Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse. Welcome to episode 10 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today Rachel and I are going to be

talking about counseling experiences and how to find a good counselor and when to know if you are having a bad

counseling experience and you need to end it and I just want to say that both Rachel and I have head colds and we are

going to do this podcast anyway. Okay so we both sound a little bit frogy but I think that my husband actually thinks my

voice sounds kind of cute so hey all right okay so first of all, we're going to share,

I thought Rachel and I can just share our own experiences

with counseling.

And I think that, I think that our experiences combined would probably be a good,

give people a good flavor of what it is like across the board

in some ways.

Do you want to start?

Yeah, so I am so thankful to have a good counselor

now that I trust.

I've been going to see her for over a year

and definitely a good relationship there and I plan to continue.

But before I found her, I was emerging from this web of denial and really coming in to see the truth and I realized I don't care what my husband says I'm gonna go find a counselor

My ex-husband had always said that we weren't going to go see

counseling. It was just not something that people in his family did and so I

had listened to that and so I'd never never gone to see counseling even though I really thought it was probably

something we needed to do. So I found a counselor. She was recommended to someone from

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