Ep. 139: Spiritual Self-Talk (The Art of Preaching Truth to Yourself)
M Is for Mama Podcast
Abbie Halberstadt
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever found yourself mumbling about what you’re doing in the pantry or asking yourself why you walked into the garage and flipped on the lights, then you’re probably well-versed in the art of talking to yourself.
The science behind it is obvious: As we vocalize our thoughts out loud, we help our brains process better.
So, what if we applied this truth to our spiritual lives and began “talking back” to the lies our brains try to sell us sometimes? This exact practice of preaching truth to myself—out loud—is one that has served me well over 20 years of marriage and parenting.
And I think it could help you too!
Listen in as I give you concrete examples of what this looks like for me and how you too can benefit from talking yourself off of an emotional ledge before you ever tell anyone else something you might regret.
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Bible References:
2 Corinthians 10:5
1 Corinthians 10:13
1 Peter 2:23
1 Timothy 5:8
Colossians 3:23-24
John 8:32
Luke 6:31
1 Corinthians 13
Romans 8:1
Romans 5:8
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MS for Mama podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, happy wife, Mom in a 10 Bible Believing Christian. |
| 0:13.0 | And I have a podcast for you that's very personal today. |
| 0:16.0 | I wanted to share a technique. |
| 0:19.1 | It's not a trick. It's just something that has really helped me to preach |
| 0:23.4 | truth to myself when I am struggling to get out of my feelings, when I'm struggling with a |
| 0:27.5 | mental block, when I'm struggling with hormones or emotions that I feel like is going to be |
| 0:33.3 | a game changer for some of you that haven't considered this concept. So we will jump into that |
| 0:37.2 | in just a second. But before I do, I want to highlight our podcast sponsor, Summit Ministries. |
| 0:41.8 | You guys know that we love Summit. We love that they are grounding their teaching in the |
| 0:47.6 | word of God and that they are teaching young people ages 13 to 25 how to know truth from God's word and to articulate it with kindness |
| 0:56.4 | and clarity. Both of our older boys, Ezra and Simon, have been to both of their campuses |
| 1:00.7 | in Georgia and Colorado multiple times, had fantastic experiences with both the classes, which are |
| 1:06.5 | taught by amazing teachers and this social experience and the activities that they get to do |
| 1:11.1 | have just loved all of it. |
| 1:12.4 | If you want to check it out in person, they have a couple of spots left at some of their |
| 1:17.0 | in-person classes for their summer apologetics camps. |
| 1:20.5 | You can use the code Mama 26 for up to $500 off. |
| 1:24.1 | Early bird discount, I believe, is through March 30th and then 250 off using mama 26 to make it a |
| 1:30.0 | five hundred dollar total discount you can also check out their online classes if you're not |
| 1:34.1 | able to attend in person or they just don't have any spots left and you can find all of that |
| 1:38.3 | at summit dot org slash mama don't forget to use my code to check out. So like I mentioned, today's episode is, |
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