Faith and therapy are not opposites—they’re co-pillars. Healing doesn’t require choosing one over the other, but embracing both. This summit is where the silence breaks, the stigma ends, and healing begins.

In Hold Me While I Break, McCarthy Anum-Addo offers a powerful narrative that blends personal experience, spiritual reflection, and applied scholarship to explore the intersection of faith, trauma, and mental health. Using an autoethnographic approach, Anum-Addo challenges common misconceptions within religious communities—such as viewing mental illness as a sign of weak faith—and advocates for a holistic model of care that integrates therapy, spirituality, and self-care. Thi