• 215. Healing Hidden Strongholds in Marriage
    Nov 24 2025

    Are you snapping at your spouse over the smallest things… even though you love them and don't want to feel this way?
    In this powerful episode of the Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast, Heidi dives deep into why anger can feel automatic in marriage — and how Jesus brings real freedom from hidden strongholds, emotional triggers, and patterns you can't seem to break on your own.

    This episode is vulnerable, practical, and full of Holy Spirit truth that will help you get to the root of anger so you can experience peace, connection, and healing in your marriage again.

    "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." ~Ephesians 6:12

    In This Episode, You'll Discover:

    • Why your spouse isn't the enemy — and what your anger is actually pointing to
    • How to recognize spiritual and emotional patterns that fuel automatic reactions
    • The difference between managing anger and healing its root
    • How to partner with the Holy Spirit in the moment of a trigger
    • The lies behind bitterness and how to break your agreement with them
    • A simple tool to reset your emotions in 3 seconds
    • How Heidi personally overcame this same struggle and saw her marriage transform
    • A powerful prayer to close doors to the enemy and restore unity in your home

    💬 Connect with Heidi Mortenson

    • 🌐 Website: www.heidimortenson.com
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    If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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    39 mins
  • 214. Victorious Emotions: How to Rewire Your Mind with God's Truth With Wendy Backlund
    Nov 17 2025

    Tune in for an inspiring conversation with Wendy Backlund! In this episode, discover how you can break free from old mindsets and step into the identity God has for you. Wendy shares her personal story of overcoming shyness and inadequacy, offering practical steps rooted in scripture. Here's what you can expect:

    • Real talk on changing your beliefs to change your life—starting today.
    • Simple, science-backed tools (like affirmation playlists!) to rewire your thinking.
    • The powerful truth: you're not defined by your past, your feelings, or your failures.
    • How "renewing your mind" is a game-changer—and how it's different from New Age self-help.
    • Encouragement and hope for anyone who's wondered, "Can I really change?"

    Get ready to be motivated, encouraged, and equipped to believe for more!

    "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." ~Romans 12:2

    Wendy's website: https://www.ignitinghope.com/

    Purchase Wendy's New book: https://www.amazon.com/Victorious-Prayers-Experiencing-Realms-Prayer/dp/B0FX7QK4RK/ref=sr_1_3?sr=8-3

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    If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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    52 mins
  • 213. Breaking Strongholds of the Enemy
    Nov 10 2025

    In this powerful episode of the Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast, licensed therapist and faith encourager Heidi Mortenson guides listeners through breaking free from the mental, emotional, and spiritual strongholds that keep us bound. Rooted in biblical truth and clinical insight, Heidi helps you identify lies from the enemy, renew your mind through God's Word, and walk boldly in your true identity as a child of God.

    This episode isn't just about awareness—it's about activation. You'll walk away with practical tools, Scripture-based declarations, and spiritual authority to overcome fear, shame, and lies that have held you back. Jesus has already won—now it's time to walk in that victory.

    🔍 In This Episode, You Will Discover:

    • 🌸 How to embrace your new identity in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17)
    • ⚔️ What strongholds are and how the enemy uses them to distort truth (2 Corinthians 10:4–5)
    • 💡 How to renew your mind through biblical truth and declaration
    • 🕊️ The reality that the enemy is real—but defeated (1 Peter 5:8)
    • 🔥 What it means to walk in your God-given authority and freedom (Luke 10:19)
    • 💖 A powerful activation prayer and declaration segment to break lies and release truth over your life

    🙌 Activation: Breaking Lies & Declaring Truth

    Heidi leads listeners through a series of biblical declarations, breaking the lies of unworthiness, shame, and fear in the name of Jesus. You'll replace every false label with God's truth—declaring love, worth, beauty, and identity as a daughter or son of the King.

    "The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." — 2 Corinthians 10:4-5

    "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." — John 8:36

    💬 Connect with Heidi Mortenson

    • 🌐 Website: www.heidimortenson.com
    • 📬 Join the Mailing List: Stay encouraged with weekly faith and mental health insights → https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5
    • 📸 Instagram: @heidilynnlmft
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    🕊️ Step into your freedom.
    It's time to break every stronghold of the enemy and walk boldly in the truth of who God says you are.

    If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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    27 mins
  • 212. Healing the Roots of Trauma & Miracles Happen with Joan Hunter
    Nov 3 2025

    Do You Wonder if There's a Spiritual Root Behind Emotional or Physical Pain? Have you ever felt like your heart's been broken beyond repair—or that your emotional trauma might be connected to physical pain in your body? In this powerful episode, Heidi Mortenson sits down with Joan Hunter, world-renowned healing minister, to uncover how Jesus still heals today—body, soul, and spirit.

    Joan shares stunning testimonies of people healed from fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, breast cancer, and more—revealing how trauma and spiritual strongholds can manifest as physical illness. She explains how the Holy Spirit brings complete healing when we address the root causes—not just the symptoms.

