“Stressors” with Marin Canaday   —  
Anxiety, Stress, we all suffer it at least from some times to another – that and more (OCD, different Stressors, Meditation (other options, alternatives) vs Medication (what works for some, not necessarily works for all (Exercise, Holistic, Medications, Natural Alternatives)) my discussion with Marin Canaday….

[Neither Host nor Guest are "Medical experts" and nothing here-in constitute anything beyond Opinion and Personal Experiences - if you have any Health issue you should consult Medical Professional(s).]

Hello again all. This is going to be another quasi B4IN CHEAT (JLenardDetroit / Joseph M Lenard) article, taking a bit of a short-cut. CTP Show dropped Wed. Aug. 14, 2024 AM (Eastern Time) that I spoke with Marin Canaday (Author/Speaker) therefore, “cheating” rather than writing a piece completely from scratch I will include the Show Video and the Show Transcript (and FYI, I use a FREE online Transcription Service (you get what you pay for, right?) therefore the Transcript is likely to have potentially bad sentence structure, some wrong words, mis-spellings, etc.; as AI is pretty good, I know well as a former IT guy that I am, but not perfect at grasping overall Context in order to interpret the correct verbiage vocalized translated (plus we sometimes are not “clear” in our speaking and pronunciation of terms/words for the Machinery to distinguish it) to text; but it is GREAT at being able to share a Conversation in print and therefore sharing (as is, well, not entirely true, I do indeed make some changes, additions, etc.) below…

CTP (S2EAugSpecial2, 20240814) “Stressors” w/ Marin Canaday BTS Video (50m 39s)

 

CTP S2EAugSpecial2 NOTES ( listen (Wed Aug 14 2024 and thereafter) at: 
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2210487/15582523-christitutionalist-politics-s2eaugspecial2-stressors-with-marin-canaday )… 
ChristiTutionalist Politics (S2EAugSpecial2) “Stressors” with Marin Canaday           
See buzzsprout Transcript for full Show Notes and Transcript Bonus 
Anxiety, Stress, we all suffer it at least from some times to another – that and more (OCD, different Stressors, Meditation (other options, alternatives) vs Medication (what works for some, not necessarily works for all (Exercise, Holistic, Medications, Natural Alternatives)) discussion with Marin Canaday.  
See Buzzsprout podcasts Transcript for full Show Notes (including related links)   
Transcript Bonus: No Transcript Bonus this Episode     

Episode related pieces…  
- No related corresponding TLB piece this Sat. Aug 14th for this Show/episode (will be corresponding Aug 17 “HATE” piece for CTP S1E61 Show) 
- FaithCasters Free Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/FaithCasterNewsletterSignup (both CTP Show (and Me as Host) and Marin are members of FaithCasters)  
- https://www.amazon.com/My-Little-Monster-Story-About/dp/164543866X  
- https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-very-best-me-marin-canaday/1144087064  
- https://in.pinterest.com/marincanaday/  
- more: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Marin+Canaday   
 

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- CTP: tinyurl.com/ChristiTutionalist  
- CTP long-form description: tinyurl.com/ChristiTutionalistPodcast 
- TLB articles: thelibertybeacon.com/?s=Joseph+M+Lenard  
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- FaithCasters Free Newsletter: tinyurl.com/FaithCasterNewsletterSignup  
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- Joseph M Lenard – linktr.ee/jlenarddetroit  
(JosephMLenard.us / TerrorStrikes.info/interviews)  
(S1EAugSpecial2 Audio: 48m 40s, Wed Aug 14 2024)

SNEAK-PEEK: The next several TLB pieces (planned going forward from July 27th) and correlating/corresponding CTP Shows already outlined, ready to go, in some cases actually already pre-recorded. Why mention such? Well, it means I can add this COMING SOON (and/or recently dropped) addition/section to the Show Notes…
July 27 – S2E58: Self-Sufficiency?  
August 3 – S2E59: Who is Baby-Sitting Whom? 
August 10 – S2E60: #PrinciplesNotPersonalities 
August 17 – S2E61: Hate   
August 24 – S2E62: Finding Sweet Spot (Not that, get your mind outta the gutter LOL)
August 31 – S2E63: Neighborliness    
September 7 – S2E64: Charity  

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In addition to seeing corresponding TheLibertyBeacon piece referenced in episodes of CTP, see too Show transcript on Podcast platforms that provide access to it (like buzzsprout (tinyurl.com/ChristiTutionalist)) for addl bonus material  there-in. 

IF you have a Show and looking for Guests, or an “expert” or “Speaker” on a given or set of subjects, you too can likely make use of Podcast Guests List like I do, though some that I have on CTP may have connected via another Service called MatchMaker.FM, PGL is where I connect with majority of my CTP Show Guests and make arrangements for their appearing on my/the ChristiTutionalist (TM) Politics Show – see (my Profile there, by way of example): https://podcastguests.com/expert/jlenarddetroit/

Also FYI for those who do not know Joseph M Lenard is #JokesterJoe on #SavagedUnfiltered podcast.
 

