Dreamers... Natasha Dickens

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[00:00:50] All right, all right. Welcome back, welcome back to 12th Street Talk Back, where transparency is our love language. It is freedom, Fridays and everybody.

[00:01:16] And you know what we do on freedom Fridays. We have some amazing guests in the house telling their testimonies with their entrepreneurs or they have a testimony that they want to give to God for the people.

[00:01:30] Because you know, he uses us as his vessels. But first and foremost, like we do all the Tom guys, let's give God some praise. Heavenly Father, we thank you this morning for breathing your breath into our bodies today.

[00:01:46] Heavenly Father, we thank you right now for your fellowship, Father God. Everybody in the house, Father God, we ask that you bless them from the crown of their heads to the soul of their feet. Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father, we know that you are our strength, Heavenly Father.

[00:02:03] And we thank you today for the fellowship. We thank you today for your grace and mercy because we know that it is new every single day. Heavenly Father, we hope that everything that we do today, Father God, be unacceptable unto you in the mighty name of Jesus.

[00:02:22] We pray, amen and amen. So listen, guys, we got some goodies, goodies, goodies in the house for you today. Today, we have in the house Natasha Dickens. Guys, Natasha Dickens is passionate about her faith and her family. She is a loving wife and mother.

[00:02:50] She faithfully attends new lives, Habernacle with the unine at pinnacles church for over 20 plus years. And enjoys ministering and including prayer, youth and choir. Natasha is a licensed mental health counselor. She is published in the early child development and care. Her favorite scriptures are Philippians 413 and Acts 2.

[00:03:20] 2. 38 Natasha is late back, quiet person. Will enjoy his praying, traveling and trying new things. Guys, please welcome to the show. Natasha Dickens. Hey, Natasha. How are you? I am great glad to be here. Thank you for having me.

[00:03:40] You're welcome and so nice to have you in the building. I have been excited about this love that we're doing because you specialize in not just mental health and you're not my first mental health coach on here, our counselor. But you deal an early childhood counseling. Yeah.

[00:04:03] And I really wanted to tap into that for all my listeners. But first tell us a little bit about Natasha who you are as the person. I love people. I have always loved people even from an early childhood. I was talking to my husband about it recently.

[00:04:21] I would be the person in the class that just like to make people smile. So if I saw somebody sad in class, I would just go up to them and say what's wrong.

[00:04:29] And so what people were always put in my yearbook, even as a child, like third grade, I can see you being a counselor. Because I can tell you all of my secrets. If I have a problem, I tell you.

[00:04:39] So I've always loved people and it's still due to this day. I love seeing people smile. I love seeing people get through whatever they're going through. I am also a wife. I've been married this year of it ten years. It's been my amazing husband. Congratulations. Thank you, Tanya.

[00:04:59] Thank you, Tanya. First of all, we have one daughter and I am a happy, content mom with a free me who was born at 23 weeks. Our daughter named Grace and she's been blessing in my life. Great. I talk about her. Great. God. How old is she?

[00:05:21] She's five years old. Yes. I tell you what, it's nothing better than having them when they're small and that age. And especially when you can feel them what God has given to us and God. He's interested his children too.

[00:05:38] And there's no better gift than when you get a gift from God like that. So I thank you. I'm glad that you're a happy, bubbly person in the future. So let's talk about your faith walk. Let's dive into that a little bit.

[00:05:59] And how that coincides with you being a mental health counselor? So I always, I can remember when I was like five and I just, I was having a conversation with one of my cousins and they said, No, I don't believe God. And I got so mad at them.

[00:06:16] There is a God. You need to believe in God. So I've always had in great in me that I knew that there is a God. I know that he, you know, he sees all of us. I've always been passionate about God and knowing more about him.

[00:06:29] And then that continued probably in my middle school year. I had a friend who was in the church and my parents were not really faithfully in the church. But my mother always took us to church even though she didn't really live the life.

[00:06:42] She still knew that was the right thing to do. She took us to church and I was very much interested in bringing the Bible and learning more about God. But it probably wasn't until my college years where I really became focused.

[00:06:56] Went to college, University of South Florida and Tampa, Florida. And then I came across one of my good high school friends and she invited me to church in the rest of the history that was almost 20 years ago. And I've been at the church ever since then.

[00:07:10] It's a United Pentecostal church. So as Apostolic Pentecostal, so I'm got baptized there, feel with the Holy Ghost and then delve right into ministry. And it was the best thing I could have done for my life. Oh gosh. Oh gosh.

[00:07:22] Girl, we got a lot in common. We got a lot in common. I can't go from an apostolic church. Oh wow. Oh my God. Wow. You know, we know about the Holy Spirit. He is our present helper. Yes. And we might have a step to 40. Yeah.

[00:07:41] That's all right. Yes. Wow. Wow. Wow. God really blessed you. So you're in the ministry. Are you particularly in the youth ministry? You didn't you dabble in that. Yeah, I've been in this ministry for over 20 years. I probably longest standing person in the youth ministry as a leader.

[00:08:00] And I played various roles right now. I'm kind of just. Given advice and kind of an advicey. I did youth prayer for a while. I'm heavily involved in our prayer ministry at our church. I'm very passionate about prayer, which probably will talk a little bit about today.

[00:08:15] And, and I like to sing. I'm on the praise team. Don't ask me to sing nothing because I'm like. I'm doing it. I'm on the wall here. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. But I am in the choir.

[00:08:27] And I just love singing to God. Just giving him. I am in the choir. And I just love singing to God. Just giving him praise and I do it all around the house. Singing, get my daughter singing with me. Just giving glory and just praising him.

[00:08:40] So those are my top three ministries. I do other stuff too. But those those three. I have really committed to for the long haul. Oh wow. You got your hands full. You got your hands full. And you have a journal which we're going to tap into.

[00:08:55] And it's called joins. Yes. And yeah. And speaking of dreams, I saw on your website where you can write in it anything. Dreams, your day-to-day life. Yep. And why did your name at dreams? Because I was thinking more so alone the lawns of when you dream.

[00:09:19] I'm a dreamer. And I do write down stuff as a matter of fact. I had the weirdest dream last week. And I actually woke up and drew a picture of what. I dreamed because I was trying to decipher it.

[00:09:32] How do you suggest using your journals in that way? Especially, you know, with us being Christian, space, welcome with Jesus Christ. Dreams are important because he gives us songs through people, dreams, confirmation through the world. Yes. So the dreams journal.

