11: Are Solutions for Depression Physical or Spiritual?

In this deeply personal episode of Depression Healing Tools for Followers of Jesus Christ, Jennifer Stirling-Campbell shares the shocking story of her baby’s facial burn accident, the emotional trauma that followed, and the mysterious digestive issues that appeared afterward. After weeks of worry, stress, chiropractic care, herbs, prayer, and natural remedies, she and her closest mentors began uncovering possible emotional and spiritual roots behind her baby’s symptoms.

iew all LINKS and supporting content mentioned in this episode HERE: https://imaquarius.com/solutions-for-depression/

In this episode, Jennifer explains a powerful 3-step healing prayer process (learned from Heather O’Brien) that is centered on Jesus Christ and His perfect atonement.  The basis of this prayer is: 

1. SEE/ACKNOLEDGE 

2. REPENTANCE/SURRENDER YOUR HEART TO GOD 

3. CAST SATAN AND ALL DARKNESS OUT

If you are struggling with depression, emotional trauma, anxiety, hopelessness, chronic stress, or physical symptoms connected to emotional pain, this episode offers practical faith-based tools for healing, surrender, and spiritual freedom.

Work with Cable Jones, Intuitive Healer https://cablejonescoaching.com/

Work with Kally Efros, Lifeline and Zyto Practitioner: https://www.indigomountainonline.com/book-now/

Attend Heather O’Brien’s Free Heal with God Workshop: https://heatherobrien.net/workshop

This Episode of Depression Healing for Followers of Jesus Christ is for You If You Want to Learn:

• Ways that emotional trauma and spiritual issues affect physical health
• A simple 3-step process to REALLY access the Atonement, and give our pains to Jesus Christ 
• How to identify and break agreements with fear, shame, resentment, and hopelessness
• Biblical tools for surrendering emotional burdens to Jesus Christ
• How faith, prayer, and intentional healing can restore peace, hope, and emotional freedom

