Coaching

To Dr. Grant Mullen and Whoever else reads this:
As I am about to write about my experience with mental illness and the help I got I hope that people would be encouraged and know that there is hope, I know, because I found it.
I started suffering from extreme depression in 2007 and then some time later I was diagnosed with a mild form of bipolar. I went to look for help wherever I possibly could, psychiatrists, various counsellors, church, etc. Many times all I would think about was death as the only way out but deep inside of me I didn’t really want to die. I started taking meds that improved my moods quite a bit for awhile. I had to try different types of meds to see which ones worked best. Even though I was taking meds I was just getting by living my day to day in ‘survival mode’. But I kept on searching to find more help because I wasn’t yet satisfied with the way things were. I refused to be a victim of this illness.
Finally, I got so fed up with the meds I was on. I was done with living in ‘survival mode’. So I stopped my meds completely. After that my mood did get worse again and out of control. So I decided to make an appointment with Dr. Grant Mullen. I had one coaching session with him and I started taking the meds he suggested to me. It took a few weeks for the meds to really kick in and start working.
I am doing incredibly well now in every single aspect of life. I haven’t felt this happy in a very, very long time. I have found hope. I am able to feel close to God again. I am able to dream big things for my future again. My relationships are improving and I’m able to start working again. I only had one session with Dr. Grant Mullen and it has literally been life changing.
I also have to give credit to all the prayers that were prayed for me and to God who has been incredibly patient with me through all this. God has been so good to me.
Without a sound mind it is impossible to thrive in this life.
Thank you Dr. Grant Mullen for the work that you do. Thank you.

I have been severely depressed since 2008. Before that I was experiencing more of the Bi-polar aspect. I feel like I cannot even feel God, I feel so alone, I am scared just to talk to people. I am on medication, but it doesn’t seem to work. I feel so alone, because I can’t feel my spirit, I was always close to God. But now even though I pray I don’t get releif. I am really scared. I can’t even work, my husband is gone all day. My dog even senses my upsetness. PLease Help Me!

Dear Doctor Mullen
We just want to take the time to thank you for your time, your kindness and your ministry ( coaching)
We have been on a healing journey since the year 2000, healing of a lot of brokeness, pain,wounds, traumas, etc…
We have gone to conferences , watch videos , seen councellors and all this has been good and i guess part of our healing.
In the last one year we came in touch with your ministry , we got some of your materials and we get your weekly newsletter, which many times, it ministers to us and is very helpful to our healing and walk.
But inspite of all this , there are issues that seem to be so rooted that nothing we do seems to clear them. So we decided to make appointments with you on the phone, you in Toronto and we in Miami Florida
We have done a few appointments and we cannot express how helpful it has been .
This morning my husband said to me: “This past few weeks have been one of the most liberating weeks of my whole life.”
i think this says it all.
Again thank you for your ministry , how the love and anointing of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit flows out of it
We cannot thank you enough and encourage you to carry on and also encourage anyone out there to take the chance to make that phone call, it works. You have nothing to lose, but only to gain.
Many Blessings with lots of Gratitude to Our Father
Giovanna and Lakhi
(Married 23 years )

Hi Grant
Thank you for the 4 sessions of coaching I have had with you. I believe they have been truly life-changing! Combining the coaching sessions with being able to listen to your teachings has been an incredibly powerful experience and although I have tried other techniques over the years to address the residual issues of abuse I had, nothing has had such an efficient or profoundly transformational impact as the work I have done with you. As a result of working with you I have found that the way I ‘feel’ about the things that happen in my life has changed and therefore my response to those things has changed. I am more in control of that process and less reactive to things that i would previously have experienced as catastrophic. I am looking forward to further development over the next few sessions. God is doing amazing work through you!

DEAR Dr. Mullen

I just want to sincerely Thank You for the 8 sessions in Personal Coaching.
As you know I was diagnosed 21 years ago with Bipolar Disorder, and never had any counselling, other then my Psychiatrist adjusting my medication.

When I attended your conference at Catch the Fire Church, I could not believe how knowledgeable you were. You, not only understand Bipolar Illness but also the impact of all the negative baggage we carry around, from spiritual strongholds.

I knew I wanted to be counselled by you not just because of your knowledge, but also because of your powerful Christian faith.
You helped me get off two over the counter medications,  that were clouding my thought process. You helped me give all my anxious thoughts to the Lord. You helped me break several strongholds by the simple process of forgiving the person who hurt me, and then the hardest part, forgiving myself for any involvement I may have brought to the situation.

You also told me something very powerful, that I do not have to suffer from depression, every winter, as long as I am on the proper medication.
For 21 years I have suffered from severe depression every winter. Even though I use a light box every morning for 20 minutes, and go on 2 vacations down south in the winter.

