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More Than Tolerance

May 27, 2019 By Rev. Dr. Ciarán Osborn (he/him)

I grew up in a small town in North East San Diego county, in Southern California. I went to the neighborhood elementary school. Each day my fellow classmates and I would line up with our square plastic lunch boxes. Mine typically featured some Ninja Turtle imagery on the sides. We would march down to the […]

Filed Under: Community, Love, Stigma Tagged With: affirmation, Mental Health Network, respect, Stigma, tolerance, UCC, United Church of Christ

Every Day

May 20, 2019 By Karl Shallowhorn

This past weekend, the UCC celebrated Mental Health Sunday. But for the one out of five of us living with a diagnosable mental health diagnosis, every day is a mental health day. This isn’t meant to disparage our denomination’s recognition of the importance of raising awareness and reducing stigma, but it’s a plain and simple […]

Filed Under: Addiction, Bipolar Disorder, Recovery Tagged With: Mental Health Network, Mental Health Sunday, prayer, UCC, United Church of Christ

You are Enough

May 13, 2019 By Rev. Lisa LeSueur

After our church service yesterday, a friend of mine approached me and told me that she immediately thought of me during the sermon that our Senior Pastor was preaching. It was a sermon about the feelings of inadequacy that so many of us fight against and the constant barrage of messages that tell us that […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Mental Health, Stress Tagged With: College, Mental Health Network, Self worth, UCC, United Church of Christ

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