Your Hope-Filled Perspective Podcast
Why We Crave Comfort When Life Feels Overwhelming – Episode 391
Sometimes the thing you’re reaching for isn’t what you really need. When stress, loneliness, grief, or exhaustion leaves you craving comfort, your brain naturally looks for relief, but God invites you to something deeper. Listen to learn how to identify what you’re truly feeling and needing, then take small, practical steps toward healthier comfort, lasting peace, and God’s presence.
How to Recognize Hidden Emotional Baggage You Didn’t Know You Were Carrying – Episode 390
Emotional hoarding may be weighing you down without you even realizing it. In this episode, Laurie Davies helps us look beyond the idea of “emotional baggage” to the worry, regret, false guilt, anger, shame, and other emotions we may be holding onto. Through a gentle, biblical approach, you’ll learn how to recognize what’s taking up space in your heart and begin releasing what’s keeping you from the freedom Christ provides.
How to Improve Your Gut Health to Support Your Emotional Health – Episode 389
Could your gut health be affecting how you feel? Your gut, brain, and emotions are more connected than you may realize. Learn how chronic stress can affect your gut and nervous system, plus practical ways to improve your gut health to support your emotional health and experience greater peace.
How to Move from Surviving to Truly Living Again, Even After the Deepest Hurts – Episode 388
Your deepest hurt doesn’t have to define the rest of your life.
After experiencing unimaginable trauma, Kimberly Haar made the decision to pursue healing rather than remain defined by what happened to her. Hear how faith, forgiveness, and hope can help you move from surviving to truly living again.
How Disappointment Affects Your Mental Health, and How to Move Forward – Episode 387
Have you ever found yourself asking, “God, what happened?” When life looks nothing like what you prayed for or expected, disappointment can leave you wrestling with questions you never thought you’d have to ask. Listen now for encouragement for facing what didn’t happen while continuing to trust God with what comes next.
How to Strengthen Your Family’s Mental Health This School Year Episode Summary – Episode 386
Help your family handle school-year stress. The school year brings more than homework and busy schedules. Learn practical ways to strengthen your family’s mental health, reduce anxiety, create emotional security, and help everyone thrive mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
Daring to Hope When Your Heart Is Shattered: Trusting God Through Pain and Loss – Episode 385
Pain and loss can leave us wondering where God is and how we’re supposed to keep going.
Linda Dillow has walked through tremendous heartache, including a traumatic brain injury and cancer diagnoses for two of her daughters. Through it all, she learned what it means to dare to hope, bring her honest questions to God, and keep trusting Him when circumstances offered few answers.
How to Hear from God and Find Peace Without Knowing What’s Next – Episode 384
What if you don’t need certainty to hear from God? Abby McDonald joins me to share how to hear from God, surrender the need for answers about tomorrow, and find peace without knowing what’s next by focusing on what God has given you for today.
How Can I Help My Child Overcome Back-to-School Anxiety Without Making It Worse? – Episode 383
Why Is My Child So Anxious About School? Back-to-school anxiety doesn’t always look like anxiety. Tears, resistance, physical complaints, or changes in behavior may be your child’s way of communicating what they can’t put into words. Learn what may be happening in their brain and how you can respond with greater understanding and confidence.
When Friendships Change: Trusting God Through Seasons of Relational Transition – Episode 382
Friendships are one of God’s sweetest gifts, but they can be one of life’s most painful areas of change. Some friendships deepen over time. Some drift and some end unexpectedly. Yet God, our forever friend, remains faithful through every changing season. Join us as we talk about when friendships change and how to trust God through seasons of relational transition.
Dr. Michelle Bengtson
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