I have memories of some vacations in Mexico only going out of my hotel room long enough to eat, paying little attention to the beautiful white sandy beach.

But this year I am looking forward to a winter depression free.
Thanks Dr. Mullen for your help, I feel stronger. And my Psychiatrist is now decreasing my anxiety medication. Very soon my cognitive skills will be even better.

Dear Dr. Mullen

I would like to inquire about inner healing. I would like to inquire if that is an
area that you give counselling on? Would you coach someone online, or is it
better to have someone there in person who would pray with them?

Thanks to attending one of Dr Grant Mullen’s seminars I had the courage to see my doctor regarding depression. At the time of seeing my doctor 2 years ago I had suggested the possibility of being bi-polar as I had noticed some mood swings and from Dr Grant’s seminar knew how often it wasn’t diagnosed and the effect it had on treatment but was told I was definitely not. After 2 years of struggling with medications and depression and trusting that the doctor knew more than me regarding my treatment, I was filled with hope to discover that Dr Grant Mullen does one on one coaching sessions. In just a 30 minute coaching session he was able to ask me questions the answers of which indicated I had mild bi-polar. He explained a bit about mild bi-polar, encouraged me to seek out a local psychiatrist and explained a bit about what to expect when it came to treatment. He also prayed for me which was tremendously encouraging. In between speaking to Dr Mullen and seeing a psychiatrist I was able to speak to family and friends getting them to read the chapter on bi-polar and do the check list in Dr Grant’s book Moods, and see if anything sounded like me. This was helpful when seeing the psychiatrist and being able to get the correct diagnosis which was indeed as Dr Grant Mullen suggested, mild bi-polar. I am about to start the new medication soon and am hopeful that this time I’ll be able to get significant improvements in my mental health. Thank you so much Dr Mullen for all you do, your books, seminars, webinars and coaching sessions. God has used you in so many ways to help me and many others find good mental health. May God continue to use you and richly bless you and your family.

your book Emotionally Free has been a massive help to me. the three fold approach of medical, spiritual and emotional totally described what was going on with me.( i had problems in each of those areas ). especially important was seeing how the physical and spiritual fit together. a physically weak brain is a huge easy target for the enemy; but when properly treated, that person can fend off the attacks of the enemy.
i’ve given copies to several people when they started sharing that certain things were going on in their life and also encouraged them to talk to a doctor to b sure there is not a medical issue present.
since i’ve lived through this, sometimes i can help with the spiritual side of things by pointing then to the spiritual section of the book so they can see that a weak brain ( not mind ) is a great target for the enemy ;thereby reinforcing the need to take care of the physical side ( medical )
Also, there’s a prayer in the psalms( psalm 25:1-5 ) that the LORD has been using in the spiritual warfare that can go along with depression. I prayed it relentlessly when battling the enemy and the LORD always provided the victory !!!!!!!! i’ve seen the same results with others who call on the LORD in this manner.
thanks again for your work in helping those of us with depression in the church of Jesus Christ. it came late for me ( but better late than never ) and now i want to pass it along to others so they don’t have to go through the same hell i did.
thanks again.
tom conrad
ps my local bookstore says the book is going out of print. true or false ? will it at least be available through this web site ? i”m getting low on copies and one of my elders wants some copies. he’s found it most helpful in being made aware of what goes on with some of us.

To all of you thinking of Coaching with Dr Grant,

DO NOT hesitate to begin coaching with Dr Grant, you will find great CLARITY,
INSIGHT and GOD’S perspective. We are so blessed to make sense of issues from our marriage, my anxiety/depression, our children and finally to our careers- each that are struggles that we have had for years. I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel and what the Lord and I can do to overcome the obstacles in my life. I am more than encouraged now that I understand the issues along with my husband, I understand the help of medication, and we can encourage each other to become the blessing of the person that Christ desired to develop in me. In order to be a blessing others in those areas. If you like, you may call us personally to discuss the benefit of His INVALUABLE coaching.
Best, Toni Fort Wayne

Dr Grant’s coaching is invaluable, it helped me to to understand that I am not what happened to me, but that I that my identity is what Jesus says. Dr Grant prayed and broke things that had been causing me shame and guilt, I feel more whole, a lot of the pain of my childhood has gone. I am certainly glad I went to Dr Grant, it was a great investment.
Charlotte, London

Thank you so much for today; I felt more relaxed than I have in a long time after I talked with you.

I am so thankful for the coaching that I have received over the past two months, as I have dialogued with Dr. Mullen. Breaking free of lies and emotional baggage that have kept me from moving forward as I desired in my Christian walk has been really exciting. He coaches with the gentleness of the Spirit of God, and suggests practical steps to help you move forward. I am particularly thankful that some persistant blocks have been removed through the Lord’s help and with the assistance of Dr. Mullen.