[00:09:51] I'm going to put it up for anybody I want to see. This is what it looks like if you go to amazon.com or that link. And what it, what it birth came out of is amazon. I've been dreaming for years.

[00:10:03] I didn't really know what to do with it. I was like, okay, god, you're giving me dreams. What do I do with this? And so when I started the church, I had a dream about a couple that was getting married. And I didn't know the couple.

[00:10:15] I didn't know anything about them. So I went up to the young lady. I said, hey, I had this tree dream that you were getting married to this guy in a church. And she just looked at me. It was like, that's actually what's getting ready to happen.

[00:10:26] And we're having all of this chaos in order to get married. And I told I would commit to praying for them, which I did. They've been married now for over 20 years. I've been in church for 20 years. Over 20 years. So they did get married.

[00:10:37] And so to me that was like the start of God trying to show me their more to dreams. And I think there was. And so I would document in my journals. What addrint, you know, if I experienced something,

[00:10:49] if it was like a pick, if God showed me something, I would draw out the picture like you said, if I smelled something, if I felt something. And so I would document my dreams. And several years, just my last year, I was like, and I was like, lower,

[00:11:01] I feel like you want me to birth something. I don't know what this is. And he's like, I've been giving you this for our years, which is dreams. I've always documented my dreams for years. And I was like, I had never realized the connection

[00:11:12] and you're just saying how important it is for us to write down what he's given us, where there is dreams or a scripture or a face or a country. He's, people are saying God is not talking. Well, he is speaking.

[00:11:25] It's just we need to pay attention that he is talking to us. He's giving us things to pray about to do something about them. Exactly. Exactly. I can share it now. I just came out for fast just today. Oh, right.

[00:11:38] And he dropped it in my spirit on Wednesday. And I didn't do it. And immediately, immediately, I got convicted. Wow. And I say, God, if you will give me one more day, give me one more chance. Yeah. And I woke up yesterday morning and I did my fast.

[00:12:00] I started at midnight the night before and I fasted away to 630 yesterday. And he will. Yes. As you say, he will give you things to scripture. He'll talk to you through scripture. He'll talk to you just in prayer and worship. I like to worship a lot.

[00:12:19] I like to get my prayer out of the way and not be too. Maldives, I wouldn't say in the word. Have many words. Yes. I like to worship because that's what we're all going to be doing anyway. When we get to have him.

[00:12:33] We're not going to have any titles. It will be no business, evangelists, practices. We're going to be worshiped. And the funny thing about that is when I came out of my fast just today. I felt renewed.

[00:12:47] I felt like I got some answers to the things that I was asking him for. They did not come right away. They came about to look like this morning. Wow. And I said, wow. And it was confirmation on everything that I was going through. My head.

[00:13:03] Second guessing and I kind of wanted a confirmation from him. But sometimes we don't get it. And I've been wanting this confirmation for, I guess a couple years and I found the guy that is just as plain as welcome the street.

[00:13:16] You know how we say, God, make it as plain as crossing the street. Yes. But I'll know that don't hit me in the face. So that is amazing. That is amazing. Would you say, um, this a gift that got bestowed on you to the cyber dreams?

[00:13:33] It is a gift. Not just for me, but there's quite a few individuals. There was a lady at my church. She was recently passed away and she was known as the dream interpreters. So she would interpret dreams. So I was always going to her.

[00:13:45] I'm like, I had this dream. Good evening. Tell me what it means. I had this dream. And over time she started to show me how to interpret dreams. And what God was trying to say. But I realized not everybody is dream as often. And there are some individuals.

[00:14:00] There's so many gifts in the body of Christ. And I believe dreams are one of them. Dreams are a group of people that are dreaming that God is using. Profitically to show them what is getting ready to happen. What has happened? What's currently happening?

[00:14:14] I'm a heart that you decipher. I'm a heart that you decipher. I'm a letter that you have to decipher. I'm a letter that you have to decipher. I'm a heart that you have to decipher. I know what it is, but you know. You just never know sometimes.

[00:14:30] We can think one way and the Holy Spirit here. We try to tell us a whole different way. Yes, so true. So in your faith, journey. How did you decide to come to Christ? I know you told us briefly in the beginning.

[00:14:44] But you've been walking this wall for 20 years. And it started with you going to church with your parents. Although they weren't into church as heavy as you are. What made you turn your life over to Christ? What was that deciding factor for you?

[00:14:59] Like I said, I've always had a hunger for God. But when I went to college, I went away to college. So my hometown is Miami border and I wanted to get away. I wanted to see what I'd be able to be able to stand.

[00:15:12] And I really do, I have, what are my morals? My values? And so going away to college for me was finding out who I am. What do I stand for? And just really defining who I am.

[00:15:22] And I visited a lot of churches from, and I don't know what the listeners are from Catholic. And I went to so many different churches, just searching for something, searching for something, searching for truth.

[00:15:35] But when I went to this particular church, which is what I go to now, I just felt different. The atmosphere was different. And I had already been reading the Bible. So even though I wasn't necessarily going to church consistently as a younger kid,

[00:15:49] I've always had a love for the Bible. So I was always reading the Bible, a temporary the Bible throughout the whole thing as a kid. So I knew the word. So people couldn't come and tell me something foolish, because I knew the word. Yeah.

[00:16:03] So one of the things I loved about the church that I met now is that you could tell that they followed the scriptures. And that to me was life changing. I also, I'm really big about watching people's walk.

[00:16:14] So they tell me one thing and they're doing something else. Then I wasn't really like feeling that. And so my friends, she really did live the life. And I was part of the gospel choir at the time on the college campus.

[00:16:27] And I had heard other people were going to this church. And I watched their walk too without them even though when I kind of watched their walk, and I saw something different. I saw the way that they live, the way that they carry themselves was different.

[00:16:39] And to me, I wanted different. I knew that I wanted to be different. And that minister to be more than anything else was watching their lifestyle. So our lifestyle, people are watching you, whether you realize it or not. That's right. That really minister to me.

[00:16:53] So that's what got me to start going to the church and in the rest of the history. I've been at the church ever since. So you had to be every bit between 18 and maybe 21. Well, that's what happened then. About 18, 19. Wow, you know, that's amazing because some of us,

[00:17:08] and I grew up in the church with my grandmother was the minister. Founded my grandfather built it with his own hands. Oh, well, you'll standing. It's probably been there now about 70 years. Amazing. Same church we just did.

