Our President and Executive Director, Kristen Kansiewicz, writes about mental and emotional health, creating resources for pastors and churches about mental illness as well as self-help tools for Christians. All of Kristen’s books and the additional resources below can be found on Amazon.com.
For Pastors and Churches:
This ebook is available on Amazon for just 99 cents. Specifically designed for pastors, it provides information on mental illness and ways the church can help respond to mental health needs.
Want to understand mental illness? This book offers case studies and a counselor’s perspective on how to understand mental illness from a biblical and psychological perspective. This book can help you understand yourself or your family and friends who are struggling with mental illness.
Churches can easily run an 8-week small group on mental illness using this curriculum! Complete with tips for leading and informative content, your congregation can understand mental illness from a biblical and biopsychosocial perspective.
Christian Self-Help:
How’s your emotional health? Kristen has laid out 5 key areas of emotional health: Thinking, Relationships, Addictions, Past, and Self-Care. These areas can all hold “traps” that stunt our emotional and spiritual growth. Find freedom in your everyday life by applying what the Bible says about living an emotionally healthy life.
Find out more about the root issues in your life that keep you stuck. Stop hitting the same brick walls again and again and let this book help you get your life under control using biblical principles.
Tired of downward spirals and getting in your own way? Discover the 9 key principles for making positive choices and building on each success. If you want to move forward in your life and reach your goals, this is the book for you.
Additional Resources:
Amy Simpson is a speaker, coach, and advocate for those with mental illness. In this book, she tells her own story of her mother’s schizophrenia during the time when her father was serving as a pastor. She offers suggestions for ways the church can help support families managing mental illness.
Matthew S. Stanford, PhD is CEO of the Hope and Healing Center & Institute (HHCI) in Houston, TX and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and Houston Methodist Hospital Institute for Academic Medicine. Dr. Stanford’s research on the interplay between psychology and issues of faith has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Christianity Today, and U.S. News & World Report.
Check out the CXMH podcast, focusing on the intersection of faith and mental health https://cxmhpodcast.com/
Check out Key Ministry, working with churches to provide inclusion models for kids with disabilities. https://www.keyministry.org/