Life & Death

Flung out of the car and critically injured, I begged to die

24 May 2016. That was the day when the car I was in collided with another vehicle while during a rock-climbing trip in Australia. My friend and I were flung out of the backseat from the impact. My...

Mental Health

Learning to love myself when others called me fat

When I was studying in China, there were many occasions when sales assistants would just ignore me whenever I walked into shops or boutiques around my university. When they did take notice of me,...

Post-secondary

Living with migraines during my A-Level year

Ever since I was in Primary 6, I’ve been getting headaches at quite a high frequency. Having no idea what was causing it at that time, my parents were extremely worried. The headaches got so bad...

Discipleship

What are you hiding from God?

It’s strange looking back and realising just how much my Christian life was driven by my struggle with pornography. I can’t remember the number of times I would masturbate on a Saturday night,...

Mental Health

How can the Church journey alongside people struggling with mental illness?

“I remember that evening when my depression actually emerged in a very conscious way,” said Dr Tan Soo Inn, chairman of Graceworks, at The Church and Mental Wholeness Conference last week. He...

Mental Health

What do I say to someone with suicidal thoughts?

When coming into contact with someone at risk, the last thing you’d want is for that person to feel like we’re pushing them away. But what if, unknowingly, our words or actions end up making a...

Sermons

What mental illness is not: The raw, disturbing stories from the ones who’ve suffered

“I want to start with an unapology,” Pastor Adrian Ow of Yio Chu Kang Chapel (YCKC) told the 300-plus strong audience at The Church and Mental Wholeness Conference last Saturday. “If...

Mental Health

Struggling with depression since seminary, I’ve been sidelined so many times

On September 10, the world celebrated World Suicide Prevention Day. Around the same time last year, the world was hit with the news of a pastor who took his own life. This year, it happened again...

Mental Health

There are more like Jarrid: Why I’m breaking the silence at 30

In the evening glow of September 9, 2019, Julianne Wilson captured her husband, Jarrid, tossing their younger son in the air – to much exhilaration and giggles – as they waited for their elder...