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I'd love to hear from you! Text me How often do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed? I still do, more often than I would like to. This summer I have been feeling it a lot.  As I was thinking about how to move out of this cycle of overwhelm I documented the process so I could share it with you.  This week’s podcast highlights 3 phases of getting out of overwhelm. You might only need 1 or 2 of the phases. Sometimes you need all 3. Ask “What is the smallest step I could take to show myself I’m not stuck?” Ask “What am I gaining by staying stuck? How am I benefitting from this?” Identify the thoughts and feelings that are present as you think about what is overwhelming you. I walk you through a real example in my own life. You can hear the difference in thoughts or lies that are easy to deal with and one that hits me pretty hard. I left it raw on purpose. Give it a try the next time you are feeling overwhelmed and let me know how it goes. Heart Doodling with Jesus is a monthly membership with live workshops and practical tools for growing spiritually and emotionally mature. Music by Romarecord1973 from Pixabay I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me When you see you are not living your faith the way you want to do you judge and condemn yourself or do you get curious? Condemnation is never from the Lord. Listen to this week’s podcast about how curiosity can help you see what is really in your way. 00:00 Curiosity Or Condemnation 01:26 Why Shame Feels Normal 02:04 Curiosity Finds The Need 02:57 Example Sharing Your Faith 06:01 Conviction Not Condemnation 06:46 Tracing Fear Beneath Behavior 09:00 When Reactions Feel Childlike 11:12 Ask God What You Need 11:50 Compassion Leads To Change 12:20 Choose Curiosity And Heal  I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me You can’t put 2 quarts of figs in a one quart jar. You can’t make much progress or expect much to happen when there are rocks in the way. God can’t occupy places that are filled by other things. It’s not about Him pouring out more but wanting to heal what’s in the way of you receiving. He’s not mad at you. He wants to heal you. Allow the Lord to move the rocks and fill the spaces they leave behind. As I thought about what he shared, the Lord spoke to my heart, too. You don’t always know the rocks are there until you hit them. Don’t go looking for all the rocks. Follow Holy Spirit’s lead in removing the rocks God has shown you. I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me Do you doubt your worth? If you have been tying to convince yourself of a truth and it just doesn’t seem to be working it might be because you need to start with your heart instead of your head. Thoughts and emotions are closely connected. Unlike much of what I read on the internet I believe emotions create thoughts, not the other way around. An event happens and you automatically have emotions.  Then you create thoughts about your experience. This happens so fast and subconsciously that it seems like they are automatic, too. They aren’t. You choose what you think. If you didn’t believe that then you wouldn’t be trying to change your thinking. Listen to this week’s podcast to hear how this showed up in a client’s life in regards to pricing a new tool they were creating and how meeting the heart need quickly shifted her thought process. 00:00 Doubting Your Offer 01:12 A Heart Level Block 01:50 Gods Perspective Shift 02:36 Why Mindset Alone Fails 04:02 Heart Doodling Method 05:33 Tracing Doubt to Childhood 07:21 How Emotions Create Beliefs 10:53 Healing the Root Memory 12:59 What Makes My Work Different 13:54 Invitation and Closing I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me Emotional maturity is key to your spiritual growth. That’s why I start with the heart and the skills for emotional maturity when pursuing spiritual growth. It takes emotional maturity to carry out the spiritual instruction in the Bible. For example, when you read a passage like James 1:19, 20 about being slow to anger you might think or have been told that you need to be more spiritual to do that. You don’t need to be more spiritual you need to be emotionally mature. Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving]; for the [resentful, deep-seated] anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God [that standard of behavior which He requires from us]. James 1:19,20 Amplified Bible Being a careful listener when someone is confronting you or questioning a decision takes emotional maturity to listen without taking anything personally or without defending yourself. You need emotional maturity to listen and form a response rather than reacting to what is said. It also takes emotional maturity to see when you feel like reacting so you can bring that place in you that wants to react to the Lord for healing or correction. Seeing something from someone else’s point of view requires emotional maturity. "Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn" (Romans 12:15) "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you" (Ephesians 4:32). It requires emotional maturity to not need people to understand you or to not need people to be like you, to be able to love them. To not take it personally if they don't understand what you're saying. To be able to be curious and be able to stay in conversations until there can be understanding of why they think the way they do, to see whether that's because they haven't been in the kingdom very long or because they've been taught wrong or life experiences or whatever it is. Being able to have those conversations and sit with disagreements and differences requires emotional maturity as well as spiritual maturity. It also takes emotional maturity to understand when you're feeling your own emotions versus someone else's or when you're trying to manage something for someone else versus being mature and responsible for yourself. It takes that emotional maturity to let someone around you be sad or be angry to feel however they feel instead of needing them to feel a certain way for you to be okay. It takes emotional maturity to see what's yours and what someone else's. If you're feeling sad or overwhelmed or scared or whatever, having the emotional maturity to practice discernment to see is this mine? Is this current, or is it feeling what someone else is feeling? Is it a spirit? Is it something from the past? Having that emotional maturity then allows you to ask the Lord for spiritual insight of why you are responding the way you are. I talk about all this in more depth in this week’s podcast. 00:00 Why Emotions Matter 00:38 Slow to Anger Skills 02:15 Empathy in Romans 12 02:53 Compassionate Perspective 03:51 Safe Conversations 05:15 Discern Your Emotions 07:38 Faith Culture and Feelings 09:13 Childhood Roles Reversed 11:52 Unlearning Neglect Messages 14:46 Grace for Your Parents 1 I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me Boundaries aren’t impatience.  They don’t mean you are not being loving. Boundaries are about what you will do, not getting someone else to do what you want them to do.  If you’re like me the idea of boundaries sounds freeing and empowering - right up to the point you try to put them in place. It took me years to understand how to state what I needed and what I was going to do rather than trying to control the outcome of someone else’s choices.  If you grew up without healthy boundaries it can be tricky to change your thinking and put them into practice. You’re right, though. They are empowering and create freedom. It is worth figuring out how to use them properly. To see how boundaries do and do not come into this situation listen to today’s episode. Podcast Chapters 00:00 Boundaries Defined 00:14 Facebook Post Example 01:28 Contract vs Ultimatum 02:43 Gods Loving Boundaries 03:59 Learning Healthy Boundaries 05:06 Scissors Stewardship Lesson 06:55 Car Borrowing Boundary 09:50 Freedom Fear and Control 11:39 Access Points and Limits 13:09 Self Worth and Creator 14:18 Invitation and Closing  I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me You know the times you look back and wonder why your reaction to an event was over the top. This happens when the current event reminds you of a past event or events that felt the same way. The emotions from the past have not felt heard, the needs have not been met.  When something happens that feels the same the old emotions try again to be heard and so you are overreacting. It creates a shame strom. Shame storms are not fun. They can be survived and even disarmed with practice. 00:00 When Reassurance Hurts 00:42 Inside a Shame Storm 01:38 Learning to Quiet Shame 02:03 Facing the Storm Safely 02:46 Sorting Thoughts and Lies 04:08 Emotions Past and Present 05:30 Your Reaction Is a Clue 06:25 Comforting Soul With Truth 07:36 Tools to Move Forward 07:57 Invitation and Next Steps I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me Are You Settling for Manna? Leaving the Wilderness for Your Promised Land I want to share a challenge with you. Are “settling for manna” by staying in the comfort of the wilderness instead of moving into the Promised Land? The Promise Land includes battles, giants, and the work of taking territory. I have personal seasons of deliverance followed by temptation to camp in comfort rather than fight the remaining battles with the Lord’s strength. I want to keep a Joshua-and-Caleb mindset of faith and forward movement. A key thing for moving into the Promise land is a supportive community to help establish God’s rule in your mind and soul, resist doubt and confusion, and take ground for future generations. 