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Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace. Clergy have increasingly stepped into the frontlines of care for mental health

Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace.

STILLWATER, Minn. — Every morning, the Rev. Karna Moskalik goes through a “grounding” routine that involves prayer, Bible reading, positive affirmations, and meditations about the best outcomes for the day’s

Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace.

Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace.

Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace.

Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace.

Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace.

Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace.

STILLWATER, Minn. -- Every morning, the Rev. Karna Moskalik goes through a "grounding" routine that involves prayer, Bible reading, positive affirmations, and meditations about the best outcomes for the days tasks, as well as lighting a perfumed candle and walking through each space of her Lutheran church.