The Twenty-Something Treatment

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The Twenty-Something Treatment

Meg Jay, PhD

October 13, 2024 • Meg Jay

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There is a young adult mental health crisis in America. So many 20-somethings are struggling — especially with anxiety, depression, and substance use — yet, as a culture, we are not sure what to do about it. Meg Jay and The Reverend Elizabeth Walker discuss why the 20’s are the most challenging time of life and essential skills for handling the uncertainties surrounding work, love, friendship, mental health, and more during that decade and beyond.

Meg Jay, PhD, is a developmental clinical psychologist who specializes in twentysomethings. She is the author of The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age, the cult classic The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now, and Supernormal: The Secret World of the Family Hero. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and on NPR, BBC, and – maybe most important for her audience – TikTok.

Clergy Panel: What Is A Well Lived Life?

September 15, 2024 • Christ Church Clergy

A Life Worth Living

September 22, 2024 • Miroslav Volf

Miroslav Volf is the Founder and Director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology, Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT. He was educated in his native Croatia, United States, and Germany. He earned doctoral and post-doctoral degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He has written or edited 15 books and over 70 scholarly articles. His most significant books include Exclusion and Embrace (one of Christianity Today’s 100 most important religious books of the 20th century); After Our Likeness (1998) in which he explores the Trinitarian nature of ecclesial community; Allah: A Christian Response (2011), whether Muslims and Christians have a common God; and A Public Faith: On How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (2011). He is actively involved in many top-level initiatives concerning Christian-Muslim relations and is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum.

Toxic Stress and What to Do About It

September 29, 2024 • Lawson Wulsin

What happens when our bodies face chronic stress? The alarming rise of stress-related conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and depression, show the price we’re paying for our high-pressure living and increased stressors in the world, but what can we do about it? The Reverend Connor Gwin explores these questions with https://med.uc.edu/landing-pages/profile/index/pubs/wulsinlr, a professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine specializing in psychosomatic medicine. Wulsin is the author of Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It (April 2024), which explores the fascinating medical and social mysteries of our stress response system and how stress affects illness. Lawson Wulsin has been a professor at the University of Cincinnati for the past 35 years. His writings explore the lifelong dance between the mind and body, and the power of human attachments in everyday life and healing. Here he shares these explorations collected from the lessons of clinical care, teaching, and research. In addition to his most recent book, Wulsin is also the author of Treating the Aching Heart: A Guide to Depression, Stress, and Heart Disease (2007).