(Ep. 73) Does God Even Hear Me? Why Prayer Feels So Hard

You believe God loves you. So why does it feel like he isn't listening? 🙏

Prayer feels hard for so many devoted believers — not because their faith is weak, but because an old wound is whispering that God isn't really listening. In this episode, Laura Duncan and client-turned-co-host Brian Freise trace that feeling to its root: Brian shares the childhood memory that quietly taught him his voice didn't matter, and Laura shows how The Compassion Method heals the emotional triggers underneath so you can pray from your true self, receive love you don't have to earn, and become more — not less — of who you were made to be.

In this episode: 

🔹 Why prayer feels hard even when you believe — and the childhood wound that whispers "God isn't listening" 

🔹 How deflating moments imprint like "a pin on a balloon" — and why the fall hurts more than the moment 

🔹 The check-in that changes everything: "Am I praying from my true self, or my triggered self?" 

🔹 Why "introvert" might really be parts of yourself you put away as a child — and how healing brings back your joy 

🔹 What are we becoming — more or less? Why pain shrinks your world and healing expands it.

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Triggered and True is an emotional health podcast where Laura Duncan teaches The Compassion Method — a process for understanding emotional triggers, healing from shame, and reconnecting with your true self.