Every Thought Captive

✝️ Shop Harp and Timbrel📖 Shop our Personalized Bibles: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/pink-kjv-bible-with-engraving-options?_pos=1&_sid=03e030907&_ss=r&variant=52376831951029👕 Shop our Christian T-Shirts: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/collections/faith-based-t-shirts📓 Get the Every Thought Captive™ 14-Day Devotional Workbook: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/14-days-to-take-every-thought-captive📔 Pre-Order the Every Thought Captive™ Guided Journal (Shipping Summer 2026): https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/every-thought-captive%E2%84%A2-guided-journal-pre-orderHave you ever been depressed?Not just a bad day. Not just feeling tired or overwhelmed. But that heavy, sinking, can't-get-out-of-bed kind of feeling where everything feels hopeless and you don't even know how to ask for help.Depression has a way of making you feel like you're the only one. Like everyone else is holding it together and you're the one falling apart. And then the shame sets in. The guilt. The feeling that your situation isn't bad enough to talk about because someone else has it worse. The lie that if you just believed harder or prayed more, it would go away.And so you don't tell anyone. You put on a good face. You take care of the kids. You push through. And you sink a little deeper.This episode is an honest conversation about what depression actually looks like in the middle of motherhood and faith. The postpartum darkness that nobody warned you about. The seasons where life just keeps compounding and you can't carry it anymore. And the things that actually help pull you back out. Moving your body. Turning on worship music when you don't feel like it. Being painfully honest with God. And gratitude, and how something as simple as naming one thing you're thankful for can start to shift everything.If you feel like you're climbing a mountain in the dark by yourself, this one is for you. You are not alone.Chapters:00:00 What Depression Really Looks Like04:53 The Shame of Depression and Why We Hide It09:37 What Would You Tell Yourself in That Season?12:00 How to Fight Back Physically and Spiritually16:36 When Life Compounds and You Can't Carry It Alone18:54 Worship, Scripture, and Learning to Trust God21:14 Gratitude as a Weapon Against Depression

✝️ Shop Harp and Timbrel📖 Shop our Personalized Bibles: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/pink-kjv-bible-with-engraving-options?_pos=1&_sid=03e030907&_ss=r&variant=52376831951029👕 Shop our Christian T-Shirts: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/collections/faith-based-t-shirts📓 Get the Every Thought Captive™ 14-Day Devotional Workbook: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/14-days-to-take-every-thought-captive📔 Pre-Order the Every Thought Captive™ Guided Journal (Shipping Summer 2026): https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/every-thought-captive%E2%84%A2-guided-journal-pre-orderHave you ever been mad at God? Like actually mad. The kind of mad you'd never say out loud at church.In this episode, Rachel is in the middle of a hard season. Anxiety that she can't escape. Going to bed early just to get away from it. Waking up with a pit in her stomach. It's a tough feeling you've probably experienced.She and Kimberly get into the tension of feeling like God is speaking to you while your reality looks nothing like what He said. The spiral of wondering if your kids are going to inherit whatever you're struggling with. And the shame a lot of Christian women carry for even feeling frustrated with God in the first place.They talk about the lie that if you don't have peace, you must not be in God's will. And why that's not actually what Scripture shows us. Paul didn't have perfect peace. Jesus sweat blood in the garden. Peace and obedience aren't always the same thing.Rachel shares something she heard a few months ago that stopped her in her tracks. "In order to trust God, you have to disagree with Him. Because if you agree with how He's doing it, it doesn't require trust."Read that one twice.They also get into what it looks like to shut down on God instead of being honest with Him. Why a lot of us grew up believing we can't be mad at Him. How our attachment styles might actually shape the way we relate to God. And what it means to train your heart day in and day out so that when the hard moments come, your first response isn't panic. It's praise.Not because you feel like it. Because you've practiced.This episode is for the woman who loves Jesus but is tired. Who believes God is good but doesn't feel it right now. Who has been carrying anxiety, frustration, or disappointment and doesn't know where to put it.You're not a bad Christian for feeling this. You're human. And God can handle it.---Chapters00:00 Struggling with Anxiety and Faith06:07 The Pressure to Advance and Succeed12:00 Verbalizing Emotions and Relationship with God17:57 Training for Faith and Perseverance

