May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and May 4 is declared by the White House as National Mental Health Awareness Day. Let’s just come out and say it: brains. I have a seven year old son and so it’s hard for me to say this word without hearing the zombie character from the 2012 filmContinue reading “For the Love of Brains”
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Mental Illness She Spoke
Unknown to me are the people in the audience who show up to a talk I’m giving about mental illness. I do not know 99 percent of the people for whom I share my story. I look out into the tent or the church or the room or the web camera and I have neverContinue reading “Mental Illness She Spoke”
Mental Illness and God’s Grace
I’m not worried. I’m impressed. I looked out over the crowds of people gathered in the Boston city park. We came to walk together to support awareness about mental health. I’ve done cancer walks and HIV/AIDS walks and domestic violence walks. But this was my first mental health walk. And I was struck by howContinue reading “Mental Illness and God’s Grace”
Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund 