Today we are talking all about mental health today with my dear friend Katie Glavinic. We talk about how to be a good friend in times when our friends are struggling, how to admit when we need help, why we need to be invested and curious about our community, and why we should not to be afraid of asking serious questions about mental health.. We do our best to cover an array of topics that will help you be a better friend and be a healthy individual. It is really important that we normalize mental health in the church and in our communities. So the more we talk about this the easier it will be. Katie does a great job in giving us tools and phrases to say when we are feeling stuck around conversations on mental health.

get ready to learn about:

• How to check in on our community and show up for our friends
  • How to be an active / reflective listener
• How to ask the scary questions surrounding mental health
  • How and why we should ask if our friends are suicidal
• How to find a therapist and why we should seek mental health professionals
• How to tell the difference between self care and soul renewal
• Why therapy is helpful
• Why our relationship with Jesus is imperative to our mental health

Episode Links:

Psychology Today

Quotes Mentioned

“We have a deep desire as humans to be heard and to be seen by fellow humans. So learning how to listen really well is important. It is a skill you develop just like any other skill, nobody is born with it.”

“Often times, people, especially Christians, feel a burden to tell people how to fix their situation and to give advice where advice is not asked for or warranted. This is an opportunity to create space for your friends to be heard and seen by another fellow human.”

“In a really Christianesey sense, be Jesus for people that advice giving doesn’t really do.”

“In the same way that your pastor and friends are not doctors, they’re also not mental health professionals … [therapy] is statistically shown to help people”

“Finding a therapist feels very intimidating … but ask [therapists] if they offer a sliding scale” (many therapists will do pro bono work)

“There is help and there is healing and I see it all the time”

“I remember the first time that somebody gave me the permission to be angry at God like in the presence of God … Not just angry with God in the secret places of my heart, not angry at God in a conversation over here”

“Going to hard places in prayer rather than going to someone else”

“I’ll be honest, healing didn’t come for a few years, but I think it was the start of honesty and it was the start of intellectual honesty in my faith and internal honesty in some things and eventually living this cohesive life of faith. Where I honestly know what I believe … It was the start of the healing journey.”

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