You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, everyone. Welcome back.

Today we have a really great interview.

Dr. Ken talks with Kelly KPEC about his book,

You're Only Human. This conversation is so relatable. They discuss what are God's

expectations for me and that God made us with limits and that's not a bad thing. Listen and I think

you'll really enjoy this. Hey everybody, this is is Dr. Ken, and today I have with me

Kelly Capick, who is a professor at Covenant College, which is in Georgia, and he'll tell us a

little more about that, but met Kelly when he came to my Anglican church months ago for a conference on his book,

which is titled, Your Only Human, How Your Limits Reflect God's Design and Why That's Good News.

And I got to tell you, you know, it's a really good book, but some authors are not really good speakers.

But Kelly, when you came, you know, you're a

professor and you can tell a guy that knows how to keep his young, distracted students' attention.

I really enjoyed the conference. It was very eye-opening. And especially some of the concept.

So you've written before, what was it that kind of got you to, I really need to focus on the your only human part?

Yeah, I mean, there are some theological motivations behind it and some personal ones. We could explore either or both. But on the personal side, one part is just my own dealing with this sense of at night,

you know, almost every night or day.

It's like, why didn't you get more done, Kelly?

Yes.

Sense of feeling of guilt and shame. Like I should should have done more and so me thinking through that and um wrestling through well does god actually want me

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