Building relationships requires the risk of being open and curious.

You are loved beyond your wildest imaginings by the spirit of creation.

The solution is finding a reliable person to check in with.

The only way we survive this modern agony is together.

Can I love all of me, even the peevish parts?

I choose to believe in the God who makes me kinder.

Our family secret is soul-sucking depression.

Once, during my ministerial internship, a woman I’ll call Clara came up to me during the hustle and bustle before the Sunday service. I knew that Clara struggled with anxiety; now, in great distress, she told me how anxious she was and that she didn’t know what to do. She was frantic, and I...

People of faith are experts in human kindness.

People find hope in the faith that they're held by something larger than themselves.

Mental illnesses are sometimes called “no-casserole diseases.” People don’t bring casseroles to homes where someone is hospitalized for mental problems.

Learning to love all of me—including the parts I used to be scared of—made the fear go away.

I wanted so much to believe that God was watching over this boy, that God was tender and protective and fiercely on the side of life and that this boy would not slip away.

About The Author: The author is a member of a Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregation reflects on living with bipolar disorder. I have chosen to share my experience in a safe place—a place of acceptance, a place where we share joys and sorrows. Some might say, “Some things shouldn't be talked...