When to Pause a Religious Practice

Episode 23 of the Living Well with PMDD podcast, hosted by Heidi Bradford, titled "When to Pause a Religious Practice" was published on May 20, 2024 and runs 23 minutes.

May 20, 2024 ·23m · Living Well with PMDD

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Summary

Sometimes we when we are unwell, taking a break from a religious practice keeps our relationship with God strong. Listen for five questions to consider when you feel a religious practice you're doing at the moment is straining your relationship with God. Our faith in Christ can be strengthened when we trust in Him to take care of us when we cannot do it ourselves. Take Aways -Five questions to consider when a religious practice feels like it is taking you further from God. 1. Am I feeling d...

Episode Description

Sometimes we when we are unwell, taking a break from a religious practice keeps our relationship with God strong. Listen for five questions to consider when you feel a religious practice you're doing at the moment is straining your relationship with God. Our faith in Christ can be strengthened when we trust in Him to take care of us when we cannot do it ourselves.

Take Aways
-Five questions to consider when a religious practice feels like it is taking you further from God.
1. Am I feeling darker and more distant from God now than I was before this thought popped into my head?
2. Is this specific thing intended to make me feel this way?
3. Would Heavenly Father want me to feel this way?
4. What good can come from this negative thinking?
5. Could my PMDD symptoms be active? Then... a flag goes up that I'm probably being particularly hard on myself and/or my thoughts are not leading toward a place I want to go.

Topics
01:22 Story about negative thoughts interrupting Heidi's religious practice
06:07 Five questions to ask yourself when negativity springs up
10:13 Don't stop religious practices completely
10:23 Examples of when to pause certain practices
10:27 Prayer
12:57 Reading scriptures
14:18 Church attendance
17:08 Consider what a loved one would counsel you to do in this situation
21:58 The Cracked Sink Analogy

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