It’s been a strange year, hasn’t it? It’s been a strange two or so years for our family, actually. In December 2019, my husband and I were working on our Christmas card and basically ended up writing something like “Well, this year was hard, let’s hope next year is better.” Ha. But honestly, I feel…
General Conference is once again coming up in just a few days. Before that happens, I wanted to address a topic that is touched on in a talk from Sister Bonnie Oscarson’s October 2017 conference talk entitled, “The Needs Before Us.”
Let me just mention a few things before I give a brief recap on the panels at Anxiety Disorders and Mormonism. First of all, thank you all for your kind comments and support regarding my last blog post. Most meaningful to me were the comments from my sisters, not just my “sisters” in a womanly…
It’s one thing to talk about adult members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with mental health struggles and another when we think about the youth of the Church who have mental illnesses.
I soon realized after getting called as a Relief Society President that mental illness was a common issue among the women. My husband and I presented a fifth Sunday lesson on “Mental Health and the Gospel” and learned that the women were not alone in needing help, information, and care regarding mental illness. The men…