349: Is Emotional Health Your Religion?

The Connected Life

Justin Stumvoll

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

4.9 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Justin and Abi explore how emotional health, once rooted in compassion, can begin to mirror the rigid structures of religion. They unpack how judgment, superiority, and performative belonging often hijack tools meant for connection and healing.

With honesty and humor, they reflect on how emotional health can lead us toward love and humility, yet sometimes becomes a weapon of shame and exclusion. Through personal stories and cultural insight, they invite listeners to ask: Am I using emotional tools to connect, or to separate?

This conversation is a call back to compassion, nuance, and the kind of boundaries that don’t require someone else to be “bad” for us to feel safe.

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0:00.0	Life isn't perfect, and neither are we.
0:05.6	No, but we know how to face our fears and have some fun.
0:09.7	And talk about all the messiest things of life.
0:13.1	Like the messiest things.
0:15.7	Get connected to yourself, get connected to others, and get connected to the life right in front of you.
0:21.6	This is the connected life with Justin and Abby.
0:24.7	That's me.
0:25.5	That's you.
0:26.6	And you.
0:30.1	Don't start while I'm yawning.
0:32.6	Yeah, I'm starting.
0:35.8	The intro cut is just me going, Oh, I was like looking over there and I was like, I think Abby needs to be introduced to Mr. Ticklefingers. Oh, God, no. Because that's what I was going to throw at you there for a minute. That wasn't going to help. That wasn't going to help. The odd is a better scenario than the tickle fingers.
0:55.4	Yeah, it is.
0:56.0	Have the tickle fingers ever worked for you?
0:59.0	With you?
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:00.6	Nope.
1:02.4	Have it ever worked?
1:04.0	And yet you were like,
1:05.1	that would be a good time to try them.
1:07.2	Maybe I should go with Mr. Ticklefingers.
1:09.2	That's my favorite, how emotional health doesn't work.
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