Scrivener - A New Day

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My blog: . Articles and posts on mental health and Christian identity as well as useful links and a contact page.

My book: A New Name (IVP, 2012). My testimony, available from good bookshops, or from .

What Does the Bible Say about Eating Disorders? (Day One, 2016). A short booklet aimed at both sufferers and carers.

• Three Two One: . My husbands site and a great explanation of the gospel.
• Christianity Explored: . Includes details of seeker courses running at churches in your area.

• Anorexia and Bulimia Care: . Organization run by Christians for sufferers, families and carers (sufferers helpline: 01934 710679; parents helpline: 01934 71064).
• National Centre for Eating Disorders: . National network of counsellors, including telephone treatment options.
• Beat: . UK charity supporting those affected by EDs.
• Men Get Eating Disorders Too: . Run by and for men with eating disorders, including their carers and families.
• F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders): . Provides support for parents and carers.

• Anxiety UK: . A user-led organization for those affected by anxiety disorders (0844 477 5774).
• No Panic: . Provides support to those suffering from anxiety disorders, as well as families and carers (0808 808 0545).
• Social Anxiety UK: . Volunteer-led organization with chat rooms, support/social groups and information on CBT.
• Anxiety No More: . Information and advice on all aspects of anxiety and panic.
• Big White Wall: . Aims to improve mental health and emotional well-being.
• Calm Clinic: . Provides information relating to anxiety, panic disorder, stress and depression.
• No More Panic: . Information for sufferers about panic, anxiety, phobias and OCD.
• Patient info: . Self-help on panic attacks, phobias, anxiety, stress, OCD and relaxation exercises.
• Surgery Door: . Self-help for anxiety.

• OCD UK: . Information for children and adults.
• OCD Action: . The UKs largest OCD charity.

• Will van der Hart and Rob Waller, The Perfectionism Book (IVP, 2016).

• Darkness to Light: . Provides training and information on preventing child sexual abuse.
• Dan Allender centre: . Christian resources, conferences and articles on surviving abuse (based in US). See also The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse (Tyndale House, 2014), an excellent book and audio CD on dealing with sexual abuse.
• Mind.org: . Range of resources/help for all kinds of abuse.
• NSPCC: . Help for children and adult survivors of childhood abuse.
• The Survivors Trust: . National umbrella agency for over 135 specialist rape, sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse support organizations throughout the UK and Ireland.
• Survivors UK: . For male survivors of sexual abuse.
• Victim Support: . Support for women affected by rape or abuse.

• The Site: . Information and discussion boards.
• Self-injury support: . Includes a list of resources.
• Self-injury.org: . Christian-based self-injury resources.

• Association of Biblical Counsellors: . A useful article on anger.
• Womens Aid: . For female victims of domestic violence.
• Mankind Initiative: . For men affected by domestic violence.
• Hidden Hurt: . Domestic abuse information, including help for abusers.
• Blain Nelsons blog: . A former abuser talks about getting help.

• Families for Depression Awareness: . Helping families to recognize and cope with depression and bipolar disorder.
• Seasonal Affective Disorder Association: .
• Mind: . Mental health charity with a range of links and resources.
• MAMuk: . Online forum offering support and friendship to all mothers and mothers-to-be.
• Black Dog Institute: . Australian site on mood disorders.
• British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies: . Includes self-help and a list of therapists.
• Undoing Depression: . Self-help site.
• Depression Alliance: . Includes a pen-friend scheme that puts you in touch with other sufferers.
• Students against Depression: . Website for students.
• Quarentia: . An excellent blog series on depression.

• Samaritans: . Twenty-four-hour service, available every day of the year. Email support at jo@samaritans.org.
• Papyrus: . Voluntary organization that supports teenagers and young adults who are feeling suicidal.
• CALM: . Includes a support group for young men (0800 58 58 58).
• SOBS (Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide): . Support for those aged 18 and over (0844 561 6855).

• Mind and Soul: . Helpful Christian site with various resources on mental health.
• Mercy Ministries: . Provides a free, residential Christian discipleship programme for women aged between 18 and 28, who are struggling with issues such as self-harm, eating disorders or abuse.
• Health Talk: . Video, articles and recordings where people share their experiences, for example with depression. Includes a youth section.
• Patient Info: . Evidence-based health advice, written by doctors.
• NHS: . Health news, including a Behind the Headlines section for those who are interested in major health stories, but unsure of the facts behind them.
• Association of Biblical Counsellors: . Provides resources, training and a list of counsellors.
• British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP): . To read more on CBT from a Christian perspective: .

Our churches are full of hurting people, because they are full of ordinary men and women. Sometimes it is hard to share, especially if the issues are emotional or concerned with mental health. But the gospel speaks to the whole person, body, mind, emotions and spirit. In this book, Emma writes for those who are struggling and those who care for them. She writes not as an ivory-tower theorist, but as someone who has fought her own battles with Gods help. Taking a helpful model of moving from darkness into light, she is real about human experience, but confident in Jesus ability to enter into our struggles with his healing and redeeming power. This is a book that is both realistic and hopeful, linking experience to the gospel, so that life may be lived, moving from darkness into light.

Richard Jackson, Bishop of Lewes

What if mental health issues are not the problem of an unfortunate but limited few? What if everyone struggles? And what if there is a way forward? This is not just a book to help you understand others and help them, although it is that. This is a book to help you understand yourself, and even more importantly, to point you to the hope offered by Jesus Christ. Jesus is the one who enters into our mess, and it is when we meet him that we find hope not an instant fix, but real hope. Whether youve known Jesus for years or are yet to meet him, let Emma Scrivener point you to Christ. This book will lift your heart as you struggle, and guide you practically as you reach out to help others. May it not only help individuals, but also stir whole churches to become communities of care, help and hope.