00:00 Are You Settling 01:17 Promised Land Reality 03:00 From Slavery to Manna 05:27 Spies and Giants 09:55 Wilderness Comfort Trap 11:32 Offense and Authority 12:37 Caleb Mindset Shift 15:27 Community and Inner Territory 18:04 Generational Freedom 19:01 Invitation and Next Steps I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me Schedule a Complimentary 1:1 mukkove.link/schedule “God expects me to keep everyone happy.”  He doesn’t, but part of you might feel like He does. While your feelings matter, they shouldn’t lead you through life. God doesn’t demand perfection because He knows that’s impossible. Jesus was perfect, so you don’t have to be. 00:00 Perfectionism Loop 01:07 Heart Doodling Practice 01:41 Questioning People Pleasing 02:24 Truth About God 03:32 Needs And Boundaries 04:14 Spotting Enemy Accusations 06:18 Feelings Versus Reality 08:32 Comforting Inner Child 10:38 Pleasing Is Not Loving 12:08 Parts And Trauma Explained 14:08 Compassion And Resourcing 15:25 Coaching Invitation  mukkove.link/schedule I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me  Did God really say? The devil has been asking that same question for all of human history. Did God really say whatever you feel like you heard him say, this is the ultimate battle to hear God and hold tightly to what he said. Eve saw fruit in the garden and it looked good to eat. And then she forgot exactly what God had said and made the wrong choice. When the serpent came and said, did God really say what Eve quoted back to him wasn't exactly what God said, it was enough off that the enemy was able to convince her to eat the fruit and make the wrong choice. And unfortunately, I do the same thing. If we haven't met yet, I am Mukkove Johnson and I teach Christian women to hear God's voice, to discern what he's saying and to heal the parts that don't always agree with him, and live the abundant life that Jesus called you to. 00:00 Did God Really Say 00:57 Meet the Creator 01:39 Why We Doubt 02:18 Ministry Story Lesson 03:02 Refocus on God Said 04:00 Build a Battle Plan 04:21 Workshop Invitation 04:38 Next Steps and Wrap I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me  Are you in a season where it feels like you need a battle plan? I know I have been and have been trying to figure out a practical way to keep it in front of me because I feel like the Lord gives me plans. I ask him for plans. He's faithful to give me that direction, and then life keeps lifeing and I forget. So if you're like me, I hope the thoughts I share today will be helpful. If we haven't met before, I'm mko. I have a heart to see the body of Christ living in health and wholeness and maturity. And I'm sharing the things that I am learning on my journey to all of those things in hopes that they will encourage you and show you practically what it looks like to walk that out step by step. The first step is seeking the Lord to clearly define the battle. Second is the battle plan. God’s strategies are not formulas but require listening, carrying His presence, and trusting Him for specific direction. That could include gratitude, worship, Scripture, prayer support, and specific obedience, cutting distractions, doubt, and double-mindedness while adding discipline and discernment.  Third, refocus through reminders, or support as often as you need it. 00:00 Need a Battle Plan 02:30 Define the Real Battle 03:11 Old Testament Strategies 06:08 Ask God for Tactics 07:15 Heart Doodling Workshop 08:17 Cut Distraction and Doubt 10:40 Discipline and Discernment 12:55 Remember and Refocus 14:24 Victory and Territory 16:03 Little by Little Growth 18:41 Get Support and Next Steps I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me Mess to Majesty: Let God Love You In Your Mess by Mukkove Johnson, available on Amazon. Embrace Your Mess, Find Your Message: Separating Identity from Behavior Break the shame cycle by refusing to hide your messes and instead practice the courage cycle of repeatedly facing fear, pain, and grief. “Embracing your mess” means being honest about what’s wrong without making it your identity, recognizing that messes can be cleaned up. Embracing the mess allows you to separate your behavior from your identity.  Jesus loves you despite your sin and turns healing into a message that can encourage others. Doing harmful things is not the same as being defined by them. 00:00 Shame to Courage 00:42 Embrace Your Mess 01:22 Why It Matters 02:49 Personal Anger Story 03:46 Jesus Sees Our Worth 04:37 You Are Not Alone 05:16 Testimony Brings Healing 06:03 Closing Invitation I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me Mess to Majesty: Let God Love You In Your Mess by Mukkove Johnson, available on Amazon. You may think being brave or courageous means never feeling fear. The opposite is true. If you didn't feel afraid, no courage would be needed. You also might think that once you've been brave, that's it. You've won. Also not true. You feel afraid. You use your courage to move ahead and