Heal with God | Christian, Biblical Healing, Anxiety Attack, Healing with Prayer, Hearing God's Voice

Health anxiety can make even the smallest physical symptom feel terrifying. One uncomfortable sensation, and suddenly your mind is imagining the worst. You pray, remind yourself that God is in control, and try to calm down. But when the next symptom appears, the fear comes rushing back.

That's what Janine was experiencing when she joined me for live coaching during the Heal with God Workshop.

She'd made progress managing her health anxiety, but the fear was still affecting her body, her relationships, and her everyday decisions. As we slowed down and invited the Holy Spirit...

You've given your life to Jesus, prayed over your family, and declared that generational curses are broken. So why do you still see the same painful patterns showing up in your life?

Maybe it's anger, addiction, fear, unhealthy relationships, or behaviors you promised yourself you'd never repeat.

If Jesus already broke the curse, why does the pattern continue?

In this episode of the Heal with God podcast, Heather O'Brien shares personal testimonies of breaking family patterns and explores what the Bible teaches about generational curses, repentance, and spiritual freedom.

You'll discover...

When your emotions get loud, hearing God can feel a whole lot harder.

You may genuinely want to put God first, pray about what you're feeling, and respond differently—but anger, anxiety, panic, depression, or the urge to withdraw can take over before you ever slow down enough to listen.

In this episode, I'm talking about the difference between praying at a symptom and practicing listening prayer with God.

I'll show you how to begin asking curious questions, make room for God's response, and practice hearing His voice during ordinary moments—so when emot...

Pain can do more than hurt. It can quietly convince you that you are dirty, rejected, unworthy, or simply not enough. Before long, what happened to you begins shaping who you believe you are.

In this conversation, Cecily Lachapelle shares how childhood trauma, betrayal, divorce, rejection, and shattered dreams affected her sense of worth and purpose. Perfectionism became her attempt to repair what felt broken—but striving only produced more anxiety, shame, and self-criticism.

Cecily's healing began when Scripture became more than information. As she made space to hear God personally, His truth began replacing th...

Still stuck after prayer? Come hear God clearly at the Heal with God Workshop.

If you feel stuck emotionally, spiritually dry, anxious, or unsure what to pray next, this free live workshop is for you. The Heal with God Workshop is a Spirit-led space for Christians who want healing with prayer, deeper discernment, and more clarity in hearing God's voice for their personal healing journey.

In this live Christian workshop, Heather O'Brien will walk you through a simple, Spirit-led framework to help you slow down, hear God clearly, uncover the real root behind the struggle...

Feeling stuck does not always mean you need to work harder or find a better plan. Sometimes the stuckness is a signal pointing toward a burden or belief you have carried for years without realizing it.

In this live coaching replay from the Heal with God Workshop, Tia describes feeling as though she had hit an invisible wall in her family, finances, health, and personal goals. As we slow down and listen for God's voice, a childhood experience reveals why she has felt responsible for managing everyone else's emotions and actions.

You'll hear the moment...

Leaving an old belief behind is only the beginning of healing. Lasting change often requires learning how to think, respond, set boundaries, and live differently when the old way still feels more familiar.

In this episode, I'm sharing Mae's story and what Israel's transition from the wilderness into the Promised Land can teach us about walking out healing. A familiar thought returning does not mean you have lost your freedom—but agreeing with it too quickly can pull you back into an old pattern. God can help you recognize what is happening, respond with truth, and cultivate th...

Recurring symptoms can make you believe you need more discipline, a better system, or stronger willpower. But procrastination, anger, intrusive thoughts, or even an anxiety attack may be signaling a limiting belief you cannot recognize on your own. In this episode, I'll help you get curious through prayer, filter what surfaces through your identity in Christ, and understand why supported Christian healing can uncover what effort alone has missed.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Why limiting beliefs often feel like unquestionable facts

How prayer can expose what is driving repeated patterns

Nine practical steps...

Trauma can make healing feel complicated, especially when you love God, believe in prayer, and have already been praying about the same struggle for years.

In this conversation with Jared Laskey, we talk about biblical healing for trauma, his testimony of Jesus healing him from combat PTSD, and how the Holy Spirit helps us recognize God's voice even when fear, pain, or overwhelm have been loud. This episode is a hope-filled reminder that God is not intimidated by trauma, and your struggle is not your identity.

Jared's story points us back to this truth: healing...

Still stuck after prayer? Come hear God clearly at the Heal with God Workshop.

If you feel stuck emotionally, spiritually dry, anxious, or unsure what to pray next, this free live workshop is for you. The Heal with God Workshop is a Spirit-led space for Christians who want healing with prayer, deeper discernment, and more clarity in hearing God's voice for their personal healing journey.

In this live Christian workshop, Heather O'Brien will walk you through a simple, Spirit-led framework to help you slow down, hear God clearly, uncover the real root behind the struggle...

Nick had spent a year and a half praying, studying Scripture, and doing everything he knew to hear God clearly. But instead of finding clarity, he felt exhausted, confused, and afraid that God had given up on him. During this live coaching session, God revealed that Nick had unknowingly turned spiritual disciplines into spiritual performance—and believed the outcome depended on him.

Key Takeaways

Spiritual disciplines can become performance when I use them to earn an answer from God.

Trying harder is not always the answer when I still feel confused or stuck.

Prayer is powerful, but sometimes we keep praying the same prayer at a symptom without understanding what God may be revealing beneath it. When the struggle remains, it can leave us discouraged, confused, and wondering whether we are doing something wrong spiritually.

In Episode 279, I'm sharing my conversation with Beatty Carmichael about hearing God's voice during the healing process. We talk about why Christians can love God, pray faithfully, and still feel stuck—and why needing another person's perspective does not mean you lack faith.

Key Takeaways

Why remaining stuck is not proof th...

You can know the Bible, love God, and still feel unsure about what He is saying to you personally. That uncertainty does not mean you are failing spiritually. God may already be speaking through Scripture, nature, dreams, other people, or ordinary moments—but you may be overlooking what He is doing within them.

In this episode, I share June's story from the Heal with God Signature Program and how learning to recognize God's voice more tangibly helped her deepen her trust in Him, understand her identity, steady her emotions, and find the courage to move forward.

For seven years, I lived with depression without ever asking why I was sad in the first place. I cried myself to sleep, woke from a dead sleep to vomit, and eventually accepted that this was simply how life was going to be. But as I began pursuing Jesus, taking communion, and paying attention to what He was doing around me, my mind was slowly being retrained. In this episode, I'm sharing the two Biblical healing practices that helped me stop rehearsing what pain had done and begin remembering what Jesus had done—and was still doing.

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Betrayal can do more than break trust. It can make you question your worth, your identity, your ability to hear God, and whether healing is actually possible for you. In this episode, Heather talks with Kristina Joy about healing after betrayal, rebuilding safety with Jesus, and learning how to stop letting shame name who you are.

This conversation is for the Christian who has been hurt, hidden, or emotionally guarded and still wonders why they feel stuck after praying, forgiving, or trying to move forward. You are not who betrayal told you you were. You are still...

Still stuck after prayer? Come hear God clearly at the Heal with God Workshop.

If you feel stuck emotionally, spiritually dry, anxious, or unsure what to pray next, this free live workshop is for you. The Heal with God Workshop is a Spirit-led space for Christians who want healing with prayer, deeper discernment, and more clarity in hearing God's voice for their personal healing journey.

In this live Christian workshop, Heather O'Brien will walk you through a simple, Spirit-led framework to help you slow down, hear God clearly, uncover the real root behind the struggle...

Anger can feel like the whole problem when it's the thing coming out of your mouth, affecting your relationships, and leaving you regretting how you responded. In this episode, I'm letting you listen in on Keenan's real live coaching from a Heal with God Workshop as we slow down, ask God questions, and follow the anger somewhere Keenan had never fully connected before.

In this episode, you'll hear:

Why Keenan came into coaching wanting freedom from anger outbursts

The childhood connection that surfaced as he talked about feeling unheard

The moment...

Marriage can quietly become frustrating when you feel like you are the only one trying to grow, heal, communicate, or change.

I know how easy it is to start focusing on everything your spouse is not doing. But sometimes the first place God wants to bring healing is not in their heart. It is in ours.

In this episode, I am sharing four ways to heal your marriage as a Christian without waiting for your spouse to change. We are talking about unmet needs, expectations, forgiveness, judgment, and what happens when we accidentally make our...

You may feel like God is silent when you pray, especially when you're trying your hardest to hear Him clearly. That tension can create confusion, self-doubt, and the belief that something is wrong with your ability to hear God.

But often, the issue isn't silence—it's recognition.

In this episode, I share a simple but powerful shift in how hearing God actually works. Through a real-life moment watching birds feed and a coaching breakthrough inside the Heal with God Workshop, you'll see how God often speaks in patterns, awareness, and subtle clarity rather than obvious an...

Forgiveness can feel tender, especially when you've already prayed about the same pain for years and still feel the sting of what happened.

In this conversation, I'm sitting down with Kathleen Johnson to talk about the power of forgiveness for Christian healing—not as a religious phrase, not as pretending it didn't hurt, and not as forcing yourself to trust someone who hasn't rebuilt trust.

