1300: Mormon Faith Crisis Retreat Pt. 3 - Fundamentals of Mental Health in a Religious Transition Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
Five years years ago, upon completing my Psychology Ph.D., I began holding retreats and workshops to support Mormons in faith crisis, and specifically to help reduce anxiety, depression, suicidality, family strife, and unnecessary divorce for those experiencing a Mormon Faith Crisis. For many of these workshops and retreats, I was fortunate to co-present with Natasha Helfer Parker and Margi Dehlin.
In August of 2019 we decided to hold a weekend retreat and record the entire experience ,including the attendee participation. This is that retreat, which was held from 8/30 to 9/1/2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. 40 audience members participated. The following topics were addressed:
- Understanding and Navigating a Religious Transition
- Fundamentals of Mental Health in a Religious Transition
- The Key to Healthy Relationships: Emotional Intimacy
- Healthy Sexuality After a Faith Transition
- Conscious Parenting
- Communicating with Believing Family and Friends
We hope you enjoy this content. It is the best insight we can share to help you navigate your religious transition.
Finally, a HUGE thanks goes to Clint and Jeni Martin for underwriting this event.
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| 0:00.0 | The next thing we kind of really want to tackle are some fundamentals of mental health |
| 0:15.8 | in a religious tradition because you know you'll see when we talk about intimacy in relationships |
| 0:21.7 | later that if you're not healthy as an individual you can't have healthy relationships with |
| 0:28.6 | other people. So so many of you are here because you're like how do I raise kids after a |
| 0:35.1 | faith transition? How do I keep my marriage together after a faith tradition? How do I communicate |
| 0:39.4 | with believing family and friends after a faith tradition? How do you care about those things? Well |
| 0:44.2 | guess what? If you're not healthy then you're starting with flat tires right and you're not going |
| 0:50.5 | to drive anywhere. So this first session lays the foundation for all those other sessions. Is that |
| 0:56.3 | all right? That's why it's next. Now we're not advancing this all is truth but this is our best |
| 1:03.8 | collected wisdom for some just tools for mental health and I want to give credit because I believe |
| 1:09.8 | in giving credit. This presentation comes at least from three main sources. So I read a book called |
| 1:17.7 | A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle 12 years ago that got me interested in secular Buddhism. So there's |
| 1:27.3 | an underpinning there. Then when I was trained in my psychology PhD clinical and counseling psychology |
| 1:35.4 | I was trained in a form of psychotherapy called acceptance and commitment therapy or act. |
| 1:42.2 | An act is literally secular Buddhism woven into cognitive behavioral therapy. And so again it's |
| 1:50.2 | sort of secular Buddhist informed psychotherapy. So that's the main framing for today's presentation |
| 1:59.1 | and then a third influence this this presentation is heavily influenced by the work of Naurasheda |
| 2:05.9 | and his secular Buddhism podcast. Naur is a former warmest stories listener. We did workshops together |
| 2:14.2 | and several of these slides come directly from Naurasheda's work. So if you really want the |
| 2:19.0 | source of the goodness read a new earth and listen to the secular Buddhism podcast with Naurasheda. |
| 2:27.8 | And you know some of our stuff is thrown in. So we're want to answer the question. Where do |
| 2:35.4 | we talked about this at the break? Where does situational depression come from? |
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