The Truth about Mental Health: It's Complicated

2-part series – complicated things we experience in our mental health internally complicated things we experience in our mental health externally Blog series at heidigoehmann.com – The Many Sides of Mental Health https://heidigoehmann.com/blog/not-so-simple-the-many-sides-of-mental-health Dualities in mental health we are covering in this series: Agency (choice) and happenstance Relationships and self-differentiation Worth and Humility Acceptance and Constant Work Microaggressions and Good Intentions Apathy and Passion Age 4 and Age 40 Making peace with a bit of mystery and the complications of life – Ephesians 1:7-9 There is always more to know, to discover, more mystery. That's a good thing of God. One day, when Jesus comes back, we will see everything more clearly. We exist in both contentment and wrestling. Again, this is a good thing of God. Without the wrestling, the stress is often increased in one way or another. Today's dualities are highly relational dualities, often reflected in our closest relationships: Agency & Happenstance - Which does our culture lean more toward? Which do we lean more toward? How can we exist in both? - brokenness and choice - privelege and choice Relationships & Self-Differentiation - How do we understand us within our relationships with one another? How do we understand ourselves outside of our relationships with God alone? - Bowen's family systems theory - empathy v. trying to hold someone else's emotions and anxiety Microaggressions & Good Intentions - Where do we see microaggression in our midst? In what ways can we be honest and bring those to the light, so that we can have confession and forgiveness as a community and own the ways we have hurt others or devalued others? - define microaggression - being honest to cut out racism and sexism and the -isms in our midst - no matter the intention, there is a place for confession and forgiveness The Truth about Mental Health: We all have it. Find the whole article series: https://heidigoehmann.com/blog/not-so-simple-the-many-sides-of-mental-health