overcome. You see the victory, and then fear comes again. Courage is needed again. In my Mess To Majesty Coaching, I call this the Courage Cycle. Understanding it's a cycle keeps you from feeling like a failure when the fear returns. To learn more about Mess to Majesty Coaching, email Mukkove at contact@mukkovejohnson.com I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me How to Teach Kids Consideration: Modeling, Object Lessons, and Stories The host answers a listener's question about teaching children to be considerate rather than selfish. They explain that the most powerful teaching method is modeling, including clarifying the difference between parental authority and selfishness and, when appropriate, repenting and asking children for forgiveness. The episode suggests practical tools such as object lessons (e.g., giving kids a candy bag filled with rocks to help them identify how selfishness feels), naming and highlighting considerate vs. selfish behavior to build vocabulary, and checking that children understand expectations (illustrated by an R.C. Sproul story about children not knowing what “stoop” meant). The host recommends using stories—books, podcasts, movies, and the resource Tales of Virtue—to discuss examples of character traits, noting that stories and parables help lessons stick. The episode also mentions podcast fan mail, the host’s book "Mess to Majesty: Let God Love You in Your Mess" on Amazon with free journaling resources, and an email list for updates on a future group coaching program connected to the Mess to Majesty transformation. 00:00 Listener Question: Teaching Kids Consideration Over Selfishness 00:08 How to Submit Questions + Fan Mail Notes 00:35 Quick Update: 'Mess to Majesty' Book & Free Resources 01:10 Start of Today’s Answer: Model Consideration at Home 01:55 Talk Through Authority vs. Selfishness (and Apologize When Needed) 02:24 Object Lesson Idea: The Candy Bag Swap to Build Empathy 04:07 Name It to Train It: Vocabulary, Spotting Selfishness in Real Time 04:36 RC Sproul ‘Stoop’ Story: Kids Can Misunderstand Expectations 05:37 Use Stories & Media to Teach Character (Books, Odyssey, Tales of Virtue) 06:33 Wrap-Up: Why Stories Stick (Jesus’ Parables) I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me The Power of Doodling with Jesus Workshop (Heart Doodling for Emotions, Boundaries & Renewing Your Mind) Mukkove introduces the Power of Doodling Workshop and explains, with a disclaimer that she is not professionally trained to diagnose or treat, how “doodling with Jesus” can create space to stop overthinking, feel emotions, listen to the Lord, and evaluate thoughts and feelings. She shares how small creative choices (like adding color or using permanent marker) can teach boundaries, freedom, and peace, and describes doodling as a tool for renewing the mind, breaking agreement with perfectionism and performance, separating identity and worth from behavior, and accepting mistakes as part of learning. She discusses heart wounds that can lead to false beliefs about self and God, and how creativity and sitting with emotions can help uncover roots, invite Holy Spirit’s comfort, and bring wisdom and healing. Mukkove demonstrates a simple first doodle: drawing a basic version of yourself inside a box boundary, choosing a current emotion (she chooses gratitude), journaling prompts (“What do I feel? What am I thinking? What is the message?”), and then painting/adding color to create more space for clarity and revelation; she suggests adding words, scriptures, and visuals, signing and dating pages, and using doodles to sort thoughts, compare/contrast ideas, dream with God, and practice new emotions like confidence. She lists basic supplies (marker, sketchbook, watercolor/paintbrushes) and guidelines (keep it simple, accept mistakes, don’t fix, don’t push for results, be curious and compassionate, avoid judgment/comparison/shaming). She shares personal examples (gratitude for Alaska’s mountains, exploring the phrase “I don’t deserve the life I have” in a healthier gratitude-based way) and closes with background on her love for Jesus, her family, her books (Christmases about Jesus, an Easter book, and Messed Majesty about childhood emotional neglect), her certification training in childhood emotional neglect recovery, and her hope that heart doodling will be transformational for viewers, including moms doing it with their kids. 00:00 Welcome + Workshop Disclaimer (Not Professional Advice) 00:43 Why Doodle With Jesus? Quieting the Mind & Creating Space to Listen 01:02 Small Changes, Boundaries, and Renewing Your Mind Through Creativity 02:54 Breaking Perfectionism: Imperfect Art, True Identity, and Grace 06:11 Emotions ‘Travel in Packs’: Using Doodles to Feel, Journal, and Hear God 07:26 Finding Truth on Paper: Sorting Thoughts, Scripture Visuals, and Dreaming 09:11 Supplies + Core Guidelines: Keep It