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

Summary:In this powerful literature review, Clementina Jose explores how faith, mental health, and cultural identity are deeply intertwined in Black and Brown communities. Her research highlights how religious and spiritual practices are not only sources of personal resilience but also essential components of culturally responsive mental health care.