Journey On My Mind

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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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].

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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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].

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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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].

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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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].

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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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].

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].

Our brains are amazing time machines. We can return to experiences in the past or imagine different futures based on our current actions. But sometimes our minds get stuck in those places, which is where mindfulness comes in. Science has good evidence that becoming intentionally aware of our present, without judging it, improves our health.

So, how do we practice mindfulness? Is it the same thing as meditation? Is there more than one way to be mindful? And, is it anti-Christian? Join psychologists Lauren King and Dave Verhaagen and pastor Sam Barnhart.

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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].

Is secular mental health therapy compatible with faith? Pastor Kevin Dixon and psychologist Dave Verhaagen discuss why these two approaches to healing and growth don't have to be mutually exclusive.

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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].

Human behavior is filled with rituals in part because the brain is a pattern-seeking machine. So, does that mean they're just mental feedback loops, or can they help bring meaning to our lives? This week's panel of Dave Verhaagen, Kevin Dixon, and Sam Barnhart take a close look at the healthy--and sometimes not-so-healthy roles that rituals play in our spiritual and secular lives.

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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].

Recently, a well-known evangelical figure set the internet on fire when he said there's not such thing as mental illnesses, including ADHD, OCD and post-traumatic stress syndrome. It's all just a noble lie in the service of big pharma. As you might expect, Journey On My Mind's own therapist, Dave Verhaagen, and pastor, Kevin Dixon, have thoughts about the recklessness of those claims.

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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].