We don’t realize we are emotionally eating until we are emotionally eating. Emotional Eating Expert & Coach, Gabrielle J. Chery, didn’t realize until she had gained 30 pounds. She was insecure, hiding, experiencing depression. She started going to the gym but didn’t change her eating habits. She realized she was using food as a reward – this is misaligning the way God made food. However, when she did loose the 30 pounds in her body, her mind was still struggling. We have this expectation that weight loss equals confidence. This is a lie. Sometimes we don’t want to deal with us and we can make weight loss an idol. Listen to this practical episode where Gabrielle teaches us how to go headfirst and make practical changes so we don’t emotionally eat. For example, are you really hungry? Or do you have an emotional need like being heard, seen or validated? We need to learn how to be self-aware and use self-soothe skills instead of emotionally eating.

**Trigger warning: Heidi also ends the episode sharing about eating disorders and when we need to reach out and get help. It’s important to not ignore if the eating issues are more than emotional eating. There is no shame in getting help!

Email Gabrielle: [email protected]

Don’t Touch My Health Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-touch-my-health-podcast/id1493472434

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If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

Are you ready for some new life, new clarity, a new level of freedom? I think we can miss the mark with having freedom from mental health. We declare amazing verses but we can still be stuck. Take a listen to the powerful revelations from the Lord that Heidi shares from John 15. She takes you into a deep dive into the heart of God, into secrets that often go missed. His desire is better than we ever could image. It's way more simple than we realize. We just don’t know always know to access it.

What John 15 requires of us:

• Remain in Him & in His love
• Keep His commandments
• Love one another
• We must testify and share our story

Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1

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Your soul might be under attack. In this powerful episode, Heidi interviews pastor Kristi Graner, founder and director or Dare To Believe Ministries in Burnsville, MN. The Lord doesn’t require that we get beat up in the process of moving forward with God’s intent and getting our soul healed. Kristi had to come to terms with the fact that when you walk with Jesus, He walks you through the broken world. There is still pain and brokenness, but He’ll be there for you. Kristi gives us a “Mental Health Healing 101” and shares her personal testimony into ministry. The Lord is faithful to bring things we need healing to the surface. He doesn’t need us to go digging down to find everything that is wrong with us. Our job is to be aware of only those things that come to the surface so we can take care of it, however we need to take care of it – whether that be therapy, a ministry appointment or sitting with the Lord. Whatever the Lord reveals to us, He will heal it.

Mental Health Healing 101 with Kristi:

• You 1 person and are made of 3 parts – spirit, soul and body
• You are created in the image of God who is 1 God and 3 parts – Father, Son and Holy Spirit
• Your soul – mind, will and emotions
• Your spirit is connected to God’s spirit when you know the Lord and are saved
• Your soul can be under attack. When your soul is surrounded to your spirit you are protected under the Lord. When you aren’t under your spirit you can be impacted
• With the Lord’s help, you reveal the lie. Kick out the lie. Replace it with a truth.
• When you believe a lie, your behavior is because of a lie.
• Whatever the Lord reveals to us, He will heal it.

Dare To Believe Ministries: https://dtbmn.org/

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Follow Dare To Believe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dtbtwincities/

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If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

Do you hear that it’s important to encourage but when it comes down to it you only encourage the ones that are easy to encourage? The vulnerable ones who are open with you, the ones who encourage you so you encourage back. What about those who seem to criticize you, just you, or seem to make life more difficult for you? Or those who seem to struggle to be in a good mood? You find yourself avoiding these people, let alone stepping out and encouraging them. In this episode Heidi talks about how we can encourage even the most difficult people in our life, and the key to breaking through the lie that they are even difficult in the first place.

Key notes from the episode:

• Each one of us has been a difficult person at some point.

• Difficult people don’t exist in the Kingdom of God. But they do in the world.

• Jesus loves us no matter what, even when we are difficult.

• Difficult people reveal in us where is Jesus is NOT still in us (John 15:2).

• Difficult people can be a blessing because they reveal in us opportunities to grow and become more like Jesus.

Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1

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Do you know what to do when you get “off” from your confident identity as a son or daughter in Christ? In this unscripted episode, Heidi talks about how we can live with a foundation as a son or daughter in Christ but be ready if we get offended or are bitter. Often we don’t speak up for what we need because we don’t know who we are and we don’t know that we even have those needs. We can get in this perpetual cycle that we somehow protect other people who don’t know what their identity is either. We need to learn how to speak up for what we need, be ready if we do get offended to allow the Holy Spirit to transform us and have a healthy fear of God instead of man. We are to be salt and light in this world. To do that, we need to know how to navigate bumps along the way as a daughter or son.

Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1

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Many of us are seeking for love in the wrong places. We may carry depression, anxiety and anger because of rejection and abandonment.  We may believe lies that we are not worthy of love. However, we are designed to know our Father God so we look around and say “where’s the face?” In this powerful episode, Heidi interviews Harmony Kingenmeyer, an adoptive mom, author, and wife, who has fostered 29 children. She leads the listeners into a powerful encounter with our Maker to heal any father or mother wounds, which is called the “orphan spirit”. The orphan spirit stops us from even being honest with our needs but is a terrible cycle that we need to break. Not by working hard. Not by earning love. We do this by sitting and looking at the face of Pappa God. This foundation is where the Lord heals us from within all inequities – depression, anxiety, mental health struggles, abandonment, loneliness, and more.

For us to walk in our identity as a son or daughter in Christ we need to:

• Spend time with God. Allow Pappa God to hold us.
• Be rooted and grounded in Christian community.
• Be in the Word of God and pray in the spirit. You need both – the heat of the spirit and the Word of the Living God.

Harmony’s website: https://www.heartheirvoices.net/

Purchase the book Hear Their Voices: https://www.amazon.com/Hear-Their-Voices-Portrait-American/dp/1640884130/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2W2SUO0XSUOFC&keywords=harmony+klingenmeyer+hear+their+voices&qid=1650135077&sprefix=harmony+klingenmeyer+hear+their+voices%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-1

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Is it possible to get healed from mental health diagnoses like major depression, anxiety, PTSD, schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder and bipolar? Are you doomed to be on medication for the rest of your life? The Lord has given me a mission and a mandate to go after mental health healing. The Bible says that we are to be healed and live in freedom. In this episode, I talk about how this healing actually happens and what we need to do to stay free.

Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1

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Do you feel like you’re getting stuck? Or plateauing in your life? God wants us to be energized, excited about life and joyful in all things. How do we get out of this stuck place of complacency? In this episode, Heidi talks about how we are designed to hear from our Maker, the creator of the Universe to hear His voice and get fresh revelations. These fresh revelations will bring us into His truth for freedom away from depression, anxiety, hopelessness and despair.

Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1

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 When we feel depression, anxious or some sort of bondage, we often think it’s just how we are and we accept it. Jesus stood in the gap for us to be free and we have the authority and power to be delivered and to live free. Guest Tyna Jalieba shares an anointed and powerful message on deliverance. She shares that Jesus stands in the gap in the places where we are ignorant, unaware and unknowing. Getting free is important but staying free is even more important. We need to be God conscious, not demon conscious. Get ready for new revelation and transformation!!

Tyna’s website: https://www.theflawedandfree.com/

Listen to the Flawed&Free Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flawed-free/id1483871543

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We all want encouragement from others and the gold pulled and spoken to us. Are we doing it for ourself and others? Do you really know how to powerfully encourage and pull the gold from others? What about in difficult situations when the person in front of you is clearly not making healthy choices. In this episode I talk about the basics of how to encourage, to how to flip difficult situations, pulling the gold, giving yourself grace for the timing, using your story and encouraging other through growth. I also give specific examples of “how to” and words that can be very powerful to encourage and pull the gold from yourself and others. You were made to be a brave encourager!

11 Steps to becoming a brave encourager:

1. Start with the non-verbal basics – smile, nod and talk with others.

1. Validate and empathize – validation acknowledges what the other person says,

1. Give Simple Compliments

1. Beyond the Basics –See the Gold

• Flip “the Reality” in Front of Your Eyes

• Encourage Through Growth

• Be All In

• Give yourself grace with timing

• Go Big

• Use Your Story

• Specific Encouraging Words

Purchase the book The Brave Encourager: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Encourager-Power-Encouragement-Changes/dp/B09TN45H36/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGP5FPY2E5GD&keywords=the+brave+encourager&qid=1646608516&sprefix=the+brave+encourager%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1

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