by Monica A. Coleman | May 11, 2023 | Media
Hope Made Strong hosts this great podcast, The Care Ministry Podcast, and Laura Rowe and I had such a good conversation. We talked about my journey from being a “curious Christian” to being a religious leader, what led me to write Not Alone, and how...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 16, 2023 | Media
I so love this podcast conversation with Gabby Wilkinson on her podcast Dear God, I’m Sad. Gabby’s introduction to our conversation is just gold, and she asks me a couple questions that made me pause – and that doesn’t happen often. We had a...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 25, 2022 | Media
I had an insightful conversation with Sarah I. Fox on The Rough Edges podcast. It’s always a particular joy to speak with other people who live with bipolar depressions. We talked about Bipolar Faith and Sarah asked me some questions no one else has. Check it...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 20, 2022 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
How does it feel to be a problem? W. E. B. DuBois posed this question in the essay “Our Spiritual Strivings” in The Souls of Black Folk. DuBois was referring to the ways in which African Americans were understood by white American society in the early twentieth...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 25, 2022 | Media
“Mental health isn’t about class,” Dr. Monica A. Coleman, Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware and author of Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith, tells theGrio. “It’s about chemistry, trauma, genetics, experience and...