✝️ Shop Harp and Timbrel📖 Shop our Personalized Bibles: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/pink-kjv-bible-with-engraving-options?_pos=1&_sid=03e030907&_ss=r&variant=52376831951029👕 Shop our Christian T-Shirts: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/collections/faith-based-t-shirts📓 Get the Every Thought Captive™ 14-Day Devotional Workbook: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/14-days-to-take-every-thought-captive📔 Pre-Order the Every Thought Captive™ Guided Journal (Shipping Summer 2026): https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/every-thought-captive%E2%84%A2-guided-journal-pre-orderHave you ever felt something so deeply that you just believed it? Like it didn't even occur to you to question it?In this episode, Rachel and Kimberly talk about the constant tension between what you feel and what's actually true. Rachel shares her story of running away from home at 14 because her emotions had gotten so loud she couldn't hear anything else. And how that moment became the starting point for learning to take her thoughts captive through Scripture.They get honest about what it looks like to fight your own thoughts when your emotions feel overwhelming. How speaking Scripture out loud builds faith differently than just reading it. Why obedience matters even on the days you want to quit. And how keeping a prayer journal can remind you of God's faithfulness when your feelings are telling you otherwise.If you're a woman or a mom who feels like your emotions run the show most days, this one is for you. You're not alone in it.Chapters:00:00 The Tension Between Truth and Emotions09:14 The Impact of Scripture15:44 Managing Emotions with Faith and Testimony

✝️ Shop Harp and Timbrel📖 Shop our Personalized Bibles: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/pink-kjv-bible-with-engraving-options?_pos=1&_sid=03e030907&_ss=r&variant=52376831951029👕 Shop our Christian T-Shirts: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/collections/faith-based-t-shirts📓 Get the Every Thought Captive™ 14-Day Devotional Workbook: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/14-days-to-take-every-thought-captive📔 Pre-Order the Every Thought Captive™ Guided Journal (Shipping Summer 2026): https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/every-thought-captive%E2%84%A2-guided-journal-pre-orderHave you ever felt disconnected? From your friends, from your family, from God?Maybe you're in a season right now where the days are long and lonely. Your husband is working. The kids need everything from you. And somewhere in the middle of all the diapers and dishes and exhaustion, you realize you can't remember the last time you had a real conversation with another adult. Or the last time you opened your Bible without falling asleep.In this episode, Rachel and Kimberly get honest about what it feels like to be completely disconnected in the middle of motherhood. Kimberly shares her story of being a mom of four kids five and under, living an hour away from family and church, with a husband working long hours, and feeling like she was drowning. She talks about what God spoke to her in that season, the pressure that came with it, and the uncomfortable (and honestly kind of hilarious) things she did to fight her way out of isolation.We talk about why loneliness can actually feel comfortable, how worry and anxiety can disguise themselves as productivity, what it looks like to take a step even when it feels awkward, and why God never designed us to do life alone.If you're in a season where you feel stuck, isolated, or just plain tired, this one is for you. You are not alone.Chapters:00:00 Navigating Disconnection in Motherhood05:11 Fighting Isolation and Finding Connection09:12 Why We're Not Meant to Do Life Alone12:08 Getting Unstuck and Saying Yes to What God Called You To

📖 Shop our Personalized Bibles: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/pink-kjv-bible-with-engraving-options?_pos=1&_sid=03e030907&_ss=r&variant=52376831951029👕 Shop our Christian T-Shirts: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/collections/faith-based-t-shirts📓 Get the Every Thought Captive™ 14-Day Devotional Workbook: https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/14-days-to-take-every-thought-captive📔 Pre-Order the Every Thought Captive™ Guided Journal (Shipping Summer 2026): https://www.harpandtimbrel.com/products/every-thought-captive%E2%84%A2-guided-journal-pre-orderHave you ever looked at your life and thought... this is not what I had in mind?Maybe it's your career. Maybe it's your marriage. Maybe it's motherhood. Maybe it's all of it. You had a plan. You had expectations. And somewhere along the way, reality started looking really different from what you imagined.In this episode of Every Thought Captive, we're getting real about what happens when life doesn't go according to plan. We talk about navigating career changes and life choices you didn't see coming, the tension between what we expected and what God actually had for us, and what it looks like to trust His timing when nothing seems to make sense.God's plan doesn't always look like our plan. And that can be really hard to sit with. But it can also be really, really good.We also talk about what it means to actually surrender your expectations to God, how to find joy in the middle of seasons that feel confusing or disappointing, and why following God's call sometimes means letting go of the life you thought you were building.If you've ever felt stuck between what you planned and what God planned, this one's for you. You're not alone in it.Chapters:00:00 Navigating Career and Life Choices11:03 Trusting God's Timing and Plans