Steadfast Summit Conference (March 28th & 29th, Charleston Southern University)

Jessie Evans, M.Ed., LPC joins the podcast to discuss her work of bridging professional counseling with faith.  Her and Joey discuss experiences (good and bad) they've encountered in how the church handles mental health issues.  They also reflect on personal struggles in their own mental health and in the process discuss EMDR therapy, the importance of sleep, perinatal OCD, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and what can be learned from the Inside Out movies.  Lots to learn from Jesse Evans on this one. 

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[This episode has Hayne Griffin, Stoy Prioleau, and Joey Svendsen in it]

Stoy is quiet and usually disregarding of politics but the recent "meeting" with Trump and Zelensky has his head swirling, motivating him to "talk politics" with some fervor on this one.  Hayne is very distrustful of politicians, the media, the church, and people who are "bought."  He also reminds us all of some ancient wisdom about fear.  And Joey just had to use this episode to get Stoy's reaction on hearing the doctrine of Calvinism for the first time. 

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[This episode has Chip Judd, Roy Jacques and Joey Svendsen in it.  It originally aired on Mental Health + Mission of the Church Podcast]

Chip Judd, friend of this podcast having made numerous appearances on it through the years, has had quite the recent life journey that could have ended his life, given his lungs were failing him.  It's a story of a tragic loss of life with some redemption in it.  Chip's life is no longer in danger, at least no more than the rest of us, but this new health status of his and "second chance" at life, came with a price.                                                                                                                                      

Chip will be connected in the profoundest of ways to one who lost his life to a battle with mental illness, this being one of the very life challenges Chip was put on this earth to help bring hope and life to.  

After Chip tells this story, with a mutual friend Roy, Chip and Joey talk through many physiological aspects of grief involving the brain, including what Chip believes to be an overuse of medication for people battling through seasons of grief.  

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[This episode has Amy Alderman, Hayne Griffin, Jed Payne and Joey Svendsen in it]

Is pledging allegiance to a flag weird or even creepy?  If one believes in hell, is it kind of psycho to make jokes about people going there?  Just how much does God intervene in the affairs of humanity and work on behalf of people's prayers?  And if God intervenes in more important "life or death" matters, why does God only stop a few?  These questions discussed and no answers were established. Just another episode of PWNA. 

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[This episode has: Amy Alderman, Hayne Griffin, Stoy Prioleau, and Joey Svendsen]

Amy's husband goes by "Dick."  After getting through some jokes and reverting back to being middle school kids, three "Gen-X-ers" talk parenting, including differing opinions on tough love, the prospect of out-living one's child and what age-appropriate discipline may look like.  Are we now raising a soft generation?  Stoy gives updates on his "NBA bound" son and the four reflect on teen suicide and how sex culture for teens is becoming dirtier and dirtier, each of these Gen-X parents likely sounding like their own "Boomer parents" did, 30 years ago.  

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[This episode has Robbie Madison, Jed Payne and Joey Svendsen in it]

Feels like a chill time of encouragement amongst three friends, like it's a church small group.  Robbie sheds some light on the fallacy that "only good things should happen because of God," Jed still struggles with the concept of a "tit for tat" God, and Joey tries to encourage Jed with his own journey along the same lines after he shuts up about a recent UFO sighting of his.

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On this episode, Joey goes through his favorite books of 2024 and shares an episode he put together on a different podcast in which he crammed his whole mental health crisis story of 2019 into a 45-minute episode (quite the feat, hell to the yeah).  Special thanks to John Mark McMillan for narrating this one.  

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[Produced by Hayne Griffin, this episode has Hayne, Robbie Madison and Joey Svendsen]

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For the final episode of the year, Hayne rounds Joey and Robbie up for some Christmas talk, picking up where they left off last year in "Baby, It's Cold Outside (EP13),"  the last episode these three talked Christmas for an hour.   Today they talk whether or not the brilliance of the movie Four Christmases is all due to Vince Vaughn's humor.  They deliberate on whether Santa and elaborate gift-giving conflicts with the purity of the true Gospel story, and consider if the German tradition of “night of Saint Nick” may be a better option.  The three go in to a bit of the history of that tradition and reflect on Christmases past, how their parents implemented Santa into their childhood christmases and how they have walked this season out with their kids currently as parents themselves.  They also manage to fit in a conversation about a scientific study on guys' need for quality “guy-time.”

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[This episode is with Amy Alderman, Matt Oxley, Jed Payne, Joey Svendsen]

Joey had a kidney stone that worked through him like clockwork.  It made him very happy. Jed educates everyone on Kratom. Matt, Jed and Amy school Joey on the true definition of a "furry," and Amy doesn't think any one belongs with a tail, even if they are looking for belonging.   

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[This episode is Joey Svendsen joined by five friends from his youth group days: Jon Bazzle, Gail Santavicca,  Billy Jones, Mike Colon, Penny Sharp, and B.J. Slotkin]

Part 1 can be listened to here or viewed on YouTube.
Part 2 can be listened to here.

Joey, Jon, Gail, and Billy have talked twice and  now they (and you) get to hear from some of their friends from youth group, peers who've listened in on those other episodes.  Mike Colon, one of Joey's best friends in high school, shares an experience he had in church; racism from a peer's parent. It affected him for life. Penny reflects on getting married right out of high school; after a divorce and experiencing multiple tragedies, she yelled at God, now feels closer to Him than ever, but isn't currently part of a church.  B.J., one of the "Youth Group Popes," doubts some of his past holy spirit experiences and regrets some of his past religious mindsets he now believes lacked true love for all types of people.   

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Other music:  Mechanical River. 

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[This episode was produced by Joey Svendsen and is joined by three friends from Joey's youth group days: Jon Bazzle, Gail Santavicca, and Billy Jones]

Part 1 can be listened to or viewed on YouTube.

Joey shares how his "pure lifestyle" was celebrated amongst parents of other kids in youth group while inside, he felt overburdened by a never- ending, dark spiritual season, years on end. Jon wants to know what Joey actually cherishes from the old youth group days, Billy concurs that the guilt was excessive but the relationships were so dear to him, also traveled from Chicago last year just to be at the reunion.  Gail reflects back on what she describes as having had a feeling of unworthiness, especially when she was around the other Christians who appeared to have "their stuff" together.

Talking about our experiences as kids together, for the SECOND TIME as adults.

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