by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 27, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
This Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m interviewing Wizdom Powell Hammond, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I met Wizdom Powell years ago at a conference. We...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 8, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
Most churches could do a lot more to support people who live with mental illnesses. Many Christian teachings link health, wealth and faith in ways that can make anyone having a bad day feel like God has abandoned them. This feels all the more injurious to someone...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Indianapolis, here I come! I’ll be in Indianapolis on Sunday July 13! Psychologist and mind-body healer Kimberly Martin is hosting me for a reading and signing of NOT ALONE. It’s free and open to the public. If you are in town, or even nearby, I hope you can come...
by Monica A. Coleman | May 22, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
As I came to accept that depression would be a part of life, I started to read about strategies for living successfully with depression. I connected with various advocacy organizations like the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Depression Bipolar Support...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 27, 2014 | Media
I’m going on Tour! A virtual book tour that is! Come join me as I stop by the following blogs talking about my book Not Alone, faith and depression. All before Ash Wednesday – to get ready for Lent and reading through Not Alone. ...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 26, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
“Are your prayers different? Now that you’ve been healed,” my partner asked me one morning. “What?” I really didn’t know what he was talking about. He explained: “I mean, you were depressed. But since our daughter’s birth, you haven’t been. No meds. No sadness. ...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 18, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
Depression is lying. Not all the time, but … well … a lot of the time. Because most people don’t want to hear more than “Fine,” when they ask: “How are you?” I lied throughout my pregnancy. The questions were generally the same: How are you? Aren’t you excited? ...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 10, 2014 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
Even I ask myself: How can someone who lives with depression like such a depressing time of the church year? Lent is my favorite liturgical season. I’m not exactly sure why. I did and did not grow up understanding that many Christian churches follow something called...
by Monica A. Coleman | Nov 17, 2013 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I like memoirs. In fact, when I have the time, I read them voraciously. Because I need them. I need to know someone else’s story to better know my own. I need to know that someone else, somewhere, has experienced some part of what I am living. Has experienced it...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 13, 2013 | Media
This past week, I had the privilege of talking with my friend and colleague April Yvonne Garrett on her radio show, The AYG List. We had planned to talk about how mental health challenges are showing up in the news headlines and some of my thoughts about advocacy and...