Transcript

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Welcome to the Overcome Depression Podcast. I am your host, Jennifer Stirling-Campbell. We talk about tips and tools that can help you to thrive and overcome depression with God. And today we're going to be talking about something kind of wild. My life has been quite interesting the past two weeks. I got really, really sick with the flu. And my goats decided to have their babies, So I'm midwifing mama goat and sick with the flu, feeling terrible. And ~ did I mention that my baby and my toddler, or my actually he's four now, were home with me while all this is going on. So my four-year-old was relatively helpful about half of the time. my baby was in the car seat in the goat pen. And as I'm getting ready to deliver mama's babies, she hasn't quite gotten there yet, but she's acting like she's in labor. And so I'm in there with a book reading to my four-year-old son And all of a sudden she starts having her babies. my goodness. Okay, so put the book away and My baby wakes up at the same time, he's in the little car seat, and I start helping her deliver the babies and I'm literally covered in goat placenta, okay, and all of the goat insides and getting the babies out and what a joy. And then my four year old, whose name is Erastus, says, Mom, Hazleton's getting out of his seat. I hadn't buckled him in. Bad mommy moment. Yeah. So he He's doing that arch thing with his legs hanging over the side of the car seat, and I'm covered in goo. And there's me trying to use my elbows to get him back in the seat. Yeah, it was so much fun. After this, I realized that my baby hadn't been pooping. Okay, so it been concern of mine since he hadn't pooped a few days, then it was a week. Three weeks went by no poop. I've never had a baby not poop that long So this was a new thing for me. I started contacting people specifically Cable Jones ~ Kally Efros, who I'm going to have on here very soon. And I eventually went on to Heather O'Brien's workshop, and I'll leave links to all these people below. And all of these different people helped me to figure out what was going on with my son. Some of it was certainly physically related, but how often have looked at a physical issue and it's ended up having spiritual root where the physical things I was doing to try to remedy the problem just weren't working. And when I finally started praying in a more repentant way, I suppose. Suddenly things start shifting and working. So backing up, about three months ago, I was putting the baby down for a nap. it was a Sunday. My husband was home, he was in the kitchen, which is right. beside the room where I put my baby down for a nap. So I went in to help my older son in his bedroom with a project he was working on. And figured if anything was wrong with the baby, he'd cry and dad would hear him. I Eventually went out of the room to get a drink of water, I think it was, and heard a very odd sound coming from the bedroom where my baby had been sleeping. And oddly enough, the door was closed. I had left it open. And I paused and I thought, I'm what what in the world? And I went over to the door, opened it, and found that my baby, who had just barely started crying. but apparently my four year old son, who Is so sweet, and I'm sure didn't do this on purpose, had taken the blow dryer and put it right up to the baby's head turned it on and left. I'm guessing he was trying to keep the baby warm or he thought it would be cozy or something along those lines. And I panicked. and I was trying to stay calm, but saw what had happened, picked up the baby. He wasn't really responsive. He wouldn't nurse, I was just beside myself, like ballistic upset. took him to the bathroom, laid him down, was trying to get him to respond, saw his face for the first time. And it had second degree reburns on it. It was peeling. It was just so horrifically traumatic and sad. I'm sure for the baby, and certainly was for me as well. my oldest son, who I'd been helping in his room, came over and he was shocked. But he was trying to comfort me and be encouraging and positive. Eventually, I was really scared he got brain damage. Or that he might even die from this. later that night, my poor oldest son, was in the kitchen and just broke down. broke down crying. It it was hard on everybody to see this sweet, sweet baby hurt in this way. I spent the next several weeks Really making sure that I took care of the wounds. I did a poultice that created a kind of a scab over the area and I would just add to if it flaked off and worked really hard to keep it covered now it's completely healed. No scarring. It's miraculous what some of these herbs can do. if you're curious, it was powdered cromfrey, raw honey, and a little bit of fresh aloe vera from my yard mixed together. Anyhow, fast forward to today, or I guess, about a month month ago from today, when he'd stopped pooping. And one of my friends, specifically Cable, we were trying to figure out what was wrong, and he sent me a picture of the face and the regions of the face that affect organs of the body. Well, where he had been burned was On the area of the face connected to the colon. And that was my first. ~ Okay. And we were trying to clear some things in his behalf, pray for him, try to help him to heal from some of that trauma, which I'd already done quite a bit of, but just some other things of feeling abandoned, feeling scared, all the things you would feel if you were a baby and no one was coming for you and there was this hot thing on your face. Well, time went on. I I was also doing some physical things. I was giving him some gastrointestinal tinctures. I was massaging him. I was rubbing his feet. I was putting ASEA on his belly and on his feet and giving him little suppositories of like frozen ASEA AC ASEA's great. we did chiropractic, myopractic. The chiropractic did help. He had a really good poop after a chiropractic appointment, but then again several weeks went by and not a poop again. so fast forward to a week ago, I finally decided that it was time for me to work through at the recommendation of Kally and Cable to work through some of these emotions I was feeling. I had gone through something kind of traumatic myself other the burn of my baby's face, just really, really big things this year. That happened that were really hard. And even though I felt like I handled it really well, it still hurt. so I decided that I really just needed to sit down and work through some of these emotions and pray. Correctly and take the time to really do it because I can be the kind of person who just go go goes and doesn't want to stop what I'm doing and take the time to really meditate and get to the bottom of things. I wanna just pray as I'm going along in my mind. And sometimes that's just not enough. So, Heather O'Brien, I interviewed her recently. She's going to be on the podcast this year soon when that is released. You will love that episode. But she also does this free workshop where she introduces people to her Healing with God program. And I thought, what better way to force myself to stop and sit and do this than to attend her workshop? So I decided to sign up and I went to the workshop and she worked with someone else for most of the workshop. And at the very end, she had about five minutes. And I said, yes, please, I would love for you to even just pray for me. I here's some things been been going on. I need help. My baby's struggling. so I'd really appreciate some of your insight. we went through and we talked about some of the things that I was feeling, and the biggest ones that came up were feeling dismissed and unimportant. And of course, there were other things too that I included, but those were just really strong emotions at that moment. you can go much deeper with it, but it's very simple. And I believe every healing that ever was, it can be encompassed in a single decision, which would go through these. steps