Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson

by Charisma Podcast Network

Strong Tower Mental Health is an authentic and encouraging podcast hosted by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Heidi Mortenson. Get ready for heaven to be unlocked in your soul with real life stories, skills, and amazing guests who will inspire you. Topics on this podcast include vulnerability, authenticity, how to have difficult conversations, keeping healthy boundaries with others, marriage, depression, anxiety, addict ...   ...  Read more
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  • 169. Is My Mental Health Diagnosis Helping or Hurting?

    169. Is My Mental Health Diagnosis Helping or Hurting?

    28:56

    Do you think your mental health diagnosis is helping or hurting you? Has your mental health diagnosis controlled your life? We can get controlled by our circumstances instead of God, and our diagnosis can be one of them. Sometimes people in the church ignore symptoms in the name of healing and sometimes people outside the church focus on their diagnosis too much. We need balance and we need God’s truth for our situation. I will talk about some controversial topics around a diagnosis and how it can help us and how it can hurt us. Galatians 5:1 – “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com 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 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 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!

  • 168. Parenting Well in Today’s Culture with Steve Hines

    168. Parenting Well in Today’s Culture with Steve Hines

    36:57

    Does is seem hard to parent in today’s culture? It seems no matter where we turn there is something fighting against what Jesus intends for us as parents. How do we parent well as Christians? In this episode, you will hear author Steve Hines, as he shares his insights about parenting well no matter what is going on in the world. He shares personal experiences as a father and grandfather. He guides us to parent and train children to become the salt of the earth and the light of the world and to clearly hear God’s voice throughout the journey. He felt led to write a book and titled it “Salt, Light and Kids” and he is sharing what God showed him in this incredible journey. “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” ~Matthew 5:13 Steve’s website: https://www.saltlightandkids.com/ To purchase Salt, Light and Kids: https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Light-Kids-Parenting-Culture/dp/B0BYS9558D/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ISB9G5VNKVBU&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.F0H0-fC3oeQ7FGTgpxk5dAib8L20UwJyWtU5RoufxXwHAwFjRFfIl2pDnwyoe_saetNWnmMsL0I7K02k4VNarScW1IM9YjYSgp0IVKEZG2v3CPuIQ0rMaL-T06GHd3ZvH5RS9GL6DalhIleA8hviguGfiDjU5A4g2oPV9_a0CMg0-kSLe3BHX-gE8wOzsweptaa1bahCbxTNa_rJUQXf6FlqyUpt7meTaFSHEk21v89Jh_OXI2YD5U-nfWaZBddH2UC9xS_rlcRv8mXC6GAiHF6BlnFGBukU-V-q4jEht98.XGBbSV-365gT_v6v3XkesKNRCbtuMPrqqahfDdbRdvE&dib_tag=se&keywords=salt+light+and+kids&qid=1711032501&sprefix=salt+light+and+kids%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-1 To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com 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!

  • 165. Emotion Regulation Skills – DBT Skills Series

    165. Emotion Regulation Skills – DBT Skills Series

    30:18

    Do you struggle with managing your emotions? Do you think we have a choice with our feelings? In this episode, you will hear about how to be more skillful with your emotions. You will find out what good emotions are and their purpose. Also there will be very helpful and specific skills and handling emotions. This is a 3rd of a series called DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) series – the 1st one was Interpersonal effectiveness and the 2nd was distress tolerance. Let me explain the difference with skills verses deep trauma work. When your house is on fire and you are struggling, you are not thinking about healing at that time, you just need to make a good choice in a difficult moment. Today’s episode is on skills to manage difficult emotions when they show up. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” ~Matthew 11:28-30 To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com 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 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 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!

  • 164. Dream Interpretation Revealed with Demontae Edmonds

    164. Dream Interpretation Revealed with Demontae Edmonds

    34:55

    Do you ever wonder what your dreams mean? Is God speaking to us in our dreams? Many of us have no clue what our dreams mean or even realize that God could be speaking to us. Hear this incredible interview with pastor, author and speaker Demontae Edmonds. As a child, he had dark and demonic experiences in his sleep and wasn’t sure what to do with them at the time. There was a significant calling on his life – perhaps this could be you or your children. This podcast will dive into the deep meaning of dreams whether it’s from our soul, God or the enemy. Dreams with recurring themes, scenery, or messages often are the by-product of unresolved soul trauma. This means that God helps us with our mental health as we sleep.We need to pay attention to what our dreams are saying and do something about them. You will gain a better of sense of what your dreams are telling you and encouragement to take steps about them. “In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his mind was troubled and he could not sleep.” ~Daniel 2:1 “The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.” ~Daniel 2:45b To purchase The Supernatural Dimension of Dreams: https://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Dimension-Dreams-Understanding-Works/dp/0800763467/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TV9MMG6JZZNB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Xkg8PGAThf_zZQlugCNMlQwS8Y9ZhfFJTMrzK-JqArKpE8tdZwAeaIhvcNQwsjVUtB1Vb5vRak0nSadAxq5wCzuKCjmaN_E6RyuqbRZqQNxyKy7hrmFluP4nGEWr6HQZqURXuQNbayQGfb80sQrQpkWH6lkuFKI1R6APgwdy0V_zpF6miTPoeiU8TpxvMXML.i393teHpl3ucqPDxgVMKzuUjh4Us0twiD8ne0cGaTgE&dib_tag=se&keywords=demontae+edmonds&qid=1709923790&sprefix=demontae+edmonds%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-1 To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com 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!

  • 163. Distress Tolerance Skills – DBT Skills Series

    163. Distress Tolerance Skills – DBT Skills Series

    25:19

    Have you found yourself in crisis situations over and over? Does it feel like you can’t catch a break? Sometimes we just need some quick and basic skills to help be effective when we are in a stressful situation. In this episode, you will hear some basic Distress Tolerance skills taken from DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). This is a curriculum that was developed by Marsha Linehan. Distress Tolerance skills are about not making a bad situation worse. Many people have remastered these skills and people do these groups all over the world. They are structured and to the point of teaching skills, not diving into healing trauma. Some of the skills you will hear today about improving the moment, self-soothing and distracting. Normally my podcasts talk about trauma, but this episode is simply about skills. “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” ~2 Timothy 1:7 To sign up for the women’s retreat April 2024: https://www.discovermyinsidestory.com/extraordinary-2024 Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com 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 Join my mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5 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!