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Brief mention of other pieces dropped this last several days by me here on B4IN:

2024 ChristiTutionalist TM Politics Show Special Guest Appearances (Wed drops) Aug-Dec preview
Media | Aug 17 2024 23:22

Hadassah Treu – “Draw Near: How Painful Experiences Become the Birthplace of Blessings”
Books | Aug 17 2024 19:44

Charity (Community (Voluntary) and Biblical vs Communism (Forced) of the World (warped Scriptures miss-applications))
Economics and Politics | Aug 17 2024 13:24

The Fascicrats (claim to be about Democracy) now turn LAWFARE on RFK Jr to keep him off Ballots.
U. S. Politics | Aug 15 2024 23:29

Ukrainian Push finally came…
War and Conflict | Aug 15 2024 23:24

Stressors
Health | Aug 14 2024 10:49

Neighborliness?? Voluntary Community vs Forced Communism — there are big differences!
Awakening? Start Here | Aug 11 2024 17:14

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[ChristiTutionalist Politics podcast begin Show intro]

Welcome to ChristiTutionalist Politics podcast aka CTP in association with TheLibertyBeacon.com and I am your host Joseph M Lenard and that’s L E N A R D   CTP is your no muss no fuss just me you And occasional guest type podcast as Graham Norton would say let’s get on with the show 

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JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   hello everybody today’s show is on anxiety before I introduce it alright before I asked the guest to introduce herself I’m going to do a little mini monologue here right anxiety what are we talking here everybody it seems it certainly everybody I know if you want to know any completely happy go lucky never get anxious kinds I want to meet him because with this high inflation high crime rates and no bear me the crime is down malarkey there are less cops so they’re even responding to less crimes let alone making less arrests because we know you on the left won’t bother to prosecute them for crimes so no crime isn’t down look at the calls to the police and you will see incidents are up you’re just not bothering to arrest or prosecute them at any rate it given all that the protests and just the insanity going on everywhere everybody I know certainly has stress induced anxiety at least a little bit on occasion I don’t understand again if there’s anybody out there that’s able to escape it entirely these last three years I want to meet them but of course that is separate and a poll those are just the internal forces then there are the external forces because long gone are the days before World War II that we could be fortress America and pretend anything that happened everywhere else would never bother us well in this day of ICBMs and global economies what happens there impacts us whether we like it or not so all that internal and external stress now affects us versus of course then those with like extreme clinical anxiety that they constantly deal with so those you know everywhere in between is what we’re kind of going to discuss today so hopefully there’s something for everybody so let’s get on with it and Marin please introduce yourself and your background and that sort of thing sure thank you for having me today
 

MARIN CANADAY:    so my name is Marin Canaday and I am a stay-at-home mom but I’m also an author I struggle with OCD which is obsessive compulsive disorder and so I am very familiar with anxiety and I’ve written two books their children’s picture books about my OCD and it’s they’re written as a way for kids to connect with OCD and to start a conversation with others about what it’s like to have this disorder and it’s it’s really been healing to me to be able to speak about my disorder and my anxiety and be open about it I found when I tried to hide it and suppress it it just got worse and worse
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   yeah I I mean that can be true of a lot of things right that that’s uh completely different topic but depression is also that way right yeah try to gloss it over ignore it hope it will go away it only exists exists or breaks if I can get the word out correctly the problem same thing here you you’re saying firsthand experience in that yes yes uh so again I’m glad I came across you I’m a member of pastor Robert Thibodeau that I’ve known for a few years now he started a thing called FaithCasters and this being a Christian show I’m certainly happy to be part of that so I came across you through that and the minute I saw the word anxiety there that I could talk about anxiety I was like who doesn’t have anxiety these days definitely a good topic to talk about so yeah so thank you for coming on I think now did again now your anxiety is my I can’t talk today I spent most of the day outside those looking on the behind the scenes video I look kind of like a turnip because I got I got too much sun didn’t wear a hat I tried I tried to stay in the shade didn’t do it enough and I’m kind of burnt so but and then all the sun and the wind I with my health issues I don’t spend a lot of days outside so spending all day outside it’s like whoo I’m whooped just from that so your anxiety is brought on by the OCD have you had the OCD basically your whole life or did that something develop right so I’ve had it
 

