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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
- 4 Things You Can Do to Lighten Your Heavy Emotional Load
When you have experienced hard things, it is easy for your nervous system to get triggered into feeling unsafe again. This doesn't have to be a permanent experience of distress and frustration. In today's episode, I share 4 things you can do to start to take the edge off of the experience of stuckness.
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH ME--
MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
22 min - How to not Dismiss Your Needs - Overly Responsible and Burnt Out
Do you feel overly responsible for other people's actions, feelings, thoughts, and emotions? If you find yourself sacrificing what is good for you to keep other people's reactions at bay or neglect your own needs, wants, and self to try to keep the peace, you may be engaging in a trauma response called self-abandonment. This leads to burn out, stress, and guilt whenever you stop the protective but self-dismissing behavior. If you'd like help with this, listen in!
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH ME!
MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
20 min - Why You Aren't Bad for Having Strong Feelings
Do you ever feel like there is a real way you feel deep inside and a way you think you "should or shouldn't" feel that drives your actions on the outside? If you have strong feelings but feel that they are too much or wrong for a Christian woman to have, listen in. You don't have to suck it up, ignore yourself, or throw yourself under the bus.
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC:
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
14 min - People Pleasing, Over Explaining, or Shutting Down?
Wonder why you people please, over explain, or shut down? Here's what's going on and how to help yourself with it.
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC:
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
14 min - Why am I Still Struggling?
Therapy is a great resource, but sometimes, it's not enough. In today's episode, Michelle talks about some of the differences that make EMDR trauma therapy more effective than standard talk therapy.
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC:
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
16 min - 1 Big Sign of Trauma In Your Body
Have you found yourself fine one minute and completely blindsided by your reactions the next? Today, Michelle shares 1 huge way to tell if you have unresolved trauma hiding in your nervous system.
Listen in!
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC:
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
14 min - How to Stop Intrusive Thoughts
Have you ever struggled with thoughts you don't want, don't believe in, and wish would go away and leave you alone but the more you try to stop thinking them the worse the looping thought gets? Today, Michelle shares her tip for how to deal with intrusive thoughts with God's help. Listen in!
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC:
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
14 min - How Healing Actually Happens
How many Christian women think trauma healing happens and how it actually does happen are often not the same thing. Today, Michelle shares how to look at healing so that you can be encouraged rather than feel defeated. Listen in!
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC:
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
19 min - The 1 Question To Ask Yourself that Can Help Heal Trauma - Better Than Trying Harder and Beating Yourself Up Inside
If you are tired of beating yourself up inside for trying harder and harder to make traction toward your emotional and mental freedom but feel like you are simply going in circles and feeling defeated, you may be asking yourself, "What is Wrong with Me?"
However, the problem isn't you! The problem is that you are asking yourself the wrong question, and assuming that the problem is somehow you. This leads to shame, frustration, and hamster wheel running that keeps you from making traction toward your healing. To heal, you need to ask a different question, and I'll tell you what that is in this episode. Listen in!
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC:
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
16 min - Why Can't I Relax, Even Though I'm Safe?
If slowing down makes you feel more anxious instead of calm, this episode explains why. You'll learn how trauma trains the nervous system to equate safety with staying busy, in control, or on guard - and why true safety isn't something you need to seek after, but something your body experiences.
In this episode, we explore how to orient your nervous system to the present moment, why rest can feel unsafe after trauma, and how a felt sense of safety allows real healing to begin. This gentle, faith-integrated conversation helps you understand why your body struggles to relax -- and what it actually needs instead.
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC:
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation
14 min
About Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Regulate Emotions, Intrusive Thoughts, Nervous System, Anxiousness, Overthinking, EMDR
From the publisher's feed
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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