SMall Group Studies & Devotional
These small group studies, leader guides, and devotionals are designed to move you from observation to transformation. This is where the film becomes personal. Where the stories you’ve seen begin to intersect with your own inviting you to slow down, reflect honestly, and allow what you’ve experienced to reach deeper places in your heart. Whether you’re leading others or walking through it yourself, each resource is crafted to guide meaningful conversation, uncover truth, and create space for real healing through the Gospel.
Don’t rush past it. Sit with it. Wrestle with it. Let it speak.
Go ahead and dive in.
Small Group Leaders Guide
Small Group Participants guide
Sound Mind Devotional
Go Deeper with the cast
These short devotionals are where it gets personal.
After each episode of Sound Mind, the voices you’ve heard lean in a little closer. Not to perform, but to share what didn’t fit on screen. The lessons learned, and the moments where God met them in the middle of it all. Whether you’re wrestling with the same struggles or simply searching for clarity, these videos help connect the story to your own life bringing the truth of the Gospel into the places that need it most. Watch, reflect, and take the next step forward.
This Changed Everything
The weight of disappointment. The quiet fear of passing your struggles onto your children. The pressure to hold it all together while your world feels like it’s unraveling. But what if healing doesn’t come from fixing everything but from seeing differently? Even in the pain, the confusion, there is a way to rediscover hope, connection, and a deeper kind of peace you didn’t know was possible.
being honest
From the outside, everything looked like it was holding together but behind closed doors it was chaos. A home that didn’t feel safe. A life that felt out of control. Feeling powerless. Hiding the truth. Carrying shame. Trying to hold everything together while everything quietly falls apart. But what happens when you stop hiding. When you finally face what’s broken and let people in
Bible verses for depression
What do you do when your faith collides with real pain?When prayers go unanswered, when loss hits, when life leaves you asking, “Is God really good?”
Grief. Anger. Doubt. The kind of heartbreak that shakes everything you thought you believed.
And yet—somewhere in the middle of it—there’s a choice: walk away… or wrestle through it.
Expert Discussions
Alongside the Sound Mind documentary series, these conversations go deeper into the roots of struggle, the weight of real life, and the truth of the Gospel that meets you right there in it. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, stuck, or searching for something real this is where the conversation begins.
The Mind, brain, and body
You’re not crazy and you’re not alone. In a world overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, and silent battles of the mind, many people are living trapped in fear, assuming the worst, and spiraling into hopelessness… even when nothing is actually wrong. What if the real struggle isn’t your circumstances but the thoughts you’ve been believing?
Anxiety | OCD | THE GOSPEL
What if the thoughts in your head don’t feel like your own? The ones that won’t stop… the fears you can’t shake… the constant need to “fix” something just to feel okay again.You’re not crazy. You’re not broken. You’re caught in something deeper and there is a way through it. Even in the darkest, most overwhelming moments you’re not alone there.
And this doesn’t have to be where your story ends.
Cortisol & Depression
Depression doesn’t just make you sad—it isolates you. It pulls you away from people, from hope, and from the very support you need most, leaving you feeling trapped, exhausted, and powerless. If you’ve ever felt like you’re losing everything or can’t escape your own thoughts, you’re not alone—and there may be more going on beneath the surface than you realize.
Debunking disorders
What if the battle you’re fighting has nothing to do with food and everything to do with how you see yourself? The pressure to be enough. To look right. To please everyone. This isn’t just about habits.
It’s a a war in your mind, your identity, your worth.
Healing doesn’t start with perfection… it starts with being seen, known, and supported right where you are.
Psychology = soul study
You feel it, don’t you? That quiet uneasiness… like something isn’t right, even when everything looks fine on the outside. And you wonder if anyone truly understands. What if your struggle isn’t just weakness… but a wound? A deeper disconnection, a loss of peace, a search for something your soul was always meant to have. You’re not alone in this. And you don’t have to keep fighting it by yourself.
Bullying & Mental Health
They told you to ignore it. “Shake it off.” “It’s not a big deal.” But it didn’t feel small did it?
The comments. The looks. The subtle exclusion.
Over time, it starts to stick, shaping how you see yourself, making you question your worth, your identity, even who you are. If you’ve been carrying that weight in silence…you don’t have to anymore
Books from the sound mind cast
These books and written resources aren’t theory. They’re the overflow of real stories, hard-won wisdom, and lives that have walked through the very struggles you’re facing.
From the experts and voices featured in Sound Mind, each resource goes beyond the screen offering deeper insight, practical guidance, and space to process what healing actually looks like in your everyday life. This is where reflection becomes formation. Where what you heard begins to take root. If something in the series stirred you, don’t leave it there. Lean in, explore further, and let these words walk with you long after the video ends.
Journaling as a Spiritual Practice: Tracing the Lines of Grace to God's Presence
Sometimes in seasons of grief and emptiness, it can feel like God is distant or gone entirely. After years of sorrow and depression, Allison discovered a simple but powerful lifeline: journaling through Scripture, tracing God’s presence in the midst of pain. What began as a way to process grief became a pathway to healing, clarity, and connection with God again.
From Psychic to Saved
This powerful story follows a former psychic whose life was transformed after a life-changing encounter with Jesus. What once felt real and powerful was replaced by a deeper truth—freedom, redemption, and the overwhelming grace of God. Her journey is a reminder that no one is too far gone, and that hope, healing, and new life are available to anyone who seeks Him.
My Affliction for His Glory: Living Out Your Identity in Christ
Adversity can shake your confidence and make you question your worth, especially when your life feels harder than everyone else’s. Born without arms, Daniel faced overwhelming challenges but discovered that true purpose and identity are found in Christ, not in comparison. His story shows how to face life’s obstacles with faith, creativity, and a renewed sense of possibility.
Confessions of a Christian Alcoholic
Many Christians silently struggle with alcohol, trapped between faith and shame in a battle few talk about. This book confronts that reality head-on, revealing the roots of addiction and offering a path to freedom through honesty, vulnerability, and grace. It’s a powerful reminder that healing isn’t just for “before salvation.” There is real hope for Christians still fighting to become whole.
Finding Rest: A Survivor's Guide to Navigating the Valleys of Anxiety, Faith, and Life
In a world still reeling from the pandemic, many are struggling with anxiety, OCD, and despair; often without knowing where to turn, especially within a church that hasn’t always understood mental health. Drawing from his own battles, Jonathon Seidl offers honest, practical guidance rooted in biblical truth rather than shallow answers.
Endure: Building Faith for the Long Run
Following Jesus isn’t a quick sprint it’s a lifelong race that requires endurance, trust, and steady faith. In Endure, Daniel Ritchie shows how God uses everyday moments and small choices to shape us into who we’re meant to become. This book offers practical encouragement to help you stay grounded in God’s love and keep moving forward, even when the journey feels long.
The Bondage Breaker
Once you have become grounded in your identity in Christ, use this liberating, biblically balanced resources to wage and win spiritual battle. Learn how the enemy attacks and how to successfully stand firm in the armor of God — whether you prefer to learn alone or in small or large groups.
