There are some specific areas in which a crisis begins to affect your sense of well-being,

and I'm going to list a few of them here because I want you to think about them because then

that will give you something specific to work on.

Welcome to a special edition of the Jesus Calling podcast

to help you find peace in uncertain times.

Our guest is psychologist Dr Henry Cloud, who talks about five ways to maintain your well-being during a crisis.

Hi, I'm Dr. Henry Cloud, and it's good to be with you. I'm a clinical psychologist, and I'm also a person of faith, and in my work for a lot of years I integrate those two a lot you know what it means to be a psychologist and work with the clinical areas of life like you know anxiety and fear and depression and

addictions and stress and all of that as well as the way all of that affects our other

aspects of life you know our relationships and also our performance you know reaching dreams and goals and

specifically how a walk of faith and a walk with Jesus does affect those areas of life. And so right now in that walk, you know, we have

found ourselves in a very, very different situation. And the first thing that I

would tell you as a psychologist is that it's very important for you to name that reality.

In other words, to stop and say, wow, life has really changed. This is different. This is a big deal.

Now, that might sound small and it might sound silly, but here's what happens. There's a neurological, psychological,

brain, emotional, every other kind of aspect of you, reason for that is that we go through

things and see we have maps that organize life and we have a map of how life supposed to be and you've been running on that map for a while.

Well then life changes the map registers it as an error like something's wrong and your whole system begins to get activated and it responds out of fear and anxiety and panic and stress and irrational thinking and catastrophe thinking and a bunch of stuff because you know something's wrong. It's nothing we do about it and it's not changing and I can't fix it and so this system gets really activated and here's what's important. Here's what we know

about the first step in emotional regulation and the first step in

calming down. And the first step in actually being able to find answers and

solutions is we need the higher parts of our brains to be working,

not the fight or flight parts of our brain. And one of the big steps in making that happen is to just

name it, give a name to it. There are some key areas of your life

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