1301: Mormon Faith Crisis Retreat Pt. 4 - Fundamentals of Mental Health in a Religious Transition Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 96 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 | We are in the middle of a bunch of tools for mental health. |
| 0:12.8 | And we're not going as fast as we normally do because there's so much value in this interaction |
| 0:19.2 | and the processing. |
| 0:20.2 | So as we talked with Clint about how to do this, we had to think about, do we just jam |
| 0:28.0 | more presentations at you or take the time to have this back and forth. |
| 0:33.0 | And we decided that what we wanted to do is to try and have the back and forth. |
| 0:37.4 | So thank you for helping make that possible. |
| 0:41.5 | Couple more tools for mental health. |
| 0:45.6 | So one of the traps that we often get caught in is living in the past or in the future |
| 0:52.5 | instead of living in the present. |
| 0:54.6 | And this is sort of Buddhism 101 that living in the present moment is where all your power |
| 1:01.9 | is. |
| 1:06.0 | The book that Eckhart totally started with was a book called The Power of Now. |
| 1:11.3 | And he makes the point that all your power is in the present moment. |
| 1:16.3 | You don't have power in the past. |
| 1:18.2 | Why don't you have power in the past? |
| 1:19.8 | Because you can't change it. |
| 1:22.9 | It's done. |
| 1:24.2 | And people that are kind of mired down into pressure and sometimes it's because they're |
| 1:29.1 | ruminating about the past or getting the past, sad about the past. |
| 1:33.4 | It's understandable. |
| 1:35.0 | I guess the only power we have in the past is learning from it. |
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