[00:17:28] We did the bathroom but the amazing thing about it is I live in North Carolina as in Virginia. So now I'm flip flopping back or between my home church, which is a North Carolina. And we were all under the same body.

[00:17:41] So it was it was no no brainer. I'm here in North Carolina that's my church away from home. But when you say that, you know, growing up in the faith, you tend to walk away from it at the age that you embraced it.

[00:17:59] And the good thing about that, and I'm always telling my young folks is when it is instilled in you at such a young age, you always have something to come back to. And in this world that we live in today,

[00:18:14] that is my biggest fear for my theory that they keep their eyes on the kingdom of heaven and all this righteousness. And I know life is going to lie. Things are going to get in the way, especially if you're not walking with Christ,

[00:18:27] but I want to be able to instill Christ in them enough that if they turn away, they always have something to come back to like idea. I mean, I came back my late 40s always prayed always, you know, went to church.

[00:18:49] But you know, your heart has to be there. God wants you to follow and love with him. And that I'm doing now with the show. Trying to let the listeners know, I think we got to get a way from,

[00:19:03] let me say this Holy Spirit is showing me how to say this, let me be into this respectful, preaching about the blessing. And if you're in the world and your mind has not been shrived for warmth, when some people come to God, they come thinking the blessings are,

[00:19:24] oh, I'm going to be rich. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. And it does not happen immediately. Or if ever, I'm going to be a good one. But I want them to know that God wants you to follow and love with him first, right?

[00:19:39] And then all his righteousness, all his glory, everything that he has stored up for you, it'll be added until you, according to his riches in glory. And that's the main message now. And I have to admit even growing up in the church seeing,

[00:19:58] my mom was always like that. Turned it like over the cries. I can't pay my bills. What's going on? You know, and you have to, as he mature me in him, he lets me know you got to renew your mind.

[00:20:11] And I'm going to have to tear you down. I'm going to have to build you back up. I might tear you down some more because you've got a lot of junk that you've been carrying around with you. That flesh needs to be broken. It needs to be killed.

[00:20:24] Not tamed. But killed so that we can get to the root of what I want you to do. I need to be able to trust you. I can't use you if I can't trust you. Yeah. So that was amazing that, you know,

[00:20:39] you started this faith wall so early and being out on your own, just trying to discover yourself. So how do you feel after you did? Obviously you felt great because you've been doing it for 20 years. There were challenges as anything. There were never backslid,

[00:20:57] but there were definitely challenges to teach and to teach. So much, but what kept me was my first lady told me co-to-vater lifestyle of prayer. And it was probably the best advice she would have gave me.

[00:21:13] One of the best advice she's giving me a lot of good at great advice. And so at a young age at 18, I was under a puke for all the time. Most of my friends were going shopping and doing stuff with there's nothing wrong with that.

[00:21:25] But I was spending that time just in God trying to find out who I was, what is my purpose and the king then? What is my purpose and life? So I don't spend the next, like the Israelites the next 40 years wandering because I don't know what to do.

[00:21:39] Yeah. And I kind of found who I was in my 20s. In my, those 18, 19 when I came into the church to 20, my 20s was one of some of my best times in prayer. I would spend days and fasting. And just really literally I would tell somebody other day,

[00:21:54] I would lock myself into the church keys as I'm much of my 20s. And I would lock myself over the weekend, sometimes or night at church. And pray and worship being in just be me and a Lord.

[00:22:05] And who's the, that could have been the best thing I could have done from my walk because it really helped me. Today I can't do that because I'm pulled in a lot of different ways as a scripture says now I'm a wife and a mom.

[00:22:15] Although I do pray but it's not like how I could have when I was in my early teens. Yeah you have a lot of freedom. Yeah. I think it's the opposite for me now. Now that I am an empty nest or I have a lot of time. Yes.

[00:22:28] They're in prayer and fasting and all the good stuff. And you know, all the layers get shed. It sheds away. I mean, I was just saying yesterday, I enjoy people. I enjoy family and friends but I enjoy just spend

[00:22:43] a time and getting to know the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is what makes the intercessions too Christ on our behalf. Yeah, you got to get to know him. He walks around with you. I've never present helper.

[00:22:58] And you just got to, it's just a great feeling just to know that you can spend that quality time. And I'm glad that he puts just me at this time, this day and time now in my life where I can spend that time

[00:23:13] get that wisdom, get that knowledge, get that understanding. So I am so excited for you. I'm excited for you. So with all your wisdom, without your knowledge, you became a therapist, a licensed therapist and that. And one of your specialties is child children's mental health.

[00:23:35] Talk to us a little bit about that and what it looks like on a day-to-day basis for you. I love the kids. I love the kids. And so I've always worked with the kids. I work with adults as well. I work with family. I work with marriage couple.

[00:23:50] My heart is for the kid. I'm so excited for all of your time. So I've always worked with families. To everybody that. On the day-to-day basis, I have a, I have my job. My main job which I do 40 hours for. And that is, I have.

[00:24:05] I'm a sign actually to, I was state. I work for company. I went along to say their name. We were doing podcasts or anything like that. But I work for a large company. And I'm a sign to reach out to therapists.

[00:24:17] And I give them feedback in that state and let them know I give them feedback because of my years of experience in that I'm licensed. And then I have my own personal, my business, which I see clients personally. It's not so much going on right now with children.

[00:24:34] A lot of them are dealing with anxiety. I see a lot of ADHD cases. Put a lot of anxiety, especially post-COVID. So many issues have come out in the home. And kids are having to deal with that. Adults are trying to manage if the best they can.

[00:24:50] Kids are having to deal with when finances are tight or when parents are not getting along and just kind of working through that. So I see a lot of anxiety for kids on my case load. But they're hungry for it.

[00:25:03] I love working with kids because a lot of them, and I see they want to change. They want to see a difference. They want to make that difference. And they want to make a change. And they're willing to put in the work.

[00:25:14] Well, let's tap into that for just for one moment. You said two things that I'm curious about because this season, I've had a lot of life coaches on Christian life coaches and therapists. And I didn't want to classify it any other way. And you said counselor.

