Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast · Heidi Mortenson, MA, LMFT

207. Rejection, Trauma & Supernatural Weight Loss With Heather O'Brien

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Heather says hearing "I love you" from God broke unworthiness and self-hatred.

Heather O'Brien joins the show for a conversation that begins with deception and ends with a clear invitation to freedom. The opening frame is blunt: if deception is real, it can hide itself in plain sight. That is why the host keeps returning to the idea of giving God permission to convict and shape a person into humility, teachability, and pliability. The tone stays personal from the beginning. The conversation is not framed as theory. It is framed as testimony and lived experience. Heather walks through inner healing with the confidence of someone who has lived through it. She talks about agreements people make with fear. She says blanket commands are not always enough. She insists that the fear has to be named. Abandonment is named. Being alone is named. The layers underneath the feeling are treated as the real target. Scripture runs through the whole conversation. Perfect love casting out fear comes into view. So does the line about God not giving a spirit of fear. Fear is treated as more than emotion. It is described as spiritual and active. Heather also distinguishes personal deliverance from broader territorial or bloodline language. That distinction matters in the flow of the episode. It keeps the focus on what a person has accepted, agreed with, or made room for. From there, the story turns back to her own healing. She explains that as she kept healing, other people started showing up asking for help. The picture is modest and practical. She was working full time as an accountant. She met people on lunch breaks. She taught them how to read Scripture and began discipling them in ordinary time. The episode then shifts into a live coaching frame. Heather describes a process she calls the ABCs. It starts with assessing the situation. It moves to finding the lies a person is believing and the consequences they are living with. It ends by praying live. That structure gives the conversation shape without making it feel stiff. The host and guest keep circling back to authority in Jesus Christ. They treat that authority as something real but personal, not theatrical. The invitation at the end is direct. Heather points listeners to a workshop at heatherobrien.net/workshop. The show closes with its usual encouragement to listen, subscribe, and review, but the emotional center stays the same. This is a conversation about becoming teachable, letting God expose what is hidden, and learning to pray at the root instead of the surface.

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A pastoral conversation that makes fear specific, prayerful, and worth facing.

This episode stays with deception, fear, trauma, and inner healing, returning to the idea that people often cannot spot deception from inside it and may need permission to let God convict and show what is real.

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For when fear gets named and the lies underneath it need untangling.

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