The Christian Mindset Coach with Alicia Michelle: Managing Emotions and Overwhelm Using Brain Science and Biblical Truth for Calm + Clarity
You love God. You want peace… but your emotions feel loud, exhausting and overwhelming.
If you’re tired of feeling anxious, emotionally exhausted and stuck in overthinking loops, you’re not alone — and you’re not broken.
Most Christian women were never taught how to manage emotions in a healthy, biblical way, especially in the middle of real life.
I’m Alicia Michelle, an ICF-certified life coach (ACC, CPLC), NeuroCoach and author of Emotional Confidence. I’m also the host of this multi-award-winning podcast, where I help Christian women learn how to manage emotions using brain science and Scripture so they can respond with calm, clarity and confidence — not emotional chaos.
On the podcast, we talk honestly about anxiety, fear, emotional overwhelm, people-pleasing, perfectionism, disappointment and navigating emotions in marriage, motherhood and family life. You’ll learn practical emotional management tools that help you acknowledge what you’re feeling while still honoring biblical truth.
With nearly half a million downloads and 7 years running, by God’s grace this podcast has helped tens of thousands of Christian women build emotional confidence rooted in faith.
I’m so glad you’re here! Join me every Monday for a new episode and let's talk about how to stop reacting emotionally and start responding with clarity, calm and confidence.
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Episodes
385 episodes
Ep 380: Best Of - How to Stop Reacting and Start Responding with Wisdom to Everyday Chaos
Do you find yourself reacting to frustrating situations even though you already know how you want to respond? Maybe it's your husband, your kids, your boss, or another difficult situation that sends you into an emotional spiral before ...
Ep 379: “How Do I Walk Through This Well?” Finding Emotional Clarity When Life Gets Complicated
What if you’re doing your best to follow God, but you honestly don’t know what to do? Life doesn't always come with a clear five-step answer. Sometimes we're caught between our emotions, what we believe God is asking us to do, what ...
Ep 378: What Actually Helps When You're Carrying a Lot Emotionally
What do you actually need when you’re carrying a lot emotionally and you don’t even know where to start? In this episode, we’re slowing down and looking at five different emotional needs that can show up when life feels heavy—from feeling compl...
Ep 377: “Which Voice Should I Listen To?” Making Sense of Your Competing Thoughts + Emotions
Some days it feels like there’s a ton of different voices in your head—each one saying something different. Which do we listen to? One says, "Do this," while another says, "No, stay here," and then guilt, fear, or another emotion gets added to ...
Ep 376: Best Of - Freeing Yourself From The Need to Hold It All Together
What if the pressure to hold everything together is one of the very things keeping you overwhelmed? In this Best Of episode, I’m revisiting a conversation about the exhausting pressure to get everything right, keep everyone happy, and make sure...
Ep 375: Emotional Avoidance: Learning to Lean into Hurt Instead of Running from It with Willow Weston
We’ve all done it--minimizing or numbing our emotions after a painful experience. Today’s guest Willow Weston invites us to consider asking this question instead: What if the pain I’m trying to avoid is actually pointing me toward the heali...
Ep 374: 5 Types of Emotional Overwhelm: Which Are You Experiencing?
Not all emotional overwhelm feels the same. Sometimes overwhelm leaves you restless and unable to slow down. Other times it feels heavy, tender, scattered, or like you've simply reached the end of your rope. In this episode, I intro...
Ep 373: What Is Emotional Regulation (And Why It's More Than "Calming Yourself Down")
What if emotional regulation isn't about calming yourself down—but becoming available to hear God more clearly? So many of us have been taught to suppress our emotions, push through them, or simply "get over it." But that's not how God designed...
Ep 372: Why Managing Overwhelm Is Where Emotional Healing Begins
Have you ever felt so overwhelmed that you couldn't even name what you were feeling? When we’re emotionally overwhelmed, everything feels tangled together, making it impossible to think clearly or hear God's voice. In this episode, ...
Ep 371: I've Changed... Now Who Am I? Navigating the Emotions of Midlife
Have you ever looked at your life and thought, I've changed...but now who am I? Midlife brings so many transitions—our bodies change, our relationships evolve, our roles shift, and the things that once defined us begin to look differen...
