18. Toby Slough

Primal Question

Mike Foster

Self-improvement, Counseling, Sleeping At Last, Emotional Health, Health & Fitness, Anxiety, Relationships, Inspiration, Society & Culture, Suicide, Annie Downs, Unspoken Podcast, Depression, Addiction, Mike Foster, Rachel Hollis, Education, Therapy, Mental Health

5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Approximately 40 million Americans struggle with an anxiety disorder and about 2 percent of these individuals are prone to panic attacks. A panic attack is a sudden episode of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions where you feel completely out of control and often feel like you’re dying. Toby Slough is a megachurch pastor who struggles with serious panic attacks and anxiety. In this episode of _Fun Therapy_, Toby and Mike process the impact his anxiety disorder has had on his life, family and ministry. The Fun Therapy Podcast is a proud member of [The RELEVANT Podcast Network](https://relevantmagazine.com/podcasts/). Subscribe to the podcast in [iTunes](itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fun-therapy/id1290469005?mt=2), or S[titcher](https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/relevant-podcast-network-2/fun-therapy). If you haven’t already, please [review us on iTunes here](itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fun-therapy/id1290469005?mt=2). It’s an important way to help new listeners discover the show! And be sure to say hello on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/), [Facebook](http://facebook.com) and [Instagram](http://instagram.com).

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0:00.0	Hey friends this is fun therapy and my name is Mike Foster and together we're going to dive into the messy and brutal but
0:20.6	Wonderfully beautiful parts of life and we do it with a smile and a heart full of hope.
0:27.0	Because without the stains and the scars hope is just an afterthought isn isn't it? A luxury instead of a necessity.
0:36.6	And without our imperfections, there is nothing to place into the hands of God.
0:42.3	And that's where our stories belong in the hands of grace.
0:47.2	For when God writes our lives and our stories, there are never mistakes.
0:51.9	Just movements to bring us closer to our Creator and to connect us to each other.
0:58.3	His way always gets us closer to becoming love and releasing all the beauty inside of us.
1:05.0	My name is Mike Foster and this is fun therapy. Hey friends I'm so glad you're here and I want to tell you about just something I posted on my Instagram account a couple weeks ago.
1:26.0	If you don't follow me on Instagram, I'm Mike Foster 2000.
1:30.0	And I use Instagram is really a way to visually represent the things that we're talking about here on the fun therapy podcast. I think of it sort of like Fun Therapy with pictures and so if that sounds like your cup of tea
1:47.6	Just follow me at Mike Foster 2000, but I mentioned in a post that I had been feeling sad and that sadness had sort of crept into my heart and I really think it's important.
2:00.0	Number one, just to honor all emotions and to notice them and I don't like feeling
2:04.8	sad I don't really consider myself to struggle with sadness but when it does show
2:10.5	up and it does show up when it creeps into my heart I have to notice it and I
2:16.4	think that's really important. My son had left for Mexico City and is going to be
2:22.0	living there for a year and I was sad when I was
2:24.8	walking by his empty room and I was sad about some of the things that I've been working on that didn't quite
2:31.3	turn out the way that I thought they would turn out and
2:34.8	had some disappointment around that and sad because I'd have someone messaged me through
2:40.6	Instagram and privately messaged me that they were so down and discouraged
2:47.1	that they didn't want to wake up tomorrow and I felt sadness about that.
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