As Journey On My Mind returns from its break, therapist Dave Verhaagen interviews pastors Kevin Dixon and Sam Barnhart about the most prevalent counseling concerns in today's church. The concerns they're most hearing—fear, loneliness and disconnection, anger—help to set our agenda for future episodes.

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There are amazing health benefits of being grateful. Our therapists, Dave Verhaagen and Lauren King, join pastors Kevin Dixon and Sam Barnhart to share the amazing research and talk about their own practices for thankfulness.

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Continuing our discussion of healthy churches, host Dave Verhaagen explores relational health through Journey Church's practice of The Table. Each month, community members gather in each others' homes with no agenda other than getting to know each other and share a good meal. Pastors Kevin Dixon and Sam Barnhart explain how it works.

We also look at behavioral health in the context of relationship.

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Therapists Dave Verhaagen and Lauren King meet pastors Kevin Dixon and Sam Barnhart to dig deeper on what makes a church healthy. This episode, the focus on cognitive and emotional health. If belief is a cognitive process, how do churches like Journey encourage critical thinking? And, how can they build an emotionally supportive environment in their communities?

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Host and therapist Dave Verhaagen and pastors Sam Barnhart and Kevin Dixon examine what it means for a church community to be emotionally, spiritually and cognitively healthy. But, first special guest Suzie Lind brings some inanity and hilarity from our sister podcast, JourneyNOW, to the roundtable.

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Journey On My Mind returns from summer hiatus to examine the psychology of wealth. Can it be mentally healthy to be wealthy? And, how does the church manipulate those with wealth? Psychologist Dave Verhaagen joins pastors Sam Barnhart and Kevin Dixon to explore the subject.

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Churches should be centered on Jesus, but sometimes instead they revolve around authoritarian leaders. Psychologists Lauren King and Dave Verhaagen join pastor Kevin Dixon to look at the psychology of power and how it can be misused to control faithful.

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Pastor Suzie Lind joins psychologists Dave Verhaagen and Lauren King and fellow pastors Kevin Dixon and Sam Barnhart as we conclude our in-depth conversation on growth mindsets versus fixed mindsets. This week: How the psychology concepts of growth and fixed mindsets apply to faith.

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If you think you can or you think you can't, you're probably right. Turns out there's some psychological truth in that saying, as psychologists Dave Verhaagen and Lauren King join pastors Kevin Dixon and Sam Barnhart to talk about the concept of "mindset." What's the difference between fixed mindset and growth mindset approaches to life? And, do these ideas apply to our faith, too?

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Self talk, hallucination, mental illness or voice of God? How do we know when the voices we hear come from within and when they're something more? Pastor Kevin Dixon and psychologist Dave Verhaagen explore the voices in our heads and help us learn how to better discern them.

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Do you have a comment or question about mental health and spiritual issues? Join the discussion: Text us at (615) 861-9503. If you would like to talk with someone, you can email Journey's care pastor, Sam Barnhart, [email protected].