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Finding Rest

September 10, 2018 By Karl Shallowhorn

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”Matthew 11:28 (NKJV) Last week was Labor Day in the U.S., which is celebrated annually on the first Monday in September and is a creation of the labor movement. Dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers, […]

Filed Under: Addiction, Hope, Mental Health, Recovery Tagged With: co-occurring disorder, Mental Health Network, Rest, UCC, United Church of Christ

Accepted in God’s Embrace

September 3, 2018 By Rev. Lisa LeSueur

It’s a rainy Labor Day in Miami due to a tropical storm moving through so it will be a day spent inside. I know my blog is due, but no idea has come clear to me yet. I set out instead to begin cleaning out old cabinets and boxes with the hopes of feeling productive […]

Filed Under: Love, Mental Health Tagged With: acceptance, Inclusive, Labor Day, marginalization, Mental Health Network, sexuality, UCC, United Church of Christ

Reporting Back:
7 weeks of parenthood

August 27, 2018 By Hannah Campbell Gustafson

My husband and I have been parents for almost seven weeks now, to a wonderful baby girl named Leona Joyce.  Back in April, I wrote a post about post- and peripartum depression, and the stigma I sensed and feared, as well as some scripture that gave me comfort. I’m only at the very beginning of […]

Filed Under: Postpartum, Stigma Tagged With: Mental Health Network, peripartum depression, postpartum depression, Stigma, UCC, United Church of Christ

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