Welcome back to the Gardening Your Life podcast!

Join us this week as we continue exploring tools for managing our thought lives and learn to do differently, to think differently, to ultimately feel differently.

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of ⁠⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠⁠, and author of ⁠⁠Gardening Your Life⁠

In this episode, dive deeper into your thought process and learn what it looks like to transition from a "Victim" to a "Victor" mindset! We'll explore more tools for cultivating your thought life and continue to unpack what it means to garden your life.

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of ⁠Heartland

This week, Heidi reviews and expands on some practical skills and tools to help us as we garden our lives! Interested in the gardening tools discussed in this episode? Handouts for these and others like them are available to access for free at gardeningyourlife.com/resources.

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of ⁠Heartland

In this episode, Heidi introduces us to the idea of Automatic Negative Thoughts (or ANTs for short). Do you have ANTs in your head? The truth is, we all do! Tune in to learn a few different skills to help trap and address those ANTs as we wrap up the discussion on what it means to "choose good soil."

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of ⁠Heartland

What does it mean to choose good soil? In this episode, Heidi asks us to consider how cultivating our thoughts can help the entire garden flourish.

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” - Philippians 4:8

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of ⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠, and author of ⁠Gardening Your Life

This week on the GYL podcast, we continue to discuss the topic of healthy boundaries! In this episode, Heidi asks us to consider the difference between what it means to be responsible for versus responsible to, and she challenges us with this: We can only be responsible for ourselves – and only in the present!

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of ⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠, and author of ⁠Gardening Your Life

Get ready to dig deeper into the three O's of the "O-Zone" and begin putting down roots for healthy boundaries! Through personal and professional experiences, Heidi provides tools to help us start identifying things that are outside our control, and she invites us to begin pondering what things we are called to steward and change.

May the Good Gardener bless you with the serenity to accept the things you cannot change and the courage to change the things you can!

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of ⁠⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠⁠, and author of ⁠⁠Gardening Your Life

This is the final episode on the topic of a Healthy Christian Self-Concept. This week, Heidi invites us to explore another truth: We were not only created to cultivate our psychological, spiritual, and emotional needs; we were made with physical needs as well! This week, we explore three more essential components to cultivating the garden of your life: Eat, Sleep, and Exercise.

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of ⁠⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠⁠, and author of ⁠⁠Gardening Your Life

This episode continues the conversation about a Healthy Christian Self-Concept. If you haven't already, go listen to Part 1 first!

In Part 2, we take a closer look at who we really are through three essential truths: In Christ, we are Accepted. In Christ, we are Secure. And in Christ, we are Significant.

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of ⁠Heartland Christian Counseling⁠, and author of ⁠Gardening Your Life

The next three GYL episodes will be on the topic of a Healthy Christian Self-Concept. In Part 1, Heidi introduces the idea of self-concept through Max Lucado's book You Are Special and walks us through her own encounters with the significance of developing a healthy Christian self-concept. Know that, In Christ, you are Accepted, you are Secure, and you are Significant.

Heidi Vermeer-Quist, Psy.D.

Psychologist, Director of Heartland Christian Counseling, and author of Gardening Your Life