Ep 370: Learning to Tend Your Soul: Befriending the Hidden Parts of Your Heart with Dr. Alison Cook
What if the parts of yourself you've spent years trying to ignore are actually invitations to healing? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Alison Cook to explore how understanding the different "parts" of your heart can help you experience dee...
Ep 369: Self-Brain Surgery: Rewiring Your Brain After Trauma with Christian Neurosurgeon Dr. Lee Warren
What if you have more influence over your thoughts, emotions, and healing than you realize? In this episode, I sit down with neurosurgeon, author, and podcast host Dr. Lee Warren to discuss the powerful connection between neuroscience, faith, a...
Ep 368: What Am I Really Longing for When I Feel Lonely and Disconnected?
Why do we still feel lonely when we're surrounded by people who love us? In this episode, we continue the conversation about loneliness by looking beyond the feeling itself and exploring the deeper longings underneath it. We discuss...
Ep 367: Why Do I Feel Lonely in Midlife When I'm Surrounded by People I Love?
Have you ever looked around at your family, friends, and the people you love most and wondered, Why do I still feel lonely? If you're in midlife, you may be surprised by how often this feeling shows up—even when nothing seems wrong.&nb...
Ep 366: Help for Calming Emotions After Marriage Fights with Dave and Ann Wilson
What do you do with all the emotions that linger after a fight with your spouse? Even when the argument is over, the hurt, disappointment, frustration, and unmet expectations can continue to swirl around in your mind and heart. In t...
Ep 365: God Reveals So He Can Heal (Is It Time to Step Into Healing?)
What do you do when God starts revealing unhealthy patterns in your life—and suddenly you can’t unsee them? In this episode, I close out the people-pleasing series by talking about what happens after awareness comes. We discuss the ...
Ep 364: People Pleasing Isn’t Always Obvious: The Hidden Signs to Look For
What if people-pleasing isn’t just about saying yes too often or avoiding conflict? What if it’s showing up in ways you haven’t even recognized yet? In this episode, I walk through 17 surprising signs of people-pleasing and the deep...
363: ‘Sorry to Bother You’ + Other Overexplaining + Overapologizing Phrases That Reveal People Pleasing
Do you replay conversations in your head, explain yourself too much, or apologize for things that don’t really need an apology? These patterns can feel like personality traits, but often they’re signs of something deeper happening underneath.&n...
362: Learning to Set Boundaries + Find My Voice in Parenting, Marriage and Beyond (My People Pleasing Journey)
What does healing from people-pleasing look like in real life, not just at the beginning, but years later? In this episode, I share my personal story of people-pleasing, where these patterns began for me, how God brought healing, and what it lo...
361: People Pleasing--Break the Cycle with Brain, Body + Biblical Tools for Less Exhaustion + Healthier Relationships
What if people-pleasing isn’t something you fix by trying harder—but a pattern your brain and body learned to use for safety? In this episode, I unpack why people-pleasing can feel so difficult to change, even when you know it’s exhausting you,...
360: People Pleasing- When You’re the “Good Girl” Who Keeps the Peace in Your Family
What if the reason it feels so hard to stop people-pleasing isn’t about willpower, but about the role you learned to play a long time ago? In this episode, I walk through the “good girl” pattern so many of us developed in our families and why i...
359: People Pleasing-Is This the Real Reason You're Exhausted + Overwhelmed?
What if the tiredness you feel isn’t about your to-do list but the exhaustion of making everyone happy and “keeping the peace” in the middle of family dysfunction? Yes, people pleasing—and carrying the emotional weight that was nev...
358: When Emotions Feel Scary-Practical Tools to Courageously Process What's Inside
What if courage isn’t about pushing past your emotions, but learning how to bring them honestly before God? In this episode, I share a recent conference message on why emotional awareness is not a weakness, but spiritual maturity, and how learn...
357: AI + Emotions: Is It OK to Use AI to Manage Your Feelings?
Have you ever shared something with AI that you didn’t want to say out loud to someone else, or found yourself feeling comforted by the response? Let’s talk about AI and emotional health, and whether it’s actually helping or quietly replacing s...
356: Perimenopause + Emotions: Brain Science + Scripture-Based Help for All the Hormonal Changes
What if the emotional overwhelm you’re feeling right now isn’t a personal failure, but something happening inside your body? Let’s talk about perimenopause, hormones, and why your emotions may feel harder to manage than they used t...