Category: Mental Health
Episode 64: Healing After a Breakup – post 4 months

Episode 64: Healing After a Breakup – post 4 months

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4 months after a major breakup…what are Jacque’s reflections, processing, and practical steps? If you’ve been through a breakup, whether it’s in the past or if you’re currently in the thick of it, we grieve with you. No matter the circumstances of your breakup, it will get better even if it feels impossible now. These are some things that have helped Jacque along her healing journey. 

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“Surviving (and Thriving) Through a Breakup” podcast episode: https://pod.fo/e/16df09

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Episode 54: What’s Your Attachment Style and Why Does It Matter? A Conversation with Dr. Matthew Breuninger

Episode 54: What’s Your Attachment Style and Why Does It Matter? A Conversation with Dr. Matthew Breuninger

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In this episode we interview Dr. Matthew Breuninger on attachment styles. Dr. Breuninger talks about:

  • What are the different attachment styles?
  • What forms our attachment style? 
  • Why is it important to know our own attachment style?
  • What areas of our lives does our attachment style most affect? 
  • Does our attachment style affect our relationship with God?
  • If we have an unhealthy attachment style, how can we develop secure attachment?

Dr. Matthew Breuninger is an assistant professor of psychology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned an MA in Theology from Ave Maria University and a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Baylor University. Dr. Breuninger is a licensed clinical psychologist. His clinical interests include anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance abuse. His academic interests comprise the intersection of faith and psychology, psychology of religion, and virtue formation.

Resources Mentioned:

Wellspring Counseling: https://wellspringccc.com

Dr. Breuninger’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Freedom-Christ-Healing-Lifes/dp/1645852245

Instagram: @askacatholictherapist https://instagram.com/askacatholictherapist?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AskaCatholicTherapist?fbclid=PAAaZsZyMZLDOAQMF5R5lT48q9ULz6QKGoI4CuQi6Y4zTEVRWfo063FsTGC-s

Conrad Baars: https://www.baarsinstitute.com/

Karen Purvis: https://child.tcu.edu/#sthash.mgrbYs4f.dpbs

Books by Conrad W. Baars: 

https://paulinestore.com/healing-the-unaffirmed-rev-2805-101014.html

https://www.baarsinstitute.com/shop/p/feeling-and-healing-your-emotions

Karen Purvis – https://child.tcu.edu/

Attached: https://www.attachedthebook.com/wordpress/about-the-book/

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Episode 50 – How’s Our Mental Health? An Update

Episode 50 – How’s Our Mental Health? An Update

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One of the very first episodes we ever did was on anxiety. This was something we bonded over early on in our friendship, our willingness to be vulnerable about our mental health struggles. It’s been over two years now…so how are we doing?

TW: This episode mentions mental health struggles including anxiety, depression, harmful thoughts, ED, etc. 

Links to check out:

Check out our first episode on anxiety: https://pod.fo/e/1610bb

Jacque talks about her journey with an eating disorder: https://pod.fo/e/1610b9

Megan’s original episode on her mental health: https://pod.fo/e/1610b6

Jacque’s original episode on her mental health: https://pod.fo/e/1610b5

Ted Talk mentioned in episode (NOTE: discusses suicide): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo_mgcxGYYE

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Episode 41: Updated Reflections on Healing

Episode 41: Updated Reflections on Healing

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In our first season, we talked about healing in episode 5 (The Path of Healing is the Valley of Death). Now, a year later, we want to revisit the topic of healing and give some updated reflections. Jacque recently attended a healing retreat with the John Paul II Healing Center and will be sharing her thoughts and reactions.

