Heart Felt Needs Counseling and Caring Center Inc

04/11/2026

Ethical Integration of Spiritual Beliefs and Mental Health Care is now approved by NBCC for 5 hours of NBCC credit.

If you’ve been waiting for CE credit to move forward, this is your confirmation.

Training Details:
May 7th
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Live Virtual Training
$125

Register here: https://heartfeltneeds.myflodesk.com/ethicalintegration

This training will help you:

• Build confidence in ethically integrating faith and mental health care
• Strengthen your intake and assessment process
• Understand how clients identify spiritually and why it matters in treatment
• Recognize personal beliefs, biases, and blind spots
• Gain practical language and tools you can use immediately

This 5-hour course is designed to equip mental health professionals with the knowledge, cultural humility, and ethical framework needed to provide competent, spiritually-integrated clinical care. Many clients enter the therapeutic space with deeply held spiritual or religious beliefs that influence....

04/08/2026

Today's Needful Nugget: The Power of the P’s (Posture, Prayer, and Patience)

There is power available to you when you align your life with the right posture, consistent prayer, and intentional patience.

Your posture is about how you come to God. Not just physically, but internally.

A surrendered heart is a great posture and that looks like:
Saying I trust you God even when I don’t understand
Releasing control over outcomes
Choosing obedience over comfort

When your posture shifts, your perspective shifts.

Prayer is your voice and authority and it is not just talking. It is connection, alignment, and authority. You are not speaking into empty space. You are communicating with God and partnering with Him.

There is power when you:
Speak life over your situation
Decree truth over fear and doubt
Pray with intention, not just emotion

Be specific in your prayers.
Be bold in your faith.
Be consistent in your practice.

Patience is your response to what you can’t control. Patience is not just waiting. It is how you wait.

It requires you to:
Accept what is outside of your control
Take responsibility for what is within your control
Regulate your emotions in the in-between

Patience looks like:
Creating a plan for what you can do
Letting go of urgency around what you cannot do
Using coping and regulation skills to stay grounded

When your posture is surrendered, your prayers are intentional, and your patience is grounded,you position yourself for both peace and power.

Resources to Support Your Journey:

• My Journey Surrender (focus on posture)
https://a.co/d/0f0aWnWI

• My Journey Solo (focus on singleness journey)
https://heartfeltneeds.myflodesk.com/myjourneysolo

Take a moment today.

Reset your posture.
Open your mouth in prayer.
Practice patience with purpose.

04/08/2026

Ethical Integration of Spiritual Beliefs and Mental Health Care is now approved by NBCC for 5 hours of NBCC credit.

If you’ve been waiting for CE credit to move forward, this is your confirmation.

Training Details:
May 7th
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Live Virtual Training
$125

Register here: https://heartfeltneeds.myflodesk.com/ethicalintegration

This training will help you:

• Build confidence in ethically integrating faith and mental health care
• Strengthen your intake and assessment process
• Understand how clients identify spiritually and why it matters in treatment
• Recognize personal beliefs, biases, and blind spots
• Gain practical language and tools you can use immediately

You do not have to second guess how to navigate this in session. You can show up grounded, ethical, and aligned in your work.

Ethical Integration of Spiritual Beliefs and Mental Health Care has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Heart Felt Needs Counseling and Caring Center Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-5281.

This 5-hour course is designed to equip mental health professionals with the knowledge, cultural humility, and ethical framework needed to provide competent, spiritually-integrated clinical care. Many clients enter the therapeutic space with deeply held spiritual or religious beliefs that influence....

04/08/2026

Tonight's Journaling Hour was the best ever!

Sign up to become a part of the community
https://heartfeltneeds.myflodesk.com/thejournalinghour

04/07/2026

If you have planned to but never attended a Journaling Hour you want to join us tonight as we learn about and discuss what it's like to be in a relationship with someone who has anxious, avoidant or disorganized (fearful-avoidant) attachment.

Our face to face time is coming to an end so now is your chance to practice this form of self-care.

Here's the link to join in on the conversation.
Ifhttps://heartfeltneeds.myflodesk.com/thejournalinghour

A self-care community that meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6pm CST. To practice self-care through education, discussion, support, and journaling.

04/06/2026

Ethical Integration of Spiritual Beliefs & Mental Health Care
5 Ethics CEUs | Approved by NASW-TN

Date: Thursday May 7, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM CST
Cost: $125

Designed for beginners, intermediate clinicians, or anyone needing a solid refresher.

