Katie Mottram feels “divinely led”, but it hasn’t always been that way.
We met Katie during our recent trip to Goiania, Brazil. Katie is one of ten mental health providers that attended Emma Bragdon‘s seminar to learn more about Spiritist methodologies and discuss how we can integrate them into our own mental health care systems. Katie arrived just as her first book, “Mend the Gap“, was being published. It’s about her transformative journey from suicidal despair to spiritual awakening.
Having worked in the mental health field in England for 15 years, she realized that the system in which she worked could be doing things differently.
“I have no doubt that our current system perpetuates the problem because it tells someone, you’ve got this diagnosis, there’s something wrong with you that you can’t recover from…”
As a consequence of her own spiritual emergence, Katie became a member of the UK Spiritual Crisis Network development team, offering resources for those in spiritual emergency. Katie is also helping administer an innovative mental health pilot study directed by psychiatrist Russell Razzaque aiming to ‘normalize’ mental distress as a potentially transformative episode in life that many individuals will have and recover from—if given appropriate compassionate care. This pilot study could transform National Health Service policy within the UK and beyond.
Phil was recently in England to interview Dr. Razzaque. We will be sure to share with you what we learn about this revolutionary study.
You can learn more about Katie and her work at www.emergingproud.com!
