Hi, I'm Niki Olsen! A Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist who uses mental health skills taught through a spiritual perspective. This is a podcast for faithful women who want healing in their relationships, guidance from God and internal peace. Each week you’ll hear mental health concepts taught through a spiritual lens from a licensed clinical mental health counselor to help you start thinking in a higher holier way.
Latest episodes
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32 min
258. Mental Health for Youth and Young Adults with Braeden Jensen
Teens and young adults are dealing with anxiety, loneliness, comparison, dating, faith questions, difficult decisions, and the constant feeling that everyone else is somehow ahead.…
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8 min
257. When Your Habits Keep Falling Apart
Have you ever promised yourself you’d pray more consistently, exercise regularly, read your scriptures every day, spend less time on your phone, or finally get organized?You start…
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12 min
256. LDS Therapy Insights: The Hidden Reality of Emotional Abuse
Sometimes the person hurting you is the person everyone else loves. This week's Therapy Insights answers two real listener questions about emotional abuse: one from a woman wrestli…
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17 min
255. When Fear Is Running Your Decisions
Fear doesn't always look like fear. Sometimes it looks like overthinking the same decision for the hundredth time, researching something to death or praying about it again hoping i…
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32 min
254. Living the Gospel with an ADHD Brain with Brittney King LPC
You've spent your whole life quietly wondering why some things feel so much harder for you than they seem to for everyone else. Scripture study won't stick. Prayers get lost in fif…
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13 min
253. LDS Therapy Insights on Toxic Family Relationships
How do you know when a family relationship needs stronger boundaries, more distance or possibly no contact? When family relationships are tied to faith, loyalty, traditions, and be…
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13 min
252. When You Keep Praying but Don’t Hear Answers
If you've been praying and the answer is just...silence, you're not alone. A lot of LDS women are doing everything right on the outside but quietly feeling disconnected from God. A…
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12 min
251. When you Don’t “Feel” The Spirit
Have you ever prayed, gone to the temple, or begged Heavenly Father for help and felt absolutely nothing? No peace, no comfort, no emotional reassurance. And then immediately wonde…
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26 min
250. How Emotional Healing Can Help You Feel Closer to God with Allie Allen LCMHC
Some experiences just stick. No matter how much time passes, or how hard you try to move on, they keep showing up in how you feel about yourself, your relationships, even your abil…
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13 min
249. 4 Skills That Change Everything When Your Mind Feels Overwhelming
You wake up already feeling behind. There are a hundred things in your head, you're trying to be present, you're trying to pray, and your thoughts are still louder than everything…
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14 min
248. Clear the Noise and Feel God Again
You love God. You want to feel Him. But your mind is loud, life feels heavy, and you feel stuck in your own head. If that's you, please hear me. That doesn't mean you're failing sp…
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57 min
247. Why You Feel so Torn Inside with JoAnna Bethea ACMHC
As an LDS therapist, one of the most common things I hear from women is, "I feel torn inside." There' is a part of you that wants to be calm and faithful, and another part that's a…
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34 min
246. When Fear of Letting People Down Runs Your Life with Kelly Dyches
Welcome to the LDS Mental Health Podcast!Ever feel like disappointing someone is basically the worst thing that could happen? Like your whole body goes on high alert the second you…
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31 min
245. When You Feel Responsible for Everyone’s Feelings With Dr. Amanda Harms
Welcome to the LDS Mental Health Podcast!You can feel it the second someone’s mood shifts.The tension. The urgency. The need to fix it… fast.And before you even think about it, you…
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28 min
244. Parenting in a Digital World with the Screen Guys
Welcome to the LDS Mental Health Podcast!In this episode, I sit down with Talmage Erickson from Screen Guys to talk about the impact of kids using cell phones and what's actually h…
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14 min
243. 5 Truths About Your Mental Health That Make Healing Possible
You’re trying.You’re praying.You’re doing all the “right” things.So why do you still feel stuck?!If your mind feels loud, your emotions feel heavy, and your connection with God fee…
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23 min
240. Healing Through Forgiveness with the Sister Connection
Welcome to the LDS Mental Health Podcast!Some pain doesn’t feel forgivable.Not because you don’t want peace… but because it feels unfair to let it go.In this Sister Connection epis…
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13 min
239. Forgiveness Without Excusing the Hurt
Welcome to the LDS Mental Health Podcast!Forgiveness gets talked about a lot.But for many women, it feels like pressure. Like you’re supposed to “move on” from something that still…
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28 min
238. After the Kids Grow Up: Reclaiming YOU With Dr. Christy Kane
Welcome to the LDS Mental Health Podcast!There’s a moment many women don’t see coming.The house gets quieter.The kids grow up.Roles begin to shift.And suddenly you find yourself wo…
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38 min
237. Faith in the Infertility Journey with the Sister Connection
Welcome to the LDS Mental Health Podcast!Some grief doesn’t have a clear place to go.Infertility can quietly unravel so many things at once. Your plans. Your faith. Your sense of i…