Sunburnt Souls | Faith, Mental Health & Mayhem

Retreating is a core practice for Christian mental health, especially when anxiety, depression, burnout, or emotional numbness start running the show. We’re not interested in pretending faith means you’re always fine. We want honesty, rest, and real connection with Jesus right in the middle of the mess.

We lay out a simple framework for spiritual retreat that actually matches real life: forced, frustrated, and fun. We walk through Elijah’s collapse under the broom tree and what God does first (sleep, food, water, time), plus Job’s painful invitation to grieve without rushing to explain it. If you’re in a forced retreat season, we offer practical guidance for slowing down, paying attention to your inner world, and letting God meet you there without shame.

Then we move into the frustrated retreat, using Jacob’s all-night wilderness wrestle as a picture of how anger, fear, and unmet hopes can become a holy turning point. Finally, we reclaim fun retreat as biblical, healing, and good for your nervous system, whether that’s a beach day, art, hiking, laughter, or a phone-free reset. If a full getaway isn’t possible, we share micro retreat options and resources like Lectio 365, the Bible app, and Bible Project to help you build a sustainable rhythm.

If this helps you, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s running on empty, and leave a review so more people can find honest conversations about faith and mental well-being. What kind of retreat do you need right now?

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You can be standing on a stunning beach with clear water and still wake up feeling dark. After six weeks away, I’m back behind the mic with travel stories from Greece and Turkey that turned into a blunt lesson about mental health: a change of scenery does not automatically change what’s happening inside us. I talk openly about living with bipolar disorder, how depression can arrive without warning, and why your mood can completely contradict your location.

We go deeper into anger management and the idea of safety at home, including how a parent’s blowups can put a spouse and kids into nervous system defense mode. I share what I’m learning from professional help, why I’m committing to a 70-day habit change path, and how Scripture like Ephesians 4:31-32 pushes me to trade rage for kindness, compassion, and forgiveness. We also touch on other root struggles many of us carry, from anxiety and control to money obsession and shame, with a clear bottom line: start the work today, wherever you are.

If this hits close to home, listen, share it with someone who needs it, and leave a review so more people can find honest conversations about faith, bipolar disorder, anger, and mental well-being.

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Your kid is melting down again, you’ve tried everything you can think of, and nothing works. Many of us know what that's like. 

We sit down with Wendy Paroz from Sprout Support Center to name what’s really happening under explosive behaviour and to offer a way forward that’s trauma informed, research based, and compassionate to parents who are running on empty.

Wendy shares how decades of education and ministry led her to a clear message: challenging behavior is often a sign of lagging skills, not laziness, not “bad character,” and not proof that you’ve failed. We talk through what neuroscience says about the brain’s need for safe relationships, why chronic stress and little t trauma can reshape a child’s nervous system, and how that plays out as big reactions at home, school, and church. 

The conversation also bridges beautifully with faith, focusing on connection first and growth that does not crush a person’s spirit.

Wendy explains how Sprout coaches parents inside the home and tracks progress with three simple markers: frequency, intensity, and recovery time. You’ll hear what de escalation can look like in real time, why kids can’t problem solve when the thinking brain is offline, and the three core skills that make the biggest difference over the long run: flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem solving under pressure.

If you’re tired of advice that blames you or ignores neurodiversity, this will give you language, tools, and hope. Subscribe for more conversations on faith and mental well being, share this with a parent who needs a breath, and leave a review so more families can find support.

Some reliable and helpful names worth looking up on YouTube include:

• Dr. Bruce Perry (Neurosequential Network)
• Dr. Stuart Ablon (THINK:Kids) Think:Kids | Official home of Collaborative Problem Solving® (CPS)
• Dr. Karen Purvis — Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development and TBRI Program

Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development - KPICD

• Dr. Ross Greene

Wendy's favourite book at the moment is:

Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work by Robyn Gobbel.

Her website also has some excellent free resources:
Home - Robyn Gobbel

KEY WORDS FOR GOOGLE SEARCHING:

• Brain-behaviour connection
• Regulation and brain development
• Behavioural Neurscience
• Attachment and relational neuroscience
• Collaborative behaviour approaches

The most effective approaches tend to combine many of these perspectives. For example:

• Bruce Perry → “Regulate, relate, reason”
• Dan Siegel → integration and relational safety
• Ross Greene → lagging skills and collaboration
• Robyn Gobbel → nervous-system-informed parenting

Together, these perspectives are shaping much of today’s trauma-informed and neurodevelopmental understanding of children’s behaviour.

