How Christians Can Navigate Mental Health and AI with Wisdom :: Haley Scully [Ep 573]
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Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this conversation, Haley Scully shares her journey into biblical counseling, ministry, and helping people find real hope in the middle of today’s mental health crisis. With a background in counseling and ministry through Hope for the Heart, Haley discusses the importance of caring for one another biblically while staying rooted in God’s truth rather than chasing cultural counseling trends.
We talk about the growing need for biblical answers to anxiety, pain, disappointment, and emotional struggles — and why true healing comes from addressing the heart, not simply assigning blame. Haley opens up personally about wrestling with unmet expectations, trusting God through singleness, and learning what it truly means to believe in His goodness even when life doesn’t look the way we hoped.
We also dive into one of the most relevant conversations happening today: faith and AI. Haley shares how Hope for the Heart partnered with Pray.com to create AI tools informed by 40 years of biblical counseling content and wisdom, helping ensure people searching for answers online are pointed toward truth grounded in Scripture.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How experiences shape our emotions and reactions
- Finding healing through God instead of blame
- Trusting God when life doesn’t go according to plan
- How Christians can approach AI and technology with wisdom
- Why the Church should engage culture instead of fear it
Using technology as a tool for discipleship and biblical guidance
- Website: Hope For The Heart
- Instagram: Hope for the Heart (@hopefortheheart)
- Facebook: Hope for the Heart
- Pray: The World's #1 App for Daily Prayer and Biblical Audio Content
- Hope For The Heart - Event Page
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm your host, Heather McFaddean, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you |
| 0:14.3 | and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:19.3 | In this episode number 573, I'm welcoming to the show, |
| 0:22.9 | Haley Scully. What does God's words say? How can I begin practicing his word? And that's the piece |
| 0:29.4 | as a little girl growing up in church, going every Sunday and singing Father's Eyes by Amy Grant, |
| 0:35.1 | two consecutive fifth Sunday sings in a row. I mean, |
| 0:38.5 | I died in the wool, right? I grew up in it. I didn't know how to apply the Word of God |
| 0:45.6 | beyond just heaven and hell and salvation. I didn't know how to have him set me free. And I think |
| 0:52.5 | that's what we've been able to do in a lot of ways |
| 0:54.8 | and what I experience that people need to understand that shift in perspective. |
| 0:59.8 | For over 15 years, Haley has been a part of the organization Hope for the Heart. She's now a |
| 1:04.6 | senior vice president there. She's also a speaker, an author, a counselor, and a podcaster, she co-hosts the show Hope Talks. |
| 1:12.2 | That's where I first met her. |
| 1:13.5 | And today, she and I are talking about AI and faith. |
| 1:18.1 | Now, in my last episode, Sisi Goff shared her concerns about parents going to AI for parenting advice and how it's information, not wisdom. |
| 1:26.3 | Well, I knew I had this interview with Haley coming up, and so I was so curious to hear |
| 1:30.8 | more about this tool that Hope for the Heart has developed and partnered with pray.com. |
| 1:36.6 | Basically, it is an AI tool that integrates the data from over 40 years of biblical counseling |
| 1:42.7 | content and wisdom so that when people are |
| 1:45.4 | searching for answers related to anxiety, pain, disappointment, emotional struggles, they can |
| 1:50.2 | get biblically based answers and support and direction to even counselors and other things. |
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