You’ve prayed. You’ve quoted the verses. Maybe you’ve even gone to counseling.
And yet — you still feel off.

You’re not broken. You’re human.

In this honest follow-up to Part 1, Jake McCandless gets real about what emotional health looks like for Christians who are tired of pretending they’re fine. This isn’t about being “fixed.” It’s about letting God form you into someone who can stand firm when life hits hard.

Jake unpacks what Scripture really means when it says to guard your heart and renew your mind. Because emotional health isn’t a buzzword — it’s discipleship in real time.

💥 Watch Part 1 on YouTube: Hello to Emotional Health: Beyond Therapy, Counseling, & Medication – Part 1https://youtu.be/LI3200mHkSM?feature=shared

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Hello to Emotional Health: Beyond Therapy, Counseling, & Medication – Part 1

Therapy and medication matter. But emotional health is also forged in the ordinary, daily choices we make.

In this episode of Stand Firm Parents, host Jake McCandless unpacks how parents can model emotional resilience in real time—when anger hits, when stress rises, when discouragement shows up. Emotional health isn’t just about us—it’s about the legacy we pass on.

💡 You’ll Learn:

• Why emotional health is about everyday choices, not just therapy

• How to regulate emotions before they explode

• Why kids mirror their parents’ emotional patterns

• How faith and emotional health work together in disciple-making

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• Emotional health is shaped in small, daily decisions.

• Parents must model regulation, not just talk about it.

• Kids inherit our reactions—our rhythms become their reflexes.

• Scripture calls us to take thoughts captive and renew our minds as a daily practice.

• Discipleship and emotional health are inseparable.

• 2 Corinthians 10:5 – Take every thought captive.

• Romans 12:2 – Be transformed by renewing your mind.

• Proverbs 4:23 – Guard your heart, for everything flows from it.

• Ephesians 6:17 – Helmet of salvation to guard your thoughts.

Emotional and mental health have been taboo topics in many churches for too long. In this powerful episode of Stand Firm Parents, host Jake McCandless talks with Dr. Mark Dance—pastor, author of Start to Finish, and new Executive Director of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention—to challenge that silence.

💡 What You’ll Learn

• Why emotional health is a biblical priority, not a trend

• The connection between Sabbath, boundaries, and resilience

• How to talk about mental health at home with honesty and grace

• Practical steps to build rhythms that sustain your soul and your family’s faith

Mark shares his personal journey with depression and the humility it took to ask for help, offering encouragement and practical wisdom for parents and leaders.

🌐 Resources:

• MarkDance.net | About Mark

• Start to Finish Book

• ABSC Announcement

• StandFirmMinistries.com

• Emotional health is essential for discipleship and leadership.

• Sabbath, hobbies, and boundaries are God’s protective rhythms.

• Parents modeling emotional honesty create spiritually resilient homes.

• Wise counsel and therapy are biblical strategies, not last resorts.

• Healing your own wounds stops generational cycles of pain.

• 1 Timothy 4:16 – Pay close attention to your life and teaching.

• Proverbs 11:14 – In an abundance of counselors there is safety.

• Psalm 34:18 – The Lord is near to the brokenhearted.

• Mark 12:30 – Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

• Isaiah 58:13–14 – Delight in the Sabbath.