Today I want to discuss our anxious predisposition to think we have to juggle a million balls at once or else feel guilty. Totally unproductive. And not at all a gospel perspective!

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I am going to share my struggles with disordered eating and how I am currently using gratitude to manage that.

Happy Halloween, everyone! On this special episode, I’ll share some of the many spiritual lessons Harry Potter teaches us about managing our mood in anxious times.

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Helen Keller helps us gain perspective so we can get out of our anxious heads and into our bodies.

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I’m talking about the vicious cycle where self-pity and bitterness worsen depression and vice versa.

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Anhedonia is a condition in which a person loses the ability to take pleasure in previously enjoyable activities. But luckily there’s a way to prevent or reverse that...and it’s gospel-centered of course.

What do Spock, demons on a boat, and ACT Therapy all have in common? Listen to find out!

We can lesson anxiety by recognizing that the world wants us to embrace the “ought self” while God wants us to embrace the “actual self.”

I will be enlisting the expertise of both Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf and writer Elizabeth Gilbert to answer that question.

To start off this podcast, I will tell you my story and explain why I feel a particular affinity for manna in relation to my mood.