Forgiveness is hard. Especially when we never get an apology.

But as hard as that is, Carla’s personal experience and what she sees working with her client - shows forgiving ONESELF to be the hardest act of forgiveness of all.

Resentment is a prison and the key out of it is forgiveness. Be encouraged to see yourself with compassion - and the love of Christ - in this episode.

Waiting is hard.  And sometimes we think waiting is useless. Pointless.  A waste.

But God uses our waiting to produce good things in us. Waiting is productive in our sanctification process to grow.  He uses waiting to prepare us to where he wants to take us next.

Be encouraged in your waiting as you listen to this episode.

Today Carla sits down with Melissa Rohlfs, author of Finding Freedom, and talks about how trauma can show up in our bodies.  Melissa shares her experience with trauma and the steps she shared to find freedom from it.

This is an important conversation you don’t want to miss.

The cross has set us free from shame!

Join Carla as she shares 5 steps to overcoming shame - all rooted in our freedom in Christ. She has struggled with shame in many areas of her life - for many reasons. She knows the weight and self hatred that comes with shame.  

She also knows that shame is a tool of the enemy used to isolate us from God and real community. 

Carla shares her journey in the personal development world from her time in network marketing - and how the Holy Spirit prompted her to really look at the subtle message of the self help world.

This is a shorty but a goodie!

Join Carla today as she breaks down the popular verse Proverbs 3:5-6.

Be encouraged to trust God, move forward in faith and rest in peace.

This time of year inevitably brings on new challenges in our body image struggles. Sundresses, shorts, bathing suits have so many women feeling down on themselves.

Carla encourages us to not allow our bodies to have authority over us - which ultimately is a form of idolatry. When we allow our bodies to dictate our value, worth, loveability and more - we have given our bodies authority over us.

Listen in to these God truth reminders - and the 4 step challenge Carla gives to help break the bondage to body image.

Carla came out of a meeting recently deeply grieved by the spiritual deception she witnessed.

Friends, in order to protect yourself from spiritual deception you HAVE to know the word of God. The enemy comes dressed as an angel of light. In subtle twistings of God’s word that ultimately lead you off course and off the real message of the gospel.

Today, Carla pours her heart out on this topic.

In this episode Carla shares a story of something that happened recently - how she had to lean in and discern the voice of God before moving forward.

Based on her experience, she shares 4 things to look for when discerning the voice of God in your own life.

Many of us have been left hurt, disappointed and disillusioned by our earthly fathers.

And that relationship makes it difficult for us to see and trust God as a good father. We just haven;t experienced that reality in our human relationships.

But the good news is that God is not a reflection of our fathers - he is the PERFECTION of our fathers.

In this episode, Carla shares 7 Key attributes that our earthly fathers may have failed at - but God perfectly embodies.

In this bonus episode, Carla delves into the key ingredient for experiencing healing, change, and transformation in your life—radical acceptance.

Carla sits down with Jenell to talk about her painful adoption experience as an adoptive mother, trying to navigate unknown trauma and mental illness in her adoptive daughter with little to know support.

Through the most difficult season of her life, Jenell clings to the hope of Jesus. May you be encouraged to do the same.

Fear is an emotion driven by our belief that someone or something is dangerous, a threat or likely to cause us harm. There are many healthy and necessary applications for fear that keep us alive.

BUT

The majority of fear that we live with is driven by a lack of trust in God being exactly who he says he is. And this type of fear stops us from living the fullness of life God desires for us. It stops us from doing the things God wants us to do - or stop doing.

In this episode, Carla shares 4 tips for overcoming fear and really learning to live an empowered life through the Holy Spirit.

Life certainly didn’t pan out as Carla imagined it would.

There was trauma, mental illness, homelessness, wounds and chaos. She could have never imagined that her life would turn out drastically different then her vision.  But as God got a hold of her pain - it turned out better.

Hear the 4 steps Carla took to go from living a life she didn’t expect as a BAD thing - to living a life she didn’t expect as a GOD thing.

They say you become like the 5 people you spend the most time with. I believe that’s true.  But I would add to it…

Show me the social media accounts you “creep” most - and I bet I can tell you what you struggle with - or how you are encouraged!

The Bible is full of warnings about the company you keep.  Is it time for you to do an audit?

Did you know Carla has a free group on Facebook to help support Christian women who struggle with their mental health? This past week, Carla was asked to talk about anger.

Anger is a feeling Carla is all too familiar with. It used to run her life. But did you know that anger can a) be a sign of a bigger mental health issue and b) is actually a cover for fear and sadness?

In today’s bonus episode Carla discusses how to find freedom from anger.

Carla knows first hand what it feels like to be far from God during periods of hardship.

But what she has discovered in her own life is that it is not God who leaves us, but us who isolate ourselves from God during our hard circumstances.

In this episode Carla shares the 3 steps she uses to grow close and stay close to God. God has promised to never leave us. It is his very nature to keep promises friend.

Join Carla as she talks to Donna - author of Untarnished, Reclaiming my Self Worth - as they talk about overcoming their past to be all that God created them to be.

Donna grew up with a challenging and traumatic childhood and found herself headed down the wrong path that eventually led her to being incarcerated on felony charges.

But God.

Hear how God has redeemed Donna’s story, helped her reclaim her self worth as daughter of the King and led her to helping others do the same. (trigger warning: mention of molestation)