Personal and Spiritual Growth

Create a life you love, deepen your relationship with God, and develop spiritual and emotional maturity.

Here you’ll find blog posts, podcast episodes, videos, and online store products to help you grow as a person, a Christian, and a follower of Jesus Christ. Dr. Jennifer and her guests will help you learn to:
  • Eliminate worry and anxiety
  • Manage stress
  • Quit procrastinating
  • Kick the adrenaline habit
  • Fuel yourself—mind, body, and spirit—in healthy ways
  • Honor your feelings
  • Clarify your priorities & make better decisions
  • Create a unique life plan that works for you
  • Grow your faith in God
  • Deepen your understanding of God’s character
  • Develop a daily quiet time with God
  • Discover exciting truths in the Bible
  • Apply the Bible in your decision-making
  • Use biblical principles in your relationships

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Latest Emotional Health Posts and Podcasts

You Don’t Have to Make the Most of Being Quarantined

You don’t have to “make the most” of being quarantined or sheltering in place. In fact, the expectation that you should be making the most…

Tips for Praying Powerfully When We Are In Trouble, Blessed, Sick, or Have Sinned — Who Can Pray Powerfully (Study of James 5)

When should we pray and who can pray powerfully? In this Tip Talk episode, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares how Christians are to pray powerfully…

Taming Your Tongue Part Two — Tongue Management 102 — Controlling Your Speech (Study of James 3)

In part 2, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares three more tips for managing the tongue based on James 3, including controlling your tongue’s power for good, not evil.

Taming Your Tongue Part One — Tongue Management 101 (Study of James 3)

In part 1, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares three helpful tips for managing your tongue based on James 3:1-5, including: Using your tongue to benefit…

Resources to help you grow as a person, create a life you love, and deepen your relationship with God

Visit our Store for fantastic resources to help you quickly grow personally and spiritually, including Dr. Jennifer’s book, No More Christian Nice Girl: When Just Being Nice–Instead of Good–Hurts You, Your Family, and Your Friends which is chock-full of practical advice on how to set healthy boundaries and kick the people-pleasing habit.
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No More Christian Nice Girl: 3 Steps to Overcoming People Pleasing

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Be the Strong, Confident, and Caring Woman You Were Meant to Be.

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4 One-Hour MP3 Audio Sessions. Includes PDF workbooks for sessions.

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Worry and Anxiety Management Techniques by Dr Jennifer Degler

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Recent Posts

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You Don’t Have to Make the Most of Being Quarantined

You don’t have to “make the most” of being quarantined or sheltering in place. In fact, the expectation that you should be making the most…

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Tips for Praying Powerfully When We Are In Trouble, Blessed, Sick, or Have Sinned — Who Can Pray Powerfully (Study of James 5)

When should we pray and who can pray powerfully? In this Tip Talk episode, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares how Christians are to pray powerfully…

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Taming Your Tongue Part Two — Tongue Management 102 — Controlling Your Speech (Study of James 3)

In part 2, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares three more tips for managing the tongue based on James 3, including controlling your tongue’s power for good, not evil.

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Taming Your Tongue Part One — Tongue Management 101 (Study of James 3)

In part 1, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares three helpful tips for managing your tongue based on James 3:1-5, including: Using your tongue to benefit…

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Tips for Being an Extraordinary Christian in Ordinary Life (Study of James 1 and 2)

Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares how we can be extraordinary followers of Christ in ordinary life based on James 1 -2. Topics include what being…

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Three Steps To Finding Comfort When You Are Afraid

Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares 3 steps to finding comfort when you are afraid based on Psalm 56, including telling God your fears, reminding yourself…

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6 Reasons Why Anxiety May Be a Particular Problem for Christians

While we’d like to think as believers that a strong Christian faith translates automatically into a fearless, worry-free mind, that is not always the case…

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Anxiety and Living in the Land of “What If?”

About 20% of the US population has an anxiety disorder. That’s about one in five people, or 40 million adults. If you were allowed to…

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Success Strategies from God Part 2

In part 2 of a series on success, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares two more of God’s strategies for success as seen in Joshua 1….

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Success Strategies from God Part 1

In this episode of our “Tip Talk” podcast, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares two of God’s strategies for success based on Joshua 1. First, let…

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Discovering God’s Faithfulness Amidst the Bitter Disappointments of Infertility

Infertility, with all of its intrusive procedures, bitter disappointments, and tirades aimed at God, was not how I had envisioned my path to motherhood. Growing...

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Aiming My Way Out of Depression and Anxiety

Guest post by "Claire" (not her real name)   Each time I look down at my bare feet, I see three small arrows. Each is...

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Three Steps to a Triumphant Life

Guest Blog by Janet Perez Eckles I sat on my unmade bed, wrinkled tissue in hand. And with gloom around me, I sighed my misfortune....

