3 lies your therapist is telling you



We live in an era of mental health awareness. Therapy has exploded into a multi-billion-dollar industry, with the United States accounting for roughly half of global mental health spending. Nearly a quarter of the U.S. population, including children, has at least one mental health diagnosis.

One might think that more awareness and therapy = healthier, happier people.

But sadly, that’s not the case at all. We're actually in the throes of a mental health crisis that's getting worse, not better.

According to Dr. Greg Gifford — pastor, licensed biblical counselor, and author of “Lies My Therapist Told Me” — therapy culture has become an issue as big as the conditions it claims to treat.

The problem? The secular world doesn’t understand the human soul as God designed it.

In this fascinating interview with Allie Beth Stuckey, BlazeTV host of “Relatable,” Dr. Gifford lists three common lies secular therapists tell their clients.

Lie #1: Brain = Mind

In the world of secular therapy, the mind and brain are deeply interconnected. An ailing mind is indicative of an ailing brain. That’s why mental health issues are often linked to “chemical imbalances.”

But Dr. Gifford says the mind and brain are vastly different. Unlike the physical brain, the mind, which is synonymous with our spirit or soul, is “immaterial” and “will continue to exist after [the] brain has deceased.” In Romans 12:2, we are told God renews not the brain but the mind. For the Christian being sanctified, this happens even as the brain organ is deteriorating with age.

The brain, says Dr. Gifford, is “the control center of your outer man. ... It's not determining my thoughts. It is more like a filter ... of what is happening in my thinking.”

Unfortunately, the default perspective of the Western world is that “everything has a medical explanation,” which means we rarely question “what's happening in my inner person in my soul.” The result is that people with mind/soul issues leave the psychiatrist’s office with medication that treats the brain.

And even worse, these drugs are prescribed even though no actual medicine — brain scans, deficiency testing, or otherwise — was practiced.

Lie #2: Medicine is the answer

When we understand the distinction between the mind and the brain, it becomes clear that soul problems need soul answers — not the psychotropic medications the secular world leans on.

“Start to develop a worldview that the solutions are coming from the scripture, not from the secular therapeutic,” says Gifford.

Even if we are experiencing physical symptoms that point to physical issues, that doesn’t mean our minds aren’t a factor — or even a root cause — in our distress. As the Holy Spirit cultivates in us the fruits of the Spirit, our bodies are impacted as well. Peace can regulate a palpitating heart. Joy can boost serotonin levels in the brain.

Further, there is freedom in knowing our bodies cannot make us sin. The Spirit “can direct the mind no matter what's happening in our physiology,” says Allie.

Lie #3: Your struggles aren’t sin

Repentance is a cornerstone in the Christian walk. “What does repentance mean practically?” asks Gifford. “Change of mind, not change of brain.”

Secular therapy often frames anxiety, depression, or relational conflicts as innocent "disorders" or traumas — biological glitches or environmental bad luck — with no call to examine the heart. The lie? Your pain isn't tied to sin, rebellion, or a hardened mindset, so you don't need to repent and turn to God's word for real renewal.

But Gifford warns this skips the soul surgery only scripture can provide, leaving people stuck in symptom loops rather than being transformed.

For those who need support, he suggests “[finding] somebody who would use God's word as the source and authority to really help [you] with the root of what's going on.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the full interview above.

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Not a ‘feminist’: Allie Beth Stuckey defends speech condemning porn amid ‘conservative’ backlash



BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey’s Turning Point USA speech where she condemned pornography as “evil in every way” sparked a wave of attacks from men who claim to share her Christian and conservative values.

These men claimed that she was a “feminist” who should not be directly speaking to men. In fact, she was simply reciting a message that Charlie Kirk himself was very passionate about.

“There is a segment of males on the right, presumably the political right, who also profess to be Christians, who have been expressing their utter indignation that I gave a speech at a Turning Point USA campus stop and that in that speech, I talked about the dangers of pornography,” Stuckey explains on “Relatable.”

“I was called a feminist. I was called a bad mom, a negligent wife who was trying to act like a man. I was told that I should only talk to women or that I should not talk at all, that women have no place in the public square,” she continues.


