One of the critical pieces of making life work around mental health issues is self-care. How do you minimize the effect that mental health issues are going to have? How do you give yourself the resiliency to bounce back if something happens? How do you maintain the self-care to survive situations that feel more like a gauntlet than a punch in the gut?
When You Can’t Help: Encouraging Others to Take Responsibility for Their Own Mental Health
Three Insights for Creating a Mental Health Ministry
What the church can offer to those in the midst of mental illness
A New Reformation - Seeing Mental Health as Health
Your Disappointment Doesn’t Scare God
God is not put off by your recognition that life is not what you want it to be. He is in it with you, more than you can know. The good news is, he is in the business of redemption, restoration, and re-creation. His good plans will far exceed your wishes. So live in grief for what you have lost, and live in anticipation for what will be. You are blessed.
Five strategies for maintaining hope if you’re struggling with depression
The Gospel and Depression
I speak about depression. I write books. But shame exists deep within. Part of the reason (outside of the battle of the mind), is that the stigma is alive in churches. “You are less spiritual than others,’ my illness whispers in my ear. “You can’t be a Christian and depressed,” I believe the enemy chimes in.
The suicide epidemic among high functioning persons with autism
How to Ignite a Song of Hope When the Whistling Stops
Since depression is one of the leading disabling conditions today, it’s time to embrace the struggles and supports needed. Labeling is so crushing; it’s time for us to learn and listen to those in need. Additionally, it’s time to unite as a Christian community of care, not criticism. The following are seven common struggles, their symptoms, and ways to support.