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Jackie Bailey

I’m raising my child to live a spiritual life – I want her to inherit my values, not my rocky relationship with mental health

Rear view of mother with daughter sitting by lake making sense of it composition I’m raising my child to live a spiritual life – I want her to inherit my values, not my rocky relationship with mental health
‘I may not be religious, but I am spiritual, and I can bring my child up to live a spiritual, meaningful life,’ writes Jackie Bailey. Photograph: Maskot/Getty Images

As someone who has lived with depression on and off since I was a kid, I want my 12-year-old daughter to inherit my values and my fashion sense – not my rocky relationship with mental health.

While conducting some research for my upcoming book about how to live a spiritual but non-religious life, I came across the work of the psychologist Lisa Miller and epidemiologist Myrna Weissman. It changed the way I think about parenting.

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