Not Quite Fine
eBook - ePub

Not Quite Fine

Mental Health, Faith, and Showing Up for One Another

  1. 206 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Not Quite Fine

Mental Health, Faith, and Showing Up for One Another

About this book

A practical guide for people who care

There is no time in history and no place in the world where so many people have understood themselves to be suffering from mental health problems. There is also virtually no time and no place in the world where people who are suffering have been so readily ostracized.

In Not Quite Fine, author Carlene Hill Byron tackles the mounting dilemmas that pastors and churches face around mental health. Medicines and therapies have their roles in supporting those who live with mental health problems or mental illness. But God’s own body as the church is intended to be our greatest support in this world. How can the church step up for such a time as this? How can the body of Christ become a healing community for its members in pain—a place where the weary find strength for the journey, a place where those who mourn are raised up as rebuilders of the cities left in ruins?

Drawing on her own history of mental health problems and her experience as a teacher and lay counselor, Byron offers words of hope for those who struggle as well as practical insights to equip congregations to better support those who are suffering in their midst.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. 1: How Can the Mental Health Problem Have Gotten So Big, So Fast?
  10. 2: How Culture Undermines Mental Health
  11. 3: I Don’t Feel Qualified to Help!
  12. 4: Discovering Meaning and Purpose
  13. 5: Belonging: Where Stigma Ends
  14. 6: Finding Value in Challenged Lives
  15. 7: Finding Feelings, Finding Hope
  16. 8: The Competent Caregiver’s Toolkit: Humility
  17. 9: The Competent Caregiver’s Toolkit: Fearlessness
  18. 10: When Should a Caregiver Ask for Help?
  19. Afterword
  20. Resource List
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Notes
  23. The Author