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Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Regulate Emotions, Intrusive Thoughts, Nervous System, Anxiousness, Overthinking, EMDR
By Michelle Croyle, Licensed Professional Counselor, EMDR Therapist, ChristianHealth & FitnessMental HealthReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Regulate Emotions, Intrusive Thoughts, Nervous System, Anxiousness, Overthinking, EMDR episodes
- How to Have Clearer Thoughts and Less Stress
Want to know what to stop doing to so that you can think with more clarity and experience lower stress? Take a listen. After all, anything that can help minimize overload, burnout, stress and anxiety can't hurt.
For ways to connect further with Michelle and Mental Health for Christian Women, CLICK HERE.
14 min - What Patterns Are Making Your Load Harder to Carry? - Counting the Cost and Making Better Choices
Do you do the same things over and over but find that they aren't really serving you? Are the things you do habitually making life harder or costing you more in time, money, or energy than they need to? Evaluating what is working and what isn't is a necessary step. Listen in for Michelle's Dollar Tree debacle.
To Learn More and Join the Mental Health for Christian Women Membership Community, Click Here.
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20 min - 17 Ways You May Be Sabotaging Yourself Without Realizing It - How to Make Better Thoughts and Choices and Take More Helpful Actions
Do you get in your own way? In this podcast, Michelle will share with you 17 things you can stop doing and what you can do instead to live more empowered, and make better thoughts, choices, and actions that can help you in your life.
To connect with Michelle, book a free 15 minute Your Next Steps to Healing Consult Call, or Join the Membership Community, Click Here.
23 min - 5 Tips for Better Communication and Connection in Relationships
Communication in relationships can be hard, but it doesn't have to be. You can make new friends and acquaintances relatively easily if you follow a few simple guidelines, and Michelle shares them in this episode.
21 min - "Fun & Flourish: The Connection Between Enjoyment and Mental Health"
Life is serious enough that when you get the choice to build in fun, it is worth it to do so. From what we do for work to how we spend our quiet time, to how we interact with others and the things we we do, enjoyment is a gift from God, and it's one we get to choose.
To connect further with Michelle or learn more about/join the Mental Health for Christian Women Membership Community, CLICK HERE
18 min - Want to Stop Getting Down on Yourself - Flexible Thinking Can Help
Flexible thinking is something that our rigid ways may not like. We want to be good and do well at what we do as Christian women, of course, but it is okay to have grace and realize that we don't know it all. We don't know it all, and that's okay. We aren't perfect, and that's okay because we know the ONE who is. Take a load off your shoulders and mind today, and listen in for some freedom from the burdens of negative thinking.
To connect with Michelle or join the Membership Community, click here
17 min - Is It Possible to Live in Continuous Peace - Interview with Author Dawn Marasco
After experiencing several life altering traumas, Dawn found her way to a closer relationship with the Lord. In today's episode, she shares about her reflections on mental health through the focus on spiritual health tools.
To connect with Dawn, get her free gift to you, or join her community, go to: www.dawnmarasco.com
To buy Dawn's book, "Continuous Peace," go to: www.dawnmarasco.com/store
To join the Mental Health for Christian Women Membership Community or learn more about how it can help you to grow in your spiritual and mental health, go to Click Here
30 min - Overcoming Religious Abuse and Cult Trauma - Interview with Liza Lovett, Part 2 of 2
Finding your way into a loving relationship with God is a choice that not everyone makes after experiencing religious abuse and cult affiliation, but today's guest, Liza Lovett, did just that. Listen in to hear how her hurts and traumas shaped her to seek after God when trauma perpetrated in the name of the church and Christianity were used inappropriately.
Guest Liza Lovett, Host of The Warriors Community Podcast exists for survivors of religious and sexual abuse within the church. We provide a safe place to share survivor stories about healing, lessons learned, tools, and resources.
Liza can be reached: @Mrs. Liza Lovett on instagram or by email to: [email protected]
Liza's The Warriors Community can be reached through Patreon HERE
Warning: This episode is not for young ears.
To connect with Michelle and the many resources Mental Health for Christian Women has to offer, including the monthly Membership Community,click here: https://linktr.ee/michellecroyle
23 min - Overcoming Religious Abuse and Cult Trauma - Interview with Liza Lovett, Part 1 of 2
Finding your way into a loving relationship with God is a choice that not everyone makes after experiencing religious abuse and cult affiliation, but today's guest, Liza Lovett, did just that. Listen in to hear how her hurts and traumas shaped her to seek after God when trauma perpetrated in the name of the church and Christianity were used inappropriately.
Guest Liza Lovett, Host of The Warriors Community Podcast exists for survivors of religious and sexual abuse within the church. We provide a safe place to share survivor stories about healing, lessons learned, tools, and resources.
