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As our MercyTalk team was preparing shows for December, we realized that everything we wanted to discuss was already recorded last year on MercyTalk! So we decided to do some December throwbacks for you to enjoy! This week, join MercyTalk hosts, Melanie and Jen, as they discuss how choosing joy can posture your heart for the holidays! They will also discuss:

• The strength that can be found as we choose joy.
• How JOY counters the sadness and depression that the holidays can bring.
• The truth that joy is not just an emotion – it is a choice.
• Practical ways to choose joy this holiday season.

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When you google “overcoming depression and suicide” there are a variety of articles and websites that will come up with many helpful steps to take that address these struggles, but those steps typically focus on the behavior and not the true root. Today on MercyTalk, join hosts, Jen and Melanie, with guest, Brooke as they spend some time discussing some of the biblical keys to overcoming depression and suicide that we have used for decades here at Mercy and have watched countless young women use to overcome. They will talk through:

• Some of the root causes of depression and suicide
• Identifying the hurts and/or the spiritual warfare that may be present
• How to address the hurts and/or spiritual warfare that you identify
• What is on the other side of our obedience and choosing to take steps to overcome

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Happy Thanksgiving from our MercyTalk team! We hope that you are enjoying the holiday and that you will join us as we listen in with MercyTalk host, Melanie, and two of our home staff members, Erin and Janelle, as they share a sneak peek into the Thanksgiving holiday for our residents and staff. They will discuss:

• What holiday food prep for a Thanksgiving meal for 40 residents entails!
• How the Thanksgiving holiday in the home impacts the residents and the staff
• How to have a happy, meaningful holiday despite the challenges in the past
• The truth that the Lord places the lonely in family and how to receive His love this holiday season

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It can be easy to get into the excitement and preparation of the holidays and forget that, while we may enjoy this time of year, it is not always enjoyable for everyone.

Some individuals have not experienced joyful holidays in the past, so what we may experience as fun and full of tradition is not what they may experience. When this is the case, depression, and at times, struggles with suicide, can come in. We talk about the different things users can do to relieve their depression – from getting a good nights sleep to using relaxing lights and herbal teas.

Join our MercyTalk hosts, Melanie and Jen, with guest, Brooke, as they spend some time discussing depression and suicide. Join our hosts as they discuss:

• Definitions for depression and suicide
• How depression and suicide are linked
• Important statistics
• The importance of getting to the real root of these issues
• Biblical keys to overcoming depression and/or suicidal ideations

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Welcome back to MercyTalk this week as we enjoy another Throwback Thursday! Enjoy this second show with MercyTalk host, Melanie, as she discusses how little steps overcome big mountains with one of our UK staff in 2015. Melanie connects with Laura Ryder as she shares from her personal experience climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the lessons she learned about journeying with the Lord and trusting His ways. They will also talk about:

• The connection between physical challenges and spiritual growth
• How little steps conquer big mountains
• Trusting God in the big picture and following His pace in order to reach the summit
• The importance of celebrating all of the steps on the way to the breakthrough
• How to see things as an opportunity instead of a problem

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Welcome to Throwback Thursday on MercyTalk! We hope you will enjoy this show from 2015 with some of our United Kingdom Mercy staff, as they discuss what it means to love people back to life. Laura Ryder and Pam Grimshaw share their love for Mercy and the power that comes from loving people well. Join MercyTalk host, Melanie, as she and our UK staff discuss:

• Their “Mercy story” and how they connected with Mercy Multiplied
• What it means to “love people back to life”
• How God doesn’t call the equipped, He equips the called
• The urgency for the Church to be healthy and whole and why that is important
• How to practically love others back to life and how to safeguard ourselves as we do so

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Join us on MercyTalk today as we discuss an addiction to people pleasing and how people pleasing can attempt to meet our need for approval. People pleasing is an area that MANY people struggle with, but are not always aware that it’s happening and that it can have serious repercussions. MercyTalk hosts, Jen and Melanie, with special guest, Brooke will discuss the need for healthy approval and how we can address an addiction to people pleasing from a biblical perspective. They will also discuss:

• What people pleasing is and what to do if we identify it in our lives
• The personal and relational challenges that people pleasing can create
• How to overcome people pleasing
• The importance of boundary setting
• Additional resources

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We are made for intimacy and healthy connection. Sex is an area that our world has perverted and drawn away from God’s original design. This week on MercyTalk we continue our discussion on the roots of addiction and the many ways that we meet healthy needs with unhealthy addictions. Today our hosts, Jen and Melanie, with special guest, Brooke will discuss the need for healthy connection and how we can try to meet that need with an addiction to sex. Sex addiction permeates our culture in a variety of ways, but freedom and healing is possible. Join our hosts as they discuss:

• What sex addiction is
• What is God’s original design for sex
• How sex addiction is actually a search for God-ordained intimacy in the wrong places
• How sexual addiction attempts to meet our need for connection
• How to identify sexual addiction and how to address it from a Biblical perspective

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Join us this week on MercyTalk as we discuss another area of addiction and one of the roots to this addiction—the addiction of social media and gaming. Today our hosts, Melanie and Jen, with special guest, Brooke will discuss the need for significance and how we often try to meet that need with an addiction to social media, the internet, and, at times, gaming. Join them as they talk through:

• What social media addiction is and how to recognize it
• The need we have for connection and significance and the immediacy that social media can provide
• Other reasons that social media can become an issue, including comparison and fear in relationship
• How to address social media addiction in a biblical way in your life or in the life of someone you care about

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This week on MercyTalk we continue our discussion on the roots of addiction and the many ways that we meet healthy needs with unhealthy addictions. Today our hosts, Melanie and Jen, with special guest, Brooke, will discuss the need for comfort and how we can try to meet that need with an addiction to food. Food addiction is a serious issue in our culture and has impacted obesity rates as well as overall national health. As with any addiction, freedom is possible. Join us as we discuss:

• What food addiction is and how it attempts to meet our need for comfort
• What the ramifications of this struggle are on a natural and spiritual level
• How shame plays into the cycle of food addiction and how that cycle can be broken
• Ways to overcome addiction to food from a Biblical perspective

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