[00:25:35] So is there a difference between the two for me? Yes, there is a difference. So for I'm not too, my sister's a life coach. So there is like certification to become a life coach. I believe some people may go to some school,

[00:25:50] a little bit of schooling for that. But it's very different from a licensed mental health counselor. So we actually have to have a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. The master's degree is typically in mental health counseling. And if you're licensed, which is an extra step,

[00:26:08] you now have to meet before a board and take a test. And so we meet before a board of individuals, of other professionals. We take a test and submit our documentation to the board in our state.

[00:26:22] And in this state, we'll approve or deny our application to be licensed. There's also a certain amount of hours we have to meet to be able to be licensed. So it's a few extra steps to be licensed as opposed to just being your regular counselor.

[00:26:34] Somebody has licensed have done a few extra things including taking a state exam and having to submit documentation to the state to be approved to be licensed. License individuals can start their own practice, private practice. If you're not licensed, you can't start your own private practice.

[00:26:50] For a life coach is very different. They're not counselors. They taught us in school to be very clear. So like for instance, I'm not a psychologist. I'm just a licensed mental health counselor. There's different levels for life coach.

[00:27:03] They're not supposed to say a dare counselor because they're technically just they're coaching people. They're giving tips and guidance. They're not supposed to necessarily give mental health advice because it's that's designed for the mental health field. But those mental counselors. Thank you for breaking that down for me.

[00:27:21] Thank you for breaking that down for me really honestly because I caught that as I was looking over your bio and I've had therapists. I've had coaches and I do see a different sense of what she says she's a counselor. I'm glad not that broke that down.

[00:27:37] And every role is so important. My sister, she's a life coach and she's phenomenal. She encourages people from when I understand she tries to get them from point eight to point B. I just take a different approach. I'm using some therapeutic techniques.

[00:27:50] I'm using what we call cognitive behavioral therapy. I'm using DBT. I might use some therapeutic approaches. She might use something different. And then she basically still trying to get people to change their mindset or improve their living. But it's just a different method. Oh wow. Well thank you.

[00:28:08] I know because I have some wonderful people on the side of herself. Let's talk about that pandemic, pandemic and ADHD because in our children I know a couple people in the educational field teachers and they said they came back a little rowdy.

[00:28:30] No, I guess we were still going through the pandemic. They came back a little rowdy as we see in our society today. A lot of anger, a lot of don't want leadership. I'm not going to say disrespect, but leadership guidelines have kind of the roles have switched.

[00:28:53] And I'm saying this from a point of view of a couple stories that I heard from people close to me even as young as Kenny Garten, the third grade. And I know the pandemic with the children having to adapt to being in the home, being home-spold.

[00:29:10] So you ready for me? The pandemic brought out. That's like a whole new, a whole new podcast of just to talk about the pandemic. To give you insight as a therapist what I had to deal with, I had parents calling me during

[00:29:27] the pandemic and said, name your costs. That's how much I need your services. Whatever you say I will pay it. There was such a need and there still isn't it's such a need for therapists and individuals stepping in.

[00:29:39] For ADHD and for those that may not know what that means, it's a tension deficit hyperactivity disorder. Those are individuals that have a hard time sitting still. They're moving a lot. And this could be children or adults, which we typically see at diagnosis children.

[00:29:54] So what I saw with clients that had ADHD during the pandemic is you have the pandemic caused everything to shut down. You really couldn't go anywhere we were trying to steal from her. What is this COVID virus?

[00:30:06] And so parents, God bless the parents out there had to do a dual role. You had to now work and become the teacher. And if we took the toll, some of us are just not meant to be teachers. That's why we used to them off the school.

[00:30:19] I thought it's the app, you know. I don't want to teach you. For my daughters, teachers, I love them. I make sure I send them nice gifts because that's just not my gift.

[00:30:29] And so we had some parents that just did not have the structure in place for kids that have ADHD. For individuals that have ADHD, structure is highly important. Consistency is important without that it causes their mind to become fragment. They're all over the place.

[00:30:45] They're not going to want to. I have ADHD that will tell me they will do the homework and not submit it because they just forgot. They're very forgetful. And so what we had during the pandemic is you had parents trying to do multiple roles extremely stressed out.

[00:30:59] They're still trying to carry a 40 hour, you know, whatever they're job is. They may not be 40 hours. It could be 60 hours. It could be 10 hours. Nonetheless, they're trying to do multi tasking and like it's parent in like teaching is not for everybody.

[00:31:13] And so they were trying to teach, especially if you have a child that has mental health issues or have ADHD, they really do highly recommend a classroom. I'm setting for them, getting those additional support at the school offers. Some schools could offer what's called an IEP plan.

[00:31:28] They can slow some things down for the kids if they do have certain disorders like ADHD. They can give them extra time to turning class work because they know they're going to probably miss the deadline.

[00:31:40] They can give them extra time to take tests and so the school also helps to see things that sometimes we don't always pick up. Right? Yes, we love our kids but they can also see when, well, maybe that child might need glasses.

[00:31:51] They like their straining where I was at home everything might be close to them so it doesn't look like they need glasses but as school they can, there's another set of eyes. So during the pandemic we saw a lot of cases, especially with children ADHD that

[00:32:05] where they were struggling which then creates when you're not getting your needs met, especially for ADHD, it creates anger issues, it creates meltdowns, it creates temper tantrums which then further frustrates the guardian or whoever might be watching that child or might be providing the care.

[00:32:21] So that was quite a bit during the pandemic and actually we're still seeing some of those results. As kids now have gotten back into the school, a lot of them are returning to school. Now it's re-adjusting to being back in the clash.

[00:32:33] I've been home on my parents for two years, three years and now re-adjusting being back into structure. So you know, indeed, I have a daughter by 27-year-old was diagnosed with ADHD. And my younger, she was diagnosed at five.

[00:32:52] And you just spoke about the IP is an EP or IP-E program that's too long. You did all that and we were constantly at the school for a while now, she was on medication for it.

[00:33:08] They gave her the option at 16 to come off of it if she wanted to. And she did that and she ended up making the decision on her own again and her 20s to get back on it. And we noticed her focus wasn't all the way there.

[00:33:25] Excellent, excellent artists. I mean, can do everything in detail, but just getting her to focus, she was just kind of like all over the place. So I definitely definitely get it. But she wasn't a hyper child. She was more to include it. I'm glad you said that.

[00:33:40] There's two different types. There's ADHD, which is hyper and then there's ADD, which is they're not hyper. But they may have just issues with concentrating inability to focus. So I actually have an adult client right now for my personal business.