Liza can be reached: @Mrs. Liza Lovett on instagram or by email to: [email protected]
Liza's The Warriors Community can be reached through Patreon HERE
Warning: This episode is not for young ears.
To connect with Michelle and the many resources Mental Health for Christian Women has to offer, including the monthly Membership Community,click here: https://linktr.ee/michellecroyle
23 min - Living Like Jesus While Being Human
Have you ever had a horrible misunderstanding with someone or been misunderstood? It stinks on both sides of the equation. However, taking it to the Lord and taking responsibility for our words and actions is the best we can do as humans. We all have responsibility in living as unto the Lord while being human in human relationships, and fortunately, there is grace.
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About Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Regulate Emotions, Intrusive Thoughts, Nervous System, Anxiousness, Overthinking, EMDR
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Do you love God deeply but still feel anxious, overwhelmed, or unable to experience the peace you know He promises?
Have people you trusted—relationships you valued, or even places that should have been safe—left you feeling deeply wounded, guarded, and unsure who you can trust anymore, including yourself or even God?
Have you tried to pray the pain away, do all the right things, push through it, avoid it, or outthink it, yet still feel something unsettled deep inside?
Do you wish you could calm your mind and emotions, reset your nervous system, and finally experience peace with yourself and with God again?
I'm so glad you're here.
In this podcast, I'll help you make sense of what you've been feeling and why it's been so hard to get unstuck. We'll explore how painful experiences can affect your mind, body, and nervous system—and why the reactions you've been having actually make sense.
You don't have to figure this out alone. In each episode, I'll come alongside you, sharing insights from evidence-based, trauma-informed psychology thoughtfully integrated with the truth of the Christian faith. Together, we'll bring clarity to what you're experiencing, normalize the struggles you may have been quietly carrying, and explore practical ways to move toward the peace, emotional safety, and deeper connection with God that your heart longs for.
Hi, I'm Michelle.
I'm a wife, a mom, a dog mom, and a lifelong Christian, having been saved at the age of five, but that's also around the time when anxiety took root inside me. As I grew older, intrusive and ruminating thoughts, OCD behaviors, nervousness, and even panic attacks interrupted my peace and kept my mind and body on high alert.
I tried thinking better thoughts, focusing on Bible verses, casting down the lies of the enemy, praying harder, and even tried traditional talk therapy, but I couldn't get past the feeling that I was spiritually failing or had somehow made God mad.
However, after years of internal struggle, I eventually realized the problem wasn't that something was wrong with me or with my faith. The deeper issue was unaddressed trauma in my nervous system.
You see, many of us can carry a tremendous amount of emotional, mental, relational, and even physical pain for a long time—until our bodies simply can't hold it anymore. The ways we learn to survive hard experiences often help us get through them, but they aren't always the same things that lead us into healing. And most of the time, we can't simply think our way out of it or pray our way through it alone. True healing often requires gently processing what our nervous systems have been carrying.
The beautiful part is that God designed our bodies with the capacity to heal. He created our minds and nervous systems with remarkable resilience, and over time, both science and Scripture have revealed wisdom that helps us participate in that healing process.
After becoming a licensed professional counselor and a trauma-informed, certified EMDR therapist—and after experiencing profound healing myself through excellent trauma therapy—I want you to know something very clearly: there is real hope for healing. And that hope is available to you, too.
Now, I have the privilege of helping Christian women just like you to find compassion and grace for themselves and as we work toward meaningful healing by helping you understand how your past experiences have shaped your present struggles, while also equipping you with practical tools and actionable steps to move forward with greater peace, clarity, and emotional safety in an environment where you are finally safe to be seen and heard just as you are, no shame, no guilt, just healing.
If you are ready to finally understand what's happening inside you and to break free from the deep wounds that have been holding you back, I'm ready to help.
So, grab your favorite beverage, a box of tissues, and kick your self-criticism to the curb. It's time to pay attention to what you and your nervous system need to heal.
If you're ready to honor the beautiful creation you are, embrace God's truth about you and how He designed your nervous system to care for you, and learn practical ways to pay attention to your needs so you can heal and finally experience peace, let's get started.
Next Steps:
Go to Michelle's Private Counseling Practice Website (for those in Pennsylvania or willing to travel to PA for the duration of therapy): https://www.abundantfreedomcounseling.com/
e-mail Michelle: [email protected]
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The content shared reflects personal opinions and general information and should not be considered therapy or a therapeutic relationship of any kind. If you are experiencing emotional distress or mental health concerns, please seek out professional care from a qualified mental health professional, and if you are in crisis, please go to your nearest emergency room, or contact your local police department or crisis intervention team in your area.
Copyright 2026 [Abundant Freedom Counseling, LLC]
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