MARIN CANADAY:    since early childhood and it was very internal in my early childhood I you couldn’t tell from just looking at me that I was struggling with worries and concerns and obsessions in my head when I became an adult it became very outwardly apparent and I had to seek help and that’s actually when I got my diagnosis so you know it affected the way I couldn’t eat anymore I couldn’t sleep anymore I couldn’t function day to day just daily tasks because of the intrusive thoughts that would just get stuck in my head and they would be on repeat all day long all night long and they just caused high levels of anxiety that I couldn’t I couldn’t turn off I had to prove these fears wrong in order to move on from them but these fears are not always easy to prove wrong for example when I was in elementary school oh junior high actually my fear my obsession was my germs are going to kill someone and so how do I prove that wrong my my germs have never killed anyone before but this could be the one time that they do that you know that and then I’m a murderer and then where do I go from there so it’s sometimes it’s very hard to prove these fears wrong it’s like a constant alarm bell going off in your head like danger danger danger you know that you have to solve this problem immediately um or something bad’s gonna happen yeah I’ve
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   never been diagnosed I’ve got a myriad of health issues I’ve never been diagnosed with OCD I have been diagnosed with anxiety so I would dare say I have somewhat mild OCD because I do have that where like at night my brain won’t shut off yes what if I did this instead of done that kind of things and it can drive you crazy but luckily I don’t suffer OCD to the full extent where it is a horrendous clinical issue yes every minute of every day right I can only slightly relate to that uh whereas again now for general anxiety not like OCD just the stresses in life that other form I would imagine that can both uh ebb and flow and rise and wane yeah some people like like for me it does that to some degree um there when I first got sick I was on Xanax the top dose twice a day every day for three and a half years and of course when I finally got to the point that my health improved a little and I got less anxious didn’t need to be on that all the time there was of course that I don’t have a addictive personality so I didn’t have the mental addiction but I of course had the physical issue of withdrawals and it’s three times to get off that so I still have a prescription of Xanax sitting on my table over here but I only take it when I get to the point where my bodily body is literally shaking and I’ve got to have that or I’ll be up for three days so and I never take it more than three days in a row because I never want that physical withdrawal
 

MARIN CANADAY:    thing issue it’s so hard yes yeah so I was going to give you an example of what it was like for me about seven years ago I had the obsessive thought what if and normally they start with what ifs what if my husband gets disabled and I have to work and I have to care for him and I have to care for the children oh my goodness how would I be able to do this right and I got so lost in the OCD fears and having to prove them wrong that I lost my ability to focus on reality I mean none of this stuff was happening at the moment it was all what ifs and and thinking of the future so I knew if my husband was disabled I get fired from a job and because I can’t focus when I have OCD I’m always constantly thinking and trying to solve a problem in my head and I felt oddly like I was being responsible in a way by solving this problem in advance and being prepared in advance so here’s my thought process and it’s it’s I look now with a healthy brain and think wow you know I was really sick I was thinking like okay if I get fired from my job how much money would I need could I sell the house well what if the market goes bad again oh my goodness maybe I could move in with my parents but what if they pass away well I better find a job I can do so I check all the job sites over and over and over again I mean my computer probably knew that I had OCD because I was back like every two seconds and I would think oh I could do this job but then that job would be filled and it would disappear from the job site and so I thought well I better get a job now just in case for the future I need one I better you know get get it now and so I went back to my old job teaching students as a intervention teacher part-time and I was absolutely miserable I was crunching numbers in my head the whole time trying to make you know mock budgets and how would I you know do all this on this salary and that job ended up ending with COVID so this was relatively recent and it took me a long time to realize that I was trying to control the future and that I was taking God completely out of the picture I would quote the verse I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me Philippians 4 13 but I didn’t really believe it and I wasn’t really trusting God that he was going to help me through no matter what came my way so the other day as I was preparing for this podcast I read a devotional that spoke directly to my fears and it’s by Joyce Meyer and she wrote I look at some of the things people go through and I say to myself I’m afraid I could never go through that with the graciousness and courage I’ve seen them display then I remind myself that when we must go through something negative God gives us the strength to do so when we merely fear going through something we do it without any help from God at all and that’s exactly what I was doing I was so stuck on solving a problem that I took God completely out of it I can’t control anything and the more I tried to control it and to you know prepare for every little scenario the more it became evident to me that this is out of my hands clearly you know there is a higher power that’s going to have to help me to solve any of these problems so to win my war on anxiety I learned that I would have to trust God to help me when I needed it not beforehand not you know five years before anything even happened I need to be willing to say if and when something occurs and something comes my way God will get me through it
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   yeah now you mentioned what ifs right now yeah what ifs I think are a normal and natural part of life we need an occasion to ask what ifs to prepare indeed for something that might be right around the corner right the problem is as like you’re laying it out is that one what if would open ten more rabbit holes of what ifs which would then open ten more and it would exponentially get to a bazillion what ifs that is too much for any person to handle and it almost becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that you break down because you’ve driven yourself to that
 

