Fabric Podcast

How is your mental health? The fact is everyone’s is a work in progress. It varies according to your stress and experiences like every other aspect of your life. When the going gets particularly tough and someone’s mental health prevents them from carrying on normally… special care is needed. Most of us aren’t mental health professionals but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a role. In this episode, Greg Meyer helps us explore where CareIQ meets Mental Health.
See the printable list of tools that Greg mentions here. Find other related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

We are all care-givers and care-receivers.  It makes sense that CareIQ would be about the person being cared for, but the truth is, either way, CareIQ starts with you. You don’t need all your $#!+ figured out, but you become more available and useful as you discover more of your tendencies and capacities.  Thanks to Chris Lillehei of Fabric and chaplain at Minneapolis Children’s Hospital for leading this conversation.
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Melissa Lock and Chris Tripolino talk about what it looks like to share some of our scars and to get back on the playground where the CareIQ Tools we've been talking about can be put to work. 

Ever cheer up a friend, coworker or family member, walk them through a challenging situation? Sure, but when the typical ups & downs of life become crises we often have no idea what to do. It’s time to raise your CareIQ. This is an area of growth we revisit and practice often and will be exploring again this month with a special eye towards mental health.
In this episode, Greg Meyer and Melissa Lock start sharing the tools we've got to engage those tough moments. 
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

As human beings we can’t live off ideas. We need food to eat, houses for shelter, hands to hold and something tangible to believe in and belong to. It seems we have to build some sort of church, but just rebuilding a little better than what didn’t work before isn’t the answer. What can we do to meet our needs for something, but not lose the precious thing living within? 
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

The many fortresses that religion builds to keep people in line always separate us from God, but when they enforce ‘right behavior’ they actively harm people at the same time. Creating codes of behavior that say who is worthy of God’s love and who isn’t breeds shame and self-denial in the hearts of people. This is a time to talk straight about a stone that cannot be left standing.
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Victories come in all sorts of forms. Sometimes they come in defeat. There are, in fact, some wrestling matches you need to have, and you need to lose. A wrestling match we all have with life is our attempt to whip it into the shape that is best for us. When we do that, we get a version of ourselves, relationships, and even our churches that is no longer worthy of our devotion.
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Greg Meyer, Melissa Lock, and Chris Tripolino dig into what's urgent for "church" in this post-church era specifically for the Fabric community, but true for other communities and individuals trying to find/ create spiritual community.