Mental Health & Faith

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen…” Hebrews 11:1.

All my life I have been taught to give over my problems to God, and he will provide peace and the final answer. I had lived by this, through every storm and every success in my life. God has never let me down… and then I had my first panic attack at 16. It was the worst feeling of a lack of control I had ever experienced and for the first time, even in giving my biggest struggle over to God… my body did not agree with my mind; and I couldn’t just pray it away. Fast forward almost 15 years and I found myself studying to become a Marriage & Family Therapist, studying tried and true techniques for battling many of life’s struggles, all the while learning how to face my own. What did I discover? It was working. And then I lost the closest person to my heart and soul and thus a part of myself. A conversation with my sister forced me to look at the fact that I too could benefit from a therapist of my own.

Every week when I meet with clients, talk to family and friends, and explore my own mental health with my own therapist, I see a major consistent thing: THERAPY WORKS. But how was it working? Therapy? Tested interventions? Practiced interventions? How could something “scientific” work better than faith? The honest answer, it doesn’t. Not better than faith, better WITH faith.

Every person has a calling in life, a job designed just for them that they need to do to be in the will of God. He called me to be a therapist. And in that calling, I have to believe that if god called me to be a therapist, He is saying there is a benefit to therapy. God was equipping me to not just see but to also believe, that therapeutic interventions can be the help from God we put faith in, the tools that He gives us to better our journey through life. It is with faith that I have learned emotion regulation; I have learned to EMBRACE my EMOTIONS.

If you are finding that life needs a little navigation with a therapist or a coach, I invite you to connect with me and lets talk about what kind of mental health support I can offer you across my many areas of mental healing, whether that’s through meditation and sound, coaching sessions, therapeutic interventions, workshops or group work. I’m ready to help holistically guide you on your journey to mental wellness.

And for my readers, I invite you to take this blogging journey with me as I share ways I learned how Embracing Emotion can make facing each feeling a little easier. I give personal stories, tried and true techniques, and scriptural foundation to support my pairing of Mental Health and Faith.