We know the current need is overwhelming – and we and millions of others appreciate you!
We know that mental health, marriage, and other pain-point needs are overwhelming right now, and we want to say THANK YOU for all you do!!! As we told hundreds of leaders who came into our booth at AACC: You are doing work the everyday work with individual lives that we cannot do. Lives are changed and marriages are transformed— eternal impacts!—because you wake up each morning and do what God has placed in front of you to do. Our prayer for you echoes Paul’s: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 15:13)
But we also know you are tired. We know the demand for counseling and help today is FAR greater than the current supply of mental health professionals. We know you often have to turn people away—and that hurts. As one clinic director told us, “Our schedule is fully booked, and every day we are flooded with requests for counseling that we can’t meet. As a clinician, it just hurts to turn so many people away. To share a referral list and hear back that none of those people are taking new clients either. It feels a bit helpless.”
Long hours, overwhelming need and a sense of helplessness can cause isolation, compassion fatigue, and depression. In all our AACC conversations we also saw another major theme: People helpers get so busy and weary trying to meet the need that their own relationships and mental health suffer. Many stopped by the booth to check out books and resources for clients—and then confided they needed them for their own lives, too.
We hope you can take care of yourself and your own relationships, even as you keep going. And we want to help.
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