Resources:

John Paul II Healing Center

Dr. Bob Schuchts

Sr. Miriam James Heidland

Abiding Together Podcast

Be Healed by Dr. Bob Schuchts

Unbound by Neal Lozano

How Healing Happens: Revisiting The U Diagram (podcast: The Place We Find Ourselves)

How Healing Happens Part 1 (podcast: The Place We Find Ourselves)

How Healing Happens Part 2 (podcast: The Place We Find Ourselves)

How Healing Happens Part 3 (podcast: The Place We Find Ourselves)

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Episode 39: Why You Should Go To Therapy

Episode 39: Why You Should Go To Therapy

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Nothing has to be “wrong” with you to see a therapist. There’s an idea/stigma that in order to go to therapy you have to have severe trauma, dramatic diagnosis/disorder, etc. However, there are many reasons why it may be helpful for you to go to therapy. 

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Episode 35: Redemptive Suffering and Navigating PTSD – A Conversation with Molly McManus

Episode 35: Redemptive Suffering and Navigating PTSD – A Conversation with Molly McManus

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In this episode, Jacque’s friend Molly talks about her struggles with mental health, specifically PTSD, and about how God has shown up in her suffering and brought beauty and redemption from her pain. 

Episode Resources:

Follow Molly on Instagram

Read Jacque’s original blog interview with Molly

knowHis.love Podcast

“This Too Shall Last” by K.J. Ramsey

“Mary Consoles Eve” by Sr. Grace Remington, Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey

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Episode 31: The Struggles & Beauty of Motherhood

Episode 31: The Struggles & Beauty of Motherhood

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In this episode, Jacque and Megan talk with Jacque’s friend, Haley, about how the struggles and beauty of pregnancy and motherhood. Haley shares her personal fears, growth, changes that were expected and unexpected. A few issues discussed are: body image, marital sex life after a baby, changes in her marriage, and advice for young mothers.

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Episode 29: Purity Culture, Modesty, Body Image, & Healing from Sexual Sin

Episode 29: Purity Culture, Modesty, Body Image, & Healing from Sexual Sin

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Trigger Warning: This episode references sexual assault and disordered eating. 

Jacque and Megan talk to Mary about purity culture: what it is, family dynamics, modesty, body image, and more. Purity Culture is largely understood to be a Christian sub-culture beginning around 1990 in conservative evangelical circles. It is characterized by efforts to promote sexual abstinence prior to marriage as well as emphasizing women to be “appropriately submissive”. While the intentions in this movement may or may not be pure (pun intended), it is important to talk about the lasting effects, and lingering shame, on those who grew up within it. Mary also shares some spectacular wisdom in this episode on healing from sexual sin and managing misplaced shame.

Resources:

History of Purity Culture

 

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Episode 25: When it is Time to End a Friendship

Episode 25: When it is Time to End a Friendship

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We live in a culture where it’s popular to “cut out toxicity”. This leads to many people cutting people out of their life instead of working through problems. However…there are times when a relationship needs to be cut out because it is truly toxic. When is it time to end a friendship and when is it time to seek reconciliation? Is cutting someone out of your life ever loving or Biblical? Jacque and Megan discuss these questions and more with their friend Alé. 

Follow Alé on Instagram

Book Recommendations:

Changes That Heal by Dr. Cloud

Boundaries by Dr. Cloud & Dr. Townsend

Resources:

What a Friend We Have in Jesus

Toxic Friendships: Thirty Minutes with The Perry’s Podcast

 

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Episode 23: Finding God In Your Struggle with Mental Illness – A Conversation with Kristen Deasy

Episode 23: Finding God In Your Struggle with Mental Illness – A Conversation with Kristen Deasy

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TW: This episode discusses mental health struggles such as depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidality.

Meet Kristen! Jacque and Megan talk with Kristen Deasy, mental health advocate and founder of “The Human Condition”.  The mission of “The Human Condition” is to change the narrative that mental health and faith are mutually exclusive through promoting hope, healing, and conversation. “The Human Condition” hopes to inspire those living with mental illness that God has a plan for them; to be great saints in the midst of their suffering.

This episodes discusses the integration of faith and mental health, self harm, suicide, and finding God in our suffering. 

Resources:

Follow Kristen on Instagram

Follow The Human Condition on Instagram

The Human Condition Website

Like The Human Condition on Facebook

 

 

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