Dear Reader,

Thank you for choosing to read and discuss The Broken Weathervane. I am honored, and I hope the story touched your heart in some way.

I would be thrilled to visit your group as a guest author, either in person or via Zoom. You can reach me through the contact page on this website.

Happy reading!
Laura DeNooyer

RESOURCES

If you or anyone you know struggles with mental illness of any kind, please reach out for help. There are hundreds of viable therapy options in person and online. Start here:
top10.com/online-therapy/exact-comparison

—This list includes BetterHelp (considered one of the best), FaithfulCounseling (geared to Christians), and Calmerry (subscription-based for those without mental health insurance).

Search by location, specialty, and insurance for someone in your area:

•    psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/
•    goodtherapy.org
•    mentalhealthmatch.com

The National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is in English and Spanish, 24 hours a day: 9-8-8.

RECOMMENDED READING

• Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission, by Amy Simpson
• Whispers in the Pews: Voices on Mental Illness in the Church, by Chris Morris

Classic Literature with Characters exhibiting Mental Illness

• Jane Eyre (Mr. Rochester’s wife), by Charlotte Bronte
• Tender is the Night (Nicole Diver), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• I Never Promised you a Rose Garden (autobiographical fiction), by Joanne Greenberg—about a teenage girl with schizophrenia (1964)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Boo Radley), by Harper Lee
• Wuthering Heights (Heathcliff), by Emily Bronte
• Mrs. Dalloway (Septimius), by Virginia Woolf
• Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), by William Shakespeare