Episode 549: Heidi Bartle, Author “When Mommy Feels Sad”

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

My friend Heidi Bartle (Active LDS, Mother of 5, BYU Grad) shares her story of waves of unexplained sadness which led to a diagnosis of depression and a further diagnosis in 2012 of bipolar. With the encouragement of a therapist, Heidi opened up to her children (ages 5 – 15 at the time) about her mental illness. That helped reduce the shame and sigma and normalized having a mental illness (just like having an allergy or asthma). That led to Heidi to write a groundbreaking children’s book called “When Mommy Feels Sad: A Mother’s Journey Through Depression” which is at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/When-Mommy-Feels-Sad-Depression/dp/1638859787 If you are a parent with a mental illness, Heidi’s book and this podcast will help you. If you have someone in your life with a mental illness, Heidi’s insights will help you. There are so many wonderful segments in the podcast including the ending about deliverance being both a process along the way and a final event. You are one of my new heroes Heidi. Thanks for your courage to share your story. You are giving hope and better tools to so many.

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0:00.0	Welcome, listener friends, to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by your host, Richard Osler.
0:12.2	I guess you knew that.
0:13.8	My guest on today's podcast, more importantly, joining me from her home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is Heidi Bartle. Welcome to the podcast, Heidi.
0:25.2	Thank you so much. I'm happy to be here. Heidi is an author and she's going to talk about her book, but more broadly just to introduce Heidi.
0:34.0	She's an active Latter-day Saint, a mother of five kids, grew up in Utah and Arizona,
0:40.2	has a degree in health sciences from BYU. Her kids are roughly now age 10 to 20, but back in
0:48.3	2017, that's five years ago, she opened up to her kids about her own journey with depression, with the
0:56.1	advice of a therapist. And she's going to talk about her journey with depression, including
1:02.0	bipolar. She was diagnosed in 2012. And there's a whole story around a journey with
1:09.1	mental health and depression and bipolar.
1:12.3	But Heidi will talk about that.
1:14.5	She's also going to talk about talking to her kids about it, which is a unique part of the story.
1:20.5	And the title of her book, and maybe I said this, I can't remember, but the title of her book and we'll link to it in the show notes at Amazon is when
1:28.2	mommy feels sad, a mother's journey through depression. And this is a child's book. It's got
1:34.6	wonderful pictures. It's a short read. But talking about a parent's journey or a loved one's
1:40.4	journey to children about mental health is a needed book and needed podcast.
1:48.0	So I just get so tender harder when someone comes on the podcast like Heidi and is going to
1:53.5	bravely share her story.
1:55.8	I just kind of want to reach through the Zoom camera and just give Heidi a big hug for her
1:59.8	courage to do this because I just sense a lot of you and just give Heidi a big hug for her courage to do this,
2:01.8	because I just sense a lot of you need to hear Heidi's story.
2:05.1	And our joint prayer is the things Heidi is going to share will help you in your unique journey,
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