Two Gardens Ministry

02/28/2025

Hello, friends! It’s been a long time since I’ve talked about writing. Over the past decade, my writing mainly consisted of papers in Psychology, theology, and counseling. While I did complete my first draft of “Loving Tiffany,” I haven’t been able to do anything more with the manuscript.

Since graduation last May, I’ve been focused on starting my counseling business and adjusting to group counseling in an outpatient setting and helping set up a brand new counseling center. This month, however, I have been inspired to write a non-fiction book on a much needed topic.

There are so many thoughts, beliefs, and opinions out there on what marriage is and what it’s supposed to look like. If we were to count the number of marriage books available, they would probably number into the hundreds of thousands. So why am I’m tackling such a subject? This book is niche. To my knowledge, there are no other books on marriage from this vantage point. This book is more foundational than a “how to.”

I have the rough draft of the first section written and have started on the second section. This book you see in the pic houses my WIP. I’ll keep you updated as I have updates available. In the meantime, I would appreciate prayer from anyone so inclined. It’s a unique and Scripturally-based approach that I am taking with some trepidation and a lot of excitement!

Have a beautiful day!






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11/16/2024

Name things in order to tame things.

Emotions are a gift. They inform us, to help us. We often want to shut down any emotion that makes us uncomfortable or causes us pain. However, this only magnifies and compounds the discomfort or pain in the end. Our emotions are there to inform us and it is our job to stop and ask why we are feeling the way we do. Rather than avoid unpleasant emotions, it is best to name them. All of them. Name every emotion until you cannot detect any others. By naming the emotions and accepting them for what they are, you actually diffuse or lessen their magnitude. There is no sin in experiencing any emotion. How we respond to our emotions is where we choose to sin or not. Accepting our emotions for what they are can actually help calm our sympathetic system enough to help us make right choices within the given situation.

If a baby cries because they are hungry, ignoring the baby will only make them cry harder. Eventually, if the baby’s needs are not met, it becomes quiet and learns to not cry. This is called learned helplessness. When we do that to our emotions, we become numb which not only shuts out the unwanted emotions, but also shuts down the desirable emotions. In the end, numbness is more painful than any unwanted emotion. Emotional numbness creates loneliness, feelings of isolation and abandonment, anxiety, depression, dissociation, and more. When we name our emotions, listen to what they are trying to tell us, accept them for what they are, use them to problem solve (not to control us), we become stronger and our sense of self, of wholeness grows stronger. So, when you are tempted to ignore or stuff your emotions away, remember to name them in order to tame them.

~Linnette Mullin, LPC-A

07/04/2024

“You’re never so small that you can’t make a difference.” Elizabeth Mitchell, Actress in “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot

02/05/2024

What are your values? It is one thing to say you believe something and another to live out those values. When our values and behavior do not align with one another, we experience an internal dissonance, meaning we lack peace. One thing I with which seek to help my clients is determining their true values and measuring them against their behavior. Then, clients seek to align these two in an effort to find the healing they seek. What are your true values? Do your life choices align with them? If not, how can you remedy that?

“The Relationship Principles of Jesus” by Tom Holladay

09/26/2023

FORGIVENESS is NOT condoning, approving of, or excusing what happened.

09/13/2023

For whatever reason, there are a lot of misconceptions surrounding forgiveness. One of those misconceptions is that if we truly forgive someone, we should trust them. This is far from true. Forgiveness in no way requires us to trust the person(s) who broke our trust. Too often, we get trust and forgiveness confused. We think that placing our trust in someone after they’ve hurt us (giving a person more opportunity to hurt us) is our way of showing that we have forgiven them. In reality, we often hold on to unforgiveness in our hearts, remembering how they hurt us, while hoping and trusting that they won’t hurt us again. Trusting someone does not mean you have forgiven them. Forgiving someone does not mean you must trust them. While forgiveness may be freely given, trust must be earned.

07/11/2023

I am just over half-way through practicum and I have already met the required number of hours for completion. This semester ends August 25th. Fall Internship 1 begins August 28th. Over the course of Internship 1 & 2, I'll be required to fulfill 600 hours. That might be a bit more challenging than the 100 I have to fulfill in practicum.

So far, the experience has been amazing! It feels great to finally start putting all of my training to work and be able to help people walk through and heal from the difficulties they face in life. I am so thankful for being able to finally start doing the work God has called me to do!

04/04/2023

Welcome! Linnette starts her internship for clinical mental health counseling on May 8, 2023. Stay tuned for updates!

04/04/2023