{"id":4787,"date":"2020-09-12T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T04:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2020-09-12T20:24:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T04:24:24","slug":"mar-1-2020-loving-someone-with-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/12\/mar-1-2020-loving-someone-with-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar-1-2020: Loving Someone with Mental Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-square wp-image-4794\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20205-180x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20205-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20205-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20205-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20205-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20205.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4787-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1-March-Loving-a-Loved-One-With-Mental-Illness-and-Addiction.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1-March-Loving-a-Loved-One-With-Mental-Illness-and-Addiction.mp3\">https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1-March-Loving-a-Loved-One-With-Mental-Illness-and-Addiction.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>Guest speaker: Lynne Bonner<\/em><br \/>\nFrom depression to borderline personality disorder, mental illness is often stigmatized in our culture. In this service, Lynne Bonner, First Unitarian Church of Victoria Worship Associate, presents a personal story to shed light on the experience of loving someone who struggles with mental illness, and presents some lessons learned\u2014insights that apply to human relationships in general, as well as relationships affected by mental illness. The service includes a simple ritual that gives all present the option to honour ourselves and our loved ones. In addition, a skilled listening ear will be available throughout and after the service if difficult feelings come up for any of us, or if you wish to find community resources for further support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest speaker: Lynne Bonner From depression to borderline personality disorder, mental illness is often stigmatized in our culture. In this service, Lynne Bonner, First Unitarian Church of Victoria Worship Associate, presents a personal story to shed light on the experience of loving someone who struggles with mental illness, and presents some lessons learned\u2014insights that apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}