MARIN CANADAY:    absolutely absolutely and you know I found myself just recently slipping back into that I’ve been healthy for quite a while but that fear of what if something comes my way that’s too hard again what it what am I going to do and the fear just started spinning I like to think of wheels in a mud pit and you know mud is just flying everywhere but there’s no traction to get out of the pit so my wheels are just spinning and I go to my prayer journals I have eight of them and I started when I you know went into my first or my second my second adult episode of OCD and I started keeping track of rough times and prayers that I would pray and the way God would answer those prayers through devotionals through songs through you know different ways that he would speak to me and so I found five particular rough patches that stuck out to me one was I was having a extremely difficult OCD episode and I called out to God I prayed no Lord I need help I need a sign I need to hear from you and the next morning I looked in my email inbox and I was getting a devotional from Proverbs 31 ministries and the focus verse for the devotional was Exodus 14 14 the Lord will fight for you you need only to be still and you know what it took a long time but he restored my mental health and he proved my fears wrong one by one the second one was I’m desperate for medication to work if you’ve ever been on medication or trying to get on medication you know how difficult that can be you know just because you take one doesn’t mean that that’s going to be the one that works for you and it can be exhausting and it can be just a rollercoaster so I have I felt like I had to try some I had to find something that worked right away because I was just at my wits end I needed I needed this work and the medication I tried had I had a reaction to and I had to stop and I was so discouraged and I was so disappointed and once again I went to my email because I thought hey if God spoke to me once he can speak to me again maybe there’s a message from God in there and so I looked at my email and there’s Proverbs 31 ministries devotional and it says Philippians 4 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me and you know what I believe that God was speaking to me right there and it gave me that breath of fresh air that yes I can wait I can be patient to find the right medication and today I am on that right medication and it is helping me and then another time I had a very intense time of family members being ill and another family member needing my help almost daily and God gave me the message Nehemiah 9 21 for 40 years you sustained them in the desert they lacked nothing their clothes did not wear out and nor did their feet become swollen and God kept me healthy and strong for a year as I helped out with my family I almost felt untouchable untouchable and this was around the Covid time so it was a big deal that I was able to stay mentally and physically strong another time I’m going back into the fear of trying to do hard things I pray I confess to God I know I’m not trusting I I need help through this please speak truth to me and the devotional after the prayer was once again Philippians 4 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me my last one was at the beginning of this year I was very intimidated by a busy school year ahead I’ve got three kids they all have their separate activities I was publishing my second book my youngest was in speech and martial arts and then there’s orchestra and basketball and you name it and for me stress is a trigger for OCD and so I had avoided stress and busyness like the plague we we really were stay home people but I didn’t want to stand in the way of my kids being involved and doing things and finding things that they love so I was on board to be the taxi taxi driver mom right and I was afraid that I wasn’t going to be able to do all this and keep a healthy brain that I would fall back into depression that I fall back into anxiety and then one more activity got added in and it was just oh Lord how am I going to do this I’m feeling so overwhelmed and then I read a nightly devotional to my daughters it wasn’t even my devotional I was just reading it to my girls and once again it was Exodus 14 14 the Lord will fight for you just stay calm and later on I got another devotional from Christine Kane this time that spoke to me in my stress and it says your battle is spiritual maybe you’re feeling under attack even now and are wondering how you will manage but take heart you will never know what you are capable capable of in God’s strength if you run away from trials and avoid obstacles pushing ahead and fighting the battle despite the wavering of your faith will actually build your faith and dependence on God so place your trust in him and know that God is with you and that he is at work in you his strength will see you through and the result I’ve stayed mentally healthy all year long this this is amazing for me because I’ve been in and out of OCD episodes you know from my 30s pretty consistently and to stay strong and healthy and able to be there for my kids and not buckle under pressure is a big thing now I want to
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   make an important interjection I wanted to go back to meds and I think you circled it back for me perfectly now if you can pray away something that’s wonderful but yes we have chemical imbalances at times you need the meds and meds in general our modern medical system is pretty miraculous at times there’s some you know like way back when the advent of aspirin was a miracle drug at the time you know penicillin a miracle drug I’m allergic to penicillin products though so which leads me to what I was going to say like you you had a reaction to it a drug could be a miracle drug for one person before another that might make them worse that’s like that with depression meds and those with depression I’ve known various different people I was like oh well brand X was my miracle drug but the other person brand X almost killed me right so brand Y was their thing so yes like you said earlier on you have to be patient and work through it all and let me make this just because I’m I’m not a doctor I’m not an actor I don’t play a doctor even even on TV but I am somebody with health issues who has gone through a lot of different medications for a lot of different things for a lot of different reasons so you know just speaking anecdotally from firsthand experience and you know understanding because any drug you see advertised of course they cause blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but they they cover every possible bite effect or they try to right because again person A person B person C through Z were all chemically some physically somewhat the same girl humans but our chemical composition is just slightly off and makes a difference plus what else you may be taking
 

