Episode 582: Nancy Smith, Mental Health Advisor and Church Service Missionary

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

My friend Sister Nancy Smith, who is in her 7th year serving in the California Anaheim Mission, shares her story. Nancy (married mother of 4 children, 13 grandchildren, and 4 great-grand children) talks about her own mental health journey during her early years of marriage and her path to healing. Nancy talks about her work to help and support full-time missionaries in her mission with their emotional health. It is a wonderful insight into the vast network of seasoned Latter-day Saints working to support full-time Latter-day Saint missionaries. If you are working to solve mental illness or help others, Nancy's podcast will help you. Thank you, Nancy for your much needed work. Links referenced in the podcast: https://nimh.nih.gov (National Institute of Mental Health) National Institute of Mental Health Resource Center (866-615-6464) (Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services National Helpline (800-662-4357) https://medlineplus.gov Suicide and Crisis Hotline 988 The Power of Stillness: Mindful Living for Latter-day Saints (Deseret Book) https://calm.com (Calm app for meditation and mindfulness) ** Please Check Out My New Book (Listen, Learn and Love: Improving Latter-day Saint Culture; link below which has a chapter on this subject) ** Deseret Book: https://deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-love Amazon: amazon.com/dp/1462139566

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.1	We're going to talk mental health, and the way you can support this podcast, you can't donate,
0:15.2	but you can go to iTunes and give this podcast review.
0:19.3	You can give a review for my books, listen, learn, and love.
0:23.3	Improving Latter-day St. Culture is kind of what we'll be talking about in this podcast.
0:27.9	You can review that book at Desert Book or Amazon. And I'll link to that book in the show
0:32.6	notes that has topics we're covering. One of the topics is mental health.
0:41.3	But anyway, that's the only housekeeping thing we'll do.
0:42.6	We'll just get right to the podcast.
0:48.6	My guest is Sister Nancy Smith, who's joining us in the California Anaheim Mission.
0:53.7	She is a church service missionary and a mental health advisor. She lives in the
0:54.7	Anaheim California Mission footprint. She's been doing this for seven years. She is the mental
1:01.2	health advisor for the 230 missionaries in the California Anaheim Mission. And she is going to talk
1:09.6	on the podcast a little bit about her roles of doing that.
1:13.4	I'll just give you an overview of the five sections roughly of the podcast.
1:17.9	Nancy's going to talk about her own mental health journey.
1:21.4	That's brave and vulnerable.
1:22.8	The second part will be her calling as a church service missionary in a mental health advisor role.
1:29.7	The third thing she's going to talk about is mental health stigma.
1:33.2	I continue to see in my calling.
1:36.4	And the fourth thing, she'll talk about a specific missionary.
1:39.2	We won't give this missionary a name, but she'll talk about this experience in the spirit of helping others that are
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