Barbara F. Meyers

Full name: Barbara F. Myers

Rev. Barbara F. Meyers is a Unitarian Universalist community minister whose ministry focuses on mental health issues, affiliated with Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Fremont, California. She works as assistant director of Life Reaching Across to Life, a peer-support mental health center in Fremont. She is the author of The Caring Congregation Handbook and Training Manual—Resources for Welcoming and Supporting Those with Mental Disorders and their Families into Our Congregations and has produced a public access TV show, Mental Health Matters.

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Skinner House Books

Held

Barbara F. Meyers

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In Held community minister and mental health advocate Barbara F. Meyers illustrates how members of liberal religious congregations can be supportive to those living with mental health problems.

WorshipWeb

The Importance of Presence

Barbara F. Meyers

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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...
Human Kindness Helps Heal

Barbara F. Meyers

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People of faith are experts in human kindness.
Spiritual Practice as Coping Mechanism

Barbara F. Meyers

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People find hope in the faith that they're held by something larger than themselves.
Mental Illness as a Spiritual Problem

Barbara F. Meyers

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Mental illness is a spiritual problem as well as a psychiatric one.
"No-casserole Diseases"

Barbara F. Meyers

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Mental illnesses are sometimes called “no-casserole diseases.”

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