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Trayvon Martin: a Case Study for Church Response to Mental Illness
Trayvon Martin I was instantly nauseous. My stomach turned in knots and I doubled over. I collapsed into my seat and held to the edges. I became sick. Literally. This was my response to hearing...
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10 ways you can pray for mental illness
10 ways you can pray for mental illness Today is the National Day of Prayer for Mental Illness Recovery and Understanding. People often ask me how they can pray for people who live with mental health...
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Personal Interview with The AYG List
This past week, I had the privilege of talking with my friend and colleague April Yvonne Garrett on her radio show, The AYG List. We had planned to talk about how mental health challenges are showing...
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Interview with Dr. Wizdom Powell Hammond
This Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m interviewing Wizdom Powell Hammond, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at...
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Mental Health is Physical Health
It hit me all at once as a new psychiatrist laid out my options before me. I knew the drill. New doctor, long intake appointment, re-tell my story with craziness, get a diagnoses that may or may not...
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Sojourners Magazine, Bipolar Faith and World Mental Health Day
“Too blessed to be stressed” is one of the phrases that I think the church should erase from its vocabulary “What I like is that in the stories of Jesus healing people, there are other people around....
View ArticleLosing Faith, Finding Hope: A Journey With Depression
Many people describe depression as a kind of intense grief. It is a deep sadness. It’s like heartbreak, agony and despair all at once. I think depression is worse than grief. Grief usually has an...
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Trayvon Martin: a Case Study for Church Response to Mental Illness
Trayvon Martin I was instantly nauseous. My stomach turned in knots and I doubled over. I collapsed into my seat and held to the edges. I became sick. Literally. This was my response to hearing...
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10 ways you can pray for mental illness
10 ways you can pray for mental illness Today is the National Day of Prayer for Mental Illness Recovery and Understanding. People often ask me how they can pray for people who live with mental health...
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Personal Interview with The AYG List
This past week, I had the privilege of talking with my friend and colleague April Yvonne Garrett on her radio show, The AYG List. We had planned to talk about how mental health challenges are showing...
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Interview with Dr. Wizdom Powell Hammond
This Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m interviewing Wizdom Powell Hammond, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at...
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Sojourners Magazine, Bipolar Faith and World Mental Health Day
“Too blessed to be stressed” is one of the phrases that I think the church should erase from its vocabulary “What I like is that in the stories of Jesus healing people, there are other people around....
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Mental Health Challenges are Things that Lie to You
Talking about “Bipolar Faith” and mental health challenges with Chris McAlilly and Eddie Rester of The Weight Podcast. Eddie and Chris regularly talk about “topics that are too heavy for a 20 minute...
View ArticleMental health isn’t about class
“Mental health isn’t about class,” Dr. Monica A. Coleman, Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware and author of Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith,...
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Our Souls Desire more
How does it feel to be a problem? W. E. B. DuBois W. E. B. DuBois posed this question in the essay “Our Spiritual Strivings” in The Souls of Black Folk. DuBois was referring to the ways in which...
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rough edges podcast
I had an insightful conversation with Sarah I. Fox on The Rough Edges podcast. It’s always a particular joy to speak with other people who live with bipolar depressions. We talked about Bipolar Faith...
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dear god I’m sad podcast
I so love this podcast conversation with Gabby Wilkinson on her podcast Dear God, I’m Sad. Gabby’s introduction to our conversation is just gold, and she asks me a couple questions that made me pause...
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hope made strong podcast
Hope Made Strong hosts this great podcast, The Care Ministry Podcast, and Laura Rowe and I had such a good conversation. We talked about my journey from being a “curious Christian” to being a religious...
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