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December 2016

December 12, 2016

1 Simple Way to Support Suicide Prevention for the Holidays

The world is full of people who feel hopeless. While the holidays may be a...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

How to Handle Anxiety, Discouragement, and Depression

It seems that sucky days are a universal experience. We can’t survive on an island....

September 29, 2016

Every Storm & Every Furnace: God is There

There is no storm that isn't subject to His whisper and there is no furnace...

September 23, 2016

7 Ways a Healthy Faith Creates a Healthy Mind

Mental health and faith can feel like two separate worlds. For many people, they look...

September 21, 2016

Reflecting on Four Years I Never Expected to Have

Four years ago today, I woke up in a fog like I've never experienced before....

September 18, 2016

To be a Christian, Or to be Crazy? That is the Question.

If the Prodigal Son had been able to work through the smothering lies that come...

September 14, 2016

How to Care for Dingy Socks and Panic Attacks

It took me three days to realize I'm building toward a panic attack. I think...

September 12, 2016

I Survived My First Panic Attack at Work

Mental illness is no respecter of persons. Anxiety and depression are equal opportunity employers and...

September 07, 2016

3 Life Lessons I Learned on a Psych Ward

It’s been four years since my suicide attempt. For the longest time, I thought my...

September 01, 2016

To the Person Who just Failed a Suicide Attempt: Grace has Found You

I know you. I guess I should say I knew you. It seems like a...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

6 Ways to Recover from a Suicide Attempt

Since I’ve begun sharing how I went from a being a pastor to being hospitalized...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

Trusting Through the Suck

Sometimes trusting God isn’t triumphant or glorious. Sometimes trusting God isn’t even a desire. It’s...

July 13, 2016

7 Surprising Gifts of My Mental Illness

I used to live in an I-have-it-together illusion. But waking up in ICU after a...

July 05, 2016

Suicide: One-Time Event, Lifetime of Grief

I was fourteen when my Aunt Missy killed herself. It was the last day of...

June 2016

June 26, 2016

The Gospel According to Winnie the Pooh

I’ve always thought of myself as a Tigger, and so has everyone else. But being...

June 22, 2016

From Pastor to Psych Ward: Recovery from a Suicide Attempt is Possible.

My clients were concerned. When they couldn’t reach me, they called first my wife, and...

April 2016

April 10, 2016

How to Overcome Depression

This talk on discouragement, disappointment, and depression is the very best teaching on mental health...

April 07, 2016

A Stoplight, Depression, and Words that Changed Me

When I shared glimpses of my darkness, well-meaning Christians said things they didn’t understand. Choose...

April 06, 2016

Tangled in the Web of Postpartum Depression

Ben was born September 22. When he was placed in my arms the first time,...

February 2016

February 04, 2016

Living Through the Aftermath of My Mom's Suicide

I was twelve when my mom killed herself. My parents were divorced. My dad was...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Pastor, Psych Ward, Crazy Good Parent

Janice Lindegard says, "Crazy Good Parent was born out of my frustration at looking for...

January 18, 2016

I'm Not Disappointed in You

The year had grown harder, week-by-week and month-by-month. There were days I couldn’t scrape together...

January 14, 2016

My Story isn't Over; An Exclusive with Project Semicolon

In my own experience, the cruelness of life tried to insert a period, but grace...

January 08, 2016

Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness in Christian Communities

"A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We...