    💡 In this episode, you'll discover:

    • How trauma and emotional wounds can trigger physical illness
    • The difference between a spirit of grief and simply feeling grief
    • Why brokenheartedness can open the door to sickness—and how to heal
    • How to starve sickness to death by cutting off its spiritual supply
    • The power of letting go of worldly labels and diagnoses
    • How a mustard seed of faith activates miracles

    📖 Key Scripture:

    "They will place their hands on the sick, and they will recover."
    Mark 16:17–18 (NIV)

    Jesus gave us authority to pray for healing—and He still works miracles today!

    📚 Learn More from Joan Hunter:

    Grab Joan's newest book and discover resources from her ministry at JoanHunter.org.
    Follow her teachings and upcoming events that equip believers to walk in healing, deliverance, and the supernatural power of God.

    💡 About Heidi Mortenson: Heidi is a Christian therapist, speaker, and founder of Strong Tower Mental Health. She bridges mental health and spiritual truth, helping believers walk in freedom, identity, and emotional health.

    🕊️ Connect with Heidi: Website: https://www.heidimortenson.com Podcast: Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast Instagram: @heidlynnlmft Facebook: @heidilynnlmft Mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t5u2y5

    If you're in crisis, help is available 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255 or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org. Remember, you are loved!

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    45 mins
  • 211. How to Hear God's Voice
    Oct 27 2025

    Do you believe that you can hear the voice of God? Do you know that God is speaking to you about many things all the time? Many Christians don't realize that as children we are designed to hear our father's voice – "I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me." – John 10:14. We were created to operate in sync with God's voice for our life. In this episode I will talk about how we can hear the voice of God and identify ways that God is talking to us. You will grow in faith to know more about what God is trying to show you for your daily life and bigger decisions.

    John 10:27 "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me."

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    If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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    32 mins
  • 210. Emotionally Healthy Families with Seth Dahl
    Oct 20 2025

    Are you dreaming of a family full of love, connection and harmony? Do you want to create a healthy culture for your children? Seth Dahl is a powerful speaker, author, father, husband and child of God. He shares his testimony of struggling with addiction and suicidal thoughts at a young age. He became born again and hasn't been the same because of Jesus. He has taught years of children's ministry and now is shifting focus to healthy families. He would work with the kids but if the parents didn't have the skills to support the changes in the child, it is hard to sustain. Seth is currently offering a life changing course with his wife about how you can have an emotionally skilled marriage. Our job is to receive, and God's fruit will grow. We can't manufacture fruit. We all need this course!!

    "So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love." ~Ephesians 3:17

    Sign up for the emotionally healthy class: https://www.spiritledfamilies.world/

    Seth's website: https://sethdahl.com/

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    If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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    47 mins
  • 209. The Unseen Realm with Jason Chin
    Oct 13 2025

    Do you feel stuck, spiritually unfulfilled, or wonder why God's promises seem just out of reach? Jason Chin came from a very broken childhood with violence and abuse and shares how God got a hold of his mom and eventually him. He had a lot of anger issues and got kicked out of every high school he attended. He shares how the power of encouragement led him to break low self-esteem and eventually learned how to be led by the voice of God. Jason shares how the power of the unseen realm can be brought into the seen realm, like an iceberg. What we see with our eyes doesn't compare to what God sees. He had a dream to see revival in Disney World and God made it happen! You will be encouraged by Jason's love of God and revival and joyful zeal.

    "The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit." ~1 Corinthians 2:14

    Love Says Go Ministries: https://www.lovesaysgo.com/

    Purchase the book Unseen: https://www.amazon.com/Unseen-Supernatural-Visions-Experience-Resurrection/dp/B0DVV7YC2K/ref=sr_1_1?crid=I6RE7QY11M8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5aN-tbW0OVhHElVrKqxEMPRfGcWvnzdMTWjfm6KOCgfGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.zySr6xe9izPK7wsotDkmqGL3cROuMiPVtoSXnTiJfmM&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+unseen+jason+chin&qid=1760193947&sprefix=the+unseen+jason+chin%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-1

    Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com

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    If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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    55 mins
  • 208. Your Courageous Calling | Courage of Charlie Kirk
    Oct 6 2025

    We have all seen the news and impact of Charlie Kirk's assassination on September 10th and the shooting at Assumption Church and the increased violence. Something is so different with this Charlie Kirk's death. He wasn't just a political commentator or news guy. He was a devoted Christian, father and husband who followed through on this dream. In this episode, I will talk about what I sense God doing through his death and how this could impact the field of mental health and the world. I get real and vulnerable with struggles I have had, fear I have let take over, and how my courage has grown even just in the last month from his death. That's not from a man, that's God moving through one man. And each of us can be that one man or woman. What is God calling you to be courageous about?

    Joshua 1:9 (NIV)
    "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

    Find more about Heidi: www.heidimortensonlmft.com

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    If you are in crisis, help is available by call or text 1-800-273-8255 24/7. You can also visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are loved!

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    26 mins