[00:33:54] She is, I think she's 1920 and she recently had to be placed on medication because she has ADD. An ability to focus. She's always had it but never really received treatment for it. But it caused detrimental effects to school work because she could not focus.

[00:34:11] So she ended up failing a lot of classes and so getting her own medication now has helped her to become a little bit more focused and get back on track. I definitely get it.

[00:34:22] My youngest, they diagnosed her with ADD and I think they just did that coming on the heels of her sister thinking that maybe it was the same. But she never showed any symptoms straight A student focused.

[00:34:42] So we have to be careful too with a whole sibling thing and just because one has it, maybe the other one hasn't because she, you know, everybody's different. Everybody's different, everyone are different.

[00:34:55] I always try to, if I see a client, they may come with history from another counselor. I always try to assist the client to see where they're at right now because what they could have been five, ten years ago is very different to where they are today.

[00:35:07] And I see a question that came in. I don't know if you will answer this. Yes, as a counselor do you ever talk up to your patients about God? That's a good question because I have a work for a company. I am very careful about that.

[00:35:26] If the patient opens up and asks me, I will always be honest and truthful because I work for God. He's my first boss. So if a patient comes to me and they say, do you believe in God? I will go into it.

[00:35:41] I don't necessarily delve into it unless the patient wants to then I will open up and I'll begin to talk to them about God. I do have some patients that are Christian faith worthy.

[00:35:52] We have already established that open door from the beginning so then I do bring up scripture. I bring up some things that relates to God so then I will talk to them about God.

[00:36:01] And a quick story, I want to bring up a work for foster agency for almost nine years. I loved it and I had a client who, oh, goodness, she put me through the ringer. I'll say that much.

[00:36:12] Just if you have been through a lot, sexually abused, physically abused or she've been through a lot, a lot of people have given up on her and I was determined not to give up on her.

[00:36:19] And then one day she just asked me, she started talking to me about God and I double check with my boss and said, is it okay? And she's like, actually, go ahead and you know, I always wanted to make sure that yes,

[00:36:29] I'm still being very mindful and ethical. And so she went up talking about God and she actually ended up saying can I come to church with you? That would check my boss again. I said, is it okay? She, it's her, she has. And my boss gave the okay.

[00:36:43] She sure enough did come to church, get baptized. We're still excited and it's been a turning factor for her. It started turning her into more positive direction just making some steps and with her walk with God.

[00:36:55] So if they open the door, I will say I would gladly walk in and talk about God. But I try not to make that the focus I try to make sure I'm giving them the treatment that they're there for, whether it's a variety or depression.

[00:37:10] That's our main conversation. But if they talk about God, I will share within the deafening. Let's talk about that. Praise God. Praise God. That's the testimony all into it in the day.

[00:37:19] Oh, it gives me joy when I tell that story because and I wish I could see that client now since left that company. But it was beautiful to see that she saw my walk with God. She saw there was something different.

[00:37:31] All the other therapists had given up on her. She was a difficult case. They were timeless. She had gotten up in my face one time as if she was going to hit me. I've never had a client hit me think of this.

[00:37:41] But I come close and I was like, Lord, I need you to take over because I'm listen, I might be saved. But I do know I'm coming from the street now. That's right. I'm not going to come on for trouble.

[00:37:54] But the law was just like, be silent and that's what happened. I was just silent and I told her when you're ready to have counseling. When you're ready for me to be here, I will be here.

[00:38:04] And she went to her room and she cried and I just sat there and I waited because I'm there for an hour. I was sitting wait. I'm not. I got not nothing to do.

[00:38:13] And she came out and she said, she, and I don't know, this is what she says. She says she had this experience almost like an angel came to her. I was like, you need to go apologize to that's my servant. You mess with the wrong one this day.

[00:38:25] And she never had that happens to her. And she did come and she apologized to me and we'd never had that experience after that. Not totally. That's not okay. We don't get in people's faces. Especially if we're trying to tell you something to improve you.

[00:38:37] But I didn't let her intimidate me. I was like, I don't care how big and bad you are because I serve her God who's bigger and better than you. That's right.

[00:38:45] But I like it that I didn't have to raise my voice or yell the Lord dealt with her and hurt his own way. And then she came back and apologized. Wow. Well, he does say in his words, your work's fine before me.

[00:38:58] So that your father in heaven, you put glory in this. What they saw. That's what she saw. But she also saw that she was covered by the blood. Yes. Covered. I'm glad you answered that.

[00:39:14] And I'm glad you shared that testimony with us and doing the child, the children in the mental health field. Does that come up a lot like from maybe the parents or let's just say the school system pulled you in? And you got that filed.

[00:39:33] Does that come up a lot? And is it a fine line because they took Christianity out of the church prayer? I mean, out of the school's prayer and some people can be, it could teeter on the line of your overstep and what we want to be in school.

[00:39:51] I think you just have to be sensitive to be honest. A lot of principles that they teach us in mental health counseling, some of it aligns or it has come out from the word of God. Some things like thinking positive, that's scripture.

[00:40:05] The Bible says the thing about things that are good, that are honest, that are good report, that's Bible and so I try to stay to clients. I'll kind of tie that in a little bit like, hey, let's do the positive thinking. You know what?

[00:40:17] And if it's a Christian-based family, I know that they will receive it out of state. That's actually from the Bible, thinking of them. So I'll tie it in that way without being overly just kind of dropping little nuggets here

[00:40:29] and there and just putting some, and then in my personal time I'll pray and ask God, help me to be at light to them. I think the biggest thing that kids see is, are you really who you are? That's really big.

[00:40:40] Are you really going to stay with me? Stick with me. Are you going to follow through on what you say you're going to follow through? And that's the biggest testimony that we could have for children, even without me even

[00:40:49] saying God, that right there is a testimony in itself. But sometimes I will drop little nuggets and I will say things. We do get, my private company I get referrals from schools where they say kids aren't

[00:41:02] there having issues or suicidal thoughts and they want us to see the client have them have therapy at home or it's a little bit more additional help. So we do see that. So you can come in as they need you.

[00:41:20] Do they always already have someone else in place and you kind of come in and bring them together? Typically they have, they may have a case manager in place for the ones that aren't school.

[00:41:34] They may have a case manager in place and the case manager may request the referral of the therapist. There's more going on here. This is outside of my school. I now need a therapist to come in and do therapy with this client.

