About Katie Dale

Katie R. Dale is no stranger to the storms of serious mental illness. Author of a memoir about her faith through psychiatric hospitalizations, she advocates online, blogging, speaking, and sharing her story. She draws on her personal and professional experience in the mental healthcare system to share insight to enlighten. When she's not standing up for brain disorder equity, she's getting creative in her freelance design business. She's mom to one child on earth and one in heaven, wife to her hero in uniform, and resides wherever the USAF takes them.

Topic Covered by Katie

Sin or Symptom: How to Identify and Treat Both

Addressing mental health in our world and especially in the church is confusing.

With lived experience plus truths from God's Word, Katie compels us to reconcile our Christian faith in a God who heals, with the realities of mental illness.

After hearing Katie speak, you will come away with:

• Sound answers to why spiritual and mental realms are different and how to respond to each accordingly
• Practical ways to approach your loved ones with help for their mental illness
• Tools to guide you and your loved one through mental illness, including her GAMEPLAN: Mental Health Resource Guide

• Where does mental end and spiritual begin? There is no definitive line. You're going to sin in sickness and be soul-sick in sin. The two (the heart and mind) operate in tandem.
• Unlike sin, when it comes to addressing behaviors stemming from mental illness, there is no law or precedent in Scripture to reprimand or correct the behaviors. There must be understanding and love, compassion and care.
• There are differences between sins and symptoms. There are similarities. The key to distinguish them from each other is to understand from where they originate.

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