SOTBC: Healing Church Hurt with Dr. Thema Bryant & Dr. Anita Phillips

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are joined by Dr. Thema Bryant and Dr. Anita Phillips to talk about church hurt and spiritual abuse. Are church hurt and spiritual abuse the same? How can we rightly identify spiritual abuse? How do we recognized if we are the abusers? How do we heal from church hurt? All of thse questions and more are on the table. Our guests, Dr. Thema Bryant and Dr. Anita Phillips provide much wisdom, care, vulnerability, and humility. Do you want to be healed, sis? Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! About our guests: Dr. Thema Bryant is a clinical psychologist and president-elect of the American Psychological Association. She is also a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University and an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Thema earned her doctorate from Duke University and completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. With more than twenty years of experience in trauma recovery, she has appeared as a mental health expert on television, radio, and print media. Dr. Thema raises awareness about mental health issues on The Homecoming Podcast and her social media platforms. Dr. Anita Phillips is a nationally acclaimed trauma therapist, and host of In The Light Podcast who is recognized for her ground-breaking work at the intersection of mental health, faith, and culture. This versatile and dynamic speaker is bringing mental health and illness to the forefront in communities of faith and strengthening racial unity in body of Christ. Dr. Anita holds degrees from the University of Maryland, Regent University and Johns Hopkins University. At home in Dallas, she is enjoying the empty nest life with her husband Michael. Pre-order our book! Truth’s Table Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation: https://truthstable.com/book Truth’s Table Discount for Speaking Across Generations by Darrell E. Hall : Save 30% off and get free US Shipping when you order at https://www.ivpress.com/speaking-across-generations using promo code TRUTH22. Broadleaf Books: Bipolar Faith https://bookshop.org/books/bipolar-faith-a-black-woman-s-journey-with-depression-and-faith/9781506408590 Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TruthsTable PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/TruthsTable Merchandise: https://teespring.com/truthstable Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	This episode of Choose Tables brought to you by University Press, whose vision is to
0:04.6	catalyze redemption, restoration, and revival in our divided and broken world.
0:09.5	Follow IVP on Twitter at IVPress and visit IVP's website at www.IVPress.com
0:18.5	and Bipolar Faith, a black woman's journey with depression and faith by Monica A. Coleman,
0:24.5	with the Ford from Dr. Tama, Bright Davis, published by Broadleaf Books.
0:29.6	Learn more at monicaa Coleman dot com. Hey y'all, it's a candy. I'm back here at the table
0:36.9	to introduce the episode of our Estate of the Black Church series. This episode is entitled
0:45.1	Healing Church Hurt. We know that church hurt is ubiquitous. It is something that many of us have
0:51.1	dealt with and are currently still dealing with and maybe even reeling with. That's why we felt
0:56.6	like we had to cover this issue. But we wanted to bring on some sisters that we know are qualified
1:04.0	and equipped to speak to this very sensitive and tender subject. So I am and happy to introduce to
1:10.8	you both Dr. Tama Bryant and also Dr. Anita Phillips. And so y'all, we have another two for one
1:18.0	special, if you will, here at Choose Table. And so we have our Healing Church Hurt episode.
1:22.7	The first interview that you're going to hear is with myself, Christina and Dr. Tama Bryant
1:28.7	here at the table, explaining what church hurt is, what spiritual abuse is, and how we can identify
1:35.5	it, right? Because we need to be able to understand our own experiences and be able to really
1:40.3	properly name them, right? And then in the second episode, our, sorry, the second interview,
1:47.0	you're going to hear us, most of myself and Christina at the table were Dr. Anita Phillips,
1:52.3	who will be talking more concretely about some real life experiences of church hurt. And you're
1:59.2	going to hear some really powerful, I would say, confessions and revelations in that interview. So
2:05.1	thank you for taking a seat at the table with us. Enjoy. Hey y'all, welcome to Choose Table.
2:10.7	Midwives of Culture for Grace and Truth. I'm a Camini. And I'm Christina. This table is built by
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