Chi-Chi explores the contributions and challenges encountered by neurodiverse individuals within Church settings, and encourages us to embrace neurodiversity to create more inclusive and spiritually enriching spaces.
Chi-Chi Obuaya
It can be hard to incorporate rest into our busy lives... Here are some practical tips to help.
Arianna Walker
How to lead and line manage others who experience mental illness.
Rob Waller
Grief impacts us all at some stage in our lives. Here are some practical tips on how to support those in our churches who may be struggling.
Arianna Walker
A deep dive into understanding ADHD.
Chi-Chi Obuaya
Some useful resources to empower educators in addressing mental health challenges in the classroom, youth group and beyond.
Rob Waller
To rest and recreate in today’s high-speed world is an act of rebellion. This rebellion is a freedom filled with upsides.
Will Van Der Hart
How do we learn to trust, and to rebuild when trust is broken?
Kate Middleton
Emotions are typically dissected into the yellow emotions: headlined by happiness, and the blue emotions: headlined by sadness. The assumption that being a Christian means triumph over all of the blue emotions is both misplaced and unhelpful.
The Mind and Soul Team
What does it really mean to be sectioned? Mental health lawyer Justyn Grant explains.
Justyn Grant
CAMHS teams offer specialist support for young people up to the age of 18 who need more help than can be provided by their GP or school nurse, and is made up of a team of professionals who work together to support the young person.
The Mind and Soul Team
No one expects a mental health problem to be part of their life story – but many of us will suffer at some stage of our lives. Whether it’s you, or someone you’re supporting, where do you go to get help?
The Mind and Soul Team
Dr Chi Chi Obuaya answers some frequently asked questions on the subject of trauma.
Chi Chi Obuaya
In a time when anxiety is one of the most common emotions for people to struggle with, or even to cause illness, why is it so popular to celebrate fear and causes of fear? Can this tell us something about the way fear and anxiety work?
Kate Middleton
Far more than ‘just’ an emotional reaction, grief is our experience of the need for our minds to do a massive work of processing, understanding and adjusting. It is about what we need to work through when the foundation of our life has been disrupted.
Kate Middleton
With much information published about the causes of depression, Kate Middleton and Chi-Chi Obuaya dispel some of the myths.
Kate Middleton & Chi-Chi Obuaya
As part of a healthy self-care routine, It's good to check in every now and then. Here's a tool to help with that!
Kate Middleton
Part I of our long read exploring 'cultural anxiety', where it has come from, why we need to stop trying to treat it, and how we can look for the causes instead.
Rob Waller
Part II of our long read on cultural anxiety. Now we know where it comes from, what are we going to do about it?
Rob Waller
It can often be hard and confusing to know when to seek support for grief. Will unpacks the different stages of grief and gives advice for when additional help might be needed.
Will Van Der Hart
Kate Middleton unpacks the effect traumatic seasons or events have on our emotions, and how we can process and recover well.
Kate Middleton
Anxiety is a normal human emotion, however it's often suggested that it's a sign of some kind of spiritual weakness or lack of faith. Here's Dr Kate Middleton on why that's just not true, and how a life of faith can help us fear less.
Kate Middleton
Why is access to mental health services variable in different places and for different conditions? Dr Rob Waller looks at some of the factors that cause this and what we, the Church can do to help.
Even several years later, the effects of the Covid pandemic are still keenly felt. What can we learn from this time period about leading through crisis, and how can we counter its lingering mindset of cynicism?
Will Van Der Hart
It might be socially normative to be unduly positive, but is it working?
Will Van Der Hart
I regularly speak to people that work from home who are struggling. We are missing things that we thought we would be delighted to live without, as well as feeling mis-sold the work-from-home dream.
Will Van Der Hart
My hope is that we can sit with the complexities of our historical figures and move away from the polarising and simple depictions that cause division and risk violence.
Dr Chi-Chi Obuaya
How do we respond to the death of George Floyd? Keeping silent or doing nothing under these circumstances feels like a poor and insensitive choice.
Chi-Chi Obuaya
As a Christian, how am I supposed to understand my disappointment and deal with it in a Godly way? How can I stay emotionally healthy through this tough season?
Will Van Der Hart
On Valentine's Day - a day all about celebrating love - Kate reminds us that the greatest kind of love is actually open to all of us in friendship. Here's how...
Kate Middleton
Chronic illness can be brutal to bear. And in the face of something which can be so dominating in your mind and your physical body, how do you stop it from taking over? Kate Middleton offers 5 tips to help.
Kate Middleton
Difficult memories or thoughts often catch us in those quiet moments, and the night when we are exhausted and alone is the worst time to be ambushed. Here are 5 ways to manage them.
I know that as much as I want to believe anger is a God-given emotion that is essential to my wellbeing, I am struggling. Nobody wants to be known as an Angry Pastor - it’s an oxymoron, isn’t it?
Will Van Der Hart
Fighting emotional ill health is tough. But what about those on the sidelines supporting those who are struggling?
Kate Middleton
One question I get asked really regularly is about sharing my emotional or mental health struggles online. Over the last 14 years I have made quite a few mistakes and learnt a few hard lessons. Here are a few of my top tips.
Will Van Der Hart
Feeling caught in a dark time or under the weight of something? Here's how hope can come when we least expect it.
Kate Middleton
Why there is only one version of you, and that is the only person you need to be.
