Benita Weathers
Rev. Weathers is the owner and CEO of BL Weathers LLC, a multifaceted consulting business that enables the client in “Discovering what becomes you.” She is an ordained preacher, author, teacher, certified life coach, podcaster and freelance editor. She is particularly interested in the holistic health of individuals - spiritual, