Heal and Restore

Are you living for your identity or from your identity? 

This is an intimate interview with Nathaniel Blackburn, Founder of True North Retreats, a place of spiritual healing for men 20 years old and older. You won't want to miss this one. 

An interview with Melissa Cavanaugh LPC and author of "Please, Write Back." We will discuss what inspired her to write this book and other questions about what challenges she might have faced writing it and what she hopes readers will take away from her book. This is a personal and intimate interview you won't want to miss. 

Expectations are simply resentments under construction. Should we have expectations of man? Should we have expectations of God. What are expectations really? These are things I will discuss in this episode of Healing Courageously. 

Many pastors make it sound like once you have accepted Christ in your life, fairy dust falls from heaven and all your problems, behaviors and issues just automatically disappear. It's really not that simple and I talk some scriptures, that in my opinion, make this clear. 

The Green Shoe foundation is a mental health non-profit organization offering confidential, professional, five-day retreats aimed towards improving and impacting individual lives and communities. Our goal is to help you embrace and heal the past, restore healthy patterns in your life, create space to be your authentic self, and discover joy.​

Our team is here to provide guidance, inspiration, and tools to help you overcome challenges in your life. Our no-cost, five-day retreat allows an individual to experience transformational change focusing on personal growth, self-actualization, and self-realization. We work with people to raise awareness of how past family roles and family systems reverberate in their current relationships - personal or professional.  

Some experts in the field of addiction believe that addiction is a disease, I don't and I have plenty of reasons why I believe it is a CHOICE. In this episode I give a couple of real life examples that spell out clearly that addiction is a choice.

Since earning her Masters Degree in Counselor Education through the CACREP Accredited program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Melissa Cavanaugh has been helping her community find clarity and balance. Melissa is focused on helping the youth through a mix of direct and non-direct play therapy, as well as adults through facilitating meaningful therapeutic relationships. Her eclectic approach enables her to adapt to each of her clients’ unique needs and situations.

Melissa published her first children's book in April of 2021 titled "Please, Write Back" where she tells her story of loving and eventually losing her mother to addiction. Melissa is passionate about spreading awareness around the topic of addiction. She aims to help families start having hard conversations, and begin the bath to healing through recovery.

In this episode we will be talking about how children are affected by parents who struggle with addiction. We will also be talking some of the  methods of therapy to help children understand  that it is not their fault and other issues they might deal with. 

There comes a time in the lives of those of us who raise children that they leave the nest. Rather its going off to college, getting married, or as adults, when they might move out of their hometown either to another city hours away or somewhere out of state. This is a time to experience both sadness and joy. My wife and I have felt both of these feelings and have grown closer to each other because of it. We talk about a few these experiences in this episode.

One of the big reasons people struggle so much with God is because they relate our Father in heaven (God) with their earthly father. In this episode I talk about what that looks like and the reasons this happens. There is light and hope for those that have this struggle.

One of the big reasons people struggle so much with God is because they relate our Father in heaven (God) with their earthly father. In this episode I talk about what that looks like and the reasons this happens. There is light and hope for those that have this struggle.