Kathleen shares how unforgiveness can become a block in our spiritual, emotional, mental, and even physical healing. We talk about what forgiveness is, what it is not, and why releasing un...

Still stuck after prayer? Come hear God clearly at the Heal with God Workshop.

If you feel stuck emotionally, spiritually dry, anxious, or unsure what to pray next, this free live workshop is for you. The Heal with God Workshop is a Spirit-led space for Christians who want healing with prayer, deeper discernment, and more clarity in hearing God's voice for their personal healing journey.

In this live Christian workshop, Heather O'Brien will walk you through a simple, Spirit-led framework to help you slow down, hear God clearly, uncover the real root behind the struggle...

I've noticed that a lot of people can feel like they've already dealt with something in their life, but it keeps showing up again in different forms. When that happens, it's easy to assume something is wrong with you or that you're not actually making progress. But often what's really happening is that there's still something deeper underneath the surface that hasn't been fully seen yet.

In this episode from a Heal with God workshop, I walk through a real coaching moment with Shawna where her cycle of inconsistency was exposed at the root level. What looked...

If affirmations have ever made you feel worse instead of better, you may not be the problem.

You may just be missing the pimentos.

In this episode, Heather shares the difference between affirmations and biblical declarations — and why positive self-talk may give a temporary boost, but still leave the root untouched.

Using a funny story about accidentally making pimento cheese without the pimentos, Heather explains why affirmations can sound good but still miss the most important ingredient: the Word of God.

You'll learn why biblical declarations are not just Christian affirmations, ho...

Do you love God but feel anxious, ashamed, or stuck when it comes to money? You are not alone. In this episode, Stephen K. De Silva shares biblical and practical insights for financial healing, uncovering the roots of money anxiety and helping Christians take their first steps toward freedom.

You'll gain:

A clear understanding of what financial healing really is and how it differs from advice or budgeting

Insight into the beliefs and patterns that fuel money anxiety, shame, and fear

A simple method to identify poverty, mammon, and orphan thinking...

Do you ever feel like you've already dealt with something in your life, but it keeps showing up again in different forms? In this episode, Heather explores what it means when "rotten fruit" keeps resurfacing and how God often uses repeated patterns as invitations to deeper healing rather than signs of failure.

You'll gain:

A clearer understanding of why certain emotional or behavioral patterns keep repeating even after prayer or effort to change

Insight into how God uses "fruit" in your life to reveal hidden roots instead of condemning your struggle

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You may not realize you are burning out because you are still getting things done.

Hidden burnout can look like constantly running behind, struggling to relax, getting sick as soon as vacation begins, scrolling long after you meant to go to bed, or feeling mentally foggy when you try to hear God. It is not always caused by a demanding career either. Motherhood, caregiving, ministry, emotional pain, and continually saying yes can place the same kind of stress on your body.

In this conversation, physician psychiatrist and Christian educator Dr. Ioana Popa explains why burnout...

Panic attacks can feel overwhelming, and sometimes we believe that the only way to respond is through silent obedience. In this episode, Heather O'Brien teaches you how to use a spiritual warfare kit to calm your body, ask God bold questions, and listen to what's being held inside without fear or shame.

This episode is for any Christian who has experienced panic, anxiety, or racing thoughts and wonders if God can still speak in the chaos.

You'll gain:

How to settle the physical alarm and create space to hear God

Ways...

Still stuck after prayer? Come hear God clearly at the Heal with God Workshop.

If you feel stuck emotionally, spiritually dry, anxious, or unsure what to pray next, this free live workshop is for you. The Heal with God Workshop is a Spirit-led space for Christians who want healing with prayer, deeper discernment, and more clarity in hearing God's voice for their personal healing journey.

In this live Christian workshop, Heather O'Brien will walk you through a simple, Spirit-led framework to help you slow down, hear God clearly, uncover the real root behind the struggle...

What if the outburst is not your identity, but a signal?

In this vulnerable solo episode, I'm sharing the struggle I usually kept vague: cussing when anger felt like it took over.

If you've ever had words come out of your mouth and wondered, "What is wrong with me?" this episode will help you see the moment differently. We'll talk about biblical healing, shame, confession, control, and hearing God's voice beneath the reaction so you can stop only managing the symptom and start asking God for the root.

In this episode, you'll learn:<...

What if the anger you keep trying to manage is not actually the root?

In this live coaching episode from a previous Heal with God Workshop, I coach Denise through anger connected to betrayal, divorce, custody pain, and family wounds. At first, anger seemed like the main issue. But as we slowed down, listened to God, and asked Spirit-led questions, the deeper root began to surface.

Denise realized her anger was connected to fear.