MARIN CANADAY:    how those interact exactly yeah medication for me was a struggle I was very prideful I didn’t want anything to do with medication and so my first adult episode I actually convinced myself that I was better and that I was healed and so they had given me a starter packet and I use that starter packet to get off without telling my doctors and I would not recommend that and then the second time it came back so much worse and you have to take things stronger than you know the first time because you got off and then you have to start from ground zero again trying to build up to where you were at and so it’s just a miserable process so I definitely would not if you need the medication
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   take the medication yeah OCD uh extreme stress extreme anxiety uh like I said I still keep Xanax here I try not to take it but I know myself well enough now and work with my doctors and they know yes okay you can have it and only need it or take it when you really really eat it other than that I deal with it because I’m on so many other medications for other things I don’t want to be mixing a bazillion things and and like you said if you don’t keep in me it and it depends on what we’re talking about right you don’t take you don’t get a cold and take sinus meds for the rest of your life right there are things you take them only when you need them other things you’ve got to know well this is a permanent issue and condition for me I need to have a maintenance dose that I’m going to take probably the rest of my life I’ve got a few of those yeah yep and I finally have
 

MARIN CANADAY:    come to peace with that you know I used to be so ashamed that when I go to the doctor and I’d have to list off what medications I’m on you know it’s so embarrassing to me but now it’s just like hey I can’t do life without these this is this is me and this is what I need and this is what I will
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   be taking for the rest of my life and it’s a shame it’s not like we want that right here I can hear from what you’re you don’t want that but again we’ve got to recognize sometimes that is just reality and I mean thank god in a sense yes we are alive in these times that these are available now I think there’s a lot of much chosen syndrome going on in some cases with some of these things in my opinion another episode I discussed this I think we should go back I love Donald Reagan nobody is perfect we’re all capable of all making mistakes he deregulated the advertisement of drugs direct to consumers in hindsight big mistake because now the drug companies indeed are trying to convince you you have something their drug can fix whether you really got it or not but I’d like to see you go back to if you’re a big bank theory watcher before remember penny at the end of the series winding down became a pharmaceutical rep that’s the way it’s supposed to work they talk to the doctors let the doctors know we have these they’re available for that and you and your doctor should be talking and them say well we could try this not you go into your doctor oh my god pharmaceutical what you McCall it has convinced me I’ve got condition whatever please give me the pill and sadly a lot of doctors now are in on pharmaceutical money so
 

MARIN CANADAY:    okay yeah I get a lot of questions about my diagnosis and how was I diagnosed and so as a child and into my adulthood I had no idea what OCD even was I just knew that I worried a lot and that I needed a lot of reassurance um but when I went into the doctor the psychiatrist she had me fill out a questionnaire and most of the questions that I answered were underneath the OCD category and so that’s how I received my diagnosis you know it wasn’t self-diagnosed it was definitely from a doctor and
 

OSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   and then they started medicating from there yeah and the other thing is that worked out great for you uh finally thank god for that yeah but the other thing I want to insert also is is reg I mentioned Regan once already Regan said trust but verify get a second and a third opinion if you are even remotely unsure of what’s going on with you because you know there are bad apples
 

MARIN CANADAY:    and everything and I started out with that um I went to one psychiatrist who said that I was paranoid and I thought I don’t think I’m paranoid you know and there was no questionnaire to fill out it was just him going off of what I was saying and so I just didn’t have a good feeling so I did switch to a new um psychiatrist and that’s where there was the questionnaire and I just felt like okay she’s really taking the time to find out what my thoughts are and what category they fall into and what characteristics they take so yeah I definitely think that um it doesn’t hurt to get a second
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   opinion right or even sometimes a third right but again going back to the ads on tv these drugs some of them are like they can work for two three four different things so they’re likely to convince you of something to take their drug for so multiple opinions is good and important uh I’ve forgot where I was gonna go with that but uh yeah I mean the one doctor took farm oh I don’t remember where I was gonna go but the one doctor took the extra steps to try to make sure they were really drilling down your diagnosis because the point it was going to make is sometimes can be uh symptoms of multiple different problems right and you’ve got to take as a pull all your symptoms to narrow down specific because yeah someone might be paranoid a paranoid schizophrenic but you’ve got to go into all the other things to make sure that that is indeed these far on diagnosis now they misdiagnosis right right i think these are complicated issues
 

