Mother’s Day isn’t joyful for everyone. For those grieving a loss, facing infertility, or holding pain from a strained relationship, this reflection offers gentle encouragement and truth. If this day feels heavy, these words were written with you in mind to remind you that you are seen, your story matters, and you are not alone.

Dr. Kym Leonard, a nurse practitioner and mental health professional, brings clinical expertise and faith-based insight to the 2025 Faith + Mental Health Hybrid Summit. Join her live in Kalamazoo on May 23 as she shares real tools for recognizing and responding to mental health struggles with clarity, compassion, and confidence.

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