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Christine D’Clario Opens Up About Suicidal Thoughts, Therapy and Ending the Silence on Mental Health in the Church

Christian singer and Dove Award winner Christine D’Clario speaks candidly about walking through severe postpartum depression, suicidal thoughts and buried childhood trauma, and how both therapy and faith became lifelines in her recovery.
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Christian singer and Dove Award winner Christine D’Clario joins Crosswalk Talk's Michael Foust to discuss her powerful new book Healing in the Desert and the deeply personal journey behind it. In this candid conversation, she opens up about battling severe postpartum depression, suicidal thoughts and unresolved childhood trauma -- and how therapy and faith worked together in her healing process. Christine explains why mental health remains a difficult subject in some church circles and why she believes it’s time to break the silence. She also shares how a Spirit-filled therapist, biblical truth and the steady presence of God carried her through her darkest season.

This video originally appeared on GodTube.com

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Originally published February 27, 2026.


Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel. 

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