A Better Way to Heal: Where Faith Meets Therapy
Co-hosted by Licensed Professional Counselor and author Eleanor L. Brown and Isamary Nieves Banks, A Better Way to Heal dives into the transformative connection between faith and therapy. Inspired by Elly’s book, A Better Way: Integrating Faith and Psychology to Heal Inner Wounds, this podcast goes beyond the pages to explore how emotional healing and spiritual growth go hand in hand.
Elly and Isa offer honest conversations that dispel the myth that faith and therapy are incompatible. Through real-life stories, biblical insights, and practical guidance, they help listeners navigate healing from inner wounds, build resilience, and deepen their relationship with Christ. Whether you’re healing from trauma, seeking personal growth, or looking for faith-based tools, this podcast provides support and encouragement for your journey.
Start your path to healing with a signed copy of A Better Way: Integrating Faith and Psychology to Heal Inner Wounds orA Better Way: The Companion Guide – Your 8-Week Path to Healing. They work well individually, but for full impact, get them both.
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A Better Way to Heal: Where Faith Meets Therapy
You’re Not Broken: A Trauma Therapist’s Real-Life Story of Shame, Self-Compassion, and Emotional Healing
Shame lurks in the shadows of our minds, whispering that we’re not enough, unlovable, or damaged beyond repair. But what if those whispers are lies — and there’s a better way?
In this intimate episode of Shame-Free Sundays, I share a personal moment that brought my own shame spiral front and center: a livestream gone wrong. As a trauma therapist, I often help others navigate self-blame, but even I’m not immune to the voice that says, “You messed up. You always mess up.”
What I do with that voice, though, is where the healing happens.
Join me as I unpack the difference between healthy self-correction and toxic shame, and how a simple tool — like my visual reminder Harmony the Bear — helped me walk through a tough moment with grace instead of condemnation. We’ll explore the intersection of faith and therapy, and what it means to untangle our worth from our performance.
This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt defective, stuck in self-blame, or afraid to try again. The truth is, you’re not broken. You’re becoming.
✨ Ready to take the next step?
Take the free Shame Quiz at www.eleanorbrowncounseling.com/shame-quiz-freebie and join me every Sunday as we move from surviving to thriving — one shame-free step at a time.
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Hello everybody and welcome to our shame-free Sundays series. This is a part of our podcast A Better Way to Heal, where Faith Meets Therapy. We talk a lot about shame on this series. Shame is that inner critic that never lets you rest, that voice that says I'm not enough, no one could ever love me, I'm damaged, I'm defective. Before we dive in today, I just want to ask you have you ever had any of those thoughts? Well, I created a free shame quiz to help you get some clarity, to find out if you're struggling. So just head on over to EleanorBrownCounselingcom. Slash shame dashiz-freebiecom. Don't worry, I know it's a mouthful, the link is in the show notes. Join me and Harmony as we explore the intricacies of shame and how it impacts your life. We're going to look at how faith and therapy come together to help us understand what's healthy and what's not and how to walk in freedom. Okay, it looks like we are live, and I think I've got it hit on Instagram as well. There we are, we are live. So hello everybody.
Speaker 1:This is Ellie Brown, or otherwise known as Eleanor Brown, and I am with Eleanor Brown Counseling. I am here to talk to you today about shame, a topic that is, I can say very near and dear to my heart Sorry, Harmony. This is Harmony. Harmony is our Shame. No More Bear is Harmony. Harmony is our shame, no more bear. And she helps me to not go down the shame spiral and I hope she helps you too. I don't know if any of you have thought about getting your own type of external reminder not to blame yourself for things that may go wrong. I'm going to tell you a little story and before I do that, I just want to invite you to, if you haven't already, take in my shame-free quiz on my website, wwweleanorbrowncounselingcom. I have a few blogs and a few a few of them. Well, several of them is all about shame, but my latest blog has the shame quiz embedded in that, so you can go there, sign up for it and take that shame quiz and find out.
Speaker 1:Do I deal with issues of shame? Well, you know I'm a therapist, so I really shouldn't be dealing with things issues of shame, because you know you know I'm a therapist, so I really shouldn't be dealing with things issues of shame, because you know I help other people and I must say that at one point in my life there's 12 questions. I answered the highest level on all 12 questions, but today I don't. I don't do that as much, but sometimes we become a therapist and we talk a lot about things because it's something that we have overcome.
Speaker 1:Well, I want to tell you about a Facebook or Instagram live I did this morning. I did this with my co-host for my podcast and I'm the one that is the least techie and so I did it on my tablet and I'm like, okay, I got this, I got this, I can get it, I can put it on the reel and I can send it out after the live. Well, y'all, I lost it. I lost the live and could not find it for over an hour. I did finally eventually find it, but I was really kind of like, well, why did you do it? Why, why didn't you let Issa do it? Why did you know all of the things? And I had to remind myself. And Harmony helped me, because Harmony is shame no more. So Harmony really helped me pull out of the shame cycle so that I could focus and really look for the the life.
Speaker 1:But I say all that to say we're never beyond beating ourselves up. But how badly do we beat ourselves up? Do we beat ourselves up? To the point of um, we're frozen and we can't move any further. Or do we beat ourselves up just enough to remind us not to do whatever? That was again For me. I might have beaten myself up just enough so that maybe I will know to look on my phone for the lives versus trying to look on the computer for the lives. But that's just a small example of how we can beat ourselves up going down this shame cycle. So I was able to get out of that shame cycle.
Speaker 1:I was able to go out and play in my pottery shed today and make some beautiful things that I can't wait to give to the people that I'm making them for. I'm making one for my granddaughter, marissa, so hopefully if she's watching this, she knows that she's getting something. But you know, I love. I love playing on the pottery wheel and I love kind of talking. I say I love talking about shame, but I love helping people overcome issues of shame. Not really talking about it, but I do love helping others and so I hope this is helping someone. And if it is, go out, sign up for the shame quiz wwwEleanorBrownCounselingcom.
Speaker 1:Sign up for the shame quiz and continue watching the shame free Sundays, you know, if you have questions, if you have something that you struggle with, please feel free to drop it in the comments. I'm going to drop all the links in the comments, but just keep the. Let's keep the conversation going so that hopefully we can really help the next person. Shame no more. You know, we want to. That's where we really want to get to. We want to get to that place where, you know, free people free people.
Speaker 1:I want to help somebody out there who's dealing with shame. I want you to know that you are not bad, you are not defective, you are not broken. You may have some things that you need to forgive yourself for, that you need to forgive others for, but you're not bad, you're not broken and you're not defective. And those were things that I needed to hear for so many years and I hope that you hear them today. Thank you for watching. Harmony and I are just past our seven minute mark, so we are going to peace out. Thanks for watching, bye-bye. Thank you for watching us. We really appreciate you being here. If you enjoyed the watching us, we really appreciate you being here. If you enjoyed the episode, like, subscribe, share with a friend and join us next time. Thank you, bye, bye.
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