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Are you struggling to renew your mind and walk in the Truth of who God made you to be? Do you feel like you are waging a losing battle against your negative self-talk?
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S13.04 | Surrender vs. Self-Abandonment: What God Actually Asks of You (opens the original)
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Carla saw a phrase circulating online: "obedience begins at the end of self." Something about it didn't sit right - so in this episode, she unpacks why that statement, however well-intentioned, can be deeply misleading, especially for anyone who's spent years people-pleasing or learning to distrust their own needs and emotions. Drawing on Scripture and her own experience as a recovering people-pleaser and a mom, Carla makes the case that surrender is not the same as self-abandonment. God isn't a
S13.03 | From "What If" to "Even If": A Biblical Approach to Anxiety (opens the original)
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What do you do when the "what ifs" won't stop? Carla's natural instinct - and probably yours too - is to talk herself out of it: that's not going to happen. But she's discovered that doesn't actually calm an anxious nervous system, because the what ifs just keep coming back. In this episode, prompted by real conversations with her son as he headed off to his first year of university, Carla walks through a shift that does bring safety: trading "what if" for "even if." Through the stories of Habak
S13.02 | Your Mental Health Struggle Isn't a Moral Failure (opens the original)
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When a popular Christian commentator claimed online that postpartum depression is really just selfishness in disguise, Carla couldn't stay quiet - and this episode is her response. Using the stories of two fleeing prophets, Jonah and Elijah, Carla unpacks the real difference between willful disobedience and nervous-system dysregulation, and why God meets each one so differently. If you've ever wondered whether your anxiety, your snapping, your isolating, or your depression means you're being dis
S13.01 | I'm back - I think? (opens the original)
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What was meant to be a one month sabbitical - turned into six months! As I start to emerge back into this space - it feels hard. I'm breaking through exectuive function challenges and learning that God doesn't want me to simply return as I was before. So - here's to a messy re-entry and all God has in store for this podcast!
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