Episode 590: Lynn Patten, Author, Mental Health Journey

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

My friend Lynn Patten (married mother of 4, active LDS, RM) shares her journey through depression that started when she was on her mission. Lynn talks about how Church became a difficult place for her, mainly because she could no longer feel the Spirit—but how she worked to continue to be an active Latter-day Saint by learning how to hear God’s voice again. Lynn shares how she connects with the Spirit in different ways and how she has found spiritual healing amidst her mental illness and wrote a book called “Hear Him: How to Hear the Spirit When You Suffer From Depression” The book is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BJC9QJWR If you are working to understand and manage mental illness, or know someone who is, please listen to Lynn’s podcast, and read her book. I believe it will help you. Thank you, Lynn, for being on the podcast and your good work in our community.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.6	I appreciate those of you that are leaving reviews for the podcast.
0:13.4	I've read several on Apple.
0:16.2	It also helps me to know how to do better.
0:18.9	So thank you for leaving reviews there and all you're doing to share this podcast platform with other listeners.
0:25.2	Our listenership continues to grow.
0:27.9	My guest on today's podcast, joining me from her home in near Richmond, Virginia is my friend Lynn Patton.
0:35.7	Welcome to the podcast, Lynn.
0:41.2	Thank you. We have a mutual friend,
0:49.8	Dan and Shaughan Rasmussen, your aunt and uncle, who my wife and I moved into their ward when we were first married. I think around 1990, that's 30 years ago and they were just a
0:56.3	wonderful and still are a couple that kind of took us under their wing and we've made friends
1:02.8	we've remained friends and I've watched all the good service that they've done in our church
1:07.8	through all the assignments they've had and I'm glad that they've kind of
1:11.8	helped connect this. Lynn has written a book, listeners, and I'll read the title of the book.
1:17.0	It's called Hear Him, How to Hear the Spirit when you suffer from Depression. And so this
1:23.4	is going to be a podcast about Lynn sharing her own journey with depression and the
1:29.2	things that she's learning and the book that she's written.
1:32.4	And our joint prayer is that if you're working on your mental health, that this podcast
1:37.4	and book will help you.
1:38.7	And if you have loved ones in your family circle or in your ward family, you're looking
1:43.5	for better tools and how to help them,
1:45.4	that this podcast will help you.
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