Worship Leader And Former Bethel Student (Courtney Lancaster)
Channel: Bros Bibles & Beer
Date: 22/04/2024

Courtney Lancaster from the Heal/Create Podcast joins us and shares her powerful story, including her time singing worship at Bethel and attending Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. It seems most either have negative or positive opinions about what Bethel Church is up to. Courtney is more nuanced about her time there. Learn about some of the spiritual baggage she brought into, and out of Bethel, how she learned to heal from trauma, how this has unlocked her ability to create, and how she wants to help others (maybe you?) heal so they can unlock their creative potential.  Plus listener feedback, what we're consuming, & Courtney survives (endures?) a round of Jeff's Rapid Fire. #podcast #jesus #christianity #worship #bethel #deconstruction #reconstruction 

"Healing is so possible, and my hope is that everything that I offer reminds you of who you truly are, helps you heal what’s in the way, and returns you to your creative power, once and for all."

About Courtney from www.courtneylancaster.co "I was so deeply identified as a victim that I couldn’t see a path forward. The only thing I knew how to do for a while was just wake up every morning. I had two small children, crippling anxiety and depression, and a broken heart full of dreams that I had no idea how to move towards.

It wasn’t always like this. I had been a worship leader and a performer, singing for thousands of people on big stages, and I had dreams of so much more. I have always wanted to sing, pursue music, and express myself through art for as long as I can remember. There were signs of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm as I navigated my adulthood and pursued them, but I didn’t know how to face them, so I ignored them. It wasn’t until a series of panic attacks upended my entire life that I realized that avoiding my pain wasn’t going to work.

9 years ago, I began the journey of healing. I was in therapy, coaching, and reading books every day trying to figure out how to clear the fog and calm the fear, but for a while, I was just treading water. I was circling around and around my pain, but not resolving anything. I had heard that you needed to “feel it to heal it”, so I thought my ticket out was in feeling as much of my pain as possible. This only left me in deep dysregulation, completely frozen and struggling with terrifying dissociation.

I know darkness really, really well.

I did find safety, slowly. I found the right support (something I will teach you how to do, if you need it), and I began to come out of the black hole I had found myself in, but I was still struggling with identity, and missing the vibrancy I had experienced years earlier and still hoped for." 

Find Courtney Here: 
https://www.courtneylancaster.co/home
https://www.courtneylancaster.co/the-healcreate-podcast
https://www.instagram.com/courtneylan
https://www.facebook.com/courtneylan

00:00 Episode preview
02:11 What we're drinking
04:37 Listener Feedback
13:23 Jeff's Rapid Fire
23:04 Who is Courtney Lancaster
24:13 What's a trauma-informed life coach?
33:00 Example of fight or flight from a creative/artist
42:23 Courtney's experience at Bethel
58:40 Science of trauma
01:04:24 The Expectation Effect
01:16:40 Faith reconstruction
01:20:18 Worship songs we won't play
01:28:40 Glory clouds and gold dust
01:35:26 What we're consuming

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