Can you love Jesus AND go to therapy?
Erasing Shame2 Heinä 2025

Can you love Jesus AND go to therapy?

Jesus and Therapy? Yes. You can have both. — with Charles Mortensen


Let’s not sugarcoat it:

Needing help doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means you’re done pretending.

And therapy? It’s not a betrayal of your faith. It’s how some of us finally start to breathe again.

We’ve been told:

  • “You just need to pray more.”
  • “Therapy is for people who don’t trust God.”
  • “If you were really spiritual, you wouldn’t struggle.”


Lies.


Straight-up lies that have kept too many of us silently drowning.

In this raw and honest conversation, licensed therapist and Jesus-loving soul Charles Mortensen pulls back the curtain on what real healing looks like—not just spiritual, but emotional, mental, and rooted in truth.


This episode is for:

  • The ones who still show up to church but feel numb inside
  • The ones who’ve prayed until their voice cracked but still feel stuck
  • The ones who love Jesus but don’t know how to face the wounds they buried


We’re unpacking:

  • What therapy can do that church sometimes can’t
  • The secret signs someone’s breaking—even when they look “fine”
  • How unhealed trauma distorts your view of God
  • Why therapy isn’t less spiritual—but often the most Spirit-led thing you can do
  • And the moments of breakthrough that change everything


If you’re barely holding it together behind a Sunday smile, this is your wake-up call.


Stop letting shame have the mic.

Stop calling pain “just a phase.”

Stop waiting for healing to happen without stepping into it.


Jesus heals. And sometimes, He uses a therapist’s office to do it.


So press play. Let this episode hit you in the soul.

Because healing isn’t just possible—it’s necessary. It grows us to be the version God intends for us to be.

you don’t have to carry it all alone anymore.


Listen now. Send it to someone who’s been hiding their pain. And start the journey.

Because freedom is calling—and you are not meant to walk towards it alone.

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