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

214. Victorious Emotions: How to Rewire Your Mind with God's Truth With Wendy Backlund

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Wendy says the brain is “a computer” and “the software was built when I was like five by a five year old.”

The conversation starts with identity. The host says people often define themselves by trauma and other voices instead of by what they were created for. That is the turning point. Wendy keeps circling back to the idea that healing begins when a person accepts what God says rather than the story pain has written. The tone stays reflective and pastoral. The two women move between testimony and teaching, using lived experience to show why emotional change can stall when self-belief stays distorted. Scripture is central. Promises about blessing, receiving, and abundance become the backdrop for a discussion of why good things can still feel out of reach. A financial story grounds it. Wendy describes a season of living paycheck to paycheck, seeing relief and then another setback, and finally asking why the cycle would not break. The answer lands hard. She says people can only receive in proportion to what they believe they are worth, and that subconscious sabotage can protect a low estimate of the self. Therapy enters the frame. The conversation suggests that many struggles in therapy are tied to belief systems, identity, and whether someone can agree with God about themselves. Nothing feels detached. The exchange stays conversational and human rather than polished. Inner healing, deliverance, counseling, coaching, trauma, healthy relationships, neuroscience, healing, and more all sit in the same room. The show also keeps Christian character in view, arguing that believers should look different through the fruits of the Spirit. By the end, the episode frames mental health freedom as living with who we are in Christ instead of who we are not.

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Identity, blessing, and healing are framed as a matter of receiving what God says is true.

Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast centers identity in Christ and argues that trauma, outside voices, and self-made conclusions can bury a person under layers of doubt.

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If you keep rejecting good news about yourself, this one goes straight at that pattern with a Christ-centered lens.

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