Not just fear in general, but fear of not being in control, especially when it came to protecting her...

Your symptom may not be your identity. It may be a signal.

Have you ever had a symptom that kept showing up and wondered, "What is wrong with me?" Maybe it's anxiety, exhaustion, stomach issues, panic, emotional shutdown, intrusive thoughts, or that constant feeling that something bad is about to happen.

In this episode, Heather shares how discernment can help you stop shaming the symptom and start asking God what it may be revealing. Through Mackenzie's Heal with God testimony, you'll hear how one hidden root belief affected her emotions, relationships, spiritual life, and even...

Have you ever prayed, declared Scripture, gone to counseling, tried to renew your mind, and still wondered, "Why am I not free yet?"

In this episode, I'm joined by Beatty Carmichael, author of The Prayer of Freedom, for a powerful conversation about finding freedom by addressing the spiritual roots underneath anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, addiction, and the cycles that keep showing up even when you love Jesus.

Beatty shares a simple picture of the body, soul, and spirit connection, describing our lives like a three-legged stool. When the spiritual side is out of alignment...

Why Father Wounds Can Cloud Your Discernment & Ability to Hear God

Sometimes the voices of our past—particularly from fathers or authority figures—can distort the way we hear God. In this episode, Heather O'Brien teaches a practical three-step framework to discern God's voice even when father wounds have left you anxious, discouraged, or stuck.

This episode is for you if you:

Struggle to hear God clearly because of unresolved father or authority wounds

Feel anxious, depressed, or uncertain about God's guidance

Want a safe way to practice hearing God...

Feeling stuck trying to heal alone?

Many Christians attempt to walk their healing journey solo—reading the Bible, praying, journaling—but still feel isolated, anxious, or stuck. In this episode, Heather O'Brien explores why healing often comes through connection, accountability, and community, and how you can start building your own support system today.

This episode is for you if you:

Feel isolated in your spiritual or emotional healing

Want freedom from anxiety, shame, or depression

Are ready to take practical steps toward building life-giving relationships

You'll gain:

Feeling overwhelmed and unsure how to hear God in the middle of life's chaos?

In this episode, Heather O'Brien talks with Elyse Sheeler from Speaking Life into Motherhood about trusting God, surrendering control, and creating rhythms that bring peace even in overwhelming seasons. Elyse shares her journey through infertility, hitting rock bottom, and learning to trust God while navigating the messy middle.

This episode is for anyone who feels stretched thin, anxious, or unsure how to take the next right step in their faith, family, or daily life.

You'll gain:

How...

Stuck in shame or guilt despite doing all the right spiritual things?

In this solo Heal episode, Heather O'Brien shares Brittany's story of feeling trapped by shame and guilt even while praying, reading the Bible, and following spiritual practices. Learn how to recognize shame, uncover the lies behind it, and walk into freedom through God's truth.

This episode is for anyone who feels stuck in shame, guilt, or "not enough" despite their spiritual efforts.

You'll gain:

How to recognize shame and guilt in your life

How to uncover the...

Still stuck after prayer? Come hear God clearly at the Heal with God Workshop.

If you feel stuck emotionally, spiritually dry, anxious, or unsure what to pray next, this free live workshop is for you. The Heal with God Workshop is a Spirit-led space for Christians who want healing with prayer, deeper discernment, and more clarity in hearing God's voice for their personal healing journey.

In this live Christian workshop, Heather O'Brien will walk you through a simple, Spirit-led framework to help you slow down, hear God clearly, uncover the real root behind the struggle...

Sometimes a loved one dies before you can reconcile, apologize, or receive the closure you longed for. You may feel stuck, angry, or powerless. In this episode, Heather O'Brien walks you through a high-level framework to bring God into that space, heal the memory, and release the weight you've been carrying—all before a full forgiveness process.

Who This Episode is For:

Forgiveness is powerful, but what if it is not always the end of the healing process?

In this live coaching episode from the Heal with God Workshop, I coach Caitlynn through irritation in her marriage. She had already forgiven. She kept forgiving. She wanted to respond from Christ instead of reacting from pain.

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But as we prayed and asked Spirit-led questions, it became clear that her irritation was not the root. It was the signal.

There was an ope...

Intrusive thoughts aren't the problem—they're the signal pointing to what needs healing.

If your mind feels loud, overwhelming, or hard to trust, you're not alone—and you're not broken. Intrusive thoughts aren't random. They're often connected to deeper wounds, beliefs, or unresolved pain that God wants to bring into the light.

This episode will help you stop fighting thoughts at the surface and start responding with prayer so you can walk in real, lasting freedom.

This is for the Christian woman who:

feels overwhelmed by her thoughts

questions why...