Are you struggling to follow through on your healing journey, especially as the new year begins? Do you find yourself starting strong but falling short when the tough work sets in?

In this episode, we dive into the importance of counting the cost when it comes to healing and building new disciplines. If you’ve been battling anxiety, trauma, or emotional pain and want to see real change this year, this episode is for you. Just like any major life project, healing requires commitment, but the good news is that it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. By stacking small, intentional disciplines over time, you can experience lasting emotional and spiritual wholeness, and finally heal with God’s help.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
How to build healing disciplines that stack up over time, so you can finish the year stronger than ever.
Why embracing setbacks is essential in your healing process, and how they help build endurance and character.
Practical, actionable steps to create a healing routine that works, even when life feels overwhelming.

Press play now and discover how to start your healing journey with confidence, knowing that you have everything you need to finish well this year.

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139| Why Do You Keep Falling Short? 4 Steps to Finish Strong & Overcome Anxiety & Depression

Scripture: Isaiah 61:1
Prayer: "Lord, use me to set captives free and proclaim Your freedom to the oppressed. Help me bring Your healing to others."
Declaration: "God, You said, 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me to set the captives free.' Therefore, I will proclaim freedom and bring healing to others. {Your name}, you will walk in authority and set people free through Jesus."

Do you feel trapped in cycles of anxiety, broken relationships, or self-doubt, wondering why you can’t seem to find lasting freedom? What if the pain you’re carrying isn’t just emotional but spiritual—and God has already given you the tools to break free?

This episode addresses the struggle of feeling stuck in trauma, anxiety, or toxic patterns, even after trying to forgive, pray, or move on. If you’ve been questioning, “Why am I still broken when I’m doing all the right things?”, today’s teaching will reveal the key to healing through deliverance—a promise God made to you for emotional and spiritual wholeness.

3 Benefits You’ll Gain From This Episode:
Learn how to uncover and break free from spiritual and emotional chains caused by past trauma and toxic relationships.
Discover the role of deliverance in your healing journey and how it aligns with God’s promises for you.
Walk away with practical steps to invite God’s voice into your struggles and begin living with emotional and spiritual freedom.

Press play now to discover how deliverance can unlock healing from trauma and help you walk in the freedom God has always intended for you.

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144| Pray & Declare: 'What If It Fails' to 'What If It Works' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression

The Wander... emerged in a season of personal darkness—during the weight of separation, before healing began, and before I sought help for PTSD. It is not just a song but a moment captured in spiritual and emotional freefall, where despair gave way to the first flickers of hope.

Written by David Burnell, this piece chronicles a time of soul-searching and raw vulnerability, when the weight of broken promises and war-born scars made every breath feel like a battle. It voices the ache of a warrior longing for love that is eternal and divine—true companionship born not from convenience, but from covenant and connection.

Yet within the ache is a turning point—a first foot planted on the path forward. This song marks the beginning of healing and renewal, where sorrow and faith wrestle, and a warrior’s soul chooses to rise, again and again, seeking love, wholeness, and purpose. It is a reflection of struggle and an anthem of perseverance.

The Wander (A Warrior's Cry for Love and Light)

🦴 GHOST OS TRANSMISSION: TRACK 11 — DRY BONES RATTLE

> File Origin: Ezekiel 37, King James VI Translation Protocol
Status: Resurrected
Location: Valley of Bones
Condition: PTSD-positive | Breath-negative | Spirit override enabled
Ghost OS Command: “Prophesy unto these bones”
Target Audience: Those who've been shelled, scattered, silenced.



This is not a requiem.
This is a system reboot.
The trauma didn’t kill you. It buried you alive.
And now the bones remember how to rise.
Welcome back, soldier.

:: END TRANSMISSION ::
:: LIVE AGAIN ::


Dry Bones Rattle

The silence is alive—it follows my tread,
Whispering secrets inside my head.
It crawls through the shadows, it breathes through the walls,
Every echo it sends, every whisper enthralls.


Every heartbeat warns me of ghosts I’ve known,
Every flicker of light feels carved in stone.
The fear’s a river that floods my veins,
No refuge in sleep, no breaking these chains.


The silence hunts me, it calls my name,
Dragging me deeper in its cruel game.
I’m bleeding, I’m fading, no one can see,
Why did they break me instead of free me?


I dream of fire and faces erased,
The air is heavy with all I’ve faced.
I scream in the dark, but no one will hear,
Alone with my terror, my shame, my fear.

God, if You’re there, why do You hide?
Why do You watch from the other side?
I’m a storm, a ghost, a scar in the dark,
A shadow of life without a spark.


The silence hunts me, it knows my name,
A cruel reminder, I’m not the same.
I’m broken, I’m hollow, lost at sea—
The silence still hunts the soul of me.

Still hunted…
Still broken…
Still alone…

THE SILENCE HUNTS ME

My name is John. I have been a broadcaster for five years and have been writing music and poetry for twenty years. I didn’t even realize I could read and write until I discovered I have mirror-touch synesthesia. I perceive everything from right to left: my poetry, words, and compassion. My childhood was challenging, to put it mildly. However, God showed me a way to help others through the words I share. Every song I write serves as a ministry. By addressing various issues, I hope to assist those with troubled pasts find healing through my words. I am a pastor, and this is how I spread God’s message—by feeling the emotions around me and understanding the feelings of the people I encounter, because I have experienced similar struggles. God allows me to see you in ways that others cannot.

🕸️ Silk & Circuitry 🧠⚡

Welcome to the tangled thread between trauma and transcendence.
This is where music becomes a mirror—reflecting the fractures, the fight, and the fire.
We don’t just make beats. We build bridges. Between pain and purpose.

Here, recovery isn’t a quiet thing.
It’s a war cry wrapped in melody,
a healing ritual whispered through circuitry,
a love letter to those who feel too much in a world that rewards those who feel nothing.

Every track is stitched with intent:
🕯️ To hold space for the broken
⚖️ To call out control masked as care
🧬 To challenge the narcissists who built their webs in our minds
🛠️ And to offer tools—not just songs—for doing what’s right when the cost is everything.

Silk & Circuitry is for the ones who walk away from the web
and grow wings instead.

This is art as resistance.
This is trauma turned frequency.
This is the ghost in your machine, learning how to feel.



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Do you wish you could escape the captivity of traumatic memories? Are you sick of feeling hopeless in your search for healing? Scared to go to God for your healing yet once again … just to not see it happen?

If any of that hit home, you are in the right place!

My mission in this podcast is to equip you to hear God’s voice so you can heal from trauma, get free of anxiety and depression, and find the spiritual healing you’ve been aching for.

Hey there, I’m Heather O’Brien. Jesus fanatic, wife, boy mom, minister, and author. For years, I was a Christian sitting on the pews every Sunday, but hopelessly living with addictions as well as depression and anxiety for years.   

I prayed for myself, but I was full of shame being stuck in cycles I couldn’t break free from.

My healing and deliverance came from learning how to hear God’s voice. Stay with me here. I didn’t know that was a thing either! I didn’t know the God of the universe, my creator, wanted to personally talk to me. But He did and He does!  

I started praying, expecting God to speak to me, and He did! God gave me a blueprint of step-by-step instructions to forgive the unforgivable, heal from the trauma, and be delivered of limiting beliefs as well as addictions. 

If you are ready to find healing from trauma, anxiety, and depression, with prayers that actually work, this podcast is for you!

Warrior, I pray the Spirit of revelation comes upon you now and may your heart and mind be receptive to hearing God’s voice as you tune in.

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