SPROUT’s parent training recognises the overwhelm of trying to wade through copious amounts of information online. We draw on the best of these approaches, simplifying them into a handful of practical strategies and a behaviour flowchart that gives parents direction while learning — or when under pressure. We use these strategies daily with some of the most challenging and complex little people and the positive impact proven and experienced by all of our parents.

We don’t need to become experts. Just a few tools and a fresh perspective can help parents become more strategic and effective. Over time, challenging behaviour will reduce, relationships can strengthen, skills can develop, and confidence and problem-solving can grow.

It is also worth noting that while many of these strategies were originally developed for children impacted by trauma or chronic stress, they are both neuro- and age-inclusive. If they work for the most challenging situations, they will also work for the most compliant children.

Enquiries regarding ministry team training, parent training, or private consultation can be made directly to me.

[email protected]

Sunburnt Souls Unhinged is here! 

Join Dave for a fun night of comedy, stories, raw conversations and much more. Come connect, laugh, and experience life, faith and mental health in a whole new way.  For more info and tickets, click here

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Help us keep producing Christian mental health podcasts and resources that bring hope to listeners around the world and breaks the stigma in the Church. 👉 Donate to Sunburnt Souls. ALL DONATIONS OVER $2 ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

🧠 NEW ONLINE COURSE: Loving Life with Faith and Mental Health

A 28-day, FREE journey to help you:

• Embrace your identity in Jesus
• Build life-giving spiritual rhythms
• Navigate anxiety, depression, and burnout with honesty and grace

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A teenager stands up mid-sermon and yells “Boring!” and the room goes quiet. He was the smartest man in the room in my opinion.

We talk honestly about church and mental health, especially for people who are neurodivergent, carrying trauma, living with anxiety or depression, or simply feeling “different” in a space that is supposed to be safe.

Rather than more  criticism: we name what the church can do well, and what it is already doing well in pockets. We share concrete examples of inclusion like building a sensory room with adjustable lighting and sound, and making simple accommodations during prayer so people with autism, ADHD, or high anxiety are not put on the spot. We also dig into why Jesus’ vision of community centers compassion, dignity, and welcome, not image management.

We explore the church’s history of social support and why hope-filled community can strengthen mental well-being, including the idea that church attendance can correlate with better mental health outcomes for teenagers. We also talk about how different church environments work for different people: quiet and contemplative, high-energy and expressive, small groups, and even online options for anyone not ready to walk through a door yet.

If you feel burned by church or unsure where you fit, this conversation offers practical next steps, including mental health first aid, showing up for someone without fixing them, and starting change with humility. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a safer community, and leave a review with one thing you wish churches understood about mental health.

Sunburnt Souls Unhinged is here! 

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Help us keep producing Christian mental health podcasts and resources that bring hope to listeners around the world and breaks the stigma in the Church. 👉 Donate to Sunburnt Souls. ALL DONATIONS OVER $2 ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

🧠 NEW ONLINE COURSE: Loving Life with Faith and Mental Health

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• Embrace your identity in Jesus
• Build life-giving spiritual rhythms
• Navigate anxiety, depression, and burnout with honesty and grace

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Addiction is one of the most common realities families quietly carry. Dave Quak sits down with best selling author T.I. Lowe (Tonya) for an honest conversation about what happens when someone you love will not get clean, and how faith can stay real when life is anything but.

We dig into her novel South Of Somewhere and the choice to write addiction recovery with grit and grace: relapse pressure, toxic friendships, support meetings, and the exhausting mental math of “Am I helping or enabling?”

Tonya shares how personal grief shaped the story, why research matters when you’re writing about drug addiction, and how fiction can open a door to healing in a way arguments never will. If you care about Christian fiction, faith and mental health, recovery stories, and family dynamics around substance abuse, this chat is packed with insight you can actually use.

We also talk about breaking stereotypes by setting the book in wealthy Sullivan’s Island, the underrated power of AA style community, and why “professional” is often the enemy of connection. The conversation turns to calling and ambition too: choosing ministry over metrics, trusting God with impact, and letting stories land in the right hands at the right time. Stick around for a sneak peek of Tonya’s next book, A Southern Goodbye, and a closing prayer for courage and faithfulness.

