Postpartum Depression on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

Earlier this year, I announced that I would be stepping away from my leadership of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors in order to devote my full-time attention to pastoring the First

Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. As much as I love the ministry of

ACBC and as much as I value the ministry of biblical counseling, it's very clear that the Lord

has directed me in a bit of a different direction. And as I make that transition, one of the things

that I'm most excited about is the leadership of Dr. Dale Johnson,

who has been appointed by the ACBC board to be my successor as the executive director of ACBC.

I have the highest respect for Dr. Johnson, and he is going to do an incredible job as he leads our association.

When he becomes the executive director in October at a special

ceremony at our annual conference in Fort Worth, one of the many responsibilities that I will

let go and that he will receive is the obligation of hosting the Truth and Love podcast.

I'm excited to see how he discharges that responsibility in the months and in the years to come.

As we prepare for that eventual transition, I'm really excited that he, as our next executive director,

is going to be our guest host on the podcast today as we talk about this crucial issue of postpartum depression.

He's going to be joined on the podcast by Sean Perron, the operations director of ACBC, and you're going to get to listen in on their important

conversation right now. We've received several requests to address the issue of postpartum

depression on the Truth and Love podcast. As we think about

this issue, there's a lot of things that we could say about the topic. But what is the problem

of postpartum depression that councilees are facing? And what would you say are some factors that

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