all the time.

Both crisis points and problems can cause stress, anxiety, and impact our mental health and peace, but there is an easy way to tell the difference and to then reframe your perspective to gain better management of your options, thoughts, choices, and actions.

Listen in.

What negative beliefs and lies about yourself do you have lurking beneath the surface?

Wouldn't it be better if you could reveal the positive truths about yourself instead in a way that you can visually see?

The technique of mind mapping can help you to both identify your the negative beliefs and lies and bring healing, positive beliefs and God's truth to the forefront of your mind.

Listen in to today's episode of Mental Health for Christian Women to Learn How.