If this encouraged you, subscribe to Sunburnt Souls, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find these conversations.

Here are the main ways to buy T.I. Lowe's books:

Buy directly / browse all titles:

• Her official website — tilowe.com/books
• Tyndale Fiction (her publisher) — includes hardcover and softcover editions

Major retailers:

• Amazon — her full author page
• Barnes & Noble — search "T.I. Lowe"

Deals & discovery:

• BookBub — follow her for sale alerts on ebooks

Libraries:

• Check your local library's app (Libby/OverDrive) — her titles are commonly available as ebooks and audiobooks through library membership, which is free.

Sunburnt Souls Unhinged is here! 

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🧠 NEW ONLINE COURSE: Loving Life with Faith and Mental Health

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• Embrace your identity in Jesus
• Build life-giving spiritual rhythms
• Navigate anxiety, depression, and burnout with honesty and grace

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What happens when you first say “I got diagnosed?” 

Jess and I talk candidly about the subtle ways people dismiss mental health and neurodiversity with phrases that sound harmless, like “Everyone’s a bit like that,” and why those lines can make a friend feel exposed, misunderstood, and less likely to ever share again.

We break down why a mental health diagnosis or neurodivergent diagnosis often shows up late, not early. Before anyone reaches a GP, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist, they’ve usually spent a long time trying to cope, doubting themselves, and wondering if their struggles are just personal failure. 

We also get practical about what the path can look like: making the appointment, getting referrals, untangling overlapping symptoms, and the slow reality of medication trials and ongoing tweaks. Along the way, we explain masking in plain language and why it can leave people wiped out the moment they get home.

After talking about identity after diagnosis, when to share, and how a label can be a framework without becoming a prison. For us, faith shapes the tone: compassion like Jesus, truth without shame, and the belief that being “different” can carry real strengths, creativity, and purpose.

If you’ve ever responded the wrong way, there’s grace and there’s a next step. Listen, then share this with someone you want to love well, and if it helps, subscribe, leave a review, and send us your thoughts. What’s the most supportive response you’ve ever heard after a diagnosis?

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• Embrace your identity in Jesus
• Build life-giving spiritual rhythms
• Navigate anxiety, depression, and burnout with honesty and grace

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Parenting can feel like a daily drain you never clock out from. We sit down with Justin Coulson to name what so many families are quietly carrying: parental burnout, constant pressure, and the way screens can steal the best parts of home life without anyone noticing until the connection is already thin.

We get practical about the moments that blow up, especially yelling. Justin breaks down why shouting becomes a default habit under stress and how to interrupt it with a surprisingly simple shift: get your child’s attention first, move toward them, and speak softer instead of louder. From there we talk about kids having “L plates” on emotionally, why trying to “fix” people often creates resistance, and how love, limits, and laughter create the kind of stability kids actually grow from.

The conversation goes deeper into purpose and faith as anchors for mental health, including a way to pray that invites action and course correction instead of paralysis. We also explore the pressure we put on kids to “fulfill their potential,” the real value of gap years and alternative pathways, and what Justin’s new work on raising boys is trying to solve. His definition of healthy masculinity is simple and challenging: a healthy man helps the people around him feel safer and stronger.

If you want more peace at home and better connection with your kids, press play, then share this with a parent who needs it. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us what boundary or habit you’re working on next.

Sunburnt Souls Unhinged is here! 

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🧠 NEW ONLINE COURSE: Loving Life with Faith and Mental Health

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• Embrace your identity in Jesus
• Build life-giving spiritual rhythms
• Navigate anxiety, depression, and burnout with honesty and grace

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I’m joined by Michelle Bader Ebersole, the voice behind Widow Too Soon, a Christian podcast built to help widows and widowers stop feeling isolated and start finding real community, practical tools, and faith-grounded hope.

Michelle shares her story of losing her husband Luke after a long cancer fight, and how early widowhood while raising kids exposed a gap many churches don’t see: support shows up fast after a death, then disappears when the casseroles are gone. 

We talk about why widows are often overlooked despite being mentioned repeatedly in Scripture, and what meaningful church support for widows can look like months down the road, including service projects, consistent check-ins, and programs that actually fit this kind of bereavement.

