Removing the Stigma from Mental Illness

From Scotland, Sheila is an author, Bible teacher and television host. She has spoken around the world to over 6 million people and reaches a potential 100 million daily as co-host of the Life Today television program. As an international recording artist, Sheila has recorded 25 albums with multiple top 10 singles plus her new single It Is Well with Sir Cliff Richard. Sheila loves to make the Bible practical, sharing how God met her at her lowest point and helped her to rise up again. Her message: God is faithful and He is holding you! Sheila’s books have sold over 5.5 million copies including multiple bestsellers “It’s Okay Not To Be Okay” and her new book “Holding On When You Want To Let Go.” Texas is her home where she lives with her husband Barry and two little crazy dogs Tink and Maggie. Their son Christian is in graduate school.

In this session, Sheila helps us remove the stigma from mental illness and depression. She sends us a powerful message of clinging to hope when life seems to be falling apart. It is God who holds us and He goes before us in all seasons. We can cast our all our anxieties to Him because He cares for us!

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What Helps When Change Brings Anxiety

Kristen Strong, author of When Change Finds You, Back Roads to Belonging, and Girl Meets Change, writes as a friend helping you discover a more hopeful view of the difficult change in your life. She and her USAF veteran husband, David, have three beloved older children. Together, this military family zigzagged across the country (and one ocean) several times before calling Colorado home. Kristen’s writing can also be found at kristenstrong.com and on Instagram @kristenstrong.

An expected or unexpected life change can bring about stress, worry, and anxiety.  Kristen talks about when change brings anxiety and offers some practical ideas and inspirational takeaways for walking through the change and away from the anxiety.

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Talking with God about the Hard Times

Suzanne (Suzie) Eller is an ECPA bestselling author, International speaker and Bible teacher. She’s the cohost of More Than Small Talk with Holley Gerth and Jennifer Watson. She’s the host of Prayer Starters podcast, with the KLRC podcast network. Suzie’s most recent book is Prayer Starters: Talking with God about Hard Times, which releases Oct 10. Suzie served as a writer and speaker with Proverbs 31 Ministries for 14 years. She’s a popular media guest and has been featured on Focus on the Family, Aspiring Women, Harvest Show, 100 Huntley Street, KLOVE, DayStar, and many others. Suzie lives in Northwest Arkansas and loves food trucks, the farmer’s market, kayaking, and spending time with her husband, children, and six “littles."

We can talk with God about the hard times. Many of us, no matter where we are in our faith, struggle to find the words to talk to God when our world turns upside down. Suzie helps us take a deep breath of prayer - one without pressure, one that leads to connection and community with God, and one that allows us to sit in His presence, and even in those moments we can experience true peace from God.

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Help When Anxiety Feels Like Doubt 

Nicki Koziarz is a best-selling author and speaker with Proverbs 31 Ministries. She and her husband, Kris, own a fixer-upper farm just outside Charlotte, North Carolina. There they are raising their three beautiful daughters, a barnyard of misfit animals, and one slightly famous pug. Nicki is consumed with learning to lead her generation on the pursuit of Truth.

In this session, Nicki sheds some light when anxiety feels like doubt. There are a lot of moments where anxiety makes us doubt. There is a difference between listening and hearing. We need to actively listen to God and His Word. We can go to God to show us the right way and keep us steady as we see His promises fulfilled. 

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How to Stop Rehashing the Past and Rehearsing the Future and Start Receiving the Present

Jeanne Stevens is the founding and co-lead pastor of Soul City Church in Chicago, one of America’s fastest-growing urban churches. Prior to starting Soul City Church, she was on the pastoral staff at Willow Creek Community Church and North Point Community Church. A sought-after speaker, leader, and writer, Jeanne’s passion is to help people wake up to their purpose as they pursue a life of wholehearted freedom. Jeanne is the author of the newly released best-selling book, What's Here Now? She lives in Chicago with her husband, Jarrett, and their two children. Learn more at Jeannestevens.com

In this session, Jeanne discusses how to stop rehashing the past & rehearsing the future and start receiving the present. She challenges us to question "What is here now?" By incorporating this simple question into your everyday life, we can stop obsessing about the past or worrying about the future. We can fully live in the present where God is and embrace His presence. 

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Time-Anxiety and Habits of Time-Faith

Jen Pollock Michel is an award-winning author and speaker. Her fifth book, In Good Time: Reimagining Productivity, Resisting Hurry, and Practicing Peace, releases in December 2022. She holds a B.A. in French from Wheaton College, an M.A. in Literature from Northwestern University, and is working to complete an M.F.A from Seattle Pacific University. You can follow Jen on Twitter and Instagram @jenpmichel and subscribe to her Monday letters at jenpollockmichel.com. Jen lives in Cincinnati with her family.

In this session, Jen discusses time-anxiety and habits of time-faith. Most of today's stress is due to our worries about time-scarcity. We cannot add time to our life, but we live each day seeking the Kingdom of God. Jen invites us to disentangle our priorities from our modern assumptions about productivity and instead, develop a grounded, healthy life-giving relationship with time. 

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Self-Care, Not Self-Sacrifice 

Jennifer Renee Watson is an author of Freedom: The Gutsy Pursuit of Breakthrough and the Life Beyond It. Jennifer Renee has been in ministry for twenty-four years and knows what it’s like to struggle with depression, anxiety, and a lifestyle that leads to burnout. Jennifer is a fierce mental health advocate and self-care strategist who tackles hard topics with hope, vulnerability, and humor. Jennifer is a co-host of More Than Small Talk podcast with Holley Gerth and Suzanne Eller.

In this session, Jennifer talks about self-care, not self-sacrifice. We can learn how to practice good self-care in a hustle-harder world and this leads to freedom from stress, worry and anxiety. Our heavenly Father desires for our souls to be taken care of. Jesus has a plan to see our scars become success stories that reflect His glory to the people around us.

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How to Clean up Your Mental Mess

Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980s she has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input. During her years in clinical practice and her work with thousands of underprivileged teachers and students in her home country of South Africa and in the USA, she developed her theory (called the Geodesic Information Processing theory) of how we think, build memory, and learn, into tools and processes that have transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), learning disabilities (ADD, ADHD), autism, dementias and mental ill-health issues like anxiety and depression. She has helped hundreds of thousands of students and adults learn how to use their mind to detox and grow their brain to succeed in every area of their lives, including school, university, and the workplace. Dr. Leaf is also the bestselling author of Switch on Your Brain, Think Learn Succeed, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess, and many more. She teaches at academic, medical and neuroscience conferences, and to various audiences around the world. Dr. Leaf has published a number of articles in academic journals and consumer magazines, and has been widely interviewed in newspapers, on radio and on television shows about her research and theories. Her passion is to help people see the power of the mind and teach them how to control their thoughts and emotions, and learn how to think and find their sense of purpose in life.

In this session, Dr. Caroline Leaf discusses how to clean up our mental mess. Our mental messes are frequently aggravated by a chaotic world and sustained by an inability to manage our runaway thoughts which can lead to anxiety, depression, or toxic thoughts.. But we shouldn't settle into this mental mess as if it's just our new normal. There's hope and help available to us, and the journey to healthier thoughts and peak joy may actually be closer than you think.

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