Mental Health and Your Family with Mary Bellofatto

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

"A sound mind is one not at war with itself." In this episode, Josh and Christi talk with their therapist, Mary Bellofatto, about the power of mental health and the practices we can implement each day to maintain sound living.

Josh and Christi talk to Mary about:

* The hidden gifts of having mentors decades older than you.* The power of a healthy and sound mind, even in the day-to-day tasks of raising kids. * The freedom in not taking yourself too seriously.* Ways to talk to kids about mental health and family

Show Notes:

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0:00.0	I used to do a lot of work in Africa, and one time I demonstrated to a group in Rwanda after genocide.
0:08.0	I set up this God chair, and I was using scarves to represent our worries.
0:14.0	And, you know, I put this God chair over there, and I would put a scarf over there for their worries about food and water and housing
0:21.6	and their children and jobs.
0:23.9	And then they would wait a few minutes and if God didn't fix it the way they wanted him to,
0:29.8	they'd go back and pick those worries up.
0:32.2	Well, that's what we do.
0:34.1	You are listening to the famous at home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:39.8	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:49.9	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:52.0	Today we are continuing our little mini-series,
0:56.6	if you will, on people that we surround ourselves with, people who speak into our lives. And
1:02.5	today we have an incredible human on the podcast, somebody who has influenced both my life and
1:10.3	Christy's life in separate ways
1:12.4	through our therapy individually as well as in doing group therapy.
1:18.7	Mary Balafanto is with us today.
1:20.8	Mary B., thank you so much for being with us.
1:24.3	Oh, it's my pleasure, Josh.
1:26.8	Mary, I would love for you to introduce yourself as we get started just to the audience that's listening, and just tell them a little bit about who you are and what you do.
1:36.3	And obviously, your personality is going to come fully alive.
1:40.1	I know it as we have conversations.
1:42.9	So I'm not worried about that, but just give them a little bit of idea who you are.
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