To Be Heard is to Be Healed

How do you learn how to feel your emotions so you can process them, without taking out your emotions on others? Licensed marriage and family therapist Tony Overbay joins Carmen and talks about tools that will help you learn how to communicate with your spouse, how to work through trauma, and how to work through challenges when you or those you love are struggling.

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Coping With Criticism That Feels Personal

Our “Stick With It” series on the Top of Mind podcast continues with Monica Packer, a personal growth coach and host of the popular About Progress podcast and Instagram community @aboutprogress. Packer’s professional and personal focus is choosing progress over the paralysis of perfectionism. Starting a blog and podcast were part of Packer’s personal commitment to trying new things. But it also opened her up to criticism that felt personal. She talks about choosing to lean into the opportunity to better understand a rejection from someone she respected. Over the course of many emails and one memorable phone conversation, Packer says she realized that while her critic had been making stereotypical assumptions about her, she was doing much the same thing toward him. Sticking with the discomfort of those conversations helped her understand the criticism was not as personal as she’d initially thought, and gave her confidence to continue being vulnerable on the podcast.

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Hebrews 7–13

In this episode we'll talk about Hebrews chapters seven through thirteen. I love these chapters because they teach powerful lessons about how to endure trials. We'll talk about the basic doctrine that trials are an important part of life. In Hebrews 11, Paul reviews many of the trials faced by faithful persons. He teaches how we can learn from their examples and have hope for a better future. We'll talk about how the doctrine of hope is important in better understanding and enduring our mental and emotional trials. We'll also review how the Savior's understanding and power are sufficient to help us through any difficulty. Here is the link to Elder Holland's talk: ⁠An High Priest of Good Things To Come⁠.

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Hebrews 7-13

Listen to Big Picture to get the quick context for this week’s reading, Hebrews 7-13!   We’d like to thank our sponsors over at the Norman Book Series for supporting this episode. Get an additional 10% off the already super low prices on their Etsy site with the code OMSS10.  https://www.etsy.com/shop/NormanBookSeries

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The Future of Spirituality

Organized religious communities have seen steep declines in participation in recent decades and the rise of the “nones,” those who have no particular religious affiliation, is a well-rehearsed story. But that story isn’t just about loss and lack. New forms of spiritual life and meaning-making are emerging that seek to fill the universal longings of the human heart: belonging, transformation, and love.

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LDS Experience in Turkey

Welcome to our 10-part series exploring Turkey as a crossroads of faith, a place where world religions have met, overlapped, replaced one another, sometimes peacefully, sometimes not. In today's episode we're exploring the history of Latter-day Saints in Turkey, one of many tiny minority religious groups finding a place and building community amongst a majority-Muslim population. The size of the present congregation would seem to point to a new missionary effort just getting a toe-hold in Turkey. But, in fact, American missionaries first came to the Ottoman empire in 1884.

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Growing Up in a Polygamous Family & Learning from Adversity

Ever wondered what it's like growing up in a polygamous family? Or what it takes to leave? In this episode, Liz Watts shares her extraordinary journey growing up in a polygamous family in Utah. A journey marked by clashes with societal norms, struggles with identity, and grappling with faith, Liz's story is one of resilience and determination.

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