Your Hope-Filled Perspective Podcast
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.
Summertime Sadness: Why Depression Can Spike in Summer and How to Find Hope – Episode 381
Summer is supposed to be a season of sunshine, vacations, and happiness. But for many people, it can be a season of unexpected sadness. In this episode, we’ll unpack the science behind summertime sadness, explore why depression can worsen during the summer months, and discover how God meets us with hope in every season.
What to Do When You Feel Spiritually Dry or Disconnected from God – Episode 380
If you’ve ever felt spiritually dry or distant from God, you’re not alone. Learn why spiritual dryness is more common than you think, what it doesn’t mean about your faith, and how to find hope in seasons when God feels quiet.
How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction Through Christ – Episode 379
Lasting freedom begins with abiding in Christ. Jon Seidl shares four practices that helped him move beyond sobriety toward deeper healing: abiding in Christ, finding his true identity, practicing radical vulnerability, and walking in obedience to God. Discover how these steps helped Jon find freedom from alcohol and, most importantly, more of Jesus.
How to Get to the Root of Hidden Addiction and Break Free – Episode 378
You don’t have to hit rock bottom to ask hard questions about what’s controlling your life. In Part 1 of this conversation, Jonathan Seidl shares his powerful testimony of overcoming hidden addiction and discovering that real freedom comes through honesty, repentance, and a deeper relationship with Jesus. Whether your battle is with alcohol or another unhealthy escape, this episode reminds us that there is hope on the other side.
How to Find True Freedom in Christ – Episode 377
Many believers know Jesus has set them free, yet they still feel stuck in old habits, thought patterns, or the pressure to control their lives. In this episode, we’ll look at why that happens and discover practical, biblical steps to walk in the freedom Christ has already secured for us.
Dr. Michelle Bengtson
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