simultaneously or very quickly in order. But the bottom line is these three steps are what makes the atonement effective. It's what makes it work. And most Christians do not know what that is or how to go about giving up what they're holding on to or healing from pain and and giving their burdens to God so they can heal. So first off, number one, in this prayer because this is kind of a simplified version and as you get more in tune with God and what He wants, you can fine tune what you need to say in any given moment or what needs to be done or addressed. But the first step is to basically play Sherlock Holmes and get to the bottom of what is it that's really going on here? What am I feeling? And then asking God to help you dissect and understand what are these things I'm feeling. And then take it to God in prayer. God. It hurt when this thing happened. God, it hurt when I saw my baby burn his face. I felt resentment. I felt like a failed mother. I felt panic, horror. I felt angry, helpless. I felt small. this happened and I felt these things. The second step, God, I repent of believing in and upholding the agreements that I made when I chose to believe that I was helpless, that I was small, that I was a failure, that I was unimportant. that I deserved to be angry and to hold on to the anger, that I held on to the horror, I lacked faith. That decided to believe that I was dismissible and unimportant, and that I catered and let these spiritual influences in when I made those choices and believed these lies. So again, first, got it hurt when this happened. This is how it made me feel. Two, God, I repent of believing in and upholding these agreements, which are And the third one Is rebuking Satan and casting him out. So first you're acknowledging, you're seeing the sin, the negative emotions that you've been holding on to, whatever it is, the darkness, it not be your sin, but whatever darkness is around you, you're acknowledging it, then repenting of it, even if it might be in behalf of someone else, because you don't want it around you, if it's not yours. And then third, I see you, Satan. I see The spirit of rejection, the spirit resentment the identity thief telling me that I am these things, I see you. telling me that I am panic, that I am resentment, that I'm horror, dismissed, angry, unimportant, helpless, small failure. I see you, and I reject, refute, and renounce every agreement I have ever made with you in every thought, word and deed. In the name of Jesus Christ. And you can do all of these in the name of Jesus Christ. It makes it so much more powerful. You say, Get the hence, get away from me. And saying these things out loud is the most powerful. You can do these in your head, but saying them out loud for me carries more weight. You can feel the shift. when I did this for my sweet son, and for myself, I was doing it, but I felt like he was empathing me. That's ultimately what I felt was going on is that he could feel all of my angst and was affecting him physically. Mothers and babies are very connected. almost immediately, the next morning, he has a huge poop. I was the happiest mother in the entire universe. I was literally shouting with joy. So happy. And ~ backing up a little bit, I had also started telling him instead of telling people, he's not pooping, I'm so worried. I started telling my baby, You are the best pooper. You are such a good pooper. Pooper, you're amazing. You have an amazing gastrointestinal system. And I stopped focusing on what he wasn't doing, but what I knew he could do because he was the best pooper before he stopped pooping. And it wasn't just a poop and days later. No. It was like clockwork. After I did this I talk a lot about this in my podcast with Beatty Carmichael. The episode number is thirty-nine, The Torment of Depression and How to Pray with Faith to Heal. He basically does the same thing. It's a little more in depth than Heather's, but it's very, very similar. And He believes that any physical ailment is connected to spiritual one, So If you haven't listened to that one, go back and listen to podcast number 39. It is fantastic. One of my favorites on this show. So, baby starts pooping. And the next day, he poops twice. Twice! This is like old times. And the next day, he poops again. And the next day. Like he has been a pooper this whole week. Like, this is a new thing, guys. And every time he poops, I shout, Hallelujah! And For the first time, the chiropractor said, Ooh, he's starting to hold it. He's holding it. He doesn't need as much adjustment here. This is good. So clearly something shifted. It worked. mean, we tried so many things. And then I do three steps, and suddenly he's pooping like a charm. So for those of you who think poop is gross. Poop is a blessing. Let me tell you, I am so grateful that my baby can poop now. And for Heather for taking the time with me in her workshop to take me through this because again, yes, I could do it on my own, but sometimes it's really nice to have someone to kind of force you to sit down and do it. Cause sometimes I'm avoiding something or something's trying to get me to avoid something. So when that block is there and can tell, okay, Satan really doesn't want me to do this. Get help. Get someone to take you through it Someone who loves God and loves you. So basically, this one, two, three process is See and acknowledge. See what's really going on. Number two, repent and surrender. Surrender your heart to God and his will. And then third, cast Satan and everything he controls out. If it's not good, if it doesn't speak of God, if it's not love, gotta go. It's gonna make you sick. So again, number one, see and acknowledge. Two, repent and surrender. Three, cast out. the prayer that I said again is Got it hurt when this happened, and it made me feel these things. two, I repent of believing in and upholding these agreements inviting these spirits and then naming them. Three, in the name of Jesus Christ, I see you, all of these things, all these spirits, all these emotions. in the name of Jesus Christ, I renounce, reject, and refute every agreement I've ever made with you in every thought, word, and deed everything in the name of Jesus Christ. use some of this to start Deciphering and understanding and getting to the bottom of the depression you are struggling with. Giving it to God, surrendering your will to His, giving Him your heart so He can heal it. renouncing and dismissing in every form all those things that are holding you back. if you're struggling and you want to heal, please keep coming back and listening to these episodes. I built this podcast, Depression Healing Tools for Followers of Jesus Christ, like a program. there is literally an order to these episodes that I do on purpose to try to Guide people gently through the Complicated world we live in, and help you to see the lies you believe for what they are. Understand that you believe in lies in the first place because depression at its root is belief in lies and helping you to embrace everything that God intended you to be, You are valuable beyond measure. I, Jennifer, have been through 25 years sick, now about 20 years free of depression or chronic depression, anyway. Yes, I go through times when life's hard. I get sad. But I know I can get through it and I get through it pretty quickly, even for the average person. So with that said, I know what it's like to feel hopeless. I know what it's like to feel like I can never get out of this. I'm gonna be this way for the rest of my life. It's not true. if you are interested in quickening your progress there is an overcome depression workbook that you can get on Barnes and Noble. it is fantastic. this book and what's contained in it will help you start believing that you can heal So please check it out. And without further ado, thank you again for joining me. this is the Overcome Depression podcast. I'm Jennifer Stirling-Campbell and we'll see you next time.