trauma counseling

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.

Are you ready to start your day and your week with a great motivation meditation that takes the stress, worry, anxiety, and overwhelm from your shoulders?

Listen in today, to help your mental and emotional health take a breather as you cast your cares upon Jesus and trust Jesus to sustain you.

Why do some people have so many difficulties in keeping themselves safe?

How can attachment style from childhood impact an adult negatively today?

Trauma is a wound, and surviving trauma takes resources that may or may not exist in a person's life not just in the present but from long ago.

Am I overreacting?

Why is this bothering me so much?

Why can't I stop thinking about this?

What is wrong with me?  

Why am I so upset?

These are common questions we might ask ourselves if we notice that our feelings or responses are heightened compared to what a situation might seem to warrant.  However, it makes sense through the lens of trauma.  With a trauma lens, we can travel back in time to learn of the hot buttons of the original pain points and simply notice and observe the thread of trauma that might need some help to heal.

If you suffer from anxiety, moodiness, anger, or deep hurt, you might want to listen in to learn how to identify your trauma story as your body remembers it.

Your nervous system remembers what your mind may not even recall in thought.

Where is God when it hurts?  

How does God care and love?  

Today's motivation speaks to God's love and comfort to you!

What is dissociation?

Why can't I remember parts of my childhood?

Why does my mind go blank in the middle of a conversation?

Do I dissociate because I have been traumatized?

When you zone out, it may not feel so good, but it may just be your friend.

When you have trauma, overwhelming anxiety, and overwhelming input, your system may dissociate to help you survive. 

Listen in to learn more about trauma related dissociation.

Is anxiety stressing you out? Is your mental health affected by what's in the news or on social media? Do you think the world is horrible and wish it would be done already?  You may be having a trauma response.

God has great purposes for you, and He isn't done yet.  Don't let the enemy take you out of making the impact God has for you to make by keeping you bound in unprocessed and unhealed trauma responses.

Listen in for a new perspective.

What does Jesus say about rest?

What is His plan for the way we work and do life?

Hint: It isn't about having 125 open tabs on your iPhone like Michelle did this morning.

Listen in for the first Monday Motivation Meditation: The Unforced Rhythms of Grace...for His yoke is easy, and His burden is light for you.

Have you ever been to therapy and felt that the counselor just sat there and expected you to talk without offering real, meaningful solutions?

Do you instinctively know that something deeper than talking is needed to heal what you feel in your system?  You may be experiencing the effects of trauma.

Not only is the mind where memory is stored, but it is also stored in the emotions and physical sensations  of the body.    When trauma happens, memories aren't stored away all neat and easy like everyday things are. 

Trauma overwhelms the nervous system and can even change your perception of time.  

Trauma triggers can hijack your nervous system to believe that the threat is still happening, as it doesn't get filed away as a "past event."

If you've thought that there must be more to healing, today's episode will get you started on understanding why.

Have your thoughts ever gotten in your way?

Do you wish you had a way to gain control over them?

Would you like to try strategies for noticing what you are thinking and aligning it with God's truth?

In this episode of Mental Health for Christian Women, you will learn 3 Tips for Capturing Your Thoughts so that you can make sure they are aligned with God's truth and put you on a solid foundation.