Christian Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk Topic: Overcoming Dysfunctional Coping Skills

Dysfunctional coping skills involve how we react to life’s difficult challenges. We all have them, though they are more severe in some than in others.

Host Brandee Nielsen says "Dysfunctional coping skills cause us to react in ways that are disproportionate with reality. These reactions can rob our joy, as well as the joy in those who are closest to us. I maintain that when believers react by bearing the fruit of the spirit during difficult situations, we come away honorable, and retain our joy in the presence of the God of peace."

Featured Guest: Cole Ian

Cole Ian is the founder of DID Discovering Hope. A nonprofit ministry whose purpose is to share the gospel, and offer hope and help to those who struggle with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and, Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Cole shares a powerful testimony about overcoming the dysfunctional coping skills resulting from suffering DID as a survivor of severe childhood sex-abuse.

Coles says "God created our brains amazingly so that we can dissociate.  But when we've been through horrific trauma, we might have different levels of dissociation. It becomes a dysfunctional coping skill. I think if I didn't have God in the process of my journey, I don't think I would be here."

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Coffee Talk Topic: The Mini-Mind and The Mind

The heart tells the mind what to do. In other words, our hearts direct our minds. This episode’s coffee talk topic explores the mini-mind vs the mind in a powerful interview with Kelly Ballarie.

Host Brandee Nielsen admits “during the summer of 2018, I took a 10-week break from publishing episodes but continued to conduct interviews. I recorded Kelly’s when I was questioning if what I’m doing by interviewing people who convey God’s messages through products for sale is right. I wondered if this is truly part of God’s plan for my purpose as a Christian podcast host. My mind was beginning to tug at my heart!

I do not wish to share anything on Christian Coffee Talk that is not of good and valuable information for living life through the mind of Christ, free of charge. It was Kelly’s incredible offer to listeners at the end of our interview that confirmed in my mind what was already in my heart, and I can’t wait for you to hear it!”

Featured Guest: Kelly Balarie

Kelly Balarie is a passionate, national speaker, leading groups of women in spiritual growth, marriage building, and general Bible studies. Kelly is a fighter, an intercessor and a believer that God’s truth really does change lives. She loves encouraging other women who need a fresh drink of God’s grace and restoration.

In this episode, Kelly talks about her new book, Battle Ready! A powerful resource that blends personal stories with Scripture to encourage readers to live the life that God created them to live.

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Kelly at http://purposefulfaith.com

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Coffee Talk Topic: Fighting Fear with Fact

Have you ever thought that someone didn’t like you simply because they didn’t respond when you expected? Maybe they didn’t return a smile toward you while walking by. When this happens, do you internalize the worst possible scenarios and put yourself down or wallow in self-pity?

Do you create reasons to believe this person is not a good person? Even worse, do you gossip about this person and sabotage any potential relationship all because you think they don’t like you?

Guess what, thoughts are not facts! What we think about things or people or circumstances, is often based on our perception, but not always based on fact. In many cases, our thoughts are based on our fears. When this happens, we must fight fear with fact.

Host Brandee Nielsen shares 7 Unity Values based on scripture that can help set you free from thought traps!

Featured Guest: Robin Bertram

Robin is an author, a seasoned conference speaker, and host of the nationally syndicated television program “Freedom Today.” Robin brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to women’s platforms across the country. Her straightforward approach and in-depth biblical insight is healing hearts and transforming lives.

In this episode, Robin talks about a critical subject that doesn’t get enough attention within our Christian communities. Her latest book, Hidden Treasures, Finding Hope at the End of Life's Journey, addresses people facing life-threatening diseases, terminal illness, and the long-term care of elderly parents.

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Robin at www.robinbertram.tv

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Coffee Talk Topic: They’re Your Kids

Your kids are just that, your kids! You get the sole privilege and obligation to decide and direct their course in life, above any institution.

Today we're joined by one of the most enthusiastic and outspoken warriors for Christ we’ve had the honor to host, in Mrs. Sam Sorbo!

Sam returns to Christian Coffee Talk to share about her book, They're Your Kids. An inspirational journey from Self-Doubter to Home-School Advocate.

Host Brandee Nielsen says “Sam doesn't stop at sharing her homeschooling journey. She offers the largest mountain of nuggets we’ve received to date on this show. She takes us on an encouragement journey that goes against the grain and challenges the status quo. Touching on subjects that threaten our children’s Christian beliefs such as secular humanism, socialism, evolution, and more, tied to institutionalized education.

You do not want to miss this episode even if you don’t have kids. But if you do, then I'm going to say it is required of you to listen to this episode.

For everyone else, it's a true must!”

Featured Guest: Sam Sorbo

Sam Sorbo holds many titles including radio host, actress, international model, activist, author, wife, mother, and home-schooling advocate.

