by Monica A. Coleman | Aug 11, 2017 | Media
The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention sponsors the National Weekend of Prayer, Faith and Hope. Several religious leaders came together to share our commitment to the connection between mental health and faith. Check out our video:...
by Monica A. Coleman | Aug 2, 2017 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
He called too early in the morning. Every year on my birthday. My father called to tell me happy birthday. And to tell me that he held me first. “We saw that your hair was black. And I held you first.” “I know Daddy.” This year marks ten years since my father died. He...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 18, 2017 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
We die daily. This is what I told a student in the summer continuing education class I teach on Process Theology as Spiritual Liberation. She asked, “What about life after death?” And my first response, without much thought came in these three words: “We die daily.”...
by Monica A. Coleman | May 22, 2017 | Media
This is why we don’t talk about depression. Sherri Williams writes in SELF magazine and cites some words from me! So cool! I sat on the floor in the bedroom and thought long and hard about it. How could I affix that belt to the door and wrap it around my neck...
by Monica A. Coleman | Mar 23, 2017 | Media
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn truly floored me with this review of Bipolar Faith in the Los Angeles Review of Books NOT SINCE MAYA ANGELOU’S I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings has an autobiography chronicled an African-American woman’s journey from trauma to joyousness as...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 10, 2017 | Media
Honored to see that my book NOT ALONE: REFLECTIONS ON FAITH AND DEPRESSION is mentioned in #SeatSyllabus from women of color under age 30. Based on the “Seat the Table” album by Solange, Seat Syllabus is curated by Candice Benbow, Elle Magazine and...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 3, 2017 | Media
So honored to be in conversation with Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn with Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) about #BipolarFaith. We had a lively conversation on a lot of the things that didn’t make it into the book and why there’s so much music in the book....
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 19, 2017 | Media
Honored that BIPOLAR FAITH has received a 2017 Silver Illumination Book Award in the Biography/ Memoir category for the year’s best new titles written and published with a Christian worldview. The awards are designed to honor and bring increased recognition to the...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 22, 2016 | Media
“History and culture and race and family and genetics and trauma and fear all factor into what cause mental health challenges. Class, education and privilege may make a difference with accessing healthcare, but they don’t protect one from the angst of these...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 16, 2016 | Media
Jennifer Frayer-Griggs wrote a great feature in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bipolar Faith is graceful and heartbreaking “You can die of grief.” This is the first sentence of the Rev. Monica A. Coleman’s memoir, “Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey With Depression...