We also tackle grief myths that quietly harm people, from “the five stages of grief” to “time heals all wounds.” Michelle explains why grief is more like unpredictable waves, why feeling your pain matters, and what to say instead of “let me know if you need anything” or “at least…” 

She gives simple actions anyone can take: make specific offers, acknowledge the loss out loud, and put the hard dates in your calendar like the death anniversary, wedding anniversary, and birthday. We even discuss enshrinement, identity after loss, and why remarriage doesn’t erase grief, especially for kids navigating milestones.

If you want a grounded conversation on grief support, Christian faith and grief, widow resources, and how to care well for someone after a loss, press play. Subscribe, share this with someone who wants to help, and leave a review so more hurting people can find it.

Widow Goals is a nonprofit organisation Michelle created to support widows—especially in the first year after losing their spouse, when everything feels unfamiliar, overwhelming, and uncertain

Widowed Too Soon is Michelles powerful podcast. Through raw stories and practical wisdom, widow Michelle helps others find healing and connection in the widow journey while raising teens.

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🧠 NEW ONLINE COURSE: Loving Life with Faith and Mental Health

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• Embrace your identity in Jesus
• Build life-giving spiritual rhythms
• Navigate anxiety, depression, and burnout with honesty and grace

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Addiction rarely starts as a plan. It starts as relief. Sean Bradley tells the truth about what alcohol and weed gave him at first: a quiet stomach, less anxiety, fewer social masks, and a break from the constant pressure of performing. Then he tells the other truth: the relief doesn’t stay relief. It becomes a pattern, and the pattern becomes a shrinking life. We talk about what pushed him toward Transformations, a hardcore therapeutic community rehab on the Gold Coast that is openly Christian and intentionally challenging.

From there we get into the stuff that doesn’t magically disappear when you get sober. Sean shares how an addictive personality can shift into workaholism, burnout, scrolling, and obsessive thoughts, especially with ADHD and autism in the mix. We swap practical mental health strategies that actually fit real life: building routines that survive stress, using exercise as a stabilizer, avoiding dopamine-draining mornings, and staying connected to community through church and AA. We also talk candidly about medication and why some options can feel risky for people with an addiction history.

Sean’s faith journey is just as intense. Catholic trauma made Jesus complicated for him, even while he felt sure God was real, so he went searching hard: reading, questioning the Trinity, exploring Islam, and even doing a 10-day Vipassana silent meditation retreat. That search leads to a deeper conversation about shame, guilt, and why so many people in addiction believe they’re too far gone for God. 

If you want more conversations about faith and mental health that stay honest, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review. What part of Sean’s story felt most familiar to you?

Check out www.lionzen.com.au to see Sean's Business 

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🧠 NEW ONLINE COURSE: Loving Life with Faith and Mental Health

A 28-day, FREE journey to help you:

• Embrace your identity in Jesus
• Build life-giving spiritual rhythms
• Navigate anxiety, depression, and burnout with honesty and grace

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Dr Afiniki Akanet sits down with us and names the thing many people feel but rarely say out loud: you can treat the body and still feel empty. From the first minutes, we dig into a whole-person view of mental health, where spirit, soul, and body interact, and where medication and therapy can be lifesaving without answering the deeper questions of meaning, hope, and purpose. If you have ever wondered how faith fits alongside a mental health diagnosis, this conversation brings clarity without shame or shortcuts.

We talk about the difference between mental illness and mental well-being, and why that distinction gives people room to breathe. Dr Afiniki Akanet shares how spirituality can support mental well-being through community, practices that steady us, and a source of strength when life feels unbearable. She also describes what it looks like to bring faith into a real UK medical consultation with sensitivity, asking the right questions at the right time, and honouring patients who believe differently.

Then the story widens. Dr Afiniki Akanet opens up about moving from Nigeria to the UK at 16, the reality of persecution in northern Nigeria, and the long path to becoming a doctor through financial setbacks, extra degrees, and starting over. We connect those experiences to resilience, to her “Happiness Over Stress” message rooted in boundaries and intentional living, and to her new book on Joseph, family dynamics, and perseverance. We close with a practical, faith-filled encouragement for anyone struggling: God is sovereign, healing is possible, and your hard season can still hold purpose.

If this helped you, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review with the one line that stayed with you. What part of the conversation did you need most right now?

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🧠 NEW ONLINE COURSE: Loving Life with Faith and Mental Health

A 28-day, FREE journey to help you:

• Embrace your identity in Jesus
• Build life-giving spiritual rhythms
• Navigate anxiety, depression, and burnout with honesty and grace

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