Why You Aren't Bad for Having Strong Feelings
Release Date: 02/26/2026
Why Your Anxiousness is Always Something to Pay Attention to as a Christian Woman and 5 Easy Ways to Relax Your Nervous System
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
Do you feel like your anxiousness is out to get you? Anxiety often gets a bad rap, but it's not completely unhelpful or bad. If you would like to learn how to make friends with your nervous system so that you can live more peacefully in thoughts, emotions, and your body and spirit, today's episode will offer you practical tips you can use right now! FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing. ...
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4 Things You Can Do to Lighten Your Heavy Emotional Load
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
When you have experienced hard things, it is easy for your nervous system to get triggered into feeling unsafe again. This doesn't have to be a permanent experience of distress and frustration. In today's episode, I share 4 things you can do to start to take the edge off of the experience of stuckness. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing. WORK WITH ME-- MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC If you are a...
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How to not Dismiss Your Needs - Overly Responsible and Burnt Out
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
Do you feel overly responsible for other people's actions, feelings, thoughts, and emotions? If you find yourself sacrificing what is good for you to keep other people's reactions at bay or neglect your own needs, wants, and self to try to keep the peace, you may be engaging in a trauma response called self-abandonment. This leads to burn out, stress, and guilt whenever you stop the protective but self-dismissing behavior. If you'd like help with this, listen in! FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I...
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Why You Aren't Bad for Having Strong Feelings
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
Do you ever feel like there is a real way you feel deep inside and a way you think you "should or shouldn't" feel that drives your actions on the outside? If you have strong feelings but feel that they are too much or wrong for a Christian woman to have, listen in. You don't have to suck it up, ignore yourself, or throw yourself under the bus. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing. WORK WITH...
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People Pleasing, Over Explaining, or Shutting Down?
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
Wonder why you people please, over explain, or shut down? Here's what's going on and how to help yourself with it. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing. WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC: If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my...
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Why am I Still Struggling?
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
Therapy is a great resource, but sometimes, it's not enough. In today's episode, Michelle talks about some of the differences that make EMDR trauma therapy more effective than standard talk therapy. FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing. WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC: If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you...
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1 Big Sign of Trauma In Your Body
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
Have you found yourself fine one minute and completely blindsided by your reactions the next? Today, Michelle shares 1 huge way to tell if you have unresolved trauma hiding in your nervous system. Listen in! FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing. WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC: If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk...
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How to Stop Intrusive Thoughts
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
Have you ever struggled with thoughts you don't want, don't believe in, and wish would go away and leave you alone but the more you try to stop thinking them the worse the looping thought gets? Today, Michelle shares her tip for how to deal with intrusive thoughts with God's help. Listen in! FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing. WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC: If you are a Christian...
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How Healing Actually Happens
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
How many Christian women think trauma healing happens and how it actually does happen are often not the same thing. Today, Michelle shares how to look at healing so that you can be encouraged rather than feel defeated. Listen in! FREE RESOURCE: If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing. WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC: If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than...
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The 1 Question To Ask Yourself that Can Help Heal Trauma - Better Than Trying Harder and Beating Yourself Up Inside
Trauma Healing for Christian Women - Insecurity, Anxiousness, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, Grief, Emotional Abuse
If you are tired of beating yourself up inside for trying harder and harder to make traction toward your emotional and mental freedom but feel like you are simply going in circles and feeling defeated, you may be asking yourself, "What is Wrong with Me?" However, the problem isn't you! The problem is that you are asking yourself the wrong question, and assuming that the problem is somehow you. This leads to shame, frustration, and hamster wheel running that keeps you from making traction toward your healing. To heal, you need to ask a different question, and I'll tell...
info_outlineDo you ever feel like there is a real way you feel deep inside and a way you think you "should or shouldn't" feel that drives your actions on the outside? If you have strong feelings but feel that they are too much or wrong for a Christian woman to have, listen in. You don't have to suck it up, ignore yourself, or throw yourself under the bus.
FREE RESOURCE:
If this episode resonated, you might be interested in my free resource. I created a free, faith-honoring guide that gently explains how healing happens in the body and why you're not failing.
Free Trauma Healing Resource Guide
WORK WITH MICHELLE CROYLE, LPC:
If you are a Christian woman who feels ready for deeper, focused trauma healing than typical weekly talk therapy can offer, you may want to consider an EMDR-based Therapeutic Intensive with me. I clear my schedule to work with you over the course of one to three days for three to six hours per day on a focus target of your choosing. Intensives are designed to support meaningful change in the way the nervous system feels safest, not rushed into an hour here and there. Ready for deeper healing? If you live in Pennsylvania or are willing to travel to Pennsylvania for a therapy intensive, you can learn more or schedule a reserve a free consultation by clicking here: Learn More or Reserve a Free Consultation