Pastors and Therapists: Frontline Workers

Who do you call first when you have a crisis? Your pastor, or a therapist? Depending on your background and what you’re going through, your answer might be different. The beginning of this episode includes the end of the conversation that started in the previous...

Can Pastors and Therapists Work Together?

Charles Wolfe is the pastor of a small local church. As a Soul Grit listener, he started to ask questions about how therapists and pastors can both come alongside hurting people in a collaborative way. In this episode, Ann and Charles discuss why Christians need...

What is Family Therapy?

If your family ever hit a moment when a big or a small crisis turned your lives upside down, you may or may not have known that family therapy could help you out. But many of us think of family therapy as too daunting or too impractical to make that phone call. In...

Families, Trauma, and Hope

Kicking off a mini-series about families and family therapy, Soul Grit welcomes Tammy Kennington, a Christian writer, speaker, coach, and mental health advocate. Tammy shares her story of a childhood filled with abuse and the ways God brought about healing in her...

Let’s Talk about Bruno

Whether you’re a Disney fan or just a nerd about family therapy, you’ll love this episode. Ibinye Osibodu-Onyali, LMFT returns to the Soul Grit Podcast to talk about Disney’s new hit movie Encanto. Ann and Ibi discuss the family dynamics, mental...

Making Up Your Mind – Pt. 2

Today’s episode is a continuation of last week’s conversation (Ep. 39: Making Up Your Mind – Pt. 1). You will learn all about mindset and how to choose a healthy one, plus lots more about following Jesus and improving your mental health. Michelle...

Making Up Your Mind – Pt. 1

Why is mindset important? What does the Bible say about our mindsets? In today’s episode, Ann chats with Michelle Nietert, a mental health professional and author of an upcoming book Make Up Your Mind. Besides mindset, Ann and Michelle cover lots of topics...

A Pastor on Meds

Pastor Drew Froese reveals the moment he realized he wasn’t functioning as well as he could mentally and emotionally. In this episode, Ann and Drew talk about how medication helped Drew function as a compassionate and connected father, husband, and leader, and...

My Personal Experience with Medication

Are you hesitant about meds because you’ve heard people struggling with side effects or becoming addicted to them? Let Ann share with you her own story of medication, starting from the time she was 17. In this episode, Ann shares personal experience with meds...

How Should Christians View Psych Meds?

Is it ok for Christians to take antidepressants or anti-anxiety meds? What about more serious conditions that need meds? How should we understand the role of God’s healing versus medical science for mental health conditions?In this episode, Ann offers some...