Transform Your Thoughts. Heal Your Heart. Speak Life. Have you ever wished you could take back words spoken in frustration, pain, or anger? Every one of us has let emotions cloud our judgment and spoken words we regret—especially to those we love most. But what if you could break that cycle?
In
Guide Your Mind, Guard Your Heart, Grace Your Tongue, bestselling author and Bible teacher Carol McLeod reveals a life-changing truth:
your words don’t start in your mouth—they begin in your heart and mind. What you think and feel shapes what you say. By realigning your thoughts and emotions with God’s truth, you can speak life, not regret.
- Guide Your Mind – Replace toxic thoughts with biblical wisdom that renews your mind.
- Guard Your Heart – Heal emotional wounds and let peace, not pain, shape your words.
- Grace Your Tongue – Speak with kindness, confidence, and faith, even in difficult moments.
Through powerful Scripture-based strategies, you will:
- Break free from negative thought patterns that control your words
- Overcome emotional triggers that lead to hurtful speech
- Develop a renewed, Christ-centered mindset for everyday conversations
- Speak with grace, wisdom, and love—even in the toughest situations
Your words have power—to build or to break, to heal or to hurt.
Guide Your Mind, Guard Your Heart, Grace Your Tongue gives you the tools to transform your speech from the inside out.
Are you ready to change the way you think, feel, and speak? Let this book be your roadmap to a life filled with wisdom, grace, and truth.
Carol McLeod is a popular speaker at women’s conferences and retreats through her ministry, Just Joy!, and is the author of six books, including Defiant Joy (Thomas Nelson, 2006), Holy Estrogen (Harrison House, 2012), and Joy for All Seasons (Bridge-Logos, 2016). Carol hosts both a daily radio show, “Defiant Joy! Radio,” which is broadcast in major markets across America, including Sirius XM FamilyTalk Radio 131, and a daily podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network, “A Jolt of Joy!” Her blog, "Joy for the Journey" (formerly “A Cup of Tea with Carol”), has been named in the Top 50 Faith Blogs for Women. After her 2013 devotional 21 Days to Beat Depression had nearly 100,000 downloads in the first month, YouVersion picked it up, where it has been read nearly 300,000 times in three years. Carol has nine other devotionals with YouVersion and also writes for Ministry Today and Charisma. She is a frequent guest on and has cohosted 100 Huntley Street. Her teaching DVD The Rooms of a Woman’s Heart won a Telly Award in 2005 for excellence in religious programming. The first Women’s Chaplain at Oral Roberts University, she currently serves on the university’s Alumni Board of Directors as Chaplain. Carol has been married to her college sweetheart, Craig, for nearly forty years and is the mother of five children in heaven and five children on earth. She and her husband have recently moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Craig serves as the North American Director for Global Partners, a missions organization that plants churches in remote areas of the world.
