Season 2 is here!

We’re back for Season 2! Listen in to hear about how you can know when you need a break and how that might look different than you imagined. You’ll also hear updates and some new vision and features for the Soul Grit Podcast!...

Brain Science, Faith, and Suicide

When chronic pain changed the very nature of Tricia’s husband, leading him to take his own life, she thought she would never live the life she dreamed of. God met her in her grief and sparked a passion to understand brain science and to help Christian women...

What OCD Taught Me About Faith

Beyond lock-checking and hand-washing, OCD forced Ryan to drop out of seminary twice. In this episode, Ryan shares with Ann how he discovered he had some bad “habits,” how he overcame the debilitating impact of OCD, and how he sees now that his faith is a...

Faith Integration for Therapists

Last week we celebrated 50 episodes and next month we will have the first anniversary of the Soul Grit Podcast. It’s time that Ann told you about her labor of love, an e-course designed to help therapists integrate their Christian faith into their practices. If...

Anxiety Tools for Christians

Christians deal with anxiety, just like anyone else. In fact, anxiety on the whole has been on the rise (can you guess why)? But Christians have power to overcome anxiety that the world doesn’t have.Healey Ikerd is a licensed therapist who wrote a book called...

Forgiveness Defined

If you’re a human, you are in relationship. Relationships are the domain of Marriage and Family Therapists, and one of the big issues we see in practice is the need to give and receive forgiveness.We know that the Bible instructs us to forgive, but it...

Letters to Inmates

Most prisoners are impacted by trauma, mental health, and relational needs that have little chance of being met while they are incarcerated. Jennifer Brianne, author and podcaster, is the founder of the Pens to Prisons ministry, which organizes volunteers to write...

Incarceration and Mental Health

Getting arrested and processed through county jail is traumatizing in itself, but many inmates have mental health challenges before they even arrive in the system. Ann talks with Gary Quan, LMFT, about his time serving in the county jail offering hope and dignity to...

A Way Thru: Accessing Mental Health Care

If you had a mental health crisis, would you be able to afford treatment? Today’s guest, Andrew Syed, realized after his own encounter with trauma treatment that he had what many do not: a chance to get the therapy he needed when he needed it most. Along with...