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

Feeling stuck doesn't mean your faith is weak. It means your nervous system is likely carrying familiar survival responses that are getting in the way of your healing in a different way than you might think. P.S. There is nothing "wrong" with you. You are not the problem.

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

What beliefs, feelings, and roles do you carry about yourself that aren't even fully true? Learn how to find out in this episode of Trauma Healing for Christian Women to increase in mental health through a lens of Christian faith and effective psychology.

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

Feeling pulled in too many directions with too much on your shoulders and to-do list this holiday season? Today, Michelle gives a new framework for addressing the pull to do too much underneath the surface. Listen in.

Would you like to work with Michelle?

She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6 hours of focused therapy per day over 1–3 days) for those in Pennsylvania or willing to travel to Pennsylvania.

Therapeutic intensives can produce 2-3x the results of weekly therapy in a shorter, more concentrated amount of time, allowing for accelerated healing.

To learn more about how Michelle's counseling practice can help you, go to: Click Here

To schedule your free 15 minute Phone Consulation to see if a therapy intensive with Michelle is a good fit for your needs, go to: www.calendly.com/michellecroyle

For other mental health resources or to join the SHINE COMMUNITY, a weekly support group and safe place of connection for Christian Women: Click Here.

*Michelle is not currently accepting clients for weekly sessions

**All Mental Health for Christian Women and Trauma Healing for Christian Women content is for education and information only and not to be considered professional therapy of any kind. If you are in crisis, please call 911 in the USA, or go to your nearest hospital emergency room.

When panic floods your nervous system and you start to experience the anxiety and frustration of terror, what can you do? Well, in this episode, Michelle shares a recent panic attack doozy of an experience and how the 7 Tips she is sharing with you today helped her navigate it better than past panic attacks.

Would you like to work with Michelle?

She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6 hours of focused therapy per day over 1–3 days) for those in Pennsylvania or willing to travel to Pennsylvania.

Therapeutic intensives can produce 2-3x the results of weekly therapy in a shorter, more concentrated amount of time, allowing for accelerated healing.

To learn more about how Michelle's counseling practice can help you, go to: Click Here

To schedule your free 15 minute Phone Consulation to see if a therapy intensive with Michelle is a good fit for your needs, go to: www.calendly.com/michellecroyle

For other mental health resources or to join the SHINE COMMUNITY, a weekly support group and safe place of connection for Christian Women: Click Here.

*Michelle is not currently accepting clients for weekly sessions

**All Mental Health for Christian Women and Trauma Healing for Christian Women content is for education and information only and not to be considered professional therapy of any kind. If you are in crisis, please call 911 in the USA, or go to your nearest hospital emergency room.

Expectations are rough this time of year! This episode addresses a helpful framework for processing all the stuff that can feel heavy.

Would you like to work with Michelle?

She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6 hours of focused therapy per day over 1–3 days) for those in Pennsylvania or willing to travel to Pennsylvania.

Therapeutic intensives can produce 2-3x the results of weekly therapy in a shorter, more concentrated amount of time, allowing for accelerated healing.

To learn more about how Michelle's counseling practice can help you, go to: Click Here

To schedule your free 15 minute Phone Consulation to see if a therapy intensive with Michelle is a good fit for your needs, go to: www.calendly.com/michellecroyle

For other mental health resources or to join the SHINE COMMUNITY, a weekly support group and safe place of connection for Christian Women: Click Here.

*Michelle is not currently accepting clients for weekly sessions

**All Mental Health for Christian Women and Trauma Healing for Christian Women content is for education and information only and not to be considered professional therapy of any kind. If you are in crisis, please call 911 in the USA, or go to your nearest hospital emergency room.

Today is the second part of my interview with 19 Kids and Counting star, Amy Duggar King. Amy talks about righteous anger, standing up for what is right, and taking back her power through truth and counseling therapy after gaslighting and emotional abuse throughout her life. Listen in.

Would you like to work with Michelle?

She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6 hours of focused therapy per day over 1–3 days) for those in Pennsylvania or willing to travel to Pennsylvania.

Therapeutic intensives can produce 2-3x the results of weekly therapy in a shorter, more concentrated amount of time, allowing for accelerated healing.

To learn more about how Michelle's counseling practice can help you, go to: Click Here

To schedule your free 15 minute Phone Consulation to see if a therapy intensive with Michelle is a good fit for your needs, go to: www.calendly.com/michellecroyle

For other mental health resources or to join the SHINE COMMUNITY, a weekly support group and safe place of connection for Christian Women: Click Here.

*Michelle is not currently accepting clients for weekly sessions

**All Mental Health for Christian Women and Trauma Healing for Christian Women content is for education and information only and not to be considered professional therapy of any kind. If you are in crisis, please call 911 in the USA, or go to your nearest hospital emergency room.

Have you ever felt like something isn't quite right? Yet, people are acting like you are the one with the problem in how you are seeing things? That's gaslighting, my friend, and today, my guest Amy Duggar King of 19 Kids and Counting fame is talking about her pain and how God has helped her to overcome it as we discuss her new book, Holy Disruptor.

Would you like to work with Michelle?

She is currently accepting clients for EMDR Therapeutic Intensives (3–6 hours of focused therapy per day over 1–3 days) for those in Pennsylvania or willing to travel to Pennsylvania.

Therapeutic intensives can produce 2-3x the results of weekly therapy in a shorter, more concentrated amount of time, allowing for accelerated healing.

To learn more about how Michelle's counseling practice can help you, go to: Click Here

To schedule your free 15 minute Phone Consulation to see if a therapy intensive with Michelle is a good fit for your needs, go to: www.calendly.com/michellecroyle

For other mental health resources or to join the SHINE COMMUNITY, a weekly support group and safe place of connection for Christian Women: Click Here.

*Michelle is not currently accepting clients for weekly sessions

**All Mental Health for Christian Women and Trauma Healing for Christian Women content is for education and information only and not to be considered professional therapy of any kind. If you are in crisis, please call 911 in the USA, or go to your nearest hospital emergency room.