Welcome to Turning the Page
A Grace-Filled Path to Mental Wholeness
Find help by topic
Click whichever one feels closest to where you are today.
Here’s the plan
Three ways to start walking — no pressure to do all three at once.
Start with free ebooks and courses
Sign up for the email newsletter. You’ll get ebooks and courses on depression, recovery, spiritual exercises, helping others, plus one fresh piece of Soul Talk content every week.
Seek and you will find
Type a topic in the search bar, click the tags at the end of any post, or choose one of the seven topic buttons above. Or contact me and ask a question — I respond to every email.
Give a little back
If you find what I’ve created helpful, consider giving a little gift. This website relies on people like you.
Meet Barry
Barry Pearman has been a mental health support worker, chaplain, and pastor for almost 30 years, and someone who’s walked through depression himself.
Staying still doesn’t change anything. Change starts with a millimetre step down a different path. Let’s take this together.
Latest from Soul Talk
You really need an Encouragement Journal
Life has ups and downs, but when you have an encouragement journal, you always have...
God Looks Deeply Inside Of Us–Soul Talk
I have secrets I tell no one. I am not alone in this I am...Reaching 50, not out.
Brendon McCullum knocks one off to the side ‘With a quiet nod to the...
How to Break Free From Self-Pity and the Victim Mentality
It’s an acronym I learnt this week from All is Grace, Brennan Manning’s memoir. He...
What Pushes your Button needs Attention – Soul Talk
There are some people that just push my buttons! Something about them sets off a...
Why Paul’s ‘Fruitful Labor’ is a Great Antidote to Suicide
For the apostle Paul, he knew what a dark place was like. But he found...
Five Ideas To Help People Feel They Can Be Known.
Who Knows you? I know Raj down at the petrol station, I know his face...
5 Pointers in making Goals when the Way Ahead is Uncertain
2011 has been a year of dramatic change for many. World news has been dominated...
What you Really Want but Rarely Get – Soul Talk.
Back and forth, side to side, oscillating with mindless repetition, Charlie and Billy had spent...
You really need an Encouragement Journal
God Looks Deeply Inside Of Us–Soul Talk
Reaching 50, not out.
How to Break Free From Self-Pity and the Victim Mentality
What Pushes your Button needs Attention – Soul Talk
Why Paul’s ‘Fruitful Labor’ is a Great Antidote to Suicide
Five Ideas To Help People Feel They Can Be Known.
5 Pointers in making Goals when the Way Ahead is Uncertain
What you Really Want but Rarely Get – Soul Talk.