Sam and her husband Kevin Sorbo are a powerhouse couple for Christ, who exemplify and advocate standing firm in our faith. Sam’s book titled They’re YOUR Kids, does exactly that, by encouraging parents through her own inspirational journey from Self-Doubter to Home-School Advocate.

Sam says “renowned institutions (such as ivy league colleges) are recruiting homeschooled students.”

But so many parents eschew the idea of homeschooling for one reason or another. One is that they don't feel adequate.

Sam submits "we've been trained that we don't know anything that we haven't been specifically taught by somebody standing at a blackboard, or the equivalent thereof. And so we all think that if we don't have a degree in a particular subject, that we're just not capable, which is a fallacy.

Some of our most successful people have been college drop outs. You don't have to know stuff to teach your child. You just have to have the curiosity to go and learn it.

The homeschooled youth of today, is one who values education and who knows how to self-discipline. All of these great attributes that we would hope children graduating from institutions would have."

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Sam at www.samsorbo.com

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Coffee Talk Topic: Open Door Living

Open Door Living means to live in a posture of Hospitality as an act of service, to glorify God everywhere you are.

Host Brandee Nielsen says: “In Romans 12:13 Paul teaches us to “always be eager to practice hospitality.

The definition of the word hospitality means the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers.

I bet the first thing that comes to mind is about hosting guests in your home. This is one way to do it, but it’s not the only way. Paul was talking about hospitality as exemplified in Christ.”

Featured Guest: Jen Schmidt

Jen Schmidt is a popular speaker, worship leader and founder of the annual Becoming Conference. Balancing Beauty and Bedlam is a blog Jen created to encourage and challenge women to embrace both the beauty and bedlam of their everyday lives.

In her latest book, Just Open the Door, Jen tackles hospitality as an act of Worship.

Jen says “worship is any act that brings pleasure to God. It’s any act aimed at His glory. Hospitality, in the true sense of service, is an act of worship and surrender. It’s an opportunity we have for Christian discipleship and evangelism.

I look at Jesus as the hospitality guru. He is the Master of all things welcome. Jesus walked a road of welcome and invited people wherever He was at.”

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Jen at www.beautyandbedlam.com

Get a copy of Jen’s book, Just Open The Door, at on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Just-Open-Door-Invitation-Generation/dp/1433643073

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Coffee Talk Topic: Sex By God’s Design

This episode is all about sex. Yikes! Did I just write that? Well yes, in a Godly sense within marriages that is. We’ll dive deep into why women may experience intimacy blocks in their marriage, and how she can break them!

Host Brandee Nielsen says, “let’s be real, we are not all having healthy sexual relationships with our husbands as God intended for us to enjoy. On the contrary, there are many women who loathe even the thought of it.”

Let’s find out why in this interview! You don’t have to be married to be encouraged by our discussion, what we’re talking about is also for the marriage minded.

Featured Guest: Mary Whitman Ortiz

Mary is a speaker, author, and certified life coach specializing in “emotional and sexual intimacy” in marriages.

Mary has a Masters Degree in Education with an emphasis on social and emotional needs of the gifted. As a trained facilitator with “Adventures in Marriage” and “Prepare-Enrich” Mary coaches couples through their intimacy blocks and into meaningful connectedness.

Mary shares a mountain of nuggets from her two-book series titled, Why Can’t I Talk To Him About Sex, and Why Can’t I Talk to Her About Sex?

Host Brandee Nielsen asked “are the books intended only for married couples? Can they help anyone who is marriage minded, or even those who are no longer married?

Mary replied, “Oh I love the expression that you used, marriage-minded! That's a wonderful foundation. If you want to grow your marriage, heal from a former marriage, or to create a new marriage full of strength, then there are some wonderful questions in these books.

The core of each book is a 20-item-questionnaire that dives into blocks to intimacy. We don't know what our blocks are. If we knew, they wouldn't be blocks anymore. So it's a deep work to identify what's going on, but once you do, you’re able to do something with it.”

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Mary at www.marywhitmanortiz.com

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Coffee Talk Topic: A Trophy of God’s Grace

This episode covers Ephesians 2:1-10 and what it means to be a trophy of God’s grace.

Host Brandee Nielsen says “Ephesians 2 teaches us a powerful truth about who we are in Christ. We learn that through Christ’s victory over sin and death, we are beholden as a trophy of God’s grace.

We are created with good works prepared in advance for us to do, and to serve as His image bearer.”

Featured Guest: Mona Giordano

Mona Giordano is one special lady who exemplifies what it means to be a trophy of God’s grace!

Mona is an inspirational speaker, author, and certified professional Christian life coach. She’s a wife, mother, business owner, and women’s ministry leader, equipping and mobilizing others in their walks with Christ.

Mona has overcome many adversities. She believes that each was necessary to shape her into the overcomer she is today. She's a trophy of God’s grace living whole and healthy in Christ.

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Mona at www.monagiordano.com

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Coffee Talk Topic: Crushing Comparison

Today’s coffee talk topic encourages us to stop comparing ourselves to others! Host Brandee Nielsen says “pop-culture continually reminds us that we are not good enough if we don’t look like this or don't have that, etc. Comparison is one of the enemy's most suitable platforms for wielding his campaign against us.

Comparing ourselves to others can impact our emotional health and sense of self-confidence in alarming ways. And there is a spiritual impact associated because it will contradict the truth in what God says about us. If we truly understand and believe that we are who God says we are, then comparing ourselves to others cannot thrive in our minds.

Read Ephesians Chapter 1:5, all of chapter 2, and Psalm139:1-18. In them we learn that we are God’s masterpiece. Fearfully and wonderfully made by His own hands. He knit us in our mother’s womb and designed us for His pleasure and purpose. He seeded in each and every one of us, good works that He prepared in advance for us to do. In God’s love and His creation, we have no rivals.

So if God’s word is correct, then whatever pop culture and the enemy says about us not being good enough is a lie. And the act of comparison then has no power over us, and no place in our lives.”

Featured Guest: Nicki Koziarz

We’re joined by Nicki Koziarz to talk about her new book titled “Why Her” in the context of comparison, confronts the question: Why Her? Through two striving sisters in the Bible, in her new book, Nicki uncovered six truths we need to hear, when trying to “measure up” leaves us falling behind.

Lysa TerKeust said “Nicki steps right into our most vulnerable places with practical ways to regain our confidence while also celebrating the success of those around us.”

Nicki is a wife and mom to three girls plus a handful of barnyard babies. She’s an inspirational author, Bible teacher, and speaker with Proverbs 31 Ministries, leading from her own brokenness that somehow God is making meaningful.

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Nicki and get a copy of Why Her? or any of great books at https://nickikoziarz.com

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Coffee Talk Topic: Finding Rest

This show’s coffee talk topic encourages us to find rest for our “souls” in a way that I'm sure is not commonly understood when we think of resting, and what Jesus was really saying when He told us to come to Him to find rest for our souls.

Featured Guests: Shaunti Feldhan

We’re joined by Shaunti Feldhan, who’s a best-selling author, and a groundbreaking social researcher with a master’s degree from Harvard University, to talk about her new book and first devotional, Find Rest: A Women’s Devotional For Lasting Peace In a Busy Life.

In her new book Shaunti leads women on a 60-day journey to find true rest and peace, even in today’s modern world. Drawing on both scriptures and science to focus on eight essential elements of rest:

1. Build On Rock

2. Live According to Your Purpose

3. Set Aside Superwoman

4. Connect with God

5. Shift Your Perspective

6. Create Life-giving Relationships

7. Walk in Obedience

8. And Have No Fear

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Shaunti and get a copy of this or any of great books at https://shaunti.com

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Coffee Talk Topic: The Rescuing Power of Jesus Christ

This show highlights The Rescuing Power of Jesus Christ in two separate interviews. The dialogue details some of the world’s darkest and most painful circumstances;  Hospice Care for babies, and, Freedom for those impacted by sex abuse. You'll want to be prepared with tissue and coffee in hand!

Featured Guests: Cori Salchert, Sarah Malanowski, and Ivory Granger.

Our first guest is Cori Salchert. Cori calls her home a “house of hope” for hospice babies that no-one else wants. She began adopting babies with life-limiting or terminal diagnoses in 2012, and feels her purpose is to provide them with the best quality of love and life possible.

Host Brandee Nielsen says "Just the term Hospice Babies is soul-shattering! This isn’t a topic I’ve discussed in my lifetime, so it’s never come to mind. I imagine this may be the same for listeners." And asks  "share about the circumstances around families that need Hospice Care for their babies." 

In her new book, I Will Love You Forever: A True Story about Finding Life, Hope & Healing While Caring for Hospice Babies, Cori shares the precious details of the babies her family has had the privilege to care for.

Then Sarah Malanowski and Ivory Granger of The Priceless Journey share updates about the fight against human trafficking; the launch of the national version of the book, You Are Priceless, and the rescuing power of Jesus!  

The National Version of You Are Priceless, lets women everywhere know that there is nothing they can do to keep them from God’s love.

Host Brandee Nielsen says "I had the privilege to contribute my own story to both versions of this book. So I know first hand, what the rescuing power of Jesus Christ will do in these circumstances. I shared my truth with others, that "You Are Shielded."

Psalm 3:3  (MSG) "But you, God, shield me on all sides;

You ground my feet, you lift my head high;"

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Connect with Cori and get a copy of her book I Will Love You Forever at http://www.safehaven4babies.org

Connect with Sarah and Ivory, and get a copy of  You Are Priceless at The PricelessJourney.org

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