Ever find yourself muttering one of these questions?

"What's wrong with me? I have this great life, why can't I just feel better? Why am I struggling? Seemingly, no one else is struggling … " 

The feelings of stagnation in the middle years is a common human experience – an unraveling, a collapse, being weighed down. How do we journey through these times in a spiritually and emotionally healthy manner?

Joining Lisa Schmidt on this episode of The Water Jar is social and personality psychologist, Heidi Lepper Barrett. They begin an honest conversation on this topic and discuss how Jesus is our bridge to hope, how we all need new scaffolding to shore up our faith through the renewal of our minds during these periods. Rachel Brown also stops by and shares another thoughtful and relatable Drop by Drop segment.

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