FAITH. COUNSELING. RESTORATION.
Welcome, beloved friends!
You are dearly loved and uniquely designed! This space has been created for deeper spiritual growth, being open to tough challenges, iron sharpening, and walking on water through stormy seas. If you have waded through life and landed here, I have prayed for you, and God may be calling you to something BIG! This is my professional counseling practice, personal, artsy, faith-filled career, blog, inspirational space to welcome you into dreaming into the life God has called you to!
Trinity Counseling, LLC
If you've landed here, I just want you to know how brave and strong you are for beginning the process of taking that first step for self-care, or for seeking care for a close friend or family member. I am a Christian counselor offering Biblical-based therapy for both individuals and couples. I believe the work of the therapeutic process is vital to our mental health and well-being. Further, I believe incorporating the peace and love of Jesus Christ, alongside of working towards therapeutic goals greatly enhances the success in overcoming our struggles. I am a Trauma-Certified Cognitive Behavior Therapist. I have 15+ years experience working with childhood trauma, child abuse, domestic violence, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and marriage and family counseling. I seek to provide a safe space to listen, help you find healing, connection and guidance to make achievable steps towards the life of peace you've been hoping for. Overcoming your struggles or life circumstances is possible, but you have to be willing to put in the work for yourself, which starts with loving yourself, here and now.
Let me ask you...
How are you doing? How are you taking care of you?
Are you searching for significance, for purpose - there must be more than this, right? Maybe you're looking for that special someone to call home. Looking for that perfect job, seeking God's direction for the next step in your life. Does it seem hard to find answers, or hard to find contentment in the waiting?
Do you feel just stuck in your marriage, like you just wake up thinking, "How on earth did we get here? Do I even like him anymore? How do we fix this - or can we ever get back to where we used to be?"
Is parenting driving you crazy? Perhaps you parent in ways you never thought you would, or worse - you swore you never would do like your parents did? You're exasperated, you feel alone and you yell or snap at them. You overplan, overcommit to the playdate, never getting a moment to rest or hit the pause button. But you love them fiercely and still blame yourself for not doing more, not doing better?
Sometimes we just feel stuck in the rollercoaster of life's emotions. Finding motivation to reach your goals and keeping up with the day-to-day responsibilities, taking care of you and maintaining a social life balance can be overwhelming. Ever find yourself asking, "What is missing? Why can't I keep up?"
Oh girl, if you relate to any of those questions, I got you! Subscribe to my page and follow me for choosing to live a life that radiates positivity, practical marriage/relationship tips, restoration guidance and blogs that will make you laugh, and sometimes make you cry. You've got this. You were called to a higher purpose, and God is not done writing your story!
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Author and licensed counselor, Mandy Renteria,’ guides you through taking your marriage from hopeless to hope-filled, through forgiving the unforgiveable, and through living in full submission to God.
About
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Here's what you can expect to find here:
*Tangible tools, professional guidance, and inspiration for how to overcome anxiety, depression, and many of life's trials in navigating individual, marriage and family issues.
*Bucket-fulls of Scripture and Godly inspiration to provide you with the resources and inspiration you need to take action steps towards a life of peace in Christ Jesus our Lord.
*Raw, bold, unapologetic, radical faith-based blogs of my writings as the Lord leads me to offer stories of my life, inspirations He gives me, and words He speaks to me. - Bare with me, I am a Mama raising 3 kiddos so my writing time is sparse in this season :)
If you are ready for this life of radical, earth shaking, life-altering faith, join me! Subscribe at the bottom of my page to stay up to date on new blogs, info, and events to come!
May your cup overflow abundantly
Radical Faith Moves Mountains
"The western culture of Christianity is walking in a satanic lullaby."
- Unnamed Pastor in an underground church in Iran.
Church, body of Christ, we must look spiritual warfare in the face, get on our knees with Jesus in prayer, spend time in the Holy Word of God, and stand bold in our faith.
The time is NOW.
Anxiety. Depression. Fear. Anger. Addiction. Tragedy. Hopelessness. These mountains feel like brick walls we will never move. Do you ever wish the fairy tales would just come true, or the superhero stories were reality?
I can easily be described as eccentric, loud and extremely passionate, and I have learned to take them all as a genuine compliment. I believe in wonder and miracles. I dream big. My heart pounds wildly. I feel deeply. I fail miserably. I love passionately. I defend fiercely. In all of it, my faith has been ignited like wildfire.
My faith journey has been quite an interesting ride that led me to making a decision with God that whatever trials or pain I suffered through would not go to waste, but would be used to spread His glory to others and make the devil regret the day he ever chose to test this girl! The Holy Spirit set a fire ablaze inside of me, and there is no turning back from it! In the gospel of John 4: 4-30, Jesus intentionally encounters a Samaritan woman at the well to tell her of a well she can drink of that will never run dry. We find in verse 13, Jesus says to the woman, "Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life."
I hope and pray you will join me in my vision to gather with Jesus at "The Well." May His water be the only water we seek to fulfill our hearts. We all have things we try to escape in this life through various outlets: relationships, exercise, work, drugs, sex, alcohol, self-harm, fame, fortune - you name it. Jesus is the only Well that will never disappoint. He will never leave you. He will never forsake you. His plan might not match yours, but that's where you have to lay your plans at His feet and trust that He is fighting for a better future for you than you can even imagine. Together we will create an army of women for our Savior, smoking out the enemy underneath our feet! We, as daughters of the One True King, are called to stand in the gaps, to fight for our friends, our families, our husbands, our children, our widows, our orphans, our nations! We must stand in the gaps by joining hands in prayer across our nation, our states, our counties, our cities, our zip codes, our neighborhoods, schools, daycares, churches, and it starts in our very own homes. Will you commit to praying with me and fighting the greatest battle ever known, the battle of spiritual warfare amongst us? Let's step out of the boat, and hold hands with our sisters in faith, walking on water with our eyes fixed on Jesus.
This is ME!
Behind the Words
I have many hats and many names, as I’m sure you all do! So in a nutshell, I am Mandy - by my friends; Smom - by my step-daughter; Mom/Mama/Mommy/MOM - by my three precious God gifted children; MB - by my Dad; Nerdwad - if you have a brother, you probably already figured out this nickname came from mine!
Then my favorites: Beloved, Redeemed, Cleansed, Precious, Chosen, Called, Holy, Pure, Blameless, Worthy, Daughter of the King - by my Abba Father, Jesus Christ.
I am a daughter, sister, cousin, niece, friend, wife, step-mom, mother, counselor, homeschool Mom, homeschool tutor, blogger, and a Jesus loving, horse/farm animal-loving woman - writer, aspiring to be published author and speaker to inspire sisters in faith to stand together crushing the enemy underneath our feet and giving God victory in our lives! I have a dream to encourage and inspire every woman I encounter to draw from the wellspring of eternal life - the well of Jesus Christ. There are far too many things pulling on us, going against us, and distracting us. Drawing from any well other than the well of Christ will hold us in captivity or come up dry, leaving us in desparate thirst. And yet, Christ has offered us to drink from His well- the wellspring of eternal life, where we will never thirst again. Jesus tells us it will be a fresh, bubbling spring within you, giving you eternal life. Women are powerful, yes?! Can you even imagine, all our voices in unison, fully known, fully inspired, fully chosen, fully stepping into the wellspring of life bubbling up within us, overflowing an outpour of love like Jesus? This world would never be the same. Rise with me sisters. Let's drink from The Well - Jesus Christ Himself, the ONE and ONLY provider and rest for our souls.
