About Barry Pearman :Turning the Page

Hi, I’m Barry.

If you’re here, chances are you’re carrying something heavy — anxiety that won’t quiet down, a depression that’s dragged on longer than you expected, grief you haven’t found words for, or you’re trying to help someone you love who’s struggling and you don’t know how.

You’re also wondering something else, maybe without saying it out loud: does faith even have a place in this?

Is hope in God compatible with therapy, medication, and the hard clinical reality of mental illness — or do you have to pick one?

You don’t have to pick one. That’s what Turning the Page is for.

You’re not broken, and you’re not alone

Mental health struggles can feel isolating, especially inside faith communities where suffering is sometimes read as a lack of belief. It isn’t.

Depression is not a faith failure.

Anxiety is not a character flaw.

And grief doesn’t run on a schedule.

What you need is someone who can hold both truths at once — the real, sometimes clinical weight of mental illness, and the real, steady hope of grace. That’s the path I want to walk with you.

Why I can walk this with you

For years I worked as a Mental Health Support Worker, and later as a Community Chaplain pastoring people living with major mental illness — anxiety, depression, psychosis, bipolar, addiction.

Alongside a small team of volunteers, I helped build a church community called The Living Room, a place built on one idea: everybody was somebody, and Jesus Christ is Lord. People who’d been sidelined elsewhere ended up preaching, leading, and rebuilding their lives.

It changed how I understand both faith and mental health, permanently.

I’ve backed that experience with training that spans both the clinical and the spiritual — SoulCare Foundations under Dr. Larry Crabb, a Bachelor of Applied Theology, spiritual direction training in Colorado Springs, certificates in CBT interventions, pastoral therapy, and integrated mental health care.

I bring all of it here — not as credentials to admire, but as tools to help you take your next step.

Here’s how we can walk this together

Here’s the plan

Three ways to start walking — no pressure to do all three at once.

Start with free ebooks and courses

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Find what speaks to where you are

Search by topic — anxiety, depression, grief, relationships, helping others — or contact me and ask a question — I respond to every email.

Go deeper, one to one.

If you need more than an article — an actual conversation, a place to be heard without being fixed — that’s what Soultalk is for.

You don’t need to have it figured out before you reach out. You just need to take the next millimetre step.