In this training, you will:
• Strengthen your confidence in ethical integration during intake and assessment
• Understand the difference between clients who identify as spiritual, religious, both, or neither and why that matters in holistic care
• Identify and work through personal beliefs, biases, and blind spots that can impact treatment
• Gain practical language to support respectful and effective engagement
• Explore case examples that highlight ethical and unethical responses in session
• Learn how to support Christian clients who may feel hesitant or unsure about therapy

You do not have to feel uncertain in these moments.
You can show up grounded, clear, and ethically aligned.

5 hours of ethics. Real tools you can use immediately.

Register at: https://heartfeltneeds.myflodesk.com/ethicalintegration

04/02/2026

Today's Needful Nugget: Don't forget to practice self-forgiveness.

As we close this series, there is one area that often gets overlooked.
Self-forgiveness.

You may have released others.
You may be working through past wounds. Yet you still carry guilt, shame, or regret about your own choices.

This is where self-forgiveness becomes a necessary part of your healing journey.

Common barriers to self-forgiveness
-Believing you should have known better
-Confusing accountability with ongoing self-punishment
-Fear that letting go means excusing your behavior
-Shame that keeps you stuck in your past identity
-Pride that resists humility and honest reflection

Self-forgiveness does not ignore responsibility. It requires you to face it with honesty and then choose not to stay condemned by it.

What does practicing self-forgiveness look like?

Acknowledge it clearly: Name what happened without minimizing or exaggerating it.

Take responsibility: Own your part. Avoid blame shifting, but also avoid over-owning what was not yours.

Allow yourself to feel: Guilt can lead to growth. Shame keeps you stuck. Learn the difference.

Receive grace: You are not meant to carry what has already been forgiven by God.

Change your narrative: You are not your worst moment. You are who you are becoming.

Make amends when possible: Repair where you can. Where you cannot, release what is out of your control.

Practice new choices: Let your growth show up in how you live moving forward.

Self-forgiveness is not about letting yourself off the hook. It is about taking yourself out of the cycle of condemnation.

03/27/2026

Most clinicians avoid spirituality in session not because it is irrelevant, but because they were never taught how to navigate it ethically. And avoiding it can limit the depth of care you provide.

Ethical Integration of Spiritual Beliefs & Mental Health Care
5 Ethics CEUs | Approved by NASW-TN

May 7, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM CST| Cost $125

In this training, you will:
• Build an ethical foundation for integrating spirituality into care
• Understand the difference between spirituality and religion
• Identify personal biases and blind spots that impact your work
• Learn how to conduct a spiritually informed intake and assessment
• Work through case examples to strengthen your ability to gain and understand ethical and unethical engagement

You can provide care that is both clinically sound and spiritually aware.

Register at: https://heartfeltneeds.myflodesk.com/ethicalintegration

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03/27/2026

03/26/2026

Today's Needful Nugget: Forgiveness Is a Practice, Not a One-Time Decision

There will be times you think you have forgiven, and then the feeling returns. The memory resurfaces. The impact shows up again.

That does not mean you failed.
It means you are in the process.

Forgiveness often looks like choosing, again and again, to release the same offense, hurt, disappointment and wound.

This is where many people get discouraged. Because forgiveness is not just an emotional shift it is a mindset and a set of actions.

You are actively choosing:
Not to rehearse what was done to you
Not to let the offense define your identity
Not to carry what is not yours to hold

And yes, you have heard this before, but it still matters, Forgiveness is for you. Not to excuse what happened or to minimize the impact but to free your heart from staying tied to it.

This requires:
Awareness of what is still coming up
Patience with your healing process
Flexibility as new layers surface
Understanding that your journey will not look like anyone else’s

Your forgiveness process is personal.
But it will influence how you show up in your relationships, your boundaries, and your emotional health.

So when it comes up again, do not resist it. Recognize it as another opportunity to practice Matthew 18:22.

Ask yourself:
What is being stirred in me right now?
What do I need to release again?
What does choosing forgiveness look like in this moment?

03/26/2026

The Journaling Hour.

If you haven't made it to a gathering yet, you have two chances to do so before it comes to an end.

Next one is Tuesday April 7th at 6pm CST.

Click link to join in on the conversation and to practice self-care that goes beyond the norm.

https://heartfeltneeds.myflodesk.com/thejournalinghour

03/19/2026

Today's Needful Nugget: Feeling something does not mean you have not forgiven.

Many people believe that if they still feel anger, sadness, or hurt, it must mean they are holding on to unforgiveness. That is not always true.

You can forgive and still feel. Healing does not erase emotional memory overnight. Your body and mind are still working through what happened and that takes time. So when your feelings surface do not rush to label yourself as unforgiving or unhealed.