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Depression Roundtable, Part V: Parenting Children with Depression

Welcome to Part IV of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Parts I, II, III and IV can be found here, here, here and here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding. In our fifth and final post in this depression roundtable series, we turn the discussion to the challenge of [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part IV: Family Ties

Welcome to Part IV of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Parts I, II, and III can be found here, here, and here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding. This week, our discussion turns to how depression affects family relationships. We welcome Phoebe, Leah, and Esther to the table [...]

Dear to the Heart of the Shepherd

Today’s Up Close guest post is by Sunny Smart. She is a stay at home mom with four wonderful, hilarious kiddos and one hard-working, good-natured husband. She has battled depression at various times in her life and to varying degrees. She wanted to share her story so that others who suffer silently and alone might [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part III: Feeling Better

Welcome to Part III of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Parts I and II can be found here and here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding. This week, our band of scriptural sisters share how they’ve successfully managed their clinical depression. These personal experiences are being shared [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part II: Depression and Spirituality

Welcome to Part II of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Part I can be found here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding. Priscilla: I was 27 when I had my third child and first post partum depression. At least, that what I thought it was, so I read [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part I: In the Beginning

Welcome to Part I of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding. In this post, our group members introduce themselves by describing how they came to recognize depression as a problem in their life. Depression is an untidy concept, and our semantics reflect that. [...]

To Sleep. Perchance.

I just settled into my office chair to write this blog post. It is 10:52 p.m. I realize that I need to get up by 6:45 to get my oldest son off to Jr. High, but with an out-of-town husband and a long day of kid-shuttling, laundry-folding, assignment-grading, journal-editing and potty-training (yes, I started down [...]

Paths of Agency

Today’s guest post comes from Natalie H. There’s one word that best describes me: novice. A novice at being a wife and mother. A novice at writing. A novice at the world of blogging. And, most of all, a novice at life (still). Luckily, I love learning and maybe… just maybe… someday I’ll elevate my [...]

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