The church should be the first place people share their burdens, not the last place they want others to find out. But when it comes to mental health, the latter has been truer than the former. In this teaching, we encourage those struggling to get honest and we lay out six spiritual practices that have helped real people in our church who are battling depression, anxiety, suicide, PTSD, eating disorders, and bipolar disorder.
When you bring something out the darkness and into the light, it tends to lose some of its power. This week we plan to break the silence around mental health, a topic that has long been ignored or avoided by the church.