Soteria Ministries

Biblical Mental Health Coaching, Biblical Life Coach, and Inner Healing

     Great coaches aren't always professionals - - they're often people with a heart to serve and a story to share.   A good candidate for Biblical Mental Health Coaching and Biblical Life Coaching is someone who feels called to walk with others through their struggle, whether they have lived experience, have walked alongside someone in recovery, or simply have a deep passion to help those trapped in mental health issues such as stress, anxiety, trauma, and so much more. 

    A Biblical Mental Health Coach walks alongside individuals struggling with mental health issues to offer support, encouragement, and accountability.  While we do not provide clinical therapy, we do however play a powerful role outside the traditional counseling model -- helping clients take practical faith-based steps toward freedom.    

    We guide one-on-one recovery journeys, lead support groups, and help create safe spaces where people can break the silence and find real hope. My role as a MHC is grounded in compassion, biblical truth, and real-world tools that empower others to build new habits, strengthen relationship, and walk in long-term healing.  Often our presence and consistency become a key part of someone's recovery story. As a Mental Health coach, we are to be compassionate, teachable, and ready to bring Biblical hope to those who feel stuck or ashamed.  

    This is why I have chosen to add Biblical Mental Health Coaching and Biblical Life Coaching to my ministry as a Christian Healing Certified Practitioner in Inner Healing, Physical Healing and Deliverance and now Mental Health Healing.      

    When a client schedules with me, we have at least 3 mental health coaching sessions first.  By the time we are into the 3rd session, I can definitely discern that they need inner healing.    The next session that we schedule is usually an inner healing session.  I have seen Jesus take their hand and walk them back to where all of the anxiety, depression, trauma, stress and so much more first started.    When we start calling these things out and handing them over to the Father and then asking Him what He wants to give them in place of that thing that has kept them bound for so long, I have seen His hand work mightily in them. I firmly believe that inner healing and mental health go hand in hand.        

    If you are going through something that you just cannot handle- or something that has bothered you for several years- or perhaps you are triggered by certain events or happenings and want to be free from that, give me a call- or send me an email or a text and let's set up a time to have a coaching session.    The first two sessions are free of charge but after that there is a small fee. I do not take insurance.    

The Long and Winding Road......

 Greetings to all my friends!! I just want to take this time to say thank you all for your love- your support- your prayers during these last 3 1/2 months. My family and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts. This was probably the hardest season ever in my life- my set back has me ready for a come-back.    

As most of you know this all started the first of August when we took my brother into the E.R. for what we thought was a migraine only to have him admitted with COPD, Pneumonia, Emphysema, gall bladder poisoning, Thrush and anything else they could find.  It was touch and go for several days - and then on Tuesday, after being in the hospital for 10 days, they told him they were releasing him to go to rehab. That next morning- he died every unexpectedly.  We have no rhyme or  reason- he just went Home to be with Jesus.  5 days later, we get a torrential downpour and our basement floods with 2.5 feet of raw sewage and we lost almost everything- heirlooms from my Mother- Christmas heirlooms, keyboard, so many memories- just GONE.    Count it all joy?? Just how do you do that in the midst of your world being turned upside down?  We had to get help from our church to take care of my brother- he had NOTHING- no pension, no life insurance- NOTHING.   I went through a funk like I have never been through in my life. There were days I did not and could not get out of bed- I felt like a zombie- I didnt want to pray- I didnt want to read the Word- all I wanted to do was cry.  Thank GOD for my Anthem family!!!!!   They held me up- checked on me- prayed- sent food.  Just when I felt like things were getting back to our new "normal"- I get sick -- with pneumonia.     I know I am no spring chicken anymore- but I think from all of the stress of everything, my body was not bouncing back from the sickness either.  Yes, I totally believe in healing- and I claimed it and stood on it- but there are times you just need to slow down and rest-  which is what I am trying to do now.  I heard a fantastic devotional this morning about God setting your "set back" for a "come back"- and it ministered to me like nothing else I have heard recently.         It challenged me- it encouraged me- it pricked my heart- it excited me.  One thing I have learned from all of this that what the enemy means for harm-- God is turning it around for HIS glory and HIS purpose!    I have felt like I have only been going through the motions for the last 3 1/2 months- motions of just barely living- motions of just trying to put one foot in front of the other and make it to my next place-   I have wanted to quit- to throw in the towel- to just turn my back and walk away from everything and everybody- BUT God has a bigger plan.   A MUCH bigger plan.  Sometimes we just need to pull back the reins- stop what we are doing and just REST in HIM.    Get the big picture from HIM again and when He says go-- GO!!  