[00:41:45] And so that's what the therapist will come in. For my private property, for other stuff I see where there's nobody in place. The parents may say, my child needs counseling. I think my child needs something more than what I can give or they may need a safe space

[00:42:01] to talk to. One thing I will suggest the parents, I love my parents but what I typically see with parents will do is they'll say, here's my child you do it, you fix it and basically bring them back to me and it doesn't work that way.

[00:42:18] It's a teamwork. Think of it that way when a parent starts taking their kids for therapy. Think of it as a teamwork. We need everybody to be on the same page.

[00:42:26] So as I teach this client, the skills, if the therapist and I tell you the skills asks them if they're anybody listening and you have kids that are in therapy, ask that therapist, hey, what do you teach in my child? So I can emphasize it.

[00:42:37] I can reinforce it at home because therapy at some point will end. I work for an agency. I actually work for it. It's a part of an insurance company and we, I can see, there's a deadline.

[00:42:49] In terms of coming, I'm not going to pay for it for the rest of your life. So I think what's going to be a deadline so the parents now need to know those skills so they can continue that, um, continue those skills at home with their child.

[00:43:01] Continue teaching them how to take a deep breath when they get upset or count to 10, how to journal, um, to write down their feelings, um, when they're feeling overwhelmed or when they have a gratitude journey to be grateful for the things that they've been through.

[00:43:14] So they can continue those skill sets. But my frustration sometimes with parents is, here's my child, you fix them. I fix them quickly and then, you know, I'll take them back. And it does. I definitely concur. I do. I can occur.

[00:43:29] I don't know if you remember if you ever heard it last year was a video that went viral with a young man that beat his teacher slander to the ground. I think it was somewhere in Florida. But they did say that he had some mental health challenges.

[00:43:45] Um, and I believe ADHD was one of them. I did a little piece on it. I'm not too much familiar with it, but I did say that. I think as parents, um, wherever our children are, whether it be in school, whether they're,

[00:44:02] you know, in sports or wherever you're not, I think the rapport needs to be there with that adult. So they know this is how we handle Billy in the household. This is what he's allowed and allowed not to do. This is what happens when this happens.

[00:44:21] He gets a little agitated. So I think that rapport is definitely, it's a must between the parent, the counselor, and anywhere else they go that the routine stays the same because I do have a girlfriend that and she is wonderful. She's a live coach as well.

[00:44:40] And she has a daughter with autism. And she holds school door out of life. Wow. And she is so brilliant and so bright, you wouldn't even know. Wow. But when things get out of order that's only time you see that she's artistic.

[00:44:58] But I love the fact that she poured so much time into her from baby on like she really poured into her daughter and you can tell the difference when the parents are actually hands on and involve with the counselors, with the teachers or any events that they go

[00:45:18] to. So that's great advice to my parents and my parents out there this list. But you mentioned journals. So let's move into your journal. You have a journal. It's called dreams if you want to show it to the audience again. Yes. Here it is.

[00:45:35] This is what it looks like. It's called dreams. It's designed for you to capture your dreams. But not only your dreams, anything that you receive, whether it's a vision for your life, whether it's a word that God has given to you or you can use it there.

[00:45:50] Pudically to express your feelings. I put in a lot of space for my writers. I have people tell me, you know, sometimes they want more space to write. But you've also used it for dreams if you have a dream.

[00:46:03] I'm going to go back if the dream comes to pass or you can receive another point about the dream or you have a second dream. I left a lot of lines in there so that people can go back and put more additional comments.

[00:46:16] I don't know if anybody's like that. I'm like that, well, I may get a word from God and in five years later I'm like, the ties into something I got maybe a year ago or five years ago or something.

[00:46:26] But then I run out of, I ran out of room. So I left a lot of space where people can go back and put in more, you know, if they have to go back into their journal and add more information as life continues to go on.

[00:46:38] So do you have any questions or anything in there? Or is it just no question? No questions. It's just a plain journal, but there are like boxes where you can check off. Is this a sister prayer? Is this your dream? Is this your Bible reading?

[00:46:52] Is it scriptures or other? Because it could be something else. What I found was that I had so many people coming to me from different churches and they would show me their dream like a journal.

[00:47:03] They're showing me their journal and they would say, oh, I can't remember if this was a dream or if this was a vision, they'd look because they wrote it so bad. They couldn't remember what it was. Was this the word from God?

[00:47:14] And so that's why I created mine to kind of check off. So you can say exactly what it is. So if you come back and go back into your journal five, ten years, you know, this was, oh, this was a dream.

[00:47:23] Oh, this was my prayer that God gave me. This was a prayer. And so it just helps people to kind of keep it organized. I got so many journals over the last three years. I don't know where to begin. Very journals.

[00:47:36] I thought Amazon be just typing my name Natasha Dickens. Dreams journal. It should be like this because if you have this other people doing other things, but it should be. Yeah. Everybody's doing the journal and how do you find that journal method for you and

[00:47:53] do you offer that as a part of your therapy for your clients whether they be children or adults? I sometimes go out and buy them the journal. That's how much I believe in journaling. I think journaling is a great way to just, it has been shown through research.

[00:48:08] Just getting your feelings out helps you to get things out at my husband's journaling. I'm sorry for me to tell them that. I think so journaling. I was so excited to see that and it's a great way for both men and women.

[00:48:20] I think some people think it's just for children. Men, women, it's been effective across the board of the origin of the Jews. Journaling is a great way to get your feelings out. Not just for filling, to clear out your dreams, your hopes, aspirations, goals in their journal

[00:48:34] and encourage you to write their dreams. That's why I wrote the dreams journal. If you've got to give you a dream, he's giving the dream to you. He gave it to you for you to do something about it.

[00:48:46] Not your pastor, not your first lady, not the prayer ministry. Yes, you can hand it off to them but he's giving that dream for you to do something about it to pray about it to make sure prayer gets it pray forward whatever the dream might be.

[00:49:00] You exactly right. You're exactly right. We go to Cypher, Monterey, and I'm going to tell you my thoughts and see if we line up after the show. But you said something and I don't have this on here to talk about, but I'd like to see your opinion.

[00:49:16] You're paying in about it. You say that your husband journals. He does. And as we know, we live in an environment now where men are asking for safe spaces.

[00:49:29] And as we as women, we expect them to be the defense, the provider, all of the things that they can carry. And of course, you know, if they put God first, they can go to God to help to God and then the wife and then the children.

