Hello there, good listener. I am Nick Stumbo and you are listening to The Pure Desire

podcast, your biblically based and clinically informed approach to breaking free from compulsive

sexual behaviors and healing from betrayal trauma. Today you are listening to episode 409 and here joining me as my co-host

for this new series is Mrs. Heather Kolb. Heather, welcome back to the podcast. Thank you. It's

nice to be here. Good to see. How is life treating you as we head towards, I guess you'd call it

like late spring now, as this is going to be our may series yeah good looking forward to

the sunshine that we're going to have around for the next few months which is always wonderful we are

hoping there's a lot of wood you're not going all the wood praying that it's lots more sun because march

has been pretty miserable weather wise in portland Yes, for sure. Yeah.

Well, May is a great month for a lot of reasons, Mother's Day, graduations, but May is also in our

society has become known for being Mental Health Month and mental health awareness.

And we thought it would be a good connection point to just talk about all the ways in which

mental health and the recovery journey can kind of coincide and really be overlapping in some of the

messaging. And so today we had on a guest that's been on the show before, someone we really

think highly of, and that's Dr. Carol Tanksley. And we talked with her about the connections

between mental health and recovery and what that looks like often in the context of our faith.

And so tell our listeners a little bit about this series and mental health and what they might expect from Dr. Carroll today, as we like to call her.

Yeah.

So this, I thought, was a really good episode.

Dr. Carroll is so enlightening with her perspective,

with also just personal story that she shares about herself, as well as being able to give

practical steps of how people can really work toward having better awareness of mental health issues as well as really taking

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