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    Groove: Stories to Refresh The Way We Think and Feel About Our Mental Illnesses
    Groove: Stories to Refresh The Way We Think and Feel About Our Mental Illnesses
    Groove: Stories to Refresh The Way We Think and Feel About Our Mental Illnesses
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    Groove: Stories to Refresh The Way We Think and Feel About Our Mental Illnesses

    By Daphne Tarango

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    You're one of the millions of people who struggle with mental illness. You struggle in silence, hoping to avoid stares, whispers, and prejudice. But society’s judgment has also become your inner voice. Guilt, shame, and low self-worth have entrenched themselves in your mind and heart like old grooves of sun-hardened soil. These false beliefs need loosening, turning, tilling, and ploughing until the old grooves give way to new grooves of God’s Truth.

    In Groove: Stories to Refresh the Way We Think and Feel about Our Mental Illnesses, mental health advocate Daphne Tarango and nine inspirational writers tell how they've overturned the old grooves and false beliefs about their own mental illnesses. Groove offers encouragement and firsthand experiences from men and women who know what it’s like to have mental illness. You'll relate to their inspirational stories about relationships, coping skills, managing symptoms, career and home, life stages and milestones, even stories about their pets, the holidays, and much more.

    Groove includes 52 thought-provoking stories, one for each week of the year. Each entry ends with a series of questions so you can reflect and dig deeper grooves on the topic for that week. As you read Groove, you'll learn how to build new grooves using God’s word and how those new grooves can change your life, the way you feel about yourself, and the way you carry yourself. You can even read and work through the questions with a small group.

    Whether you're recently diagnosed with a mental illness or have struggled with mental illness for years, Groove can help you refresh the way you think and feel about your mental illness, all by believing and applying the Truth in God's word.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaphne Tarango
    Release dateDec 14, 2014
    ISBN9781311744326
    Groove: Stories to Refresh The Way We Think and Feel About Our Mental Illnesses
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    Daphne Tarango

    Daphne Tarango is a freelance writer who comforts hurting women with the comfort she has received from God. Daphne inspires women to take biblical steps to personal growth and freedom. She also writes about her struggles with chronic illness and pain.Daphne's work has appeared in Just Between Us, {in}courage (a division of DaySpring), Living Better 50+, The Gabriel, Inspired Women Magazine, Ruby for Women, Rest Ministries, and Mentoring Moments for Christian Women. Daphne contributed three chapters in the compilation Women of the Secret Place (Ambassador International, 2012). The thankfulness journal, Dragonflies, Ketchup, and Late-Night Phone Calls, is her first book.Daphne speaks at recovery events. She was a leader in a local Christ-centered recovery program, where she facilitated open-share and step study groups.Daphne lives in the Southeastern United States. She retired from corporate life at a Fortune 500 company to become a stay-at-home mom. She is the President of Lakeland Christian Writers, a chapter of American Christian Writers (ACW).Daphne enjoys solitude; nature walks; journaling; experimenting in the kitchen; the arts; and spending time with her newlywed husband, her three children, their basset hound Dudleigh, and ornery Kitty-Kitty too.

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      Groove - Daphne Tarango

      I thank God for Jesus, the Lord and Savior of my life. May all I say, do, and write bring Him glory and lead others into a deeper relationship with Jesus, the lover of our souls.

      To my friends and family: Thank you for encouraging, motivating, and supporting me in my writing efforts.

      To my fellow contributors: This book wouldn’t have been possible without you. I know God will do wonders through your transparency in this work. May He continue to bless you as you dig deeper grooves in Him.

      To my advance reviewers: Thank you for the time you invested in reading and providing feedback. Thank you for believing in us and in this project. Thank you for your endorsement.

      To Suzanne Williams: Thank you for your patience as we worked through the cover photo and design. You have a unique and talented eye. May God continue to bless your talents and your business.

      To my husband: Thank you for your encouragement and patience, especially with my bipolar mood swings. Thank you for taking the kids to church on Wednesday nights so I can write without interruption. What a gift you are to me! I love you.

      To my children: Thank you for understanding when mom’s brain isn’t working right. Thank you for your faith-filled prayers that I get better soon. Thank you for being patient with me when I mess up. Thank you for forgiving me.

      To my parents: Thank you for making the effort to understand my illness. Thank you for protecting me from insensitive comments. Thank you for sharing your stories of mental illness with me. I love you more and more each day.

      To my support group: Thank you for listening to me in my highs and lows. Thank you for rejoicing and crying with me. Thank you for your unconditional love.

      To my counselor: Thank you for helping me process my feelings. Thank you for your Godly wisdom and for being genuinely concerned. Although I’ll miss our meetings once you retire at the end of this year, I thank God for all the tools you shared with me during our years together.

      To my psychiatrist: Thank you for showing me that mental illness isn’t a character flaw but a biological condition. Thank you for not giving up on me when other doctors did. Thank you for being genuinely concerned. I owe how far I’ve come, in part, to you.