MARIN CANADAY:    yeah definitely and um you know when I did end up going back through my prayer journal um I’m kind of proud of myself but proud of god too um I remembered that all had god had done and I remembered all that he had said to me and it restored my faith and it stopped my wheel spinning now normally I would have thought that I would have relied solely on my medication to do that um you know just because I’m taking the medication doesn’t mean that I’m not having OCD thoughts anymore it makes me calmer it helps me um with the physical aspect of anxiety but the mental aspect is still you know I have to play my part and so when I did that and I went back to my prayer journals it really stopped my wheel spinning um and I was able to get traction and get out of that mud pit um and I found hope again and I have peace with the future that you know whatever comes my way god is going to get me through it because of all those times I mean how many times does he have to tell you um you know I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me or I will fight your battle all you have to do is be still you know for me it takes quite a few times because you know let’s face it I I struggle with the obsession and having to prove it prove it prove it for 100% true you know but you know when god is clearly speaking to you it gets your attention and um for me it’s just been great to look back on prayer journals and devotionals and to mark them up what is god telling me so that in the future when I am struggling I can look back and say oh wait no this is what god said I can I can put this fear to rest right I think uh
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   what popped in my head again was uh didn’t say it yet you’re right uh both uh medicines and face working together right yeah a lot of times one or the other and a lot of gods opening up the skies and granting you a miracle you know to completely cure you of whatever forever and ever going forward right you need the mix the band he’s completely able to do that and does do
 

MARIN CANADAY:    that um but times for some right yeah that’s not everybody’s story and that hasn’t been my experience my experience has been faith and medicine working together um to help me through
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   anxiety yeah I I find that too for me anecdotally again kind of on the same page together is uh but as you said the medicine takes you so far the faith takes you over it helps the rest of that way because yes I I get that way too with the stress induced anxiety and the pill can only uh a lot of times take you so far but again we’re all different everybody’s story is going to be different what is going to work or not work for you is is going to be different from Marin or for me uh well where was I I’m so worn out from the weather today it’s like that my brain is partially fried but oh I wanted to pivot if we could kind of try it’s difficult you know because one’s own personal experiences obviously what we know best but if we could both try to remove ourselves from our own issue and uh remedy regarding anxiety the person just dealing with general everyday stress not a clinical chronic is a condition of it which then leads to chronic condition uh anxiety all the time do you have any advice like for it’s hard again because I mean
 

MARIN CANADAY:    I’m so stuck in my in my OCD anxiety that I’m not sure even what uh normal stress anxiety may look like
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   yeah well I try to remember back uh before I got into information technology which was what my career was for the most of my life and then being on call all the time and that so that was a lot of my stress uh it wasn’t so before all that I still would have the average kind of person daily stressors of the you know my paycheck doesn’t quite go as far as I need it to kind of thing and that’s kind of just what I’m trying to refer or harking to here and it’s hard uh because I don’t want someone to go on meds if they really don’t have to definitely try prayer and uh meditation try yoga try uh you know go you know join a gym yeah exercising really
 

MARIN CANADAY:    helped for me and me um I did zoom out there for a while and just you know getting a good sweat in and you know it’s um a brain break you know I used to play volleyball in junior high and high school and college actually um and I found that I could turn my brain off while I did that sport I had to otherwise I’d get hurt you know you get a ball and face because you’re not paying attention trying to find to prove it wrong you can’t do that and play volleyball at the same time and that actually was so instrumental in me getting through OCD as a child and so I would even say that would help with normal anxiety going out getting active turning your brain off for a while turning some music on listening to some good you know positive encouraging music um that’s when I got to be an adult I didn’t have that volleyball team anymore that I could go out and play volleyball and turn off my mind and that’s when it got so you know so much harder to fight
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   but yeah exercise is definitely a big one for me yeah any form of if you can self-destruct yourself like I find uh sometimes a distressor that can work for me again made out for others is pretty much nowadays uh with streaming or if you’ve got any kind of cable you’ve got a DVR so I record a bunch of game shows yeah especially the mindless ones that’s the ones that you have to think about there are no whammies no whammies right you know just mindless stuff I’ve got like a hundred game shows in my game show folder and any given moment they kind of like rolling and roll out so I don’t fill up my thing but at times if I go to bed I can’t sleep it’s like I’m not to that point where I’m jittery and eat his annex so let’s put on a couple mindless game shows like I love uh I love uh uh not not whose line is it um Doug got it now one of the local channel has got uh uh you know what I’m I’m seeing now here’s my brain not shutting off and not wanting to give up it’s not it’s gonna bother me until unless if I go look uh funny you should ask funny you should have a silly stupid game show it’s got a panel of celebrities and they structure every question in a way so that the guests it’s kind of like the old Hollywood squares in a way too every time a question the panelists would try to say something funny while they ask every question in a way so that it sets up a joke right you know right even though some of the questions are statistic this or do you agree or disagree with the guests to get the points or the money so you know other ones I watch I like uh name that tune a reboot of the old one press your luck I was joking about the no whammies no whammies Elizabeth Banks is doing a newer version of that show one of my fun ones that I like that’s mindless who the bleep is that where three contestants and it’s celebrity gossip kind of thing just like yeah here here’s a scattered picture of the celebrity we’re slowly gonna bring into focus who is that nothing serious to think about just mindless stuff to get your mind distracted I went way long on that but you agree yeah I like to garden
 