Will Van Der Hart
Jo is an Anglican Priest who experienced PTSD after a trauma in her role, and is now helping others to lead well through their trauma.
Revd Jo Whitehead
Problem worry is a very painful and common issue. Sometimes well meant but poorly thought through advice fuels the issue. This articles helps you to go back to basics and make sure you are using the right approach to settle your troubled mind...
Will Van Der Hart
Do you find yourself thinking through the worst possible scenarios several times a day? Does anxiety grip you and the desire to check things are safe overwhelm you? Do you want to get your peace back? Time to challenge the cycle of catastrophising...
Will Van Der Hart
Some reflections on mental health and race from a psychiatrist of Nigerian descent.
Chi-Chi Obuaya
Refugees and Asylum Seekers come to the UK for a number of reasons, and as such they have particular mental health needs. Churches are well placed to help.
Chi-Chi Obuaya
How do we process trauma, what helps with PTSD and how can the church respond?
Rob Waller
What types of medication are available? Do they work? Should Christians take them?
Rob Waller
Children's emotions can be scary - especially in the context of all the warnings about children's mental and emotional health. So how should we respond as parents?
Kate Middleton
There are certain times when seeing a counsellor or therapist is both necessary and helpful. What are the different types of counselling available and when should each be used?
Rob Waller
What do emotions do, why do we have them, how can we learn to manage them better?
Kate Middleton
At some point every person will suffer from some irrational worry or fear. However, for some these idle worries can become more significant, sparking off a huge chain of both physical and emotional responses that are distressing.
Will Van Der Hart
The relationship between mental health and the church is made infinitely more complex by the tendrils of shame that so easily grip different aspects of our communities.
Will Van Der Hart
How do relationships support us when we are struggling emotionally? And how can mindful prayers help us develop a relationship with Jesus that can carry us through times of distress?
Revd Shaun Lambert
Being emotionally healthy in Christian leadership is no small task. Here are a few important reflections on the current situation and a few simple things to get right...
Will Van Der Hart
It can be very tough when one partner in a relationship begins to suffer from a mental health problem. Here is some simple advice to help you through...
Will Van Der Hart
How can we integrate psychological and biological and spiritual models for health and illness?
Rob Waller
What is the difference between mental health and learning disability? When do they overlap? And where does faith fit in?
Jonathan Clark
Many people feel drawn to caring roles, but the same people are very prone to burnout. What is the difference between empathy and compassion and is this the key to caring better for longer?
Kate Middleton
Bullying and abuse from someone who hates you is always hard to handle. But what do you do when the person who hates and bullys you most is yourself?
Kate Middleton
Perfectionism is overvalued in the church, and despite its toxicity it never receives the critique that it truly deserves.
Will Van Der Hart
Statistically life has never been safer, but our experience of anxiety has never been greater.
Will Van Der Hart
Will outlines 'Secondary Safety Behaviours', responses which come into play when a 'Primary Safety Behaviour' is unavailable to us in times of anxiety.
Will Van Der Hart
What expectations should we really have of our leaders when it comes to our mental health in church, and what should leaders expect of those who have mental health issues in their congregations?
Will Van Der Hart
Footballer Louis Suarez received a 10 match ban after he bit another player during a match. But, what DO you do if you know that anger, at times, gets the better of you? And how as parents do we support our kids to learn how to manage anger well?
Kate Middleton
How much thought do youth pastors put into their own mental and emotional health? Rob Waller looks at how we can establish strong foundations that will ensure that we don't over commit or burn out, and prepare us for the tough times.
Rob Waller
Dealing with disappointment is hard, because the promise of hope is eroded. This article explores some helpful techniques, and also what to do if you face the biggest disappointment of all - disappointment with God.
Kate Middleton
A useful seven step guided exercise for Problem Solving.
Rob Waller
Kate's survival guide to the opportunities, chaos, importance and unimportance of Freshers Week.
Kate Middleton
It's easy to know the Bible really well, and all the things God says about us. But how do we stop that stuff being drowned out by other things we hear day to day, and what does that have to do with Mindfulness?
Kate Middleton
Rob Waller illustrates the three key principles of anger management using an old testament story: Moses striking the rock in Numbers 20.
Rob Waller
For those of us who have experienced the pain of emotional distress at a particular point in life, any return of those feelings can leave us extremely agitated and upset.
Will Van Der Hart
Have you ever thought to yourself, 'I’m sure I have been here before?' The same feelings of depression, the same anxiety, old guilt that you thought you had dealt with and old memories you thought you had resolved.
Will Van Der Hart
When is it right to talk, and when is it not? Christianity has a long tradition of 'testimony' - but does this add pressure to sharing? How can we talk usefully about the past and not merely repeat the event?
Rob Waller
25% of Clergy time off in the Church of England is caused by depression. Rob looks at some of the reasons behind this, what can be done about it and how the church community needs to change it's expectations.
Rob Waller
It is fair to say that death is an important part of my work. I have stood closely with the grieving and learnt from their courage. I am often asked amongst their tears, "is this normal?"
Will Van Der Hart
What if illness was sometimes a way of our bodies going on strike, and removing our minds from the building pressure of stressful circumstances?
Will Van Der Hart
Many people struggle with the sense that anger is wrong, especially those with a strong Christian faith. The difficulty is that anger is a healthy emotional response, without it we simply wouldn't be human.
Will Van Der Hart