Dr. Tabatha BarberI teach women how to fast their way to a faith-filled, hormonally balanced, fabulous life!

Mental Health: Faith Over Fear #shorts

16 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, Dr. Tabatha Barber discusses the common medical approach to anxiety and depression, emphasizing that while medication can be helpful, it should not be the central focus of healing. She asserts that Jesus should be placed at the center of the therapeutic puzzle, with medication serving as a supportive tool rather than the main solution. Barber also introduces a physiological perspective, describing depression as hypoarousal linked to dorsal vagal shutdown, and challenges listeners to consider why they might be numbing, shutting down, or distracting themselves.

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And often this is the narrative we have, don't we? We go and see our doctor and we say, I'm anxious, and they'll say, okay, here's the medication. Or we'll go to the doctor, and I'm absolutely not knocking medication at all. I think it can be a really powerful tool, but it's not the centerpiece of the puzzle. Jesus is the centerpiece of the puzzle. It can be part of it. Or we, yeah, we go and we say we're depressed, but there's no wider narrative of, okay, if you're depressed, that's hypoarousal, and that means you're in your dorsal vagal, which means you shut down. Why are you shut down? How are you numbing? How are you, um, keeping yourself distracted and why?