Mental Health

Mental Health

How to deal with trauma after a life-threatening event

In 2017, I was blessed with the opportunity to go to London alone for five months on a university exchange programme. It was truly a memorable period of time, being able to learn about a new culture,...

Mental Health

Worrying suicide trends, more people seeking help: SOS

COVID-19 has made for unprecedented levels of distress in society, which have resulted in suicide trends that are deeply concerning. Just today, it was also reported that the 16-year-old River Valley...

Mental Health

Tackling mental health: Bishop Emeritus Dr Robert Solomon on why we need science and religion

How does a lack of faith impact one’s mental health? How can you discern between the work of the devil and mental illness?ย  Questions like these were explored on the first day of the inaugural...

Mental Health

First-ever Christian Mental Health Conference connects pastors and practitioners

In a 2020 study, an overwhelming 85 per cent of respondents felt that their church needed to do more to address mental health issues โ€“ a gap that the upcoming Christian Mental Health Conference...

Mental Health

You are what you eat

Mac and cheese, pizza, burgers, ice cream, chocolate… Can you guess which category of food these fall under? Yes, COMFORT (junk) FOOD! We donโ€™t have to be qualified nutritionists to know that...

Illness

Living with pain that doesn’t go away

Not many people know about this, but I struggle with chronic pain. It’s mostly deep in my neck and back. A combination of injury and poor posture. And that would be bad enough as is… But...

Mental Health

How to beat that languishing feeling

When 2020 ticked over into 2021, we were hopeful that the new year would be a better one. And for awhile, it did look promising โ€“ we were back to dining in, we could physically attend church again...

Mental Health

Dealing with my anxiety about the future

I had two anxiety attacks last month. Although I have a history of mental health struggles, I have recovered considerably and no longer need medication. However, my brain was recently filled with...

Mental Health

How God’s word helps me fight my mental battles

A new colleague recently approached me, saying that she decided to ask for my opinion on a claim assessment only because the assessors who had trained her when she was first hired were unavailable....