The Four Keys to Mental Health: How to Feel Better, Think Clearly, and Enjoy Life Again

Summary

Offering a refreshing vision and approach to mental health and wellbeing, pastor Steve Larson mines the Bible to give us the biblical picture of health as Jesus lived it out: mentally, physically, spiritually, and relationally—and how these four key areas rise and fall in health together.

Sharing Scripture, current psychological tools, recovery principles, and his own story of managing mental illness, Larson lays out a simple, comprehensive guide to self-care. These short, powerful chapters are full of wisdom and practical help on thirty key topics, such as the cost of control, antidote to anxiety, function of feelings, myths and role of medication, spirituality of sleep, call of connection, blessing of boundaries, and more. Each chapter ends with user-friendly exercises to help you deeply internalize what you've learned.

With the Bible as our model, we can leave behind the stigma of shame and instead embrace the freedom to flourish.