Disclaimer: my faith walk is Christian. I work with clients of all religious backgrounds, and when a client asks me, I help them to channel their own faith walk as a healing resource. If necessary, this means reading up on the client’s religion in order to adequately meet their need. This article pertains to clients of all faiths, but by way of example focuses on my own experience as a member of a Baptist church.
Religious leaders—clergy, deacons, elders—are often a person’s first point of contact when dealing with a mental health crisis. How they respond may require careful discernment to ensure that it helps and does not unintentionally harm.
As I sat in church this Sunday morning, two weeks before Easter, the music director introduced a worship song. “If this song doesn’t move your heart,” she said, “then you must be dead wood.” The song, living up to her promise was indeed moving and inspirational. Our pastor, in his sermon, spoke on how, if you can’t push past your guilt, grief, pain and hopelessness in order to embrace the idea that God has His hand on your life, then you, as a believer, must change your way of …
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