<span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 41, 48); color: rgb(25, 41, 48); font-family: "Cooper Hewitt", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Today's podcast on Sounds and Words features Virginia Pillars, author, speaker, and mental health volunteer and advocate. Our conversation explores her anguishing experience of caring for her daughter's own mental illness and how it changed and, in time, strengthened her Catholic faith. Using the painful story recounted in Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story<span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 41, 48); color: rgb(25, 41, 48); font-family: "Cooper Hewitt", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and broken brain, fortified faith<span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 41, 48); color: rgb(25, 41, 48); font-family: "Cooper Hewitt", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, we explored the many hardships encountered in caring for her daughter who suffered this sudden onset of paranoid schizophrenia. What are the lingering stigmas associated with mental illness, and how are they grievously mistaken? What does the caregiver need to always keep in mind? Is there a "cure" to mental illness?<span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 41, 48); color: rgb(25, 41, 48); font-family: "Cooper Hewitt", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I hope the podcast will strengthen you in your own faith--especially if you also are caring for someone in a state of mental illness. There is hope.

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Sounds and Words, A Podcast with a Difference explores the somewhat crowded intersection of the arts and faith, but it aims to take frequent detours across new and largely unexplored neighboring areas of interest.  Created by author Karl Erickson who joined the Catholic Church with his wife and children in 2015, the podcast delves into many areas of great interest to today's Catholic community--as well as those still spiritually searching.  One week, for instance, it may focus on a visit to Rome or London, while the next show may explore the meaning of sacred space or even take a hard look at the current political environment.  Topics will vary across these general themes. Listeners may also share their preferences with the podcaster through e-mail or social media contacts.  Expect new podcasts to be shared every several weeks, or so.  The length will be an average of twenty minutes until the show gains a following.

If you are looking for fresh and timely content that remains largely timeless in its explorations, then you need look no further than "Sounds and Words."