      Contributor Acknowledgments

      Grace Ciszkowski: I would like to thank my husband Dave and my children, David and Kristina, for their love and support every day. I cherish them. I’d also like to thank Rev. Robert J. Moore, Psy. D. for his wisdom and guidance. Besides being an excellent therapist, he’s also a very Godly role model. I am blessed to have him in my life.

      Carley Cooper: Thanks to God for never leaving me; even before I was a Christian. Thank you to my family for giving me love, giggles, tears, and puppies. I love you more than words can say. Finally, to my church family: God used you to change me. Thank you so much.

      Chelsea Dearie: I wish to personally thank the following people for their contributions to my inspiration and knowledge: my Savior, who daily shows me mercy and grace; the teachers who encouraged me in my writing; my family, who has been a support to me through my spiritual and emotional struggles.

      Jana Letterman: To my mother for always supporting me no matter what path I choose. For always loving me no matter my mistakes. And for always providing me a wonderful example along the way.

      Bryan Lowe: Thank you to my parents, Kenneth and Pamela Lowe.

      Elena Rosario: Thank you to God for being with me every day of my life. Thank you to my husband, my children and grandchildren. Many thanks to everyone who has prayed for and visited me since my illness this year.

      Marsha Stephenson: May all I do bring joy to Jesus Christ! Thanks to my husband, Rion, and our children, Trent, Dustin, and Kyla, for their love and support. You are the reason I strive to be healthy every day. A special thank you to my counselor, Cindy Hastert and to Dorothy Valet.

      Luis Tarango: I want to thank my wife for her encouragement and love. I’ve wrestled with depression as far back as I can remember, but it wasn’t until four years ago when I met her that I finally found help. Without her, depression would own me. I’m thankful to be part of this book and hope my words are relatable.

      Deanna Wiseburn: Thank you to God for continuing the work He started in me. I am His work in progress, and I thank Him for not giving up on me.

      Preface

      Several years ago, illness forced me to take a leave-of-absence from my job at a Fortune 500 company. At first, I thought my out of office sign would adorn my cubicle walls a couple weeks. Weeks turned to a month. A month turned to two months. Four months. Six months.

      In those six months, I cried enough to fill multiple sinkholes. The year seemed to be a multiple-car pileup on the road of my life. My neck and back throbbed after a minor car accident. The localized pain—in addition to the radiating pain of my fibromyalgia—swelled my depression. Shortly before I took my leave—and part of the reason for my leave, another event forever changed my life.

      I traveled by myself to meet friends in Nashville. I was unexpectedly laid over in Atlanta, and through repeated bad judgments—depression makes you do that—I wound up in a car with a stranger who said he would help me find a place to stay for the night. I knew something was not right as this man drove me through back alleys in nighttime Atlanta, but to protect myself, I instinctively distanced myself mentally and emotionally from what was happening. It was as if I was hovering over myself in an out of body experience that I didn’t want to take part in.

      He dropped me off at a room in an upper floor of a hotel. One of the last things he told me before he left me in the room—He said he would come back in a little while to check on me—was not to use the phone and not to answer the door to anyone but him. I wanted to shower, but I feared someone would hear the running water. At that very moment, I looked in the hotel mirror, I re-entered my body with eyes wide in horror, uttered in a trance, Oh my God, I’m not supposed to be here! I’m stranded!

      I started to panic. I looked around the room trying to figure out the name of the hotel, the street, nothing. Not one item in that room had any identifying information about the hotel. I had no idea where I was or even how to get back to the airport to safety. I couldn’t call the front desk because they didn’t even know I was there. He said he would be back shortly. I didn’t want him to come back. I wanted to leave before he got back.

      I hesitated calling my parents; I didn’t want to alarm them because of their ill health. So with just a smidgen of life left in my cell phone, I called my brother, who lived outside of Nashville—I was supposed to meet him for breakfast the following day. He sensed something was wrong, and when I explained the situation, he switched—as most brothers would—into protective mode. He helped me to calm down, so I could think more clearly. With his guidance, I looked for any identifying signs outside of my hotel window. I located a taxi cab service from the phone book who recognized the surrounding area of the hotel and who could be there within five minutes. He said he would pick me up at a bench outside the hotel. I emphasized that I would meet him outside and not to come inside.

      My brother informed me that I would have to exit the hotel as calmly as possible, without talking to anyone or stopping by the front desk. As if I was supposed to be there. I mustered up strength stored in crevices I didn’t know I had within me. I walked out of the elevator on the main floor and started walking toward the sliding doors when a security guard entered and walked in my direction. My heart dropped.

      Keep calm. Just keep walking.

      I smiled, as did he. I stepped out of the hotel, my brother still on the phone. He kept encouraging me as I walked out of the hotel and made

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