E272 | When Your Mind is Loud
The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown
Sandals Church
4.9 • 798 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Debrief Podcast, Matthew Stephen Brown addresses the intersection of faith and mental health in a time when our minds can feel overwhelmed, anxious, and unsure of what to trust. As conversations around healing, spirituality, and emotional well-being grow louder, this episode focuses on finding clarity, peace, and discernment without giving fear the final word.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown, where we take questions about faith, the Bible, and culture, and give you honest, practical advice you can trust. |
| 0:11.0 | This is a space to ask anything and get real answers for real life. |
| 0:14.9 | We're glad you're here. |
| 0:16.3 | Now let's get into today's episode. |
| 0:19.2 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to this episode of the debrief with Matthew Stephen Brown, |
| 0:25.9 | Pastor Sandals Church, and my better half. |
| 0:29.5 | Hope 2026 is finding you doing well. |
| 0:33.1 | How are you? |
| 0:33.6 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:34.4 | Excited, man. |
| 0:35.2 | Excited to jump back into the debrief, do some questions. |
| 0:37.7 | These are great questions, by the way. Yeah, we're really excited about this season of the debrief, |
| 0:41.1 | and we have some fun, fun episodes planned for you guys. And with that being said, let's jump into |
| 0:47.4 | today's questions. This first one comes from Laurel, and she sent this off Instagram. So make |
| 0:52.6 | sure you're following the debrief on |
| 0:54.1 | Instagram, because it's also a good way for you to get us questions. She says, I would like to hear |
| 0:58.7 | a Christian pastor's take on the use of psychedelics and therapy to treat mental illnesses, |
| 1:03.7 | such as suppression and C-P-T-SD. It's legal in Oregon and Colorado as of now. What's your thoughts? |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, Laurel, this is a great question. And I think that I'm going to answer this question and then, you know, what I do, I'm just going to dive into it. And so, yeah, rant, yeah. I really just rant. And so, I mean, she's asking for what my take is on this. And so what I would say, first of all, Laurel, is probably if you |
| 1:27.9 | ask 10 pastors what their take is on this, you'd get 12 answers. So this is just one of those |
| 1:33.3 | things where people are asking pastors to wait in something we do not fully understand. So you could |
| 1:39.9 | have all the way on one side, somebody's going to quote Greek to you. Pharmakia is the Greek word |
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