In today's honest conversation, I am talking with Pastor Paul Darty about his personal struggles with failure, depression, and suicidal thoughts as a Christian.

He discusses candidly the struggles that Christians often face with shame and masking emotions when it comes to genuine mental health struggles.

He shares his own story of attempting to take his life, how suicide is often misperceived as a selfish tendency,

and the importance of community and

accountability for mental health healing.

Pester Paul shares his own practical and spiritual ways that he worked through his

mental health battles and his story of grief after losing a parent failure when his ministry was

falling apart and how he moved forward. If you enjoy this conversation be sure to

listen to episode 45 dealing with depression as a Christian which is another honest conversation

with my step sister Tish and also episode number 115 which is my story and it is

titled how my depression impacts my life and my family.

Let's jump into today's conversation with Pastor Paul. At the end of our days we want to be proud of how we spent that day.

At the end of our lives we want to be equally proud of the decisions that we've made.

To do this we need to face the hard.

We need to talk it out.

We need to lean into community, relatability, and understanding.

We need to hear how other people got it together, how they overcame

the shame, hurt, toxicity, and past trauma and chose to move forward. But nobody talks about

the hard stuff enough. Life is tough and confusing,

and yet we try to glide over the struggles

like the glaze on a donut and expect to come out unscathed

on the other side.

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