MARIN CANADAY:    I can find myself getting lost in the yard and just weeding and making things look beautiful you know it just is so healing to my mind and I also do crafting paper crafts I am a Sunday school teacher so I do a lot of prep work for the kids and their crafts um for each sunday and you know somebody asked me wow that’s a lot of work you know that must be overwhelming and I said well actually it’s kind of my therapy you know I can turn my brain off and focus on cutting on the line you know and that’s my my deal so yeah there are things that are just mindless that allow you to a distraction that really work well for turning anxiety off yeah like my sister now
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   she’s uh seven years younger than I am but now as she’s getting older uh she fought not the begazzling thing but them little patterns that you then put put the beads on
 

MARIN CANADAY:    thoughts I think it’s diamond dots um my daughter knows yeah something like that almost like cross stitch but it’s with little diamonds that you put on a sticky sticker page
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   yes to make a pattern and she she’s got herself doing a lot of those help pass the time helps relax and our garage citywide garage sale is this weekend which is why I spent so much time out today I normally don’t do that I did that today to sell knickknacks and whatnot you know lying around the house it’s like rather than just throw them out get a quarter or a dollar for something and let somebody enjoy it so we both benefit out of it but he does those all the time so she’s selling those oh yeah yeah she’s not getting the money she invested in them that’s not bad but yeah that exactly right that’s not the point she’s had her uh distress and ability to distract and pass time with those now hey if somebody else can enjoy them and I can get a couple books of what I spent on them bad right it’s a it’s a win-win for everybody
 

MARIN CANADAY:    yeah definitely I can see how that would also be helpful I I crochet um baby blankets as well and just the monotony of making each little stitch helps to turn my turn my mind off and you know thinking also of who’s this baby blanket gonna be for in the future and you know say a little prayer for the baby for the mom and um it’s it’s a good thing as well yeah yeah turning
 

JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   a positive into what you’re you’re in a wadith again but it’s a good one it’s a more positive one it’s I don’t know who will get this but somebody will it will be a uh a pro pro a win-win that’s the word oh my brain just not working I win-win all the way around for everybody oh well we’ve gone a lot longer than I was expecting we were going to because again yeah again with the way my brain works there’s always a bazillion different rabbit holes to go down to it’s like so now after this probably indeed to shut my mind off I’ll go watch funny you should ask and laugh yeah mindless stuff I get a chuckle out of it because I like to kind of play along too of uh because I’m also known as jokester Joe on savage done filtered podcast so I like to play along in my mind well what joke would I tell there they’re asking a question they’re setting up a response what joke might I tell before they tell one and see if they match right or you know I think my joke would have been better but so at any rate and that’s for the benefit of the audience making fun of myself like for some you know and podcast the cardinal sin is to avoid odds and ohms at you know those verbal ticks well over the last couple of months I developed this crutch of segway and saying at any rate so now I’ve incorporated it in as a joke about myself here how stupid I am constantly saying at any rate but indeed at any rate thank you mary for coming on I hope people got something out of this discussion again with all the anxiety and stress with everything happening on this planet right now I felt everybody probably needed this discussion 

 

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LOOK BACK and SNEAK-PEEK: The next several TLB pieces and correlating/corresponding CTP Shows (planned going forward from May 11^th – September 7th) already outlined, ready to go, in some cases actually already pre-recorded. Why mention such? Well, it means I can add this COMING SOON (and/or recently dropped) addition/section to the Show Notes…

• May 11 – S1E47: Continued Left-wing Violence 
• May 18 – S1E48: Let Them Keep Pushing, Generational Shift Occurring 
• May 25 – S1E49: Mother’s Day retrospective  (Ex Post Facto piece, just as last year’s Memorial Day and 4th-Of-July pieces were) 
• June 1 – S1E50: Slaves To State 
• June 8 – S1E51: Is Prayer Alone Enough? [also note: CTP2 dropped]
• June 15 – S1E52: Rising Tides Lift All Boats 
• June 22 – S2E53: TLB-Talk relaunch
• June 29 – S2E54: Speculations and What Ifs 
• July 6 – S2E55: In The News  
• July 13 – S2E56: Hard and Fast Economic Facts  
• July 20 – S2E57: USA, then, now, future  
• July 27 – S2E58: Self-Sufficiency?  [previously shared on BeforeItsNews]
• Aug. 3 – S2E59: Who is Baby-Sitting Whom? 
• Aug. 10 – S2E60: #PrinciplesNotPersonalities  
• Aug. 17 – S2E61: Hate  
• Aug 24 – S2E62: Sweet-Spot (Not that, get mind outta gutter LOL)  
• Aug 31 – S2E63: Neighborliness 
• Sep 7 – S2E64: Charity 
   

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SOME ADDITIONAL ODDS AND ENDS….

