Mental Health & Wellness

Prioritizing wellness within organizations is essential for creating environments where both employees and the communities they serve can thrive. This webinar equips you with practical insights and actionable strategies to enhance wellness within your organization by exploring key elements of organizational wellness such as holistic wellness, assessment, and strategies to integrate a more structured wellness approach in your non-profit. 

This webinar features guest panelists giving key information on mental health topics not always discussed or understood such as suicide, the usage of medication, and ways we all can be aware of the mental health needs of our congregations and communities.  

Statistics show that clergy are often the first point of contact when congregants are facing mental health concerns, therefore it's important for leaders to know ways to reduce stigma, normalize receiving mental health care, and incorporate wellness practices in what they teach and how they lead.

Take a moment to pause, process, and breathe.

Join Director of Mental Health & Wellness Joselyn Spence as she walks you through a guided breathing meditation.

There is never a bad time to start (or update) your self-care practice. Start creating yours with the help of this guide!

Wes Parks, a Licensed Professional Counselor shares his tips for maintaining boundaries and mental wellness during the holidays.

It’s soup season! Warm up with this green chile stew recipe from Dr. Chad Vickers.

Zaemelys Ramos-Rodriguez, a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Student, Research Assistant, walks viewers through Visio Divina (Latin for "Divine Seeing”) a method of praying with images and other media.

Each year, we offer a mental health and wellness holiday resources to encourage you to prioritize holistic wellness during the wintertime and the holidays. This year, our round up of holiday wellness resources is brought to you by NBA’s Mental Health Equity Cohort.

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!

Feeling stressed 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.

It’s soup season! Warm up with this green chile stew recipe from Dr. Chad Vickers.

As the busy holiday season presses on, Carolina Fuentes, a member of our Mental Health Equity Cohort shares tips for navigating and making space for grief during the busy holiday season.

Each year, we offer a mental health and wellness holiday resources to encourage you to prioritize holistic wellness during the wintertime and the holidays. This year, our round up of holiday wellness resources is brought to you by NBA’s Mental Health Equity Cohort.

NBA’s Mental Health & Wellness program brought together therapists from across the country for our first in person conference exclusively designed for mental health professionals.

In 2022, Galileo Christian Church established Finn’s Place, a community center where trans and gender-diverse people gather, grow, and flourish.

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.