For those who hesitate to engage in coaching, I would say please don’t hesitate to engage, because transformation with the Lord’s help and Dr. Mullen’s direction is a great blessing to yourself, and to others around you.

Thank you, Dr. Mullen!!

Dr. Mullen I really was at the end of my rope until my conversation with you gave me hope that things could turn around for me as you said with a little tweaking.
God is really using you to help people and help Christians and the church to have a better understanding of emotional problems.
May God richly bless you in this vital service you provide.
Looking forward to feeling well again!

Hi Dr. Mullen:

It has been a HUGE HUGE blessing to me to have found the courage to set up some coaching appointments with you. For the first time in my life I have found a Dr. who is not scary… who LISTENS to me and my heart and who really has some answers that have begun to free me into a newer me. I know still that is it is going to take some time to get past all the lies I have believed . But finally I have a Dr. who really knows what I am talking about with him. so THANK-YOU for offering these appointments they are worth every moment of time taken… It has been so incredibley easy to set them up although I still feel a little camera shy, someday I hope to be past that too. Thank-You for being a Dr. who listens to the heart for getting to the nitty gritty for being so APROACHABLE . These sessions are a blessing.

Dr. Mullen is a Christian catalyst. He is a gifted, wonderfully supportive and insightfully honest, encouraging and personable. After speaking with him, I already look forward to the next appointment. Christians need others so that God can release that blessing that is waiting to flow through us. Since speaking with Dr. Mullen, he facilitates the release and confirms what the Holy Spirit is already doing within us so that we too can be a blessing to whom we come in contact with. By living in this interdependent relationship with other believers, especially those anointed and appointed by the Lord, it can be powerful and affirming.

I encourage you to pray about it and have faith, waiting in anticipation of the good that God has in store for you. No matter what you have or have been diagnosed with, God can do a mighty work in your life and you can live victoriously and prosper in all that God sends your way. I highly recommend Dr. Mullen! May God continue to bless him and all those that come in contact with him.

A great relief to find a site like this, and people who have shared the struggle of taking anti-depressant medication as Christians.

I still struggle with a husband who doesn’t believe in medication, but we have seen some remarkable changes in our once-strained relationship and this is slowly breaking down the preconceived ideas.

My difficulty started many years ago, because as a new Christian I had so much hope and joy in being saved, I would tell my doctor – no, I don’t feel depressed, and yet I just couldn’t contain some of the emotional problems that were manifesting. It took six years for us both to finally see past my joy and her to prescribe medication for the chemical imbalance, which was immediately contained.

I have since been able to live through (literally – because suicidal thoughts had been common beforehand) some of the most stressful situations in life and remain faith-filled and confident that God’s plan was being outworked daily. It’s been a real testimony to my non-believing friends – some of whom have become saved themselves.

Dr Grant,

Thanks for your Coaching call via Skype, it’s great to connect with you from the other side of the world… it’s as if we’re sitting on your porch enjoying a cup of coffee. Your wisdom is extremely helpful.

Blessings,
Phil
New Zealand

I struggled with depression for many years as well. I would take medication for awhile until things in my life started to improve and then I would go off the medication. I ended up having to be hospitalized with severe depression and suicidal ideation. I know now that could have been prevented if I had stayed on the medication, or had an adjustment to the medication if needed. I went back on medication recently again due to insomnia. It is helping me to relax and get some rest when I need it. I thank God for the medication. Yes, we are part of the fallen race, and therefore we have to accept physical things happening to our bodies as a result of poor diet, neglect, over working etc. If we were strictly spiritual beings, this would not be an issue, but we’re not just spiritual, we’re physical as well. I thank the Lord for good doctors who tune into the needs of their patients. They are given that talent by the Lord himself.

I have suffered from depression for many years. I did take medication about 10 years ago but found some of the side effects difficult to cope with along with feeling like a failure each time a took a pill. It has been sometime since I ceased medication and I have tried to avoid taking any again. In the last 12 months the depression has become quite severe leading to a number of physical problems but I still resisted taking medication. Having attended a seminar with Grant recently he indicated that taking medication was OK. I found his treatment of the subject very sound and challenging so when Grant offered his online coaching service, I decided to contact him for further advice. During our conversation I found Grant’s medical knoweldge, coupled with his knowledge of the healing ministry, very informative and convincing in regards to the benefits of taking medication. It would seem this is the only piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is missing. Although I still have some reservations, I have made an appointment to visit my doctor to discuss medication, something I would have thought inconceiveable beforehand. Being a Christian and taking anti-depressant medication can be difficult but when all of the other options have been exhausted, both spiritually and medically, and the physical symptoms still exist, they need to be treated as would any other illness. I would recommend speaking to Grant personally, he was easy to talk with, encouraging and supportive.