Category: resources
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Announcing the 5th Annual BipolarBrave Awards 2026
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🏆The Vote is Open📮 In the world of church and mental health, there’s a remnant of advocates called to stand up to raise awareness and erase stigma. From Christ-following mental health clinicians to peers with lived experience, pastors to nonprofits, podcasts to broadcasts, these are dedicated servants in God’s kingdom,…
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Recommended Reading: Resilient and Redeemed by Chris Morris
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Hot Off the Press My writing friend and fellow mental health warrior Chris Morris has recently published a book. Resilient and Redeemed: Lessons about Suicidality and Depression from the Psych Ward is now out. I am halfway through this relatable read and am enjoying the honest look at mental illness…
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Recommended Reading: Not Quite Fine
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Carlene Hill Byron is a friend on the mental health advocacy “webosphere” and she graciously offered for me to read and review her first published work, Not Quite Fine: Mental Health, Faith, and Showing Up for One Another. By just looking at the quality of the cover design, it’s actually…
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Staying Sane While Loving Someone with a Mental Illness
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Hey there, friends. Today I want to share a resource for you if you’re struggling with helping a loved one with mental illness. Whether you’re their caregiver or family member who has been living with them and their illness, this will be a huge help to you. Out of his…
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Coming Soon: Church Mental Health Summit October 10th
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Hi BipolarBrave friends — In case you missed my last newsletter, I want to make sure you know the news about the Church Mental Health Summit taking place online October 10th, 2020. Laura Howe, of Hope Made Strong, has invited a diverse and serious line up of industry experts to…
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Recommended Reading: When Despair Meets Delight
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Tony Robert’s book When Despair Meets Delight launched today. What a gift to the world of church ministry and mental health. Here’s an excerpt from Tony’s interview about the book that I heard… Q: With your book and the big picture, what are some of the things the book…
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Recommended Reading “The Label Doesn’t Define You”
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The human experience is one of trouble and transformation. It’s more uncommon and yet more uniting to find a shared human experience. I met author Kayla Rose Warner at the annual Fresh Hope for Mental Health Gala last year. We hit it off immediately, as we sat at the same…
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Announcing the Media Kit for My Book
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If you haven’t seen it, check out the new page on my site for news about the release of my memoir, But Deliver Me from Crazy. Here’s the gist of the page: Hey there! If you’re here, it probably means you’re looking for some content to help me promote the book…
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The Elephant in the Sanctuary
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I facilitated a panel discussion at my home church in Kingsville, MO last month between pastors and mental health professionals. The insights shared and answers we learned were AMAZING. I would encourage you to check out the YouTube videos of the recordings of the sections of the discussion.
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Books to Read to Understand Mental Illness
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Memoirs I recommend that were excellent for understanding mental illness from first-person perspective. All descriptions are taken from Amazon: Running with Scissors Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist…