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  • 315 | Best of Mercy Talk – Heartache and Suffering

    Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of Mercy Talk! If you haven’t heard yet, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes from Mercy Talk over the years and sharing them this summer! On today’s episode, we’re looking back at a conversation between our Senior Director of Outreach, Melanie Wise and Jen Otero as they lay the foundation on what heartache and suffering are. They also discuss the importance of going through seasons of suffering rather than avoiding them and the comfort that is found in God’s Word during our heartache. We hope you’re encouraged as you listen today!

    26 min
  • 314 | Best of Mercy Talk – Lead Your Soul

    Hey Mercy Talk friends! Today, we’re excited to kick off our new summer series, “The Best of Mercy Talk”, as we revisit some of our favorite conversations from over the years!

    Join us today as we dive into the story of one of our UK Mercy Executives, Arianna Walker. We’ll listen as Arianna shares the importance of leading your own soul, what that even means, and learning to hear God’s voice for yourself! Don’t miss it!

    39 min
  • 313 | Saying ‘Yes’ to God with Nancy Alcorn

    On today’s episode of MercyTalk, we have a conversation with our Founder and President, Nancy Alcorn, about some of her story and some of the things that God has taught her – not only when she started Mercy back in 1983 but as she has continued to lead this organization for the past almost 38 years! One of the hallmarks of Nancy’s life is that she says “YES” to God, so in this episode, we hear more about that experience for her, what caused her to say “yes” originally, but also what has caused her to keep saying it over all these years. Also, in this episode, Nancy shares about…

    · How God leads her and the faith required to take the first step even when you don’t see the final outcome

    · What has kept Nancy faithful to the founding principles that God gave her when she started Mercy

    · How Nancy has responded to opposition and challenge throughout Mercy’s history

    Join us and be inspired by Nancy’s story as you seek to follow God’s guidance and calling in your own life!

    47 min
  • 312 | Steps to Finding the Right Counselor

    Hey everyone, and welcome to another episode of Mercy Talk! Today, we’re continuing our conversation on counseling by focusing on steps we can take to find the right counselor. What kinds of questions should we be asking in our search, and what types of parameters should we have set in place, so we know we’re headed in the right direction?

    Join us today as we focus on practical steps anyone can take in their journey towards greater freedom and wholeness!

    25 min
  • 311 | Using Prayer in Counseling

    Hey everyone, and welcome to another episode of Mercy Talk! Over the next two weeks, we’ll be turning our attention towards the topic of counseling!! While it’s no secret that we’re huge fans of counseling here at Mercy, today, we wanted to break down how we here at Mercy see the role of prayer in counseling vs. receiving ministry through prayer outside of counseling. Join us today as we take a closer look at how these can offer incredible insight individually and work powerfully together!

    24 min
  • 310 | Longing, Beauty, and Community: A Conversation with Dr. Curt Thompson

    On today’s episode of MercyTalk, we are thrilled to have a conversation with nationally

    renowned psychiatrist, speaker, and author, Dr. Curt Thompson, about some of the amazing content
    in his upcoming book, The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty and
    Community (releasing in Fall of 2021). Dr. Thompson shares about what it means that we are people of
    desire and the relationship between longing and beauty. Also, in this episode, Dr. Thompson shares
    about…

    • The problem with approaching our lives as problems to be solved instead of artifacts of
    • beauty to create
    • What it means for us to be people of grief
    • How beauty, art, nature, etc change how we approach our lives
    • The importance of community and what it looks like for us to “practice for heaven”
    • Join us for this powerful conversation as we learn from Dr. Thompson about what it means to be

      human, to fulfill our intrinsic desire to feel known, valued, and connected, and to live into the
      meaningful reality we desire to create.

      For more from Dr. Thompson, check out his “Being Known” podcast and his books, The Anatomy of the

      Soul and Soul of Shame. You can find those resources and more on his website at
      CurtThompsonMD.com.

      1 hr 1 min
    • 309 | Mental Health Check Part 2

      Hey everyone, and welcome to another episode of Mercy Talk! Last week, we talked about what MENTAL HEALTH actually IS but, more importantly, WHY it should matter to every one of us! So today, we wanted to talk about some practical ways that we can ALL assess our current mental state and increase our mental health. So often, we think of mental health as “all science” or “all Jesus” with no mixture of the 2. But what if we addressed our mental health from a holistic viewpoint (spirit, soul, body)? Don’t miss this conversation as we consider what it means to assess our mental health from a more honest place!

      29 min
    • 308 | Mental Health Check Part 1

      Welcome back to another episode of #MercyTalk! This month is Mental

      Health Awareness Month and we would be remiss if we didn’t take time to talk about a
      subject that Mercy deals with so heavily! While it can be tempting to omit ourselves from this
      conversation, mental health is something that should matter to every single one of us!

      Join us today as we talk about why we should be intentional about our mental health and how it affects our emotional, spiritual, and physical health as well!

      38 min
    • 307 | Maintaining Lifelong Freedom

      Today on MercyTalk, we’re so excited to jump into the very last key to freedom, and it’s one

      that is so essential in helping us to integrate all the other keys into our daily life! So for today’s
      episode, we’re going to be talking about Maintaining Lifelong Freedom and diving into the “4
      stay ins”! This final key is about focusing on key lifestyle choices that help us maintain freedom
      and wholeness for life. Join us as we talk about how consistent practices can make a big
      difference in our freedom journey with Jesus!

      33 min
    • 305 | Breaking Generational Patterns

      In this episode of MercyTalk, we dive into Key 5 of the 7 Keys to Freedom, Breaking Generational Patterns! All of us inherit patterns of living and thinking that are passed down to us, whether we like them or not. Without realizing it, we typically adopt our parents’ and grandparents’ approaches to life. The good news here is that God has given us the power to identify and reject negative patterns in our family’s history and establish new patterns that bring blessing to our future and our children’s futures as well! Join us today as we break down what it means to walk in freedom for ourselves and the generations to follow us!

      37 min

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    MercyTalk is a podcast presented by Mercy Multiplied that seeks to provide listeners with practical principles for growing in mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

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