Stuckey was asked by Kirk to join her on this campus tour before he was assassinated, so in order to honor him, her speech reflected the most controversial truths that he taught.

One of these truths is that porn has “weakened men,” which was the catalyst for all the outrage that followed.

“Charlie was so good at talking about this and so good at talking so courageously and sternly and clearly to the young men,” Stuckey said during her “controversial” speech, before explaining why it “is so detrimental not only to men” but also “objectifies women and children.”

“It commercializes sex, which is a gift from God for a married couple, between one man and one woman. And it glorifies violence. It creates addiction and shame. It destroys marriages. It ruins your perception of other people. It is the legal loophole for sex trafficking. It is evil in every way, and it will destroy your life,” she said.

“And this is what I would want to say to men, and I hope that you hear it from strong men in your life, that men, we need you. And we need your masculinity, and we need your strength, and we need your boldness, and we need your courage, and we need those things to be harnessed for good,” she continued.

“We need really strong men, and porn makes you weak,” she concluded.

Some “Christian conservative” men who heard this part of Allie’s speech took to X to mislabel her a “feminist” who should not be speaking to men.

“There is probably not another Christian woman in the conservative commentary space who has made more of an effort than I have to pull women away from progressivism, to try to change women’s minds and hearts when it comes to abortion, to try to change women’s minds and hearts when it comes to marriage,” Stuckey says in response.

“So, to say that I am a feminist who preaches to men really is just laughable. And it just goes to show you that people will just lie,” she adds.

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SNAP dependence makes taxpayers a personal grocery fund



While over 40 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to buy their groceries, the government shutdown has left them empty-handed — and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey doesn’t think it's a bad thing.

Especially considering the money that comes from the government does not actually come from the government, but from the millions of taxpayers who go to work every single day.

In one CBS interview, a SNAP recipient named Erin Annis told the interviewer that she needs SNAP in order to live independently, without requiring the assistance of her family.

“Having those resources, what does it mean to you and for your life?” the CBS interviewer asks.


“Everything. It means everything to me. I don’t know what I would do except have to rely on my family, and I don’t want to do that right now. There’ll be a time when I’ll probably have to live with one of my sons. But for now, I want to be independent; I want to be on my own,” Annis answers.

“Having these resources has allowed you to be independent?” the interviewer asks.

“Yes, it’s allowing me to be independent,” Annis answers.

“It’s like people forget where this money comes from. You’re not actually independent. You are completely dependent on the government. And it’s not on the government. I mean, the government doesn’t have its own money. The government has money from us,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says.

“And so you have people who are willing to sacrifice, who are trying to make ends meet, who are trying to provide for their families themselves who are paying for this woman to live quote-unquote ‘independently,’ to buy her groceries,” she continues.

“Our tax dollars are taken away from us in a compulsory way, like we have to — we will go to jail if we don’t pay our taxes. So the government is forcing the money that we earned out of our hands and is forcibly giving it to someone else who could rely on family to buy her groceries,” she explains.

“That’s not ethical. That’s not moral,” she adds.

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Ex-psychic says she was on the verge of possession — until one word shattered the darkness



Before she became a Christian, Jenn Nizza was a celebrated psychic and New Age guru. For two decades, she was neck-deep in the dark arts: reading tarot cards, interpreting numerology and astrology charts, performing angel card and rune divinations, channeling messages from what she thought were spirits of the dead, and practicing numerous dark rituals.

Today, she lives out her devotion to Christ by warning secular people and believers alike about the spiritual dangers of New Age practices, divination, and even cultural phenomena like Halloween.

To those who practice divination and necromancy — both attempts to contact the spirit realm — Nizza warns that they’re only reaching one side: the demonic one.

Coming to this realization that she was contacting not dead people but demonic deceptions masquerading as loved ones, not benevolent spirits with insight but sinister demons who wanted to torment her, was a turning point in Nizza’s journey.

“At the end of my 36th year, I actually came to a moment, Allie, of near destruction,” Nizza told BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on an episode of “Relatable.”

“There's possession and there's oppression. I probably was very close to being possessed,” she said frankly.

