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This week's podcast is about the value and need for sabbaticals. There's just no doubt that the past few years have drained us! Who isn't exhausted? Who isn't depleted?

If we think that a weekend away Is enough to help us return to our former selves, then we are in for a crash and burn!

Steve talks with Mary Vandel Young and her husband Jason, about their journey of needing, planning, and taking a sabbatical. This is not a " how to" podcast. It's much deeper than that!

ABOUT MARY VANDEL YOUNG & JASON YOUNG

Mary Vandel Young's passion for transformational ministry and soul care has guided her participation, study, leadership and ministry in the area of Christian spiritual formation for more than 20 years. God blessed Mary's life with JourneyMates in 2006 and has served as Executive Director since 2012.Mary graduated from Baylor University in 1990. She served on Young Life staff nationally and internationally until 2000 and completed a M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2003.

Dr. Jason Young has been working as a psychotherapist since 1997, and has worked in full-time private practice since 2005. Dr. Young has extensive experience, academically and clinically, in the integration of Psychology and Theology. His areas of therapeutic expertise are men's issues, anxiety, depression, sexual trauma, marital conflict, crises of faith, stressors related to pastoral ministry, and sports psychology.

Mary and Jason live in Raleigh, NC and have two teenage sons, Luke and Tobias, and a precious Shi-Tzu named Petey.

• More about JourneyMates
• More about Jason's Practice
• Suggested Book from Mary (not mentioned in the podcast) - The Listening Life by Adam McHugh

MENTIONED IN PODCAST

• FREE RESOURCE from Partners in Pastor Renewal. FREE guide and a free hour of consultation for planning your sabbatical. (Mention Potter's Inn when you contact them for the free hour consultation. Contact info is in the Guide)
• Taylor Leonhardt song Hold Still.
• Organizations that provide Soul Care:
  - Soul Care Institute
  - Renovaré
  - Leadership Transformations
  - Transforming Center
• Reading: For One Who Is Exhausted – A Blessing by John O'Donohue. From his book, To Bless the Space Between Us.

MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

• First Music Break at 20:58:  The Night is so Moonlit (Lyrics)
  Note: The Night is so Moonlit is a Ukrainian folk song composed by Mykola Lysenko, a nineteenth century composer, to the lyrics of a poem written by Mykhailo Starytsky, a contemporary of Lysenko's. It has subsequently become one of Ukraine's most popular folk songs. This particular performance was dedicated to all brave Ukrainian people, who will never surrender. Their freedom is our freedom. Their lives are our lives!
• Second Music Break at 42:49: In Thy Kingdom (from the Liturgy) · Performed by Kyiv Chamber Choir, A Thousand Years of Ukrainian Sacred Music.

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CONTACT US

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INTERESTED IN MORE SOUL CARE RESOURCES?

Check out our recommended reading, books on spiritual growth, and our soul care blog. Want to experience soul care in person? Learn more about our soul care intensives and retreats.