Simple, No Fixing, No Performing 12:13 Guided Practice: Draw Yourself, Pick an Emotion, Ask the 3 Questions 15:10 Painting the Doodle: Color, Boundaries, Gratitude, and Making a Memento 19:39 Go Deeper: Exploring What Comes Up ("I Don’t Deserve This") 21:20 About Mukkove: Story, Books, Credentials, and Closing Blessing Heart Doodling with Jesus is a monthly membership with live workshops and practical tools for growing spiritually and emotionally mature. Music by Romarecord1973 from Pixabay I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me PDF of the process: subscribepage.io/uiC8px What if the pain you’ve been trying to bury is actually pointing you toward peace? We open up a simple, compassionate framework for turning chaos into clarity by writing down your thoughts, mapping emotions, and learning to recognize the tone of God’s voice versus the sting of accusation. Instead of forcing change or chasing formulas, we slow down and build a practical toolkit you can return to anytime life feels loud. We start by getting everything on paper—no judgment, just awareness. Then we highlight emotions, separate “I” statements from “you” statements, and link feelings to the thoughts they follow. That one-page snapshot uncovers where shame clings, where fear leads, and where an inner critic has been running the show. From there, we move into the cleanup toolkit: hearing God for specific guidance, choosing curiosity over self-judgment, practicing real forgiveness that releases debt without excusing harm, and engaging in specific repentance that realigns beliefs and behavior with truth. We also explore how hidden agreements and lifelong vows—like “I’ll handle it myself” or “I’ll never be like them”—quietly power anxiety and perfectionism. Learn how to break those agreements, invite discernment that doesn’t re-traumatize, and set a healthy pace that respects your capacity. We talk about when to seek help, why safe community accelerates healing, and how to receive a word, picture, or promise from God that replaces lies with lasting peace. If you’re longing to quiet intrusive thoughts, grow in spiritual discernment, and experience God’s kindness in the places that hurt, this guide is for you. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review to tell us which tool helped you most. Heart Doodling with Jesus is a monthly membership with live workshops and practical tools for growing spiritually and emotionally mature. Music by Romarecord1973 from Pixabay I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me When I asked God how to stay focused, He said, "You don't. You refocus" In this episode, I share 9 practical ways to refocus when you find your focus has shifted away from God. Let me know which ones you try or how you refocus. I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me You can ask God questions and learn to hear His answers. I started learning to hear from God while teaching my children to hear His voice as well. Believe he is speaking, and you can hear Him. Start asking, wait for an answer, and see what happens. I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me In this episode, I share what it currently looks like for me coming out of a season of feeling I couldn't do anything right. The tools I've learned over the last 20 years make all the difference. You can learn them, too. I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times

I'd love to hear from you! Text me If you’ve ever wondered “Why is it so hard to hear God’s voice?”—this video is for you. Many Christian women quietly struggle with hearing from God and assume it means they’re doing something wrong. But the truth is: it’s loud, and most of us were never taught how to listen. In this episode, I share: Why hearing God can feel difficult (even when He’s always speaking) Common myths about what “hearing God” is supposed to sound like How God actually communicates—often gently, quietly, and personally Why not hearing clearly does not mean you’re a spiritual failure A simple, safe practice to help you begin recognizing His voice God desires a day-to-day relationship with you—not dramatic moments every few decades. His voice may come as a thought, a picture, a scripture, a feeling of peace, or a quiet knowing—and He speaks in a way you can recognize. ✨ At the end, I guide you through a short, gentle listening practice. No pressure. No striving. Just space to notice. I’d love to hear from you in the comments: What came up for you? Did you notice a thought, image, or feeling? Or did it feel quiet—and raise questions? 👉 Subscribe for more teachings on experiencing God’s presence, emotional healing, and learning to hear His voice in peaceful, non-pressured ways. You’re not behind. You’re not broken. And you’re not doing this wrong. 💛 I'd love to connect with you! Find community in Healing Generations Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times