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Developing Your Spiritual Life with guest Jane Roach

Start or improve your quiet time with God by following these suggestions provided by Jane Roach, a former BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) director of training…

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No More Christian Nice Girl book overview (with co-author Paul Coughlin)

No More Christian Nice Girl book overview (with co-author Paul Coughlin) 08/12/2010 When passivity and false niceness don’t bring the abundant life Jesus promised, some…

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De-stress for Success

De-stress for Success 08/24/2015 What happens when we are stressed? Some of us believe the myth that we are actually more productive. On this Midday…

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Coping with Transitions

Coping with Transitions 07/27/2015 We expect to feel loss when an unwanted transition happens like a death or a loss of a job. But how…

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What’s Right with Me: Self-Esteem and Co-Dependency

What’s Right with Me: Self-Esteem and Co-Dependency 02/09/2015 It’s so easy to ask the question, “What’s wrong with me?” But what if we asked, instead,…

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Anxiety

Anxiety 06/02/2014 Anxiety! We’re told in scripture, “do not be anxious about your life…” what does that mean in the context of the everyday? On…

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Dealing with Praise and Rejection

Dealing with Praise and Rejection 01/27/2014 We normally like praise and dread rejection. While praise feels good and rejection stings, both have the potential to…

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Growing Up and Growing Out

Growing Up and Growing Out 11/18/2013 Jennifer Degler is back on Midday Connection and she’ll talk about women growing up and not being people pleasers,…

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Millrose Club

Millrose Club 03/22/2013 It’s the Millrose Club on Midday Connection and Dr. Jennifer Degler joins us in the studio in the 4th chair. We’ll talk…

Making Wise Choices

Making Wise Choices 12/03/2012 What influences our choices? We can choose a spouse, a career, even a church, thinking our eyes are wide open, but…

No More Christian Nice Girl with Author Jennifer Degler

12 Part Radio Series: Midday Connection on Moody Radio Tired of doing all you can for others while your relationships remain stuck in neutral…or even…

WBCL’s Mid-Morning radio show, 4/20/15, topic “Energy Drainers and 5 Ways to Deal With Them”

Have anyone in your life that just d-r-a-i-n-s every last bit of energy out of your mind and body? If you’re at a loss for…

WBCL’s Mid-Morning radio show, February 13, 2015, topic “No More Christian Nice Girl”

Tired of doing all you can for others while your relationships remain stuck in neutral – or headed in reverse? Dr. Jennifer Degler talks with…

Dr. Jennifer Degler is coming to Continental, Ohio on March 14, 2015

If you live near Continental, Ohio (the closest big city is Ft. Wayne, IN), please join me on Saturday, March 14, 2015 for a “Creating…

Coping When Someone You Love Dies — Yvonne Ortega

As Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and graduations approach, the loss of loved ones can feel especially painful. Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler interviews author and counselor,…

When Loss and Grief Make Jesus Hard to Find — Part Three

Would you like to move past your losses? Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler offers helpful tips for finding God and His comfort in your loss and…

When Loss and Grief Make Jesus Hard to Find — Part Two

Does God seem far away during your painful loss? Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares helpful tips for connecting with God while you are grieving a…

When Loss and Grief Make Jesus Hard to Find — Part One

Have your losses made it seem like Jesus has disappeared? Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler gives helpful tips, drawn from Mary Magdalene’s experiences at the empty…

Eliminating Worry — Spiritual Growth Tips

Are you a worrier? Is anxiety weighing you down? Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares tips for focusing on the concerns of today instead of anxiously…

Recovery from Alcoholism — Shelley

Are you or is someone you love struggling with alcohol addiction? Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler interviews Shelley, a medical professional and recovering alcoholic, who offers…

Returning to God When You’ve Wandered Away

Have you wandered away from God? Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler gives tips for returning to God and letting Him restore you.

Moving Significantly Forward in Your Career — Career Success Tips

Do you want to feel foward momentum in your career and personal growth? Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares tips for taking measured risks so you…

Letting God Transform Your Heart

Would you like to change your heart? Good news! God is in the heart changing business. Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler shares tips for cooperating with…

Increasing Your Job Satisfaction — Career Success Tips

Are you dissatisfied with your job? Before you quit that job, listen to psychologist Dr. Jennifer Degler’s tips for increasing your job satisfaction by identifying…

Coping with Cancer

Coping with Cancer — Tricia Beard

Your Value According to God

Do you value yourself as God does? Psychologist and life coach Dr. Jennifer Degler gives tips for allowing God to define your value instead of…

Improving Your Voice Mail Greeting

Do you have a bad voice mail greeting? Your greeting is often the first contact potential employers or clients will have with you. Dr. Jennifer…

Coping With Job Loss with Larry & Donna Lewis

Coping with Job Loss with Larry & Donna Lewis Tips for coping with job loss and supporting a spouse who has lost a job.