In this episode, Mandy discusses how contentment is not a trophy, one more thing to be purchased, or a destination to be reached. It is a choice that we can intentionally make to be grateful for what we have in order to live happier, more fulfilled lives.

This episode will discuss three major ways that we self-sabotage ourselves and how to stop. Also included, how to train your brain to avoid unwanted memories so that you can heal from past trauma.

If you’re going through a particularly bad time, this episode will encourage you that God can take your worst moments and use them to guide you to your best. Mandy tells the story of the F5 tornado that destroyed the city of Rochester, MN in 1883 and the good that came out of that storm. Also in this episode, the Joplin tornado of 2011, Old Testament leaders Joseph and Esther, advice from Winston Churchill, and the story of how Mandy and her husband met at the end of the worst summer of her life.

Today is Mandy's birthday! In this podcast, Mandy discusses the most important thing about birthdays...gifts! Mandy uses funny stories about getting presents for Christmas and birthdays to illustrate the importance of patience in our lives, and then focuses on the greatest gift we've ever been given, salvation through Jesus Christ!

Mandy compares the continuing damage of unhealed childhood trauma to weeds in a garden choking out what is good for us and stunting our personal growth. Mandy then explains a faith-based model for trauma integration created by therapist and trauma-survivor Juanita Ryan.

Mandy tells the strange story of Anna O., and how Freud and his mentor Breuer came to understand the importance of transference in the therapeutic relationship. She then explains how to identify transference in interpersonal relationships as a way to discover areas of unhealed trauma.

In this episode, Mandy explains the differences between compassion fatigue and burn out, and discusses how these can affect you as a parent, caregiver, minister, etc. She delves into the extra stress inherent in living normal life during the pandemic and how to avoid being taken advantage of or "grow weary in well doing".

In the first episode of season 2, Mandy discusses how our misperception of "normal" as perfection forces us to feel abandoned in our own "fiery furnace" and steals our contentment in times of calm.

30% of professing evangelicals hold the incorrect and heretical belief that Jesus was simply a good teacher but not God. This is not okay.

This episode features a biography of William Tyndale and some scary stats about the current state of Evangelical Christianity in the time of COVID-19.