Prayer does not cure us from mental illness. Prayer shines a light of hope into the shadows of mental illness. Prayer connects us in a golden chain of lights to one another and to God when symptoms of mental health challenges threaten to isolate us and disconnect us. We can take comfort in knowing that […]
Anxiety
Autumn 2021 by Bob Griggs
I’m writing this on the back porch of our home in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a near suburb of Minneapolis. My laptop is on a little table in front of a window, so I have a full view of our backyard and of our neighbors’ behind us. Especially this time of year, I look forward […]
A Good Place to Take a Walk by Bob Griggs
I started taking daily walks because my psychiatrist told me to. I was on one of the psych units at a hospital in Minneapolis. At our first meeting, the in-patient psychiatrist assigned to me said, “Bob, you’re burning up with adrenalin. You need some physical activity to burn it off.” It took a while before […]
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