I love you all- thank you again for your love- support- prayers- encouragement- and just "being there".......  It means the world to me!! 

This is an article from Jeremiah Johnson- a trusted Prophet today

 HOW JEZEBEL TRAPS LEADERS

DEPRESSION

     We need to understand what depression is and what it is NOT.  While we recommend that you acquaint yourself with the valid medical definition of depression, we do not intend to present them here.  Our focus and purpose is not medical. There are very real, medically discernable chemical factors involved in depression and we as an inner healing ministry respect and observe medical counsel, advice and prescription.  We are not doctors nor do we attempt to try to practice ANY kind of medicine without a license.... it is NOT a lack of faith to take medicine. If the Lord has the power to heal, then He has equal power to work through a medication until it is no longer needed.  You will know when you are healed and no longer needs meds. We also strongly urge and advise you to see your doctor for follow-up.

Depression is both physical and emotional and is very real.  Whether depression originated from something chemical, was induced by organic shock to the system, or originated in some purely emotional cause- it is tremendously intense with emotional realities.  Our goal is to present a Christian definition of depression and equip you without impinging on any professional medical field, to learn how to deal with it and receive healing.

The 2020 pandemic took a devasting toll on the physical and mental health of millions of people.  But the mental-health effects could prove even more enduring.  A new study published in the Lancet (a medical journal) attempts to quantify the impact of Covid-19 on mental health and wellbeing around the world.  The authors estimate that cases of depression ROSE by 53 million globally as a consequence of the pandemic, 28% above pre-pandemic levels; cases of anxiety increased by 76 million, a 26% rise.

In short, depression is a condition in which our personal spirit has died to its capacity to sustain the person fully, either emotionally or physically.  Were the death of a spirit's capacity to function completely, death would be the result. In depression, a person's spirit still sustains the body, though far less successfully than normally; it hasn't the capacity to sustain you emotionally. 

No matter how stridently duty calls, the depressive has little or no energy to perform.  They cannot feel joy. Conversations that once were refreshment become tiresome. "Ought's" and "should" impel you to make responses you can no longer feel or possess the inner drive to accomplish... JOB 6:11-13 says What strength do I have, that I should still hope?... do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?

When not in depression, you may have been able to reach into inner reservoirs and call up reserve energy to make yourself feel and act.  Now the reservoir is empty. You are emotionally bankrupt.  There are no more emotional funds in your account.  There is only perplexity, guilt, despair, bleakness and blackness. 

PART 2 NEXT WEEK.

HOW TO KEEP FROM GETTING HURT IN CHURCH #6, #7, & #8

The church has sometimes been a place where many have experienced wounds instead of healing. In fact, statistics show that a great percentage of persons who cease attending church, do so because of some type of offense or injury to their feelings that happened there. Sometimes these occur because of the insensitivity of the church; other times, people are themselves at fault for being too touchy or sensitive to misunderstandings.

In any case, it is sad that such experiences ever occur, because the church is an indispensable part of the believer's life. Not only does it provide a place to worship, serve and learn about God, but it is also a community where believers can practice love toward their brethren as the Bible requires; "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).

Whatever you do, don't give up on the church. God requires you to be faithful to it and to be accountable to its spiritual leaders. (See Hebrews 10:25; 13:17). If you have been hurt there, don't run away – but equip yourself with the protection of God's Word. You may not be able to stop offensive things from happening, but by applying God's principles you can stop them from hurting you. "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them" (Psa 119:165 KJV).

The following steps from the book HOW TO KEEP FROM GETTING HURT IN CHURCH by Pastor Dale Robbins, (a personal friend of mine) can help believers protect themselves from getting hurt in a church: