Mountaintop Breakdown: A Mental Health Devotional

By Kelsea Taft

Being happy everyday is hard work. For those struggling with anxiety or depression, finding happiness is even more challenging. The good news is that anyone can still be joyful with the Lord.

In a collection of inspirational devotionals, Kelsea Taft relies on her personal experiences to bring the sometimes taboo topic of mental health in a positive light to the Christian community. Within her writings, Kelsea addresses why we need to end the stigma of mental health in the Christian community, provides encouragement that we are never alone, even when we feel stuck and tired, why the traditional prayer format can sometimes be intimidating, why our weaknesses can be what makes us strong, and why it is important to wait for the mountaintop fog to lift so we can see how far we have come. Included is her testimony of how God’s grace and unconditional love has helped guide her through her own mental health challenges.

Mountaintop Breakdown shares devotionals that provide encouragement to anyone struggling with mental health issues that God is always by their side.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664275676

Kelsea Taft

Kelsea Taft is an average (sometimes anxiety ridden) Christian who loves to help people. She earned a degree in psychology from South Georgia State College. Today, she works with animals. Mountaintop Breakdown is her first book.

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Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

ISBN: 978-1-6642-7566-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-7567-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022915163

WestBow Press rev. date: 08/29/2022

Contents

Introduction

1 I Must Be a Bad Christian

2 I’m Just Not Happy

3 I’ve Been Like This Too Long

4 I Am a Broken Mistake

5 I Am All Alone

6 I Can’t Do Anything

7 I Feel So Empty

8 I Am So Tired

9 My Mental Health is Like Walking a Tightrope

10 Study Struggles

11 I Don’t Have a Clue

12 It’s Just Hard

13 I Just Need Some Peace

14 Dull Mind

15 Little Is Much, If God Is in It

16 I Am Such a Weakling

17 Life Is a Struggle

18 Security? Security!

19 Someone Else’s Victory