EP. 213 Mental Health and the Church Mini-Series: Held But Not Yet Healed - Lament and Hope in Psalm 13 W/Biblical Counselor Alysia Whiteside

About this episode

Alysia Whiteside discusses her journey through chronic illness and the integration of lament and hope using Psalm 13.

Recording on the road at the Canadian Biblical Counseling Coalition in Oakville, Ontario, Michael interviews biblical counselor Alysia Whiteside of Deep Roots Biblical Counseling. Whiteside shares her conversion in 2018, her interrupted plans to pursue medicine amid severe ulcerative colitis, multiple surgeries, and a permanent ileostomy, and how God redirected her into biblical counseling training and certifications. Her breakout topic, “Held But Not Yet Healed: Christ in the Midst of Physical and Mental Suffering,” frames chronic illness as “embodied suffering” that integrates physical, mental, and spiritual burdens and raises the question of who God is when healing does not come. Using Psalm 13, she explains a lament framework—turn, complain, ask, trust—leading to praise, emphasizing the “already but not yet” tension of hope amid suffering and encouraging sufferers and caregivers to write their own laments to rehearse God’s character and respond faithfully. 00:00 Welcome and Road Update 01:30 Meet Alysia Whiteside 02:26 Her Health Journey and Calling 04:30 Training and Narsegesis 06:14 Held But Not Yet Healed 06:34 Reading Psalm 13 08:29 Embodied Suffering and Hope 12:18…

People in this episode

Host: Michael

Guest: Alysia Whiteside

Topics covered

• mental health
• biblical counseling
• chronic illness
• lament
• hope
• spiritual suffering

Keywords

• mental health
• chronic illness
• lament framework
• spiritual suffering
• biblical counseling
• hope
• Psalm 13

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deep Roots Biblical Counseling

Books & works: Psalm 13

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