Emotional and Mental Health

Mental and emotional health rank just as high as physical health when it comes to your overall well-being. Whether you have a diagnosed mental health concern like depression or anxiety, or are curious about how to improve your emotional life, investing in robust emotional health is a worthy and important priority.

What to Do When Anxiety Strikes

By Pablo Diaz2 min read

Guideposts blogger Pablo Diaz offers comforting words for when anxiety strikes.

How to build up your faith for hard times.

When You Need to Build Faith for Hard Times

By Shawnelle Eliasen2 min read

When we spend time in study and prayer, when we learn and know and understand the character of our Father, we are made strong in our ability to endure hard times.

When you're down, look up and reach out to God.

Why God Wants Us to Reach Out

By julia-attaway2 min read

Sorrow and grief and regret sometimes cause us to collapse on the ground in a heap, either literally or figuratively. Guideposts blogger Julia Attaway explains why God wants us to reach out, not stay stuck.

When to Surrender to God

By Shawnelle Eliasen2 min read

As Shawnelle Elisasen discovers, surrendering to God can be a powerful struggle, but when we do, there’s powerful peace.

When annoyed, look at the situation from a different perspective.

Annoyances Are Not the Whole Story

By julia-attaway2 min read

Here’s a painful fact: When I’m annoyed, it’s usually a sign that I’ve overlooked something in the thankfulness department.

Don't be afraid of change. The Lord is present.

God Is Fully Present in Times of Change

By Shawnelle Eliasen2 min read

When I’m fretting over change, when worry grips and the fear of loss threatens to take a stronghold, I can trust that God is never-changing.

God Is Always on Call

By Michelle Cox3 min read

Are you in trouble? Anxious? Seeking reassurance? Rest assured that God is ready to take your call.

Treat yourself as Jesus would--with kindness, firmness, honesty, mercy.

Stop Tearing Down God’s Creation

By julia-attaway1 min read

Our Father doesn’t ask us or want us to bully ourselves. We are to talk to ourselves as we would talk to others. We are to be firm but gentle. Honest but merciful. Kind and forgiving.