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Welcoming All

December 17, 2018 By Bob Griggs

For people living with mental or physical illness, as well as those who are grieving or struggling with problems in their lives, Christmas can be a difficult.  The way one really feels is at odds with the message of the season to rejoice and celebrate.  Instead of joy, one feels isolated and excluded, sadness is […]

Filed Under: Advent & Christmas, Community, Hope Tagged With: Blue Christmas, exclusion, Grief, isolation, Longest Night, Mental Health Network, sadness, UCC, United Church of Christ

Waiting

December 10, 2018 By Karl Shallowhorn

We’re now in the season of Advent, the time of the year when Christians across the world are awaiting the coming of the Christ child. Much of this expectancy is built around preparing the way for Jesus. We also hope. Hope for a better world. For the many individuals, like myself, living with mental health […]

Filed Under: Addiction, Advent & Christmas, Recovery Tagged With: Addiction, Advent, Bipolar, holidays, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

Sometimes I need to say it

December 3, 2018 By Rev. Kirk Moore (he, him, his)

What Do You Do with the Mad You Feel?by Fred Rogers What do you do with the mad that you feelWhen you feel so mad you could bite?When the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong…And nothing you do seems very right?It’s so easy to feel angry. About the treatment of people who live on […]

Filed Under: Healthy Living, Mental Health Tagged With: anger, justice, manipulation, Mental Health Network, Mister Rogers, UCC, United Church of Christ

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