Mountain City Christian Counseling, Corp.

06/06/2026

The world doesn’t need more boys who learn to dominate.
It needs more men who know how to protect without controlling, feel without shame, and love without fear.

As single mothers, we often worry about what our sons are missing. But perhaps the better question is what we have the opportunity to give them.

We can teach them tenderness and strength. Boundaries and compassion. Courage and accountability.

We can raise noble men.

In this Little Messages with Megan, I’m sharing a few thoughts for mothers who want to help their boys grow into the kind of men our daughters, our communities, and our world desperately need.

Enjoy! Love, Megan ❤

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05/27/2026

We've been working on a new Pretty Psych podcast called "They Chose Him" — a pod where we explore the deep pain many survivors experienced inside evangelical culture, especially as churches upheld power, politics, and image over the protection of vulnerable people.

Let me be clear: This is not about politics. This is about the re-traumatization of the victimized by the church choosing abusive systems.

As women who have walked closely with survivors of DV, we’ve watched countless people lose not only their communities, but sometimes their faith, their voice, and their sense of safety in the world. This podcast is for the people carrying those wounds quietly.

Through honest conversation, personal stories, and reflection, we’ll talk about spiritual abuse, misogyny, trauma, nationalism, healing, and what it means to reclaim ourselves after betrayal in the name of God.

This isn’t about attacking faith.

It’s about telling the truth.

We hope Part 1 becomes a place where wounded people finally feel seen. Elle Renee Arters, thank you for being one of those people helping others feel seen. 💕

Comment any questions you may have! Do subscribe, like and share as it helps support us!Megan Owen, from Mountain City Christian Counseling, discusses decons...

05/27/2026

There are women carrying entire wars inside their bodies while still packing lunches, showing up to court, answering emails, soothing children, paying bills, and trying to survive systems that often do not protect them.

And they are exhausted.

Chronic stress and domestic violence do not just wound the heart. They alter the body. The nervous system begins to live in survival mode. Cortisol floods the system. Sleep becomes fractured. Autoimmune symptoms flare. Hair falls out. Digestion changes. Weight shifts. Memory fog settles in. The body braces for danger long after the danger has passed.

I have sat with women trying to heal while simultaneously navigating custody battles, financial terror, trauma triggers, parenting, isolation, medical issues, and the unbearable grief of having to keep functioning while their bodies are quietly collapsing underneath the weight of it all.

It breaks my heart. And I can’t stop it from happening. I can only companion.

I keep studying. I keep learning. Somatics, trauma work, nervous system repair, embodiment, attachment, survival physiology. I want so badly to help stop the damage trauma leaves inside women’s bodies. But sometimes I sit with the painful truth that healing is not quick when someone is still carrying impossible loads.

Bodies were never designed to endure chronic fear for years at a time.

And I think women deserve a world where they are not asked to destroy themselves in order to keep everyone else alive. 💔

05/25/2026

It is my belief that part of the reason our girls struggle with body image is because we have not taught them the power of divine femininity. We need to change the language and help our girls understand that their bodies are not a problem to solve! We can go deeper than "skinny". We can use terms such as "wild" and "untamed" and "fierce". ❤

This week, I will be talking with my mom's group about this very thing. Here is a sampling:

There is a version of womanhood girls are rarely introduced to anymore.

Not the polished woman.
Not the pleasing woman.
Not the endlessly accommodating woman.

But the wild woman.

The fierce woman.

The woman who remembers who she is.

Somewhere deep beneath all the conditioning, every girl carries an ancient knowing:
“I was not born to live disconnected from myself.”

And yet many girls lose themselves early.

They become hyper-aware of how they are perceived.
They become careful.
Performative.
Pleasant.
Small.

Their intuition dulls.
Their instincts quiet.
Their fire gets mistaken for “too much.”

But women are not naturally weak creatures.

Women survive.
Women adapt.
Women protect.
Women birth.
Women rebuild after devastation.
Women hold entire families together while carrying private grief no one sees.

There is something feral and holy in feminine strength.

05/23/2026

Full heart after talking with the esteemed author and therapist Sam Jolman for our June pretty psych podcast this morning. You won’t want to miss this one, where he speaks of wholeness within men’s sexuality and relationships all the way around… Shalomic, healing and of upmost importance for those of us who are single moms raising boys. Thank you, Sam! You are a gift!

05/20/2026

Coach Karen De Armond Gardner and I just finished a profound video on deep inner child healing using ego state therapy for our Pastoral Trauma Certification Unit 2. I'm beyond thankful for this lady, who is a loyal friend and colleague and teaches me so much as we continue working together.

05/15/2026

I’ve spent a long time listening beneath the surface of people.

Healing is strange.

Once you begin doing deep inner work, it can feel like your subconscious starts speaking through your life.

The same wounds suddenly appear in different faces; the same fears echo through conversations; the same ache keeps finding you in new forms.

It can feel uncanny — almost orchestrated.

You think you’re trying to heal abandonment, and suddenly every relationship begins pressing against the bruise.
You start working on your voice, and people interrupt you more.
You begin healing betrayal, and hidden truths start surfacing everywhere.

It’s painful because the subconscious does not heal through concepts alone.
It heals through revelation.

What is buried inside us often seeks expression outside of us.

Not to punish us.

But because the psyche longs for wholeness (Shalom), and what is unhealed will continue asking to be witnessed.

Sometimes other people unconsciously carry the exact mirror our nervous system needs to finally see what has always been there.

Because healing is not always peaceful. Sometimes it feels like your soul is pulling old ghosts into the light saying:

“Here. This one too.”

“Why does life suddenly feel louder?”

It’s like the psyche stops whispering once it realizes you’re finally listening. ❤️❤️❤️

05/15/2026

FRIENDS! We have a new YouTube Channel and we need all of the subscriptions! It is our newest project at MCCC. Here is our first video describing who we are -- passionate ambassadors for healing! Please watch, share, and "like" it. Hooray! Love to all!

MCCC is a counseling practice that is geared towards giving all peoples healing and support. MCCC consists of coaches and counselors headed by Megan Owen.Meg...

05/13/2026

When I worked exclusively with survivors of abuse in my nonprofit, they came to us angry, desperate, in pain and doing things they wouldn’t normally do. We just understood… Everyone was doing the best that they could. When women are in crises, they just are not themselves. 

And that’s OK.

If you’re going to work with survivors, you have to have compassion for them. And for yourself. ❤️  don’t expect perfection or quiet, gentle souls… Not when someone is fighting for her life and those of her children. 

05/08/2026

For so many of us, patriarchy did not simply shape our beliefs—it shaped our nervous systems, our relationships, our identities, and the ways we learned to survive. It taught men to confuse power with domination, and women to confuse love with self-abandonment. And the fallout of that lives everywhere around us.

But I also believe there is something deeper and older beneath all of it:

A noble masculine that protects rather than controls.

A sacred feminine that creates rather than disappears.

This is a conversation about healing, awakening, mutuality, and remembering who we were before the distortion. I hope it offers language, clarity, and maybe even a little hope for those trying to build something more whole.

Thank you for watching!