ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
"Our Stigma" is a fast-paced, easy-to-follow podcast exploring mental health and addiction stigma in faith communities. Pastor Seth Perry and co-host Nicole Thacker tackle real-life topics, challenge misconceptions, and explore practical solutions with expert guests. Whether faith communities have hurt you or helped you in the past, "Our Stigma" is worth exploring. Learn more at http://ourstigma.com/
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
35 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
Video podcast
English
United States
17 episodes
since April 3, 2025
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode of Our Stigma, Pastor Seth Perry and Nicole Thacker explore how churches can better support people facing addiction and mental health challenges by partnering with peer recovery professionals.
They are joined by Lisa Retezan, founder of WayMakers to Recovery and a Certified P…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode of Our Stigma, Pastor Seth Perry and Nicole Thacker explore how churches can better see, welcome, and support people experiencing homelessness.
Joined by Emanuel Roberts of the Minneapolis based Recovery Community Organization Anything Helps, they discuss the barriers that of…
In this episode of Our Stigma, Pastor Seth Perry and Nicole Thacker explore the difficult question of whether people should openly share their mental health experiences within their churches.
They are joined by Pastor David Bjorklund, who speaks openly about mental health and shares how vuln…
Joined by Pastor Ed Treat, Executive Director and Founder of the Center of Addiction & Faith, they explore why clergy substance use can remain hidden and how church systems can sometimes enable the problem. The conversation examines the unique pressures clergy face and the need for faith commun…
In this episode of Our Stigma, Pastor Seth Perry and Nicole Thacker explore the anxiety many people experience while feeling pressure to appear fine within their faith communities.
They are joined by Khou Vang, a peer recovery leader who works to reduce stigma around substance use and build …
In this episode of Our Stigma, Pastor Seth Perry and Nicole Thacker explore generational trauma and the ways stigma, culture, family, and community can shape how trauma is understood across generations.
Joined by poet, author, storyteller, and activist Rosetta “Rosie” Peters, they discuss In…
In this episode of Our Stigma, Pastor Seth Perry and Nicole Thacker explore how churches are responding to the opioid crisis and the growing role of naloxone in faith communities.
They are joined by Dr. Francisco Herrera, a theologian and advocate who works to expand naloxone training, harm …
In this episode of “Our Stigma,” Pastor Seth Perry and Nicole Thacker explore how isolation can fuel stigma, loneliness, substance use, and other mental health struggles.
They are joined by Aneri Pattani of KFF Health News to examine how modern life, technology, convenience, and social divis…
In this episode of “Our Stigma,” Pastor Seth Perry and Nicole Thacker challenge the harmful idea that mental health diagnoses are a moral failure or something a person should simply “fix.”
Joined by mental health advocate, author, and motivational speaker Kody Green, they explore the stigma …
In this episode of “Our Stigma,” Pastor Seth Perry and Nicole Thacker explore the growing loneliness epidemic and why simply telling people to be more independent does not solve the problem.
They are joined by Pastor Paul Drees, a digital creator who shares a message of community, vulnerabil…
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