After years of practicing the dark arts, Nizza began feeling this internal “heaviness” and bone-chilling “fear.”

“Imagine if you go under the water and you have somebody with their foot on your head trying to keep you down. ... That was the moment that I came to,” she said.

One day in a moment of extreme terror, she called on the name of Jesus — something she said that shocked her because it was so far out of character.

At the time, Nizza didn’t know the gospel message or really anything about Jesus. She just knew that the dark cloud suffocating her had been compromised by simply calling on his name. “I just knew that something had happened, and I knew that it was peaceful. And I also knew ... I didn't want to be a psychic anymore, and I did not know why,” she recounted.

God was calling Nizza out of the darkness and into His kingdom, but the enemy wasn’t going to let her go easily.

“I was deceived again by false teaching books that I started reading that were heretical and leading me once again down the wrong road away from Christ. I did stop doing the readings for a while, but then I did go back to them,” said Nizza, noting that she merely tweaked some of her practices.

Thankfully, God in His miraculous patience didn’t give up on her.

“I ended up having a dinner date with a friend that I met in the divination group. ... Little did I know she had become saved from the last time that I had seen her,” Nizza said.

“She came over for dinner, and she started talking to me about Jesus, and she invited me to the church that she had started attending.”

But Nizza, still holding tightly to her New Age beliefs, declined the invitation.

But the internal wrestling that led her to temporarily cease psychic readings started back up. One day, about a month after having dinner with her friend, Nizza had a strong and unexplainable desire to go to her friend’s church.

“And it was that day, Allie, that I heard the gospel,” she said.

She sang along with the congregation during worship, and when she got to the lyric “Jesus saved me,” she had a flashback to the moment months prior when she first cried out His name.

“And I knew it was Him, Allie. I knew that He was the one who showed up that day and set me free. I was a captive, and He set me free,” she declared.

To hear more, watch the full interview above.

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Allie Beth Stuckey on 'Fox & Friends': Charlie Kirk 'was such an encourager of so many of us'



What made Charlie Kirk such a force to be reckoned with?

That was one of topics up for discussion Monday when BlazeTV's Allie Beth Stuckey joined "Fox & Friends" co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Griff Jenkins before headlining that evening's Turning Point USA tour stop at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

'He really was an anomaly. God just blessed him with amazing work ethic and persistence and energy.'

"He was so generous with his time," the "Relatable" host recalled, noting that the slain activist miraculously managed to balance traveling nonstop, raising a young family, scaling TPUSA into a national juggernaut, and igniting a movement that reached millions — all while still making time for others:

He could've been doing a million other very important things, but he would take the time every day to text his friends, to text his colleagues, to send Bible verses, to say, "Hey, keep going," "I saw this article," or, "I saw you talk about this topic. You did such a good job."

He was such a champion, such an encourager of so many of us, and that is going to continue to bless me for the rest of my life.

'Keep slugging'

Jenkins asked Stuckey what she anticipated seeing at the Baton Rouge TPUSA event, especially in the wake of LSU's Charlie Kirk tribute back in September.

"It makes me think of when we heard Charlie's widow, Erika, talk about, 'You have no idea what you've done,' and you hear Andrew Kolvet, Charlie's producer, talk about that he hopes that the TPUSA events are going to be bigger than ever before. Is that what you anticipate seeing tonight?" Jenkins asked.

"Oh, absolutely," Stuckey said.

And her instincts were spot-on.

The sold-out Baton Rouge event — hosted by the local TPUSA chapter — drew a massive 1,600 attendees, far exceeding expectations. Lines wrapped around the block, and doors opened early to accommodate the surging crowd of young conservatives eager to honor Kirk's legacy and rally in support of faith, family, and freedom. The vibe was electric and defiant, pulsing with patriotic fervor as chants of "USA!" and "Charlie Kirk!" erupted from a packed house.

Stuckey inspired and challenged the crowd with a powerful speech on "five of Charlie Kirk's most controversial truths," motivating students with Charlie's favorite phrase of encouragement: "Keep slugging."

'He really was an anomaly'

Earhardt told Stuckey she found it "amazing" to hear from so many people all that Kirk had done for them. "I'm hearing you say he would text you, encourage you," she marveled.

