Here we are, June of 2022. Welcome summer, and farewell Mental Health Awareness Month (May!). But if we go back in time, just a little bit, to remember the good old days of the freewheeling 1980’s - when Evangelical churches and politicians were in the golden age of knitting together the interests of church and state (so cute!)…people were too busy to talk about mental health (at least not at church)…even though Mental Health Awareness Month started WAY BACK in 1949 - oh, we’ve had Mental Health issues all along as humans? No Way!In this inaugural episode of Holy Ghosting, you’ll meet Lindsay, Meg, and Sarai - a bunch of former church girls who came of age in 80s and 90s American Evangelicalism. With a veritable host of mental health diagnoses between them, you’ll learn more than you ever thought you’d want to know about their own journeys through mental health by way of the church, and you might find echoes of your own experience if you were once a church kid too. We cover everything from the laying on of hands, the shame of mental health issues, using the Bible as therapy (instead of therapy because that wasn’t a thing we ever considered doing), and everything from visual hallucinations to the revolutionary idea that maybe, just maybe, telling other people the truth about our own mental wellbeing can help everybody be a little safer and a little better. If you or someone you know needs mental health support: text BRAVE to the Crisis Text Line at 741741A trained crisis counselor will receive it and respond within minutes. Then, the crisis counselor will help you de-escalate your situation and connect you to help locally.