Episode 6 (Season 2) Relationships: Who God Made Us to Be Guest: Audrey Hardin

About the Guest:
Audrey Hardin is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Dallas and McKinney, Texas with Hardin Life Resources and serves with their non-profit ministry, Business and Professional Outreach Intl (BPO). She is committed to counseling the whole person through an integrated approach as modeled after Luke 2:52.

She holds certifications in attachment and trauma-informed techniques that utilize current neurobiological and physiological research and uses this training in her work with individuals, couples, and groups. Audrey is also a Splankna practitioner and Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider (CMHIMP) and works with her clients to experience greater healing through exploring the connection between emotional and physical symptoms such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, gastrointestinal issues, headaches, and autoimmune diseases.

Like the other Hardins, Audrey approaches the therapeutic process as a blueprint for growth that integrates the whole person. To become “healthy and happy” you must become aware of and nurture development in all four parts of yourself: Physical, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual.

“My goal is to foster holistic growth and help empower you to find and live a full, meaningful life by using collaborative, evidence-based therapy. I believe that through a commitment to growth people can change and therefore, their world can change. There’s a lot of dark, painful brokenness in the world and knowing that restoration is possible through growth gives me hope. Together, we will discover and move through the roadblocks in your past or present that are holding you back personally, relationally or professionally.”

In addition to her private practice, Audrey is a sought-after speaker and workshop leader in Faith-based settings throughout the South. Her expertise in holistic psychology has set her apart and empowered her clients to get “unstuck” from their troublesome thoughts, emotions, behaviors and relational patterns.

About the Host:
A graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Mark Davis came to PCPC as our Youth Pastor in 2003 and became our Senior Pastor in 2009. He and his bride, Kristina, met at a Young Life Camp in 1988 and have five amazing kids, Kara (and husband, Drew), Madalyn (and husband, Jack), Cayden, Esther Kate, & Samuel.

About the Episode:
We are excited to launch this series on Relationships. Join us to hear from Audrey Hardin, LPC, to discuss how we can foster relationships that allow us to live out our freedom in Christ. Often, it is through relationships that brokenness is magnified. Yet, God does not call us to live in relational hurt; He calls us to trust in Him. The way that we go about life, if we don’t resolve our hurts and losses, ends up being self-protective, and God does not call us to live in self-protection. He calls us to live and walk by faith in His love.

The brain, in order to function really well, needs to feel safe and needs to have a sense of value. One of the greatest strongholds and snares on peoples’ lives is the fear of man and the fear of being truly known and truly loved. Audrey encourages us to see people who have hurt us as wounded rather than willful, and if we can learn to see people through their woundedness instead of just not being willing to change, it changes our compassion for them. As Audrey states, “When we are thinking about how to relate with people in a healthy way, we want to be operating from a place of power and not powerlessness. Power does not mean aggression; it means really living as the person that God created me to be. It is feeling confident in who He has created me to be. Confidence in that I can speak what I think and feel and set boundaries and respect you as you communicate what you think and feel.”

Tune in to hear Audrey’s wisdom and experience on how to evaluate where we are physically, relationally, spiritually, and emotionally, so that we can foster healthy relationships.

Resources:
Visit Audrey’s website for the workshops they offer: www.bpointl.org/workshops Counseling: Coaching for Men, Women, and Couples Services here: Hardin Life Resources
And Blog here: Blog — Hardin Life Resources
For any follow-up questions from this episode or ideas for future content, please email us at deeplight@pcpc.org

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