BRAD HOEFS | Mental Health and Faith (Ep. 412)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Brad Hoefs to the show. He is a pastor, speaker, and mental health advocate. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of Fresh Hope for Mental Health, an international network of peer-to-peer Christian mental health support groups and resources. In addition, he is the author of Holding to Hope: Staying Sane While Loving Someone with a Mental Illness. In this interview, we discuss why he decided to become a pastor, why his life fell apart after becoming a pastor, how people of faith should view mental health struggles, why we default to treating mental illness with medication, how a person can be saved, the difference between reading and studying the Bible, why pastors should go to seminary, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The We're no frustrating in your soul.
0:13.0	We know you want.
0:15.0	We're not you want. This is Undaunted Life A Man's Podcast.
0:21.0	I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:23.2	Let's get into it.
0:24.4	All right guys, today we have a special guest on the podcast.
0:26.4	His name is Brad Haifs.
0:27.7	He is a pastor, speaker, and mental health advocate.
0:30.0	He's also the founder and executive director
0:32.2	of Fresh Hope for Mental Health,
0:33.4	and that is an international network of peer-to-peer Christian mental health
0:36.6	support groups and resources.
0:38.0	And he's also the author of Holding to Hope, Staying Sain while loving someone
0:41.8	with a mental illness.
0:43.0	And so in this particular podcast,
0:44.4	this is one that we had to delay a couple of different times,
0:46.2	but I wanted to make sure I talked to him because there
0:48.3	is a lot of misconceptions about mental health,
0:50.8	and there are a lot of misconceptions about mental health
0:52.4	specifically specifically in kind of the whole. about mental health and there are a lot of misconceptions about mental health specifically
0:53.2	specifically in kind of the whole pastor and inside of all these people that work at churches and things
0:58.6	like that and you hear about burnout and you hear about these people who just kind of get mentally
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