245. Healing Beyond Symptoms With Holly Misener245. Healing Beyond Symptoms With Holly Misener
Strong Tower Mental Health with Heidi Mortenson
Heidi Mortenson talks with Holly Meisner about years of intense medical trauma with her children, how her faith held through it, and how that journey led to a holistic health clinic focused on healing beyond symptoms. The conversation blends honest stories of suffering with practical examples of body, soul and spirit working together in the healing process.
36:02•22 Jun 2026
Healing Beyond Symptoms: Faith, Trauma and Whole-Person Health with Holly Meisner
Episode Overview
- Faith can be honest, messy and still strong enough to carry you through years of medical uncertainty and fear.
- Addressing root causes in the body, rather than just masking symptoms, can significantly change physical and emotional health.
- The nervous system needs to feel safe before deep healing can happen, both physically and emotionally.
- Inner healing and inviting Jesus into painful memories can relieve long-held trauma that shows up as physical symptoms.
- Real change requires honest commitment; you can choose the level you’re truly ready for instead of pretending to be ‘all in’.
“You can be healed. You can have hope. You can feel better. You are not a victim of your environment or circumstances.”
Curious about how others manage faith, trauma, and health all at once? This conversation between host Heidi Mortenson and guest Holly Meisner offers a raw yet hopeful look at what it can be like to cling to Jesus through years of medical crisis and come out with a passion to see others made whole.
Holly shares how her early decision to follow Jesus was reshaped in a “bathroom stall of a crappy, sticky bar” at uni, then stress‑tested through a decade of severe health challenges with two of her four children. One son faced a rare spine defect, repeated major surgeries, and the risk of paralysis; her youngest daughter was born with a neural tube defect and needed brain surgery on the day she arrived.
Holly talks honestly about fear, grief, and that awful “wait and see” season, yet keeps coming back to a simple stance: “Our God will save us. He can. And even if he doesn’t, we will still worship him.” From there, the chat shifts into whole‑person healing. Holly explains how years in hospitals pushed her to seek more than symptom‑management and led her to open His Healing House, a holistic health clinic in Minnesota.
She and co‑practitioner Stephanie use tools like functional medicine, applied kinesiology, and a trauma‑informed approach alongside prayer, always asking why the body isn’t healing as designed rather than just chasing symptoms. You’ll hear stories of anxiety easing after addressing parasites, chronic digestive issues lifting once buried grief was brought to Jesus, and very honest talk about commitment—Holly walks through her “five levels of commitment” so people can be realistic about how ready they are to change.
Throughout, the message is steady and kind: you’re not stuck, you’re not a lost cause, and, as Holly says, “You can be healed. You can have hope. You can feel better.” If you’re worn out by symptoms, diagnoses, or spiritual fatigue, this one might nudge you to ask: am I settling for less than what God has for me?
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