212. Healing the Roots of Trauma & Miracles Happen with Joan Hunter
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
Release Date: 11/03/2025
225. Know Your Assignment Right Now | Staying Focused in a Distracted World
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
What is God asking of you right now? In a world filled with constant noise, crisis, controversy, and competing voices, it’s easy to feel pulled in every direction. This episode invites you to slow down, tune out distraction, and rediscover the peace that comes from knowing your current assignment from God. “Let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him.” — 1 Corinthians 7:17 (ESV) What you’ll gain from this episode: • The biblical difference between calling, purpose, and assignment • How to discern God’s leading through...
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224. Restoring Your Original Design with Dr. Shannan Crawford
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
In this powerful conversation, Heidi sits down with Dr. Crawford to explore how faith and psychology work together to heal the spirit, soul, and body. Crawford shares her journey from acting to becoming a psychologist after overcoming depression, self-harm, and eating disorders—and how the Holy Spirit led her into true transformation. Together, they unpack the difference between the false self and the God-designed self, how trauma fractures identity, and practical tools like internal board meetings, imagination, and somatic breathing to restore wholeness. This episode blends clinical wisdom,...
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223. Living Aligned: Spirit, Soul, and Body
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
Have you ever gone to church, felt better… but didn’t know why? Do you love Jesus but still feel stuck in anxiety, striving, or exhaustion? Do you feel like you should be doing more — even when your heart is longing just to rest? You were never meant to live from survival. You were created to live from heaven. In this powerful and revelatory episode, Heidi Mortenson invites you into a life-changing understanding of who you really are: you are a spirit, who has a soul, and lives in a body. When you said yes to Jesus, the Holy Spirit came to live inside you — bringing wisdom,...
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222. Faith in the Wilderness: When God Turns Pain into Purpose with Melanie Cox
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
Have you felt stuck and that you couldn’t keep doing? This episode is a tender yet bold encouragement to anyone who feels stuck, unseen, or uncertain. Heidi and Melanie bring the listener back to the truth of God’s goodness, His faithfulness in hardship, and His purpose even in our pain. Despite early technical difficulties, God’s presence filled the conversation as Melanie shared her powerful testimony—from infertility and miraculous birth stories to deep loss and renewed hope. Through her journey, she reminds us that Christ in us truly is the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27) and...
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221. Expanding our Capacity for Reaching Goals and Healing
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
What if reaching your goals, healing emotionally, and growing spiritually isn’t about trying harder—but about becoming safer? In this episode of the Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast, we go deeper into what it actually looks like to live regulated by the Spirit by expanding our window of tolerance and increasing our capacity. Building on Romans 7 and 8, Heidi explores how neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and Scripture work together so we can move beyond where we’ve been—whether that’s in healing, faith, parenting, leadership, or personal goals. If you’ve ever loved God,...
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220. What Happens During Inner Healing Sessions with Marie Bursch
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
In this heartfelt and Spirit-led conversation, Heidi and Marie dive deep into the powerful connection between mental health, emotional healing, and the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. Together, they explore what it means to walk through life’s transitions—personally and professionally—while staying anchored in God’s truth and love. Marie opens up about her process of facilitating inner healing sessions, describing how the Lord gently guides people to uncover root wounds, release unforgiveness, and encounter His peace. Heidi shares from her own journey of learning to trust...
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219. Regulated by the Spirit: Why Insight Alone Doesn’t Heal
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
Why do so many faithful, insightful Christians still feel stuck—emotionally, mentally, or behaviorally? In this episode of the Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast, Heidi explores Romans 7 and 8 through the lenses of Scripture, neuroscience, and mental health, revealing why insight and willpower alone don’t lead to lasting freedom. You’ll discover how true healing happens when the Spirit becomes the source of regulation, safety, and identity, allowing the soul and body to finally come into alignment. This episode reframes healing from self-fixing to Spirit-led transformation—moving...
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218. Breaking Financial Strongholds with Stephen De Silva
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
Breaking Financial Strongholds: Healing the Soul’s Relationship with Money with Stephen De Silva Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you work, your finances hit a ceiling? What if your beliefs about money—not your bank account—are what’s holding you back? In this powerful and eye-opening conversation, Heidi Mortenson, MA, LMFT, interviews Stephen De Silva, former CFO of Bethel Church and founder of Financial Sozo and De Silva Ministries. Together they unpack how financial freedom is not just a math problem—it’s a heart and soul issue. “I pray that you may prosper in all...
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217. Hidden in Christ: Discover Your Worth, Step Into Purpose
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
Feeling stuck, unworthy, or unsure of your next step? In this episode, you’ll discover how to break the lies that hold you back, embrace your God-given identity, and step into the “more of Jesus” in your life. Through heartfelt prayer, revelation, and Scripture, you’ll receive encouragement and practical guidance to walk in freedom, confidence, and the power of the Holy Spirit. You’ll learn how to: Break lies about worth, identity, and provision that keep you from living fully in God’s grace Hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and receive His guidance in your daily life Step boldly...
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216. Being Known to be Known by God with Lyndsie Schnoor
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Lyndsie Schnoor shares her journey from night terrors, demonic visitations, panic disorder, and an eating disorder to a life marked by freedom, identity, and intimacy with God. Through therapy, medication, deliverance, and the presence of Jesus, Lyndsie learned what it truly means to be known by God. Today, she stands as a prophet, worship leader, author, teacher, and church leader, carrying a message of hope: your story is not your label—your identity is found in being fully known and deeply loved by God. Lyndsie reminds us that eternal life...
info_outlineDo You Wonder if There’s a Spiritual Root Behind Emotional or Physical Pain? Have you ever felt like your heart’s been broken beyond repair—or that your emotional trauma might be connected to physical pain in your body? In this powerful episode, Heidi Mortenson sits down with Joan Hunter, world-renowned healing minister, to uncover how Jesus still heals today—body, soul, and spirit.
Joan shares stunning testimonies of people healed from fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, breast cancer, and more—revealing how trauma and spiritual strongholds can manifest as physical illness. She explains how the Holy Spirit brings complete healing when we address the root causes—not just the symptoms.
💡 In this episode, you’ll discover:
- How trauma and emotional wounds can trigger physical illness
- The difference between a spirit of grief and simply feeling grief
- Why brokenheartedness can open the door to sickness—and how to heal
- How to starve sickness to death by cutting off its spiritual supply
- The power of letting go of worldly labels and diagnoses
- How a mustard seed of faith activates miracles
📖 Key Scripture:
“They will place their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
— Mark 16:17–18 (NIV)
Jesus gave us authority to pray for healing—and He still works miracles today!
📚 Learn More from Joan Hunter:
Grab Joan’s newest book and discover resources from her ministry at JoanHunter.org.
Follow her teachings and upcoming events that equip believers to walk in healing, deliverance, and the supernatural power of God.
💡 About Heidi Mortenson: Heidi is a Christian therapist, speaker, and founder of Strong Tower Mental Health. She bridges mental health and spiritual truth, helping believers walk in freedom, identity, and emotional health.
🕊️ Connect with Heidi: Website: https://www.heidimortenson.com Podcast: Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast Instagram: @heidlynnlmft Facebook: @heidilynnlmft Mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5
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