Take Your Thoughts Captive and Finally Feel Less Overwhelmed

About this episode

This episode provides practical tools to help mothers manage negative thoughts and feelings of overwhelm through faith and brain science.

Struggling with negative thoughts, mom guilt, or feeling like you’re failing? In this episode, learn how to stop believing every thought you think, take your thoughts captive (2 Corinthians 10:5), and quiet the mental spiral using simple, practical tools rooted in faith and brain science. Because not every thought is true—and you don’t have to give it power.

Topics covered

• negative thoughts
• mom guilt
• faith
• brain science
• mental health

Keywords

• thoughts captive
• overwhelmed
• mental spiral
• Christian motherhood

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