"He also had to fundraise. He also had a family. He was traveling. He was contacting so many people and really pouring into their lives. How did he balance it all? How did he have time to do it?"

“I have no idea,” was Stuckey's candid response.

"You know, I've joked a few times that, in true Charlie fashion, he is giving all of his friends and his team a whole lot of work. ... Gosh, it's taken at least a dozen of us to make up for Charlie's speaking engagements and all of the different obligations that he had on his show and everywhere," she laughed.

"He really was an anomaly. God just blessed him with amazing work ethic and persistence and energy because, of course, God knew that his time was tragically short. And he had a lot to accomplish, and he did."

In the end, Charlie didn't just create a movement — he multiplied one.

"Even though he was the center of it, it's far beyond him," Stuckey said.

The Charlie effect

And she's right. Since his tragic death, Charlie's American Comeback Tour, which was rebranded as This Is the Turning Point Tour to honor his legacy, has experienced an explosion in participation. Campus events see massive, exceeding-expectations turnouts. Thousands are left outside as arenas fill to bursting. Patriotic chants fueled by grief-turned-determination electrify the atmosphere.

Interest in TPUSA membership has also dramatically increased, with the organization receiving more than 120,000 requests to start local chapters since the founder's martyrdom.

The Charlie effect is real — and it's fueling a nationwide revival.

"He left a legacy that really multiplied, and that speaks to who he was as a person but also just where we are as a country right now. People have woken up, and people are ready to step off the sidelines and come into the arena, and I say let's go,” Stuckey urged.

Your body isn’t God: Jen Hatmaker’s New Age lies exposed



Jen Hatmaker’s new book, “Awake,” dives into the tragic breakdown of her marriage — but what BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey finds even more tragic is that it covers the disintegration of her Christianity.

“She has now decided to worship the god of self rather than the God of Scripture. And that is not freedom. That’s not fulfillment. That’s not satisfaction. That will lead to a dead end, but she has exchanged Christianity for these New Age beliefs that, of course, Oprah herself has represented for a very long time,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.”

Hatmaker asserted in her book that her body holds infinite wisdom, explaining that women especially “contain a deep wisdom that not only leads us well but could heal the earth.”

“When my internalized misogyny asserts its conditioned response to defend abusive systems, my body overrides it immediately. She knows. She tells me the truth. She always tells me the truth,” Hatmaker said.


Stuckey points out the absurdity of the idea that a woman’s body is always telling the truth.

“Sometimes my body, my hormones, my hunger, my lack of sleep, the million things that go on in the world that affect our bodies tell us things that are not true. ... They give us cues that don’t actually point us in the right direction,” Stuckey says.

“Our body is not a source of truth. Our bodies are made in the image of God, but they are not like God. Now, gosh, what did the serpent say to Eve in the Garden of Eden? ‘You can be like God. ... You will not surely die if you take a bite of the fruit of this tree which the God who created you and loves you strictly forbade you from eating,’” she continues.

“Jen Hatmaker has taken a bite of the apple, and she believes that her body is like God, has this kind of gnostic, transcendent knowledge,” she adds.

Hatmaker goes on to say, “Our life’s work is to reject those capitalistic, patriarchal narrative systems that have conspired to keep us at war with our bodies.”

“If we hate how we look, these systems own us. If we hate what we want, they dominate us. If we hate what we crave, they control us. They get to master us with impunity when we despise ourselves; we do their dirty work and, in so doing, become their most powerful co-conspirators,” she writes.

While Stuckey notes that Hatmaker “sounds really eloquent” and “catchy” because the “pacing is right and the cadence is right,” but it doesn’t actually mean anything.

“That’s actually the hallmark of really good propaganda, of effective propaganda,” Stuckey says, noting that Hatmaker has also been 100% supportive of transgenderism, even in children.

“She’s been outspoken about this: ‘Protect trans kids.’ People who are mutilating their bodies through hormone blockers, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones and double mastectomies — that is literally bloody war with your body,” Stuckey says.

“So, she doesn’t even agree with what she’s saying,” she adds.

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