MENTAL HEALTH

  • Towards a Healthier Perspective on Anxiety

    Anxiety is best understood as a whole-human experience involving spiritual, emotional, cognitive, relational, and physical dimensions. Therefore, faithful pastoral care should neither reduce anxiety to a purely spiritual problem nor a purely clinical problem. Instead, pastors should seek to integrate… Continue reading

    Towards a Healthier Perspective on Anxiety
  • Does mental health matter to God?

    This is part of a series of posts originally written in 2023. Does mental health matter to God?   Short answer, yes, of course it does.  So let’s dig into why I believe this and why I trust that you… Continue reading

    Does mental health matter to God?
  • What is mental illness?

    This is part of a series of posts originally written in 2023. In my previous post, I defined mental health as me, talking to me, about me.  And so a simple definition of what a mental illness could be is… Continue reading

    What is mental illness?
  • What is mental health?

    This blog post was originally written in 2023 as part of a series around mental health. Over the next few weeks, I (Pastor Garet) want to tackle different questions around mental health as part of our observance of Mental Health… Continue reading

    What is mental health?