Tag: mental health

Cape conference aims to empower Church with Jesus approach to healing whole person

The “Just Jesus Christian Counselling and Healing Conference” on April 5 and 6 at Overfflow Church, Fish Hoek, Cape Town is a call to action for churches to address their communities’ pressing mental health needs, says counselling psychologist and conference organiser Michelle Wanless At its core, she says, the conference […]

Female ‘detransitioner’ says gender dysphoria is mental health issue

Originally published in The Christian Post A former trans-identified woman who has de-transitioned is stressing the importance of treating those struggling with gender dysphoria “the same way we would treat any other young person who’s struggling with mental health issues” instead of allowing them to alter their bodies permanently. Helena […]

Prestigious psychiatry journal retracts findings, admits sex-reassignment surgery didn’t fix mental health

Originally published in CBN News The American Journal of Psychiatry says it got it wrong when it came to analysing the numbers in a large study of transgender patients undergoing sex-reassignment surgery. Last fall, the journal published the results of the study and found the surgeries improved patients’ mental health. […]

Unplug from addictions and plug into true power source — Vivienne Schultz

A monthly column by social entrepreneur and A2B Transformation Group founder Vivienne Schultz. Addiction causes decay of human volition. Addiction cleans out wallets and collapses human potential into uselessness. It happens so easily. Any habitual behaviour that a human perpetuates, soon becomes a compulsion and eventually an obsessive addiction. Like […]