A little bipolar, a lot blessed
A Little Bipolar, A Lot Blessed
A little faith, a lot of feelings, and one hell of a journey.
By Madalyn Kennedy
What happens when your mind has a personality of its own, your emotions refuse to follow a schedule, and you’re just trying to make it through the day with a little faith and a whole lot of humor?
Welcome to life with bipolar disorder.
In A Little Bipolar, A Lot Blessed, Madalyn Kennedy takes an honest, unfiltered, and sometimes hilariously uncomfortable look at navigating life with bipolar disorder. From the emotional highs and exhausting lows to medication, relationships, motherhood, faith, and the occasional questionable decision, this book explores the parts of mental illness that don’t always make it into the perfectly polished conversations.
This isn’t a book about pretending everything is okay. It’s about acknowledging when it isn’t, laughing when you can, crying when you need to, and learning that a diagnosis doesn’t get to define your entire identity.
Inside, you’ll find:
- Honest reflections on the highs, lows, and everything in between.
- Humor about the wonderfully inconvenient chaos of everyday life.
- Conversations about medication, therapy, relationships, and self-awareness.
- The complicated relationship between faith, church, and mental health.
- Journal prompts to help you reflect, process, and understand yourself.
- A brutally honest chapter-ending section called Things I Probably Shouldn’t Say Out Loud.
There will be faith. There will be feelings. There may be a few questionable thoughts that probably should have stayed in the group chat.
But above all, there will be honesty.
Because you can love God and still struggle. You can be grateful and still have hard days. You can be a work in progress without being a lost cause.
You are more than your diagnosis, more than your worst day, and certainly more than the things your brain occasionally convinces you are a good idea.
A little bipolar. A lot blessed. And still figuring it out, one day at a time.