In this episode, Nate Claiborne asks Benjamin Kandt to recap the fifth week of the Following Jesus with Anxiety learning community at NewCity. The focus of the week was on the self and leads Nate and Ben into some deep philosophical and psychological waters to unpack things. Ben lays out 3 ways that you can reframe your understanding of yourself as  self. In the latter of those 3 ways, he also offers 3 different ways you can reframe your perspective on yourself.

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Following Jesus with Anxiety Week Five: Self

In this episode, Nate Claiborne asks Benjamin Kandt to recap the fourth week of the Following Jesus with Anxiety learning community at NewCity. The focus of the week was on presence and the importance of attending to our thoughts and feelings in the present moment. Ben walks listeners through Dan Siegel&apos;s method for present moment awareness, as well as Siegel&apos;s advice on how we take PART in secure interpersonal relationships.We also mention the prayer of examen, which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ailzs7eWpsuytHOMZjI0mDalT6veu8RKO5zRnKnfcCg/edit

Following Jesus with Anxiety Week Four: Presence

In this episode, Nate Claiborne and Benjamin Kandt discuss a Christian approach to the field of psychology. Using the category of common grace, Christians are able to commend what is good, true, and beautiful in a field of study like psychology. Using the category of "antithesis," Christians are able to critique what is evil, false, and ugly in that same field. The error for many is to only do one or the other. Liberalism leans toward only seeing the good, fundamentalism leans toward only seeing the evil. With all this in mind, Ben explains what it would mean to "baptize" secular psychology.

Following Jesus with Anxiety Bonus: Baptizing Secular Psychology

In this episode, Pastor of Formation and Mission Benjamin Kandt recaps the third week of the Following Jesus with Anxiety learning community at NewCity. The focus of the week was on acceptance, in this case meaning accepting our emotional experiences, even as they may be unpleasant. Rather than living in experiential avoidance, which actually decreases our affective agility and numbs our ability to feel pleasant emotions, we can choose to give up resisting our emotions and instead compassionately accept them. 

Following Jesus with Anxiety Week Three: Acceptance

In this episode, Nate Claiborne and Benjamin Kandt give some bonus material from the Following Jesus with Anxiety learning community at NewCity. While it functions as a stand-alone episode, it is the beginning of a conversation of the theological dimensions to not just dealing with anxiety, but dealing with life in a fallen world with fallen people. The pattern of Jesus&apos; life, death, and resurrection is not just a doctrine to be believed, but is a pattern that we participate in as we grow in Christ

Following Jesus into Suffering: The Cruciform Life

In this episode of the Equip, Nate Claiborne sits down with Pastor of Formation and Mission Benjamin Kandt to discuss the second week of the Following Jesus with Anxiety learning community at NewCity. Ben explains what "defusion" is and how the process helps us manage our thought life.Over the course of the fall, we will offer brief recaps of each week, as well as bonus episodes that expand on content from the learning community.

Following Jesus with Anxiety Week Two: Defusion

In this episode, Nate Claiborne and Benjamin Kandt discuss mindfulness. Ben gives a definition from one of its foremost researchers, as well as a list of 9 benefits of the practice. Nate and Ben then discuss how to understand practices like mindfulness in light of eastern religions, as well as secular psychology. Ben then gives a brief biblical theology of breath and notes that there is a long Christian tradition of breathing exercises like mindfulness.In a future bonus episode, Nate and Ben will discuss more about how Christians can understand and benefit from the research of psychologists without denying the sufficiency of Scripture or the richness of the Christian tradition when it comes to contemplative practices.

Following Jesus with Anxiety Bonus: Mindfulness

In this episode of the Equip, Nate Claiborne sits down with Pastor of Formation and Mission Benjamin Kandt to discuss the first week of the Following Jesus with Anxiety learning community at NewCity. Ben explains what a learning community is at NewCity before giving a recap of some of the content covered in the first week.Over the course of the fall, we will offer brief recaps of each week, as well as bonus episodes that expand on content from the learning community.

Following Jesus with Anxiety Week One: Values

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