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June 2, 2025
Take Joy on your Journey
Trauma can destroy you OR transform you. How can this happen? Many have been through traumatic events in their lives and do not know where to turn for hope, compassion and comfort. What if all of those coming to you for help, already have their own tragic history. Rev. Hicks is the founder of Triumph over Trauma. You will be amazed and blessed to hear the history and purpose behind Triumph over Trauma. Absolutely amazed.
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Jan. 24, 2025
Commentary by the Rev. Neelley Hicks
When we see hateful rhetoric and hate crimes in the news, we may feel even more compelled to speak out in love. This counteraction ultimately increases the light of Christ’s presence in the world, overshadowing the clouds of despair.
The contrast between hate and love has varying degrees...
Jan 21, 2025
Women Arise Podcast
In this Women Arise podcast, I interviewed Dr. Mario Mendez about how the brain is wired and responds through hate. Each of us has a brain, and it is wired in particular ways to the in-group and the out-group. How can we, as people of faith and hope, come into a sense of our being to bring about a world free from hate?
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Jan. 13, 2025
By the Rev. Neelley Hicks
Their energy was palpable, like faulty electrical lines sending sparks flying into the air. By God's grace, I maintained a non-anxious presence with them, enough to ask probing questions about how one of them got to the point of joining a hate group.
Dec. 6, 2024
Commentary by the Rev. Neelley Hicks
“How does it feel to have so much anger in your heart?” I asked a young man, who told me that his name was Joey.
His tall, dark mohawk and red sleeveless T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika stood out among the group of neo-Nazis outside the gates of a Nashville Together rally in Nashville on July 21.
Photo by Ray di Pietro.
Aug 21, 2024
Compass Podcast: Finding Spirituality
Neelley Hicks shares her experience that landed her picture in papers across the globe, stemming from a recent Unity Rally in Nashville, Tennessee. It was attended by a diverse and vibrant community and disrupted by the alarming presence of Neo-Nazis. This episode looks into the complex emotions and motivations behind such extremist actions and explores how we can rise above hate with love and unity.
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Mar 31, 2023
Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell, TDS Memphis
A versatile mix of counselors, clergy, nonprofit leaders, and individuals who have suffered trauma and are living through various stages of recovery, found common ground at The Healing Center in Oakhaven Tuesday (March 28). More than 200 people gathered at a workshop to learn how both communities and individuals are affected by trauma.
January 2, 2023
Local Stories, Nashville Voyager
Nashville Voyager interviews Neelley Hicks on her life journey and the motivations that lead to the creation of Harper Hill Global. Learn more about the challenges faced along the way and what success looks like for Harper Hill Global.
November 9, 2022
The Institute for Public Service Reporting Memphis
Rev. Neelley Hicks from Harper Hill Global, met with Rev. Kimberlynn Alexander, another United Methodist Church minister, at the visitation for Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, the local church leader killed during a July carjacking in her driveway. They discuss their work helping traumatized women and children in and in Africa and southeast Memphis, and the ever increasing need for these efforts.
October 24, 2022
Mental Health Weekly Vol. 32, No. 42
Harper Hill Global partnered with the National Association of the State of Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) to launch Triumph Over Trauma, a program that is being fueled by the idea that faith-based organizations have been a largely untapped resource in the effort to heal communities.
October 19, 2022
Nashville Tenneesean
Harper Hill Global launches new initiative, Triumph over Trauma, a seven-week-long curriculum for groups to focus on trauma recovery. Triumph over Trauma harnesses the power of communications through religious networks by pulling on existing mental health care materials and resources, and including supplemental material for participants from Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Native American backgrounds, authored by religious leaders.
October 10, 2022
Global Association for Trauma Recovery
Harper Hill Global in partnership with National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) is broadening resources to individuals experiencing crisis by engaging diverse faith organizations including churches, mosques, and synagogues, and providing training for facilitators of trauma-focused educational groups.
October 7, 2022
United Methodist News
Triumph Over Trauma, a seven-week psychoeducational program for people going through trauma, is the outcome of work a United Methodist deacon was doing for survivors of sexual violence in eastern Congo.
Read more to learn how this initiative started.
April 12, 2022
United Methodist News
Harper Hill Global partnered with the North Katanga United Methodist Church, and others to provide information on how risky high blood pressure can be for pregnant women. The initiative encouraged pregnant women at risk to visit health centers such as the United Methodist Shungu Clinic, which offers expectant mothers education about hypertension, along with regular checkups and low-dose aspirin.