THE DEPTH
Group Therapy
A Journey to Healing BY: ANGELA T. WILLIAMS @SAYWHATENTERPRISE HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/SAYWHATENTERPRISE
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remember saying, “I need a focal point,” to our then-leader Lauren Zuchman of Healthier Delray Beach. Many may not have realized that I was the daughter of a pastor divorced from my mother and a sister to a brother who had died by suicide. Our family and our church had never spoken about either trauma. As a result, many illnesses manifested in our family and relationships. Scriptures teach the need to confess to one another to be healed; I realized that healing would not happen if we were not sharing. I knew that we were not the only family in the church dealing with these different challenges, and I wanted to do something more about it. I wanted to experience healing by moving past not sharing and bottling feelings to sharing, confessing, and praying for one another.
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THE WELL OF PBC / DEC ISSUE 2021
Angela T. Williams
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The church stigmatizes mental health as taboo. When someone is experiencing a mental health challenge, the assumption is that they are demon-possessed, and we as the church need to fast and pray to cast the demon out.
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