FAITH-BASED PEER SUPPORT GROUPS FOR MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS – Living Room is the spiritual mental health model designed to give support to groups of people with mental health conditions. All members of Living Room groups, including the facilitator, have experienced, or are experiencing similar mental health issues. It’s this commonality that pulls them together. Groups […]
Read More...“From a Mental Institution to Creating a Movement” I was delighted today to have had an opportunity to do a podcast with Amie and Neil of Modern Seniors. We talked about how my life with bipolar disorder started and how God led me to found the spiritual mental health support of Living Room. Learn why […]
Read More...FOR LIVING ROOM FACILITATORS Jesus was a radical in the way he treated social outcasts like prostitutes, the poor, the sick, lepers and others. He treated them in a way that was completely contrary to social conventions of the day. Christ’s love brought a sense of dignity and value to those on the margins. As […]
Read More...Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows […]
Read More...SPIRITUAL MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT – “ONE SUCH AS ME” tells how I pioneered spiritual mental health support, starting in 2000, speaking and writing extensively for those of the Christian faith. At that time, I introduced them to how their faith can help them overcome mental health problems. The book tells how faith-based peer support groups […]
Read More...A LIVING ROOM DEVOTIONAL I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM OFFERS ALL YOU NEED FOR SPIRITUAL MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT How to develop a peer support group. Facilitator’s guide. Why is it for people of all faiths? Hundreds of devotionals providing encouragement. PDF of the must-read book, One Such as Me. (https://marjabergen.com/books) ALL OF ABOVE AVAILABLE, to download for free: https://marjabergen.com/support-groups
Read More...A LIVING ROOM DEVOTIONAL So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; […]
Read More...THE LIVING ROOM MESSAGE – THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE OF JESUS By now, many of you will have heard about my poor health condition. But I want you to know, that though the news is not good: IT ISN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER. . . . And I still have hope. Why shouldn’t I? As long […]
Read More...A LIVING ROOM DEVOTIONAL – July 2020 A Pharisee asked Jesus: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your […]
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