Depression, Suffering, and The Faithfulness of God’s Presence with Brenna Blain

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This episode comes with a trigger warning for discussions of suicidal ideation. If you or someone you love is in crisis, dial 988 for help. Other resources to check out include Anthem of Hope and Psychology Today. Jackie and Preston sit down with Brenna Blain to discuss some hard things. Brenna is a wife, mom, and contemporary theologian who says she “wrestles with the intersection of faith and suffering.” She has a powerful story of the ways Jesus has rescued her, from the time she joined YWAM (Youth With a Mission) as a way to run away from God, to her eventual bipolar diagnosis and time spent in psych wards. Together, Brenna and the Perrys discuss depression, mental health crises, and how loved ones can be like Jesus and enter into suffering through the power of presence. Pre-order Brenna’s book, Can I Say That?: How Unsafe Questions Lead Us to the Real God, out on August 14, 2024. Listen to her podcast by the same name too, Can I Say That? This Episode of With The Perry's Sponsored by: https://magicspoon.com/PERRY — Get $5 off right now with code PERRY! Subscribe to the Perrys' newsletter: https://withtheperrys.myflodesk.com/zhfus4jx1s Join Preston's discipleship community for men: https://www.patreon.com/PrestonPerry/membership To support the work of the Perrys, donate via PayPal: https://paypal.me/withtheperrys Shop BOLD Apparel: boldapparel.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Saints and Knights, how art thou?
0:07.0	Hope you're fine, hope you're blessed, hope your favored, hope you're happy, hope you're favored, hope you're happy, hope you're joyful, even if you're
0:15.4	sorrowful, I hope you're joyful.
0:17.4	All the things.
0:18.4	If you're broken, if you're despairing, I hope you get some hope.
0:21.0	If you're constipated, because that's a thing too you might got a
0:23.8	boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-o-boo-o-o-o-o-boo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o you know I
0:27.0	thought that yesterday what I had like a small attitude
0:32.0	well I've been I have a lot of attitudes all the time because that's just you had an attitude.
0:36.5	You had an attitude. Bou-Bou-Wou-Sou? No, it was like a mixture of anger and sadness altogether and then like I took like a 30 minute nap and then like I felt a little better and I was like man
0:48.0	I think some sometimes we just hungry we're just malnourished sometimes on top of hormones and demons.
0:55.0	Hormones and demons.
0:58.0	I think all those together make, you know, a soup kitchen of emotions. I like your makeup. We can't keep saying that. It's so pretty
1:06.4	though. It's beautiful. Now it's going to become a thing where people are looking at it and trying to
1:11.5	pay attention.
1:12.5	Look at our makeup guys.
1:13.7	Yeah, what concealer do you?
1:15.4	It doesn't matter.
1:16.6	It doesn't matter.
1:17.3	Ask me about my soul.
1:18.9	How's your soul, Jackie?
1:21.1	Burdened.
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