Season 3 starts on March 5!
It has been over a year since I’ve written a blog post. Tony and I are committed to being more intentional with out “Behind the Scenes” posts this year. We had a very productive Sunday afternoon yesterday. Before recording, we had a brainstorming session about knowing our listeners better. What we do know...
Healing Story 2 – Paul Currington
Paul Currington is a storyteller and former comic. He hosts and produces one of Seattle’s longest-running storytelling shows Fresh Ground Stories. As a member of The Stability Network, he uses stories and humor to help people talk about mental illness Visit the Fresh Ground Stories blog here.
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Healing Story 1 – Amie Carey
Enjoy our first Healing Stories episode, featuring our guest from episode 22, Amie Carey. Amie does an excellent job modeling the personal storytelling that we want to be the trademark of Healing Stories. For more on Amie, her podcast “A Girl I Know”, and her advocacy efforts, please find her at www.agirliknow.org
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Mental Health during Lent
I spent a long time on Ash Wednesday sitting in the candle light considering what I would dedicate myself to until Easter. I remembered 3 years ago I had chosen silence and solitude. That experience resulted in a weekend silence retreat and much contemplation of the power of language. I have decided to...
Tony’s Big Announcement
I don’t make a habit of fraternizing with our Revealing Voices guests, but I made an exception with Susan Lockwood from Episode 20. Not only did we fraternize, but we started dating regularly, became engaged, and on December 20, 2018, got married. Some might look at my diagnosis and claim that I swept...
New Home for Studio E
Over the Christmas break, Tony and I moved the podcast equipment from his basement to my basement. Tony is preparing for a move and my Man Cave had plenty of space for the studio. The episodes will no longer have Briley’s paws striding across the wooden floor. However, at my house, we may...
The Stability Network Experience
By a matter of serendipity in early 2017, I was invited to join The Stability Network. The previous year, as a contract employee at Cummins Engine Company, I had put together a business case for creating a Mental Health Affinity Group. The company already had other Affinity Groups that were focused on...
Keynoting at Best Practices for Ministry: Heartland Conference
This Wednesday (October 10, 2018) is World Mental Health Day. We are honored to be keynote speakers at the at the Best Practices for Ministry: Heartland Conference held at St. Peter’s Lutheran in Columbus, Indiana. The topic of our presentation will be healing. Here is the program description: What does healing mean to...
Chris Cole – What Healing Means
Healing means to me that I am in congruence with myself and my world, that I am able to maintain relationships in love and devotion, and that I am continually aware of and attempting to return to a state of holistic harmony. Healing, or true recovery, is not necessarily the absence of symptoms...
Lousville Labyrinth
Today, Jen and I went to a labyrinth on the campus of the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary – where Tony earned his Master’s of Divinity degree. It has brick sides with a grass path. Freshly cut. Very large at 66’ diameter (picture was taken at entrance of labyrinth). I knew that I wanted to...
To Edit or Not to Edit
Back in October of 2017, when Eric & I were conceiving Revealing Voices, we discussed both our dreams and visions as well as pragmatic concerns: format, length, equipment, cost. One question we raised was how frequently we would release episodes. We kicked around a number of possibilities. We discussed how much time we could...
Healing to you, … and you, and you…
On each episode, we ask our guests, “What does healing mean to you?” You can directly submit your responses here. Recently, we reached out to our listeners to give their responses to the question: Accepting your illness. Doing everything you can to help your illness. ~ Robin Patton Fleming. (Hartselle, Alabama) It’s a process...
A Faithful Response to Suicide
I am a man of faith who has attempted suicide. As such, I feel a unique responsibility to share my story. I want to stress that this is my own story. Not the story of Kate Spade. Anthony Bourdain. Robin Williams. Or the countless others who don’t make the news. Still, maybe my...
Rippy Berry Delight Recipe
Mother’s Day Recipe from Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook. Described in episode 7… Serves 6 Ingredients 3 Cups Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice 3 Cups Plain Yogurt 2 Tbs Fresh Lemon and/or Lime Juice 2 Tbs Honey 4 Cups Fresh Berries (leave small berries whole, slice larger berries) Dash of Cinnamon Sprigs of Mint Instructions...
Does Awareness Really Shatter Stigma?
Some weeks back, Eric asked me to write a piece for Mental Health Awareness Month (May). I thought I would wait for inspiration. It’s now May 18 and inspiration has not arrived. In the words of Jack London, “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” So...
Bipolar Too
At age 17, I was given a clinical depression diagnosis. At age 22, it changed to hypomania. At age 27, it changed to Bipolar II. Over the course of the last 20 years, I have been hospitalized 4 times. The first time for mania and the last three for depression. For 13 years,...
Katie Dale — What Healing Means
Healing is definitely the hand of God on my mind – I consider that I’m healed as it pertains to the elimination of symptoms and side effects. I take medication daily and believe that’s the course God has set me on for a personal healing of bipolar disorder. I don’t have the symptoms...
Tony Roberts – What Healing Means
What does healing mean to me? Before we can be healed we first have to recognize we are ill. I have a deathly sin-sick condition; I desperately need Christ’s healing touch. This condition affects my whole life: spiritual, physical, emotional, relational. God heals me in His own good time, and only fully heals...
#The100DayProject
On the Creative Pep Talk podcast, I was introduced to The 100 Day Project. The founders, Elle Luna and Lindsay Jean Thomson, shared inspiring stories from people who participated in the past. I have decided to join in this 5th annual event. All are welcome to join. From what I have seen on...
Tony Roberts is Delighting in Disorder
My Story In 1995, I was a young, ambitious pastor serving a small village church. One Sunday, I delivered a sermon on human illness and divine healing in which I shared these words: When we become ill, it is important to listen to our bodies and pray that God help us make necessary...
Leanne Sype — What Healing Means
Healing means living better within the challenges of mental illness. So often I want my daughter to be “all better” or I want feel “all better” in my eating disorder. But in reality, we can’t necessarily be “all better” with a mental illness like we can a cold or stomach ache. Mental illness...
Amy Simpson: Author, Advocate, Life & Leadership Coach
Eric and I are very enthusiastic about Episode 2 with Amy Simpson (to be released March 15). I first became aware of Amy’s work when I was writing my spiritual memoir, Delight in Disorder. She had recently written Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission. This book opened the doors of the...
A Pandemic Prayer Journal
March 20, 9 a.m. Me: Hey V., how are you weathering this virus crisis?” V: We are doing ok. A little more depressed. That is normal. It is affecting almost everyone. Worried about seeing our retirement being wiped out. I have a back up plan. If things get to the point I cannot...