JLD B4IN pieces: https://tinyurl.com/JLDArticles   
JLD TLB pieces: https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/?s=Joseph+M+Lenard   
Joseph M Lenard books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joseph-M-Lenard/author/B09WFSY5KN   

How am I bringing back the LITTLE WILLIE JOHN “FEVER” Song?
see: /sports/2024/06/will-wnba-actually-put-female-pro-sports-really-on-the-map-or-die-to-dei-correctness-hate-2785791.html

Going further back….

A response I made to someone (SMS Texts, back and forth) in regard to their saying a recent CTP Show “BrainDead (well that’s a harsh title LOL) part 1″ (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2210487/14431880-christitutionalist-politics-s1e33-brain-dead-folks-part-1-well-this-is-a-harsh-show-title-lol) was/is “thoughtful”…

Thx for the feedback on BrainDead1 episode (he will be on my Show soon for an already “Listener Feedback” mini-episode in next several weeks (end of February or early March 2024) when he wanted to react and talk about S1E13 “Censorship” Show) I indeed go for “thoughtful” (always, logic and reason and facts) though I have addressed that sometimes I may indeed get HOT/ANIMATED and sound more like raving lunatic (Leftist) at times (while “spirited” in “tone” and action – still using logic/reason/strategy but just a bit more “passionately” delivered (see related https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bc5yiLorRF0 1m YouTube Short on that))! LOL Thankfully those number of Shows are the exceptions and not the Rule. I am always going for “not the same ole talking-point takes of the usual suspect talking-head parrots” (there is Hannity and a million others for the same-ole bs parrot responses (though, not to say, sometimes a particular talking-point oft heard is not worth repeating too, but parroting cannot be one’s ONE TRICK (and sadly too many are just parrots (or One-Trick-Pony, if you prefer) with never any originality — AT ALL, EVER (at least if delivering the same basic “topics” have some reasonable different approach or other “angle” of delivery than same mono-tone talking-head resting face and voice))).

/u-s-politics/2023/12/actual-full-examination-of-the-14th-amendment-youll-not-hear-this-anywhere-else-2610137.html

Rick Walker joined me on my Show awhile back – see:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2210487/13994568-christitutionalist-politics-s1e22-grey-areas

2023 in review…

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2210487/14116746-christitutionalist-politics-s1e25-year-in-review-part-1

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2210487/14156913-christitutionalist-politics-ctp-s1e26-year-in-review-part-2

CTP (S1E33, 20240203 drop, BTS/SP) “Brain-Dead Folks 1 (that’s a harsh title LOL)” BehindTheScenes/SneakPeek Video

[BRIEF NOTE: There has been, continues to be AN ISSUE with BeforeItsNews of late (in certain B4IN category sections, not all) in embedding Videos that I have filed a Support ticket regarding and still awaiting resolve. Normally, I am able to add several embedded Videos within every piece. For some reason I am limited to only including one as attempting more causes entire HTML code and parts of Articles TO VANISH. So, there will be additional links to Videos. Related Videos that I had hoped to embed throughout are...

"(CTP S1E28) SneakPeek/BTS "Can One 'Generalize' About Women Voters?" (Audio Show drops 20231230)"
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6mb9cu63HA
or Rumble: https://rumble.com/v43n19c-ctp-s1e28-sneakpeekbts-can-one-generalize-about-women-voters-audio-show-dro.html

"CTP BTS/SP (S1EDecSpecial (MidWeek 12/6/23 drop)) "Dating in these WOKE times" Politics dividing."
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfn0ZRqO2Ro
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v3z8mij-ctp-btssp-s1edecspecial-midweek-12623-drop-dating-in-this-woke-day-and-age.html

"CTP S1ENov2023Special BTS/SP "Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas""
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC3UBv1FFhU
Rumble:https://rumble.com/v3wb5r1-ctp-s1enov2023special-btssp-happy-thanksgiving-merry-christmas.html

"CTP S1E25 BTS/SP Video "Year in Review (part 1)" 20231209 Audio podcast drop"
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeDqy-vIL8A
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v3zxj5a-ctp-s1e25-btssp-video-year-in-review-part-1-20231209-audio-podcast-drop.html

"CTP BTS/SP Video (S1E26) Year in Review (part 2)"
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_meLOD8yKg
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v40yiix-ctp-btssp-video-s1e26-year-in-review-part-2.html

These Videos are also available via Bitchute and Brighteon @JLenardDetroit channels.
To see my CTP Show "Soundbites" samples - see: https://vimeo.com/jlenardwyandotte 
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