In 1976, Nancy did a post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge Hospital, one of the Harvard teaching hospitals. While there she observed that no mental health professionals ever explored the religious dimension of a person’s life. Given her religious background, she found this intriguing and perplexing and began to question the omission.
As she worked with ... men and women over the years she became, as one of her patients said, “An Honorary Mental Patient.” They became a community that she felt deeply connected with and they changed her. They taught her that a person with a mental health diagnosis is a person first not a mentally ill person any more that a person with cancer is a cancerous person. (To read more about Nancy's ministry with people with mental health diagnoses click on the links under her picture.)
