Episode 3 – Tony E. Roberts Revealed
On this episode, Eric interviews co-host, Tony E. Roberts. As an avid blogger and author, Tony is comfortable revealing his journey with mental illness. In this podcast, we learn how Tony developed the confidence and calling to share the difficult intimate details that are part of his experience. Tony shares the personal meaning of Psalm...
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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 changes. Our...
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 is ongoing,...
Episode 2 – Amy Simpson is Unsatisfied
Our guest on this episode is Amy Simpson. Amy is an author, speaker, and life & leadership coach who is one of the leading Christian advocates for persons with mental illness. Her award-winning book Troubled Minds: Mental Illness an the Church’s Mission has opened many sanctuary doors to a topic largely concealed. Listen to this...
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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 sanctuary for...
A Long, Strange Trip and We’ve Only Just Begun
Thursday, March 1, 2018; 6:00 p.m. ; The Riddle household. ; Columbus, Indiana. We posted episode 1 while recording on Facebook Live. Half an hour later, we were celebrating with 15 of our closest friends in our mental health ministry! It’s been a long, strange trip since we first stepped out onto that...
Episode 1 – Faithful Family
Our guests today are Jen Riddle (Eric’s wife) and April Cohen (Tony’s sister). April graduated with a B.A. in Nursing from University of Indianapolis in 1997. She has worked 21 years in the field of psychiatric nursing, both in-patient and out-patient. In addition to being Tony’s sister and principal caregiver, she is married to Dan...
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Faithful Family
April Roberts Cohen was born, um, er, well, two years before I was. Her name was going to be Karen, but when she was born April 9, our parents were divinely inspired to name her April. From a human perspective, this helped them remember her birthday. As mentioned, I came along two years later. From an early...
3 weeks away….
Precisely three weeks from today we launch our debut. Eric is currently working on the final edits of our pilot episode. He shared with me it is hard to cut anything out of such a quality interview. I agree, but think especially for our first show, we need to establish a reasonably firm time parameter...