[00:49:47] But we see in more in the society that they're looking for safe places. They're calling out they're saying, and some are forming their own groups. We need a place to talk to and women by nature. We're emotional creatures.

[00:50:05] They kind of hold everything inside and we don't expect them to talk about things. So in journaling in the adult part of your counseling is that something that you come across a lot.

[00:50:18] The safe space that the men are asking for now and particularly in our African American communities. They are crying out for safe spaces. They are they're crying out for safe spaces.

[00:50:29] They're crying out for a place where they can be able to vent and talk or just to put their feelings into place. I think men want to talk.

[00:50:38] A lot of men that I've seen, especially in our with our African American men is that you will see they've been told over years. And we're not doing good because with feelings if you constantly hold them in, I tell my clients think of it like a backpack.

[00:50:53] You're constantly stuffing things into a backpack or let's say a purse. Eventually at some point it's going to spill over because the backpack can only take so much. And that's how our feelings are. We're constantly stuffing our feelings. We don't talk about this issue. We hold it in.

[00:51:06] We don't talk about that issue. We hold it in. It's eventually going to spill over and what is this spill over? It looks like irritability. It's like hot symptoms. It looks like anger. It looks like depression. It looks like anxiety.

[00:51:15] So it starts to spill over because we're not addressing those issues. So I encourage men. Please go get help. Seek help. It's okay. I want to make sure I say that it's okay to talk to somebody. A lot there, you know, talk to a counselor. Journal.

[00:51:31] Put it down in a journal. They even have apps where you can download a journal and just kind of write out your film. You don't know what to write. Just write out what you're thinking. I had a rough day today.

[00:51:42] I can't believe my boss did this to me right out your thoughts and start there and eventually we'll continue to develop. Just write out your thoughts and turn it into a prayer to God or, you know, however you want to do it.

[00:51:54] My husband, he kind of writes it sometime. He writes it as a prayer to God or he might, you know, he, it says he, but I don't know, he does his own things. I don't even, but everybody has a different way of journaling.

[00:52:03] But it's just writing out your thoughts, whatever you might feel. Your insecurities, which you might not like. You're going to be able to go on. It's a great way to get your feelings out. And I concur, I concur. You know, my husband, he's a silent type.

[00:52:16] I thought, well, just he's just in think mode. And he, and again, like you say, they've been taught to hold everything. And we don't add to it when we come to them with our problems. Some of us are a little bit mildly.

[00:52:31] Well, you're supposed to be the man. We think that there's supposed to know everything. And I will say this in particular, if God is not the head of their life, then they're not going to get the answers and the peace that they want.

[00:52:47] So either either way, whether you're Christian or you're not a Christian, journaling is a great way to get some of that anger out because as you know, things can happen that we can't take back.

[00:52:59] And it can be a snap as a finger that you didn't mean for, but you're just carrying so much around. And I think we, I think that's a great thing that has been brought. First of all, I think that mental health being brought into the today's society.

[00:53:18] You know, I'm an old school girl. I'm probably a young soldier than you. You know, it didn't play a big part in our community. We were told to pray about it. And leave it alone.

[00:53:31] Stop wandering about it, feeling your big girls a big boys panties and just keep it moving. God's going to handle that. But now it looks different because back in the day I think we are in our parents, if they

[00:53:45] had counselors like yourself come to the end and say, I'd notice certain behaviors in your child. We always thought mental health was, they're going to have to be institutionalized or medicated or something like that.

[00:54:02] Back in the day, Rylan was real big in the African American community instead of giving them the counseling that they needed. They put a lot of African American kids on Rylan and somewhere hyper already and didn't you need that.

[00:54:19] So it looks different now as we talk about mental health because we're starting to talk about our feelings. That's from both parties, what it looks like as a man and as a woman saw. I think the safe space thing is great.

[00:54:33] I'm thinking, I think you permission that your husband journals for any of my men out there this listen, it's okay because I heard a pastor say something here recently. And he said, ladies, if you violate a man's trust, if he tells you something and you

[00:54:51] violate it and you use it against him in an argument or tell someone else, then they won't tell you anything else again. And I thought, wow, that's not the way to be, especially in a marriage. But I think that most men do think like that.

[00:55:08] What would you say about that comment? Because I'm pondering at it and I don't know if it's, I know it's definitely not the right thing to do. But then you don't want to open up to someone that is going to use it as a weapon towards you.

[00:55:24] Absolutely, I think it goes for women too. It's the same statement. If somebody's trusting you and they're sharing or, you know, you want to be careful with what they tell you, you want to hold it at confidential or not to use it against them, especially

[00:55:38] for men because respect is a big thing for men. And not having things thrown back into their face. I trusted you and I shared this with you and now you're throwing it back in my face. Again, come across very hurtful.

[00:55:51] I see a lot of marriage issues because of that. And so what I encourage women is if they're trusting you with something or just to be mindful of that, it can be hard because especially in the heat of an argument, you want to use,

[00:56:03] you may not have a lot of things tools. You can use, the important thing you think of is what will probably really hurt them. But once that doors open, it can be difficult for to get to get them to trust again. Exactly.

[00:56:15] It can be impossible, but I think it would be difficult to get them to trust. So tell us a little bit about your private practice before you go. We talked about you in the business realm with the company that you work for with children.

[00:56:28] Tell us a little bit about your private practice. I have a private practice. I'm pretty much doing it on the weekends on my days off and I see clients. I just see a couple of clients because I don't want to try and make sure self care.

[00:56:42] I'll say that as well as very important. I don't want to overwhelm myself. But I love the idea of seeing clients with my main job. I don't necessarily see clients at over the other therapist and just make sure they're doing what they're supposed to be doing.

[00:56:53] But my private practice, I get a chance to just hear clients out and give them some tools. I love seeing the progress. That to me is exciting. I have a client now when she started with me. She was severely depressed. She was suicidal.

[00:57:06] She was at the point of pretty much needing to be be corrected, which is taking her to a hospital for mental health thing. But after seeing her, we've been meeting for a couple of months now. She's not thinking I'm going back to school. She's more positive.

[00:57:19] She's on medication so I love seeing when somebody goes from like night to day. That reminds me of my calling and why I am here. So I see private, I do see clients. I don't have a lot of open slots. I'm very limited at it.

[00:57:37] And I will say I'm selected. I'm selective. If I don't think it's something I can do right now, it's too extensive. I probably will refer them to someone else for a reason or something that I specialize in. I refer to someone else.

[00:57:48] I do have a heart for the kids. So I do see kids. I see adults as well. Do you do couples or you do couples and kids couples single-cells? Yes. And that's in your private and in your professional. I see them all in my professional.

[00:58:05] Most of my case load is kids. But I have all of the areas. But in my private, I see them all as well. But most of them are children that I see. But I do have a doves that I see. I have seen marriage and individuals as well.

[00:58:18] Or I might see one married couple who come in, couldn't get her husband to come in. Might not be able to get their wife. But you might see one of them that come into session. Well, guys, you heard it here. You have heard it here. Natasha Dickens.

[00:58:33] I got two things I want you to do for me. One, I want you to leave us with some words of wisdom from your professional as well as being a Christian, a faith-walk believer. What would you tell our audience today about mental health

[00:58:54] and children adults and walking it as a Christian? Because things happen. And I think a lot of people think because we are Christians, we don't go through things. We go through the fire even more because we know the word. Yes, so it through. Yes, so true.

[00:59:13] Mental health is real. It's not that somebody could just pray away or fast away. If you know somebody has mental issues, please don't minimize it. If they're saying they want to hurt themselves, make sure they get the help that they need. Whether it's reaching out to you

[00:59:27] can start with your pastor or reach now for a mental health counselor, reach now to new assurance to get them connected with somebody to talk to. Please make sure that person gets help. There's a number called 988. It's a crisis hotline. It's everywhere in the United States.

[00:59:41] If you call that number, if anybody is listening, if you're either you're struggling or depressed or you need resources, they can be able to guide you as 24 hours, seven days a week. And for one thing I will say to us but I'm blessing to my life,

[00:59:55] it's just co-savading a life with God. That can solve a lot of your problems. Really living with the Word of God says, reducing your stress level, surrounding yourself around positivity, thinking about things that are positive. You know, I see a lot of issues that we have today

[01:00:12] and a lot of it could be avoided if we just did with the Word of God says, forgiving people for goodness in it. It calls all types of issues, high blood pressure to, you know, so many things that people don't realize. Just the gift of forgiving somebody,

[01:00:26] give the netting stuff go, changing things. So I would definitely say is Fallen of God, Fallen of the Word of God and apply to methods of the Word of God. Yes, sis, sis, thank you for that. Fallen of God, guys, so I'll say that all the time,

[01:00:44] fall in love because he wants us to be in love with you. The second thing I would ask you to do, I've got your website, pinned to the front of the screen. Guys, had it on over to Amazon and get the Tasha's book and started John on.

[01:01:02] Start your John on, especially for my man, my man and even for my women. If you purchase you one, purchase one for the hubby. He may not get to it right away. Purchase one for the children because you'll know their thoughts

[01:01:19] if they choose to share their innermost thoughts with you. I think that's a great idea. Show us the book one more time. There's so much that we could have tapped into today. Yes, guys, let the book looks like, dreams is a run Amazon

[01:01:35] or you can purchase it out for the Tasha's website. Natasha, thank you so much for being here today. There was so much that we could have really tapped into today and I would love to have you back on the show to get into some more things with you.

[01:01:52] I love being here. Thank you so much for having me. I enjoyed it. I did design the journal to be neutral so that a man or woman or child can pick it up and nobody else can talk away though, I kind of designed it that way.

[01:02:03] But I'm honored to be here. I enjoyed this today. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. I did too. I didn't cut up today. I didn't cut up on you. Did I? I know I'm really, I've normally just start talking, talking, talking, talking.

[01:02:17] And I listen back to some of my latest episodes and I'll say you talk too much. Let's hear, let your guests get out what they need to give out. So I was hoping back a little bit today. But guys, thank you. Great information. Thank you for sharing.

[01:02:32] Thank you very much. Yes. And for everybody that knows that's my hubby. We added another. And the intellectual soapbox, which is a dear friend of mine, they said salute to Natasha and to our street tech back. And we have a few more of that's looking

[01:02:50] that it's not in the comments. But thank you guys for joining this show today. Thank you to Natasha for joining this show. Is there anything else that you want to let my listeners know? Facebook, Instagram, we got your website pinned. Where they can find you?

[01:03:06] I don't use that you had limited slots in your personal business. I have a good thought if they wanted to reach out to me, they can go on that link and just send me a message. It will go direct, it sent to me.

[01:03:20] And I can send them that link for the sub-outs. And do have a website. I am on Instagram. I'm not really on a whole lot of social media. Only because I just have a lot going on just to kind of keep my mind clear.

[01:03:30] So Instagram, look me up by my name, Natasha Dickens, or is in Dickens 007 on Instagram. All right, guys. You have heard it here. Thank you, Natasha for coming to the show. Guys, I guess that's it for today. Thank you guys for joining the show with me

[01:03:52] in the Tasha Dickens. Please go out and get her journal dreams. And we have the website pinned. And it is in the show, Nodes, guys. So if you don't do anything else, be inspired today. Go out, get her book, write your dreams down.

[01:04:11] Write your visions down for your future as well as any thoughts. And it's okay. Whether it's man, woman, or child, it's okay to seek coaching, counseling, anything that's gonna help you get through your life as we know it today. Peace and blessings to you all.

[01:04:31] Guys, don't forget to join us Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. Our new time is 130 PM over on our YouTube live stream, where we give guys some praise. We read a little scripture, something to feel your soul. And we all need that in this damn time

[01:04:49] to develop a relationship with Christ. And he'll take you place. As I promise you, he will take you places as well, guys, if you can't do anything else this weekend, give someone a con word, get into a Bible-based church fellowship with like-minded people.

[01:05:07] Let God feed you that word, let the Holy Spirit come on in, be your friend, make him your friend. He'll follow you everywhere you go. He'll give you that wisdom that knowledge, that understanding, that disarmate. But if all else fails, you sit in at home

[01:05:25] and you got the remote control in your hands, watch it on TV, get the word, get to feel yourself and remember, a con word does go a long way, but a hot meal goes even further. Be somebody's light today, let your light shine before me

[01:05:44] and so that your father in heaven can get the glory. Peace and blessings, until next time, if it be in God's will. This podcast is a production of unfiltered studios. If you would like to know more about joining unfiltered studios,

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