Mental Health & Wellness

Read and download the 20-page PDF of the 2022 NBA Impact Report, featuring stories from NBA programs, partners, and Disciples leaders.

In this 24-page booklet, you'll find research on the importance of clergy wellness, an editable retreat design plan, and a sample schedule and activities to plan your own wellness retreat for BIPOC clergy.

Celebrate Pride Month and beyond by taking a moment to pause and process with the National Benevolent Association and Alliance Q.

There have been so many exciting resources, initiatives and partnerships at NBA recently, hear all about it!

Felling stressing in the middle of your workday? Take a moment to pause, connect to your body, and focus on your breath.

Resources focusing on the intersection of gun violence, trauma, and ways to care for our mental health and the mental health of our communities.

This webinar provides a new year’s refresher on sustainable self-care and wellness practices and strategies for clergy and leaders who are always on the go.

Joselyn Spence sat down to talk to the founders of Well Watered Soul to Discuss the power of mental health access.

Joselyn Spence, NBA Director of Mental Health & Wellness has curated a group of activists, therapists, and pastors to share their stories.

As we close out Mental Health Awareness Month 2022, NBA Director of Mental Health and Wellness, Joselyn Spence reflects on our month of resources, creative submissions, and scripture.

This post has resources and content that center the topic of empowerment.

This post has resources and content that center depression.

Looking for a professional to aid in your mental health journey? This post has resources on where to find a professional that fits your needs.

This post has resources and content that center mental health and the brain.

For Mental Health Awareness Month we asked Disciples to respond creatively to this question: Where do you see God in your mental health journey? Today we share resources and content that centers anxiety, trauma, and shame.

This post has resources and content that center God and community in mental health journeys.

INTRODUCING: The 12 Days of Wellness! Mental health and wellness tips for the holiday season.

This webinar explores the foundations of grief: what we grieve, how we grieve, and the ways we can grieve well. We will also explore best practices for grief support.

Join Disciples, mental health professionals, as they speak to the importance of tending to our mental health and wellness, especially as we return to social gatherings beyond family, and even begin to worship in person again. 

The wake up call that lead to a ministry that supports those recovering from addition.

In the spring, NBA brought together members of our Peer Learning and Wellness Groups for a weekend of fellowship, reflection, and healing.

Joselyn Spence, NBA Director of Mental Health & Wellness has curated a group of activists, therapists, and pastors to share their stories.

Chaplains in Kentucky gather with the Director of Mental Health and Wellness Joselyn Spence.

INTRODUCING: The 12 Days of Wellness! Mental health and wellness tips for the holiday season.

Over the last few months, we’ve added several new faces to our team. Get to know them!

“Focusing on my wellness allows me to embody commandments like Sabbath and prioritize my joy and my rest,” shares Joselyn Spence, NBA’s Director of Mental Health & Wellness. Read about how her journey to deepen her faith and care for her mental health were intertwined.

This September marks the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Here are ways to cope with trauma from these past events.

10 years after Mark D. Anderson began at NBA as President and CEO, he's taken some time to reflect on what this ministry has meant to him.

After more than five years of service, Rev. Angela Whitenhill-Shields will transition out of her role as NBA’s Mental Health & Wellness Initiative Manager.

Managerrie Winston shares how this year's seminar helped define the social impact her organization will have.

Creating a space that challenges systems of oppression and gives room to all God's people.

Sheltering in place with family and roommates certainly has its challenges, but so does being single and living alone during this time writes Rev. Dr. Christina Hicks.

"Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They're there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence." — T.K. Coleman Therapist Becca Moravec teaches us how.

The novel Coronavirus is a threat that is very real, but we cannot see it. I relate this invisibility to Domestic Violence.

There are several myths about suicide that, at one point in my life, I believed.

It can be difficult to know how much to share with children about the novel Coronavirus, Raiza Spratt shares resources that she's been using to explain COVID-19 to her children.

Hay varios mitos acerca del suicidio que, en un momento de mi vida, yo creía.

The SENT Seminar did for me what Healing the WOMBman will do for other women.

School safety is once more at the forefront of the nation’s mind. But what do parents’ conversations with their children about this topic look like?

Dr. Mark E. Poindexter reflects on claiming a second chance at life after surviving a suicide attempt. (TW: suicide)

Week of Compassion, NBA, and Pension Fund are partnering to offer spiritual wellness care.

I never understood how much I was capable of until I pushed myself out of my comfort zone.

A few years ago, I was having serious suicidal thoughts. My therapist was out of town, so I talked with my pastor. After we talked for a while, I shared with her that I always find strength and comfort in the belief that God shares in my pain and I am not alone.

Read about the psychological risks of activism and ways to respond and maintain healthy mental health.

We are excited to announce the formal launch of the Mental Health and Congregational Care Affinity Group!

As the NBA works to create meaningful ways to acknowledge mental health in the life of the church, our staff participated in a six-week Lenten book study focused on mental health, faith, and inclusion.