Dr. Allison, your show has been a wonderful compliment to my journey with a counselor. I find IFS to be such a helpful lens for my own healing and grounding. The way you have introduced it and explained it over time has been such a gift. You are passionate and brilliant and gracious as you unpack so many deeply practical ideas and approaches for emotional healing and maturity! Thank you!

I wanted SO bad to LOVE her podcasts and her interview methods! SO much rambling and SO many rabbit trails. I felt like I was listening to an unintentional coffee conversation. I LOVE her latest book “I Shouldn't Feel This Way”….podcasts, not so much.

I can’t say enough about this podcast and Dr. Allison. I have listened to every episode and can’t wait for the next one. She has shed so much light onto my spiritual pain from a 29 year toxic marriage. I’m learning how to heal and to live the life that God has planned for me.

Dr. Alison is a gift to the believer. She truly helps us to integrate our spiritual journey in a compassionate and courageous way. Healing the Spiritual and bringing language to the human aspects of our journey. That leads us to a greater Spiritual Formation in Christ through love.

I’m so grateful for this podcast. Just what I need.

Great content 🔥 The books are great too! I’m in school for counseling at the Townsend Institute and have learned so much on this show for practicing the great tools I’m learning about in this school 💯🤓

I have an interest in the topics she talks about but find the style she delivers the message to be very intense. Her tone and delivery style of her podcasts almost creates stress inside of me.

I’ve been mentally and emotionally drained from people from my past and this podcast has made my life better.

I have learned so much in the past several months. Dr. Alison has addressed so many of the issues that I have struggled with. So timely for what I’m dealing with. I have read and reread her books. Thank you…thank you!!! Dr.Allison I really consider you one of my best friends!

So glad I found this podcasts. I just listened to my first episode and gained so much from it! I will gladly listen to this one daily until o catch up on past episodes!

Last night I saw INSIDE OUT 2, without seeing #1. This am, when I got up to do my daily meditation, I found Your podcast 109 staring at me for the first time without my seeking. I clicked and listened and was thrilled deep down inside by the incredible honesty of these two ladies. I am often capable of this simple honesty and I recognize God’s presence usually appears in these moments, pin dropping moments. In addition, I am familiar with IFS but not fluent with it. But I found I could, at least, keep up with a sense of what was occurring between these two ladies. Love and healing for them and me was in the air as they shared. I would recommend to myself, my friends and anyone else in recovery from addictions, trauma, or just life’s struggle to come here for hope, healing and a new life worth living.

Thank you so much for this episode. I’m curious about any studies that have been done regarding the attachment styles/issues for military kids. By the time I was 27 I had moved 14 times- starting in Germany, east coast, west coast, mid west, the Deep South and northeast of the United States. My family- army dad, mom, 2 older brothers, 1 older sister, 1 younger brother. (Oldest brother was 7 1/2 yrs old when youngest brother was born.) Thanks for considering this subject. Kathy

Hate to admit it, but this was really convicting & discouraging, actually… “oh woe is me, unclean lips.”! Very thorough. Good transcript notes. Please do an episode on how to determine if we are lying to ourselves vs listening to the father of lies.

Thank you for sharing this healing wonderful podcast !! So thankful God sent me to this podcast just when I needed it !!

I’m so grateful I found Dr Cooks work-she is the best of both worlds-I trust her and I don’t even know her. Morally authentic and kind with really strong clinical chops. Thank you Dr Alison for helping me to stay hopeful when I had almost given up.

Helpful mental advice from a Christian perspective. Loving, compassionate advice that is good for the soul!

I love listening to Dr. Alison Cook, great insights that are helping me to find healing!

I’ve been listening to this podcast for awhile now and I’m learning so much about myself, my emotions, my experiences in my family of origin, and how to be the healthiest I can be. Thank you, Dr. Alison, for these podcasts!

I love that this is Christ centered therapy related talks 🩵 found one that related to my exact situation and am so thankful!

Dr. Allison’s work is absolutely life changing! Eternally grateful to her and the work God does through her. 🙌🏼❤️🙏🏼

This podcast is awesome! Helping me love myself and deal with life & relationships at the best of me level,

I have learned so many new perspectives and tools through this podcast that help me accept my shadow sides and move beyond them with God’s help. Alison also dispels many unhealthy messages from the church and replaces them with true and healing messages. Thank you so much, Alison, for all the work you put into making this podcast and sharing YOUR best. I wish you the best on your own journey!

Thank you so much for this podcast it is truly life changing! This most recent series on emotions has helped me tremendously! I feel so unburdened and so much lighter. Your podcast is a gift 💕

Stumbled upon your podcast duirng my daily doggie walks and can't stop. I have been listing since and I have shared with frieds and family. Thank you so much for the real, raw God centered/thearpy driven candid talks -- my first podcase was the Granger Smith podcast and it was so real and raw - I was crying on my walk, not sad but just so real. The next was the Dark Night of the Soul, and I shared that with my sisters. Thank you so much for your podcast, it was wonderful and light to our feet indeed.

Dr. Alison Cook’s books and podcasts have changed my life for the better. I discovered her online over 3 years ago and am happy to say I haven’t been the same. It seems to be a journey for me because I have so many levels of healing that have happened and still need to happen. I’m particularly helped by the parts (IFS) work she does. Thanking God for her and what freedom she’s helped me find.

This podcast has given me so much life! Really have experienced God and breakthrough with this podcast. Thanks Dr. Cook for putting this together!

It took several years of confusing emotional struggles to figure out how to come out of overwhelm, anxiety and depression while running a business and trying to raise 4 kids under 7. I needed to learn emotional intelligence, I needed to learn how to deal with myself, I needed to learn who I am and make my own choices. That led me to this podcast, I may have found it through don’t mom alone? In any event, I see myself more clearly listening. I gain understanding. I face myself with more compassion. I’m growing and learning and healing and encouraged on my journey here. I listened to boundaries for your soul, twice. I get it. I get it all and I’m using it all every day to deal with myself and heal the parts of me I used to deny were hurting…and not being ashamed when I see ways I never grew up, but parenting myself gently in those areas…which helps me immensley in parenting my children. I am growing up with them. I started on episode 1 and I’m on 22 and 1 book meditated on. Thank you Alison for your work, both internally and externally. Your journey has blessed mine.

Your podcast intricately weaves together psychology and Biblical truths. Things I love. This was the podcast I desperately needed and did not know it. I am a psychiatric RN and recently a new mom. My new season has brought about unfamiliar emotions and intense anxiety. It was difficult for me to face the truth that I even harbor these uncharted feelings given my profession. I became a stranger to myself. After seeking help and community, I so happen to come across your podcast as “recommended,” it was by God’s kindness that I am to gird myself with your helpful tactics and reignite my passion for the career I am already in. I hope to further explore IFS and carry what I am going to learn into my practice. Thank you.

Thank you, Dr. Alison! Your professional knowledge coupled with your sound Biblical teachings and transparency about your own challenges and learning journey is refreshing, encouraging, and educational. I especially have found IFS to be instructional and helpful. It has allowed me to better understand trauma’s impact and provides tools for allowing me to be gentle with myself as I heal. You share the practical and personal side of pain and the growth/healing journey while providing the hope of the gospel!

I love the way you blend biblical Truth with psychology and therapy…. And, I am a big fan of IFS so I appreciate the way you used a Christian worldview to explain self leadership as spirit leadership….. can’t wait to buy your book and hear the next episodes.

Have listened for some time. Shared with both my minister who used Personality questionnaires in doing Spiritual Formation, and also with my LPCMS daughter who is less spiritually directed (more brain science focus). Both impact my psychology learning/leanings. IG & podcast is my therapy filler (a more affordable/available…. Between 50 min sessions), AND while there’s alot to choose from…. Not all are great for all people. You have shown intelligence & integrity.

Thank you for helping me uncover some stinking thinking. Thankful you share ways to be the best of me.

A goldmine of information, well thought out and taught by Dr Cook, enjoy listening to every episode, esoevially love the faith based focus, so thankful to have found this gem!

Allison Cook is so compassionate and articulate. She generously shares a wealth of information that is easy to understand and practical in apply. Every episode is a treasure trove to explore.

I’ve listened to most of the podcasts and read two of her books. Her content puts tools in the hands of the one seeking change. And the desire, hope and courage to use those tools for changing me.

Dr. Alison you validated my experience as a receiver of gaslighting so clearly. I appreciate your clear delivery and wise advice mixed with biblical truth! Your practical advice and actual “talk tracks” for how to deliver healthy boundaries have be the tools to confidently engage with chronic toxic family members. You are a perfect complement to live counseling and I love to listen on my way to work as I invest in my healing journey! God Bless you!

I’m so happy found this podcast! Dr Alison Cook is brilliant! Her podcasts are helping me understand myself and why I am the way I am. Dr. Cook explains the subject well and gives lots of helpful advice. I am on the road to making “the best of me” with her help. She is loving, kind, honest and incredibly smart. Dr. Cook has shown me how I can be a better person by helping me to erase my shame and learning how to love myself again. 5 stars is not enough. **********

I am experiencing more connection with myself and the ways and whys I’ve self abandoned. Dr. Cooks work regarding the complexity of who we are and how and why we show up in relationships with God, ourselves and others is immensely enlightening. I’m encouraged for change as i discover the best of me with Gods help.

Honestly - is a 5 star rating even enough? This podcast is amazing… every single time.

Like my own personal therapist when life’s too busy to go to appointments!!! Ty for the encouragement! And biblical!

… I really enjoy Dr. Alison and her work. She is also very engaging. I am so glad the Powers That Be allowed her to stay with us.

Thank you, Dr. Alison for your kind and expert advice from a Christian perspective. I am really enjoying each and every episode. ❤️

Thank you, Dr. Alison, for the amazing content in each of these podcasts. Your gentleness and expertise come through and penetrate deeply to my heart and soul. I am in need of your words; they are a balm to my soul! I serve alongside my husband shepherding many in our local church. Whenever I discover a resource that is helpful I pass it on. I’ve lost count of all the texts with the link to your podcast I’ve sent out. 😊. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your gifts with us!

I listened to episode 23 (am i wounded or am i sinful) and it really helped to answer some of the questions i’ve been having about how to reconcile what the bible teaches about sin and repentance with what i know about shame-filled attachment styles.

I am so thankful for Dr. Alison Cook. I have been working through some rough stuff and she has enlightened me. I’ve gained strength and skills. Thank you for the depth of knowledgeable along with the practicality of implementing steps.

This podcast is simply amazing. Thank you, Dr. Alison, for allowing beautiful therapy to be available for at no cost. This will benefit generations to come! Thank you!

I started following this podcast because i was looking for something to listen to that will help me live my best life in Christ. The first one was the power of no. I really loved it and found it super helpful.

This podcast has helped me so much!! Thank you Dr Alison!!!!

Each week, Dr Alison Cook provides yet another episode packed full of wisdom aimed at helping all of us become the best version of ourselves with God’s help. If you’re struggling, dive in and listen to these teachings.

This is such great content and the podcaster’s book is also wonderful. In fact, I recommend the latter with more gusto only because Dr. Alison’s delivery sets my teeth on edge. First, she talks so fast that I can hardly keep up and her tendency to over-emphasis words and speak with over-inflection is so distracting. I can only listen for short bursts because it just grates on my ears. A softer, more conversational approach would be so much more appreciated and effective. Otherwise, this is highly recommended.