Melissa C. Clark

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Melissa Clark

Your Longing Has a Name with Dominic Done :: [Episode 103]

Hello Friends!

As you know, we are in the middle of year-long series all about helping you to live healthily. I hope each episode offers a small tangible step to take that increases your happiness, builds better relationships, and makes you feel stronger.

Today are talking to Dominic Done about his new book, Your Longing has a Name.  The longing for purpose is hardwired into our souls. Why are we here, how should we live, and what is life? How can our souls flourish? The tragedy is that more and more Americans feel powerless daily to answer these vital questions.

Dominic Done is the founder of Pursuing Faith and author of When Faith Fails. With a master’s in theology from the University of Oxford, he has served as a pastor in Portland, Oregon; North Carolina; and Hawaii. Dominic has also taught English for companies in Europe, lectured in theology and history at various Christian colleges, worked as a radio DJ, and lived as a missionary in Vanuatu and Mexico. He and his wife, Elyssa, have a daughter, Amelia, and a fuzzy Goldendoodle, Bella.

Listen in to learn more about :

  • Dominic shares his  vision of hope, revealing seven gifts God has provided for the soul’s health.
  • What is flourishing our soul, and how the health of our soul shapes the outcome of our life?
  • How does flouring lead us to rebuild hose connection to remedy our loneliness?
  • Jesus promises rest; how can soul care give us Jesus’s rest and not our definition of rest?

Resources

Connect with Dominic

Pick up a copy of Dominic’s book, Your Longing Has Name  

Website: www.pursingourfaith..org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DominicFrancisDone

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/dominicdone/

Connect with Melissa

Instagram: @MelissaClarkCounseling 

Website – www.melisaaclarkcounseling.com

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Your Longing Has a Name with Dominic Done :: [Episode 103]

Hello Friends!

As you know, we are in the middle of year-long series all about helping you to live healthily. I hope each episode offers a small tangible step to take that increases your happiness, builds better relationships, and makes you feel stronger.

Today are talking to Dominic Done about his new book, Your Longing has a Name.  The longing for purpose is hardwired into our souls. Why are we here, how should we live, and what is life? How can our souls flourish? The tragedy is that more and more Americans feel powerless daily to answer these vital questions.

Dominic Done is the founder of Pursuing Faith and author of When Faith Fails. With a master’s in theology from the University of Oxford, he has served as a pastor in Portland, Oregon; North Carolina; and Hawaii. Dominic has also taught English for companies in Europe, lectured in theology and history at various Christian colleges, worked as a radio DJ, and lived as a missionary in Vanuatu and Mexico. He and his wife, Elyssa, have a daughter, Amelia, and a fuzzy Goldendoodle, Bella.

Listen in to learn more about :

  • Dominic shares his  vision of hope, revealing seven gifts God has provided for the soul’s health.
  • What is flourishing our soul, and how the health of our soul shapes the outcome of our life?
  • How does flouring lead us to rebuild hose connection to remedy our loneliness?
  • Jesus promises rest; how can soul care give us Jesus’s rest and not our definition of rest?

Resources

Connect with Dominic

Pick up a copy of Dominic’s book, Your Longing Has Name  

Website: www.pursingourfaith..org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DominicFrancisDone

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/dominicdone/

Connect with Melissa

Instagram: @MelissaClarkCounseling 

Website – www.melisaaclarkcounseling.com

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The Journey of Hope :: [Episode 102]

Hello Friends!

As we continue our year-long series – all about helping you to live healthily. I urge you to reflect on the positive and negative things in your life. Recently, I celebrated another birthday, which was a reflection time for myself. I examined what I wanted to bring into my life and what I needed to let go off? Sometimes, to be truly healthy, we need to let go of things that aren’t working for us and try some new things.

In today’s episode, I’m talking with Rev Percy McCray, a pastor, podcaster, and cancer survivor. This episode discusses his work with the Cancer Treatment of America, how he got started working with cancer patients, and how caregivers can prevent fatigue.

Rev. Percy McCray Jr. has spent more than 26 years ministering to cancer patients and their caregivers at Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA). He recognizes cancer care ministry as a special calling from God and considers faith a key—but often overlooked— component of cancer treatment.  He now serves as the Director of Faith-Based Programs at CTCA® and provides leadership to the pastoral care staff at all five CTCA hospitals. In addition, Rev. McCray oversees Our Journey of Hope®, a nationwide cancer care ministry training, and support program.

His engaging personality and deep passion for pastoral care ministry have made Rev. McCray a favorite among patients, pastors, and his podcast audience.

Listen in to learn more about :

  • Misconceptions regarding cancer patients
  • Cancer is not a punishment from God
  • It the importance to schedule annual exams and stay current on regular checkups with your medical team.

Resources

Connect with Rev. Percy

Connect with Melissa

Instagram: @MelissaClarkCounseling 

Website – www.melisaaclarkcounseling.com

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Identifying Your Anxiety Elephants with Caris Snider :: [Episode 101]

Hello Friends!

As we continue, our year-long series on being healthy – can you believe we are over halfway done with the year? For me, taking care of my whole self is a daily pursuit. We are such complex beings, so many areas of our life where life can be so very busy. I hope that this series is helping you in the multiple ara of your life.

Today’s episode is all about anxiety with your ids. If you don’t have kids, I hope that you listen to help the children that are in your life. Today I’m sitting down with Caris Snider who is a Christian speaker wife, mom, and writer. We discuss their new books for tween boys and girls, Anxiety Elephants, and how to learn to help our tweens when they experience moments of fear, anxiety, and depression.

Caris Snider is a Christian Communicator who shares the hope of God through writing, speaking and leading worship. Her passion for the Lord comes forth as she shares her life experiences of overcoming anxiety and depression that began as a child. Caris desires to help all generations see their value and worth. It is important to her to give a voice to the voiceless and help those who feel alone in their battle.

She graduated from the University of Alabama in 2003 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Early-Child Development. She worked for the University of Alabama’s Child Development Center teaching young children and college students assigned to her classroom. Caris has actively served in churches she attends children and youth ministries since 2008. She taught leadership training classes to over 3,000 women for Thirty-One Gifts Conferences from 2012 to 2015.

Caris is the author of Anxiety Elephants 31 Day Devotional. She speaks in schools to students on coping skills for anxiety and trains teachers on how to help children with anxiety. Caris served on the faculty of Speak-Up in 2020. Caris Snider resides in Cullman, AL with her husband of 16 years, two daughters, and a Mini-Golden Doodle named Cooper Hash-brown.

Listen in to learn more about :

  • What was the heart behind her two new books for tween girls and boys?
  • Caris shares her personal struggles with anxiety, depression and almost took her life
  • What is snowplow parenting and how we can empower our kids?
  • We also take about how anxiety uniquely affects the tween age group and how hard it is right now on our kids with social anxiety, living through a pandemic, and much more.

RESOURCES

Connect with Caris

Website: www.carissnider.com

Instagram: @carissnider

Facebook: www.facebook.com/carissnider

Connect with Melissa

Instagram: @MelissaClarkCounseling 

Website – www.melisaaclarkcounseling.com

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Makeup Your Mind with Denise Pass and Michelle Nietert :: [Episode 100]

Hello Friends!

Today’s episode is very special because this is our 100th Episode of Thrive! Can you believe that?!  First, thank you so much – I couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you for your emails, messages, and of course, your reviews!

My main goal is to help you thrive in your life. My passion has always been to help others realize that they are God’s masterpiece. That’s what the podcast is all about. When creating this podcast in 2020, it was important to me that we talk about the physical, the spiritual, and the mental – the whole person.

I’m also excited about this episode because of who is on the show today.  My actual real-life friends Denise Pass and Michelle Nietert are my guests today. We discuss their new book, Makeup Your Mind, and how we can lean on God for our mental health.

Denise Pass holds an MA in Biblical Exposition and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Biblical Exposition at Liberty University. The author of Make Up Your Mind, Shame Off You, and 31 Days to Hope Reinvented, Denise has also written songs that received radio play, including You Are Worthy, Seeing Deep EP, and songs from her album Praying For You. She has appeared in Focus on the Family, Charisma, Belief.net, ibelieve.com, The Upper Room, and other publications. Denise currently serves on the writing team for Proverbs 31 Ministries’ First 5 app and the writing team for the COMPEL blog.

Michelle Nietert, M.A., as a previous minister to women, licensed professional counselor, and Christian Life Coach of over two decades, Michelle has been passionately inspiring women for over 25 years. She relates well to audiences of various ages as she juggles running a large counseling center in the DFW area, writing, hosting the Raising Mentally Healthy Kids podcast, and speaking. She is passionate about empowering women to overcome the negative mindsets holding them back from living the abundant lives God has promised them. Her energetic presentations are interactive, biblical, and relevant to everyday life.

Listen in to learn more about :

  • Denise and Michelle’s heart for this book and why they decided to write it
  • How our mindsets are so important to our mental health
  • The common causes of negative mindsets and what can we do about them.
  • How do we have the mind of Christ?

Resources

Connect with Denise and Michelle

Connect with Melissa

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