YOU ARE MORE THAN A DIAGNOSIS: HOW TO BREAK FREE FROM MENTAL HEALTH LABELS – PART 2

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.9 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Transformed Podcast Episode 117 | April 03, 2025 Dr. Greg Gifford challenges the cultural obsession with mental health by asking: what does your mind actually need? The Bible teaches that the human mind isn’t just unhealthy—it’s blind, depraved, and broken apart from Christ. True renewal doesn’t come from therapy, self-care, or coping mechanisms, but from complete transformation through the Holy Spirit. ___ Preorder the new book, Lies My Therapist Told Me, by Fortis Institute Fellow Dr. Greg Gifford now! https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/liesmytherapisttoldme ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?
0:03.8	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.7	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.5	God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.
0:14.8	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.6	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is
0:24.4	Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's
0:30.1	University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform and to part two of lies my therapist told me.
0:43.2	My name is Dr. Greg Gifford.
0:44.6	I am your host, and today we are addressing the second lie that the secular therapeutic
0:50.9	is telling us.
0:51.7	Are you ready for it?
0:52.8	You ready for it?
0:53.8	The first episode I talked about this idea that the secular therapeutic is telling us. Are you ready for it? You ready for it? The first episode I talked
0:55.0	about this idea that the secular therapeutic is actually practicing objective medicine. The
0:59.7	second lie is that the mind needs to be quote unquote healthy. You see it everywhere. Mental health.
1:07.1	Mental health holidays. There's a month now, which is the month of May, dedicated to
1:12.8	mental health in America. The second lie is that your mind needs to be healthy, but have you ever
1:18.2	just picked at that for a second and thought, are medical terms like healthy and unhealthy or sick
1:24.5	or illness or disorder? Are those really the best descriptors of what your mind
1:29.6	needs? And in fact, I would encourage you at some point to go to fortis institute.org
1:36.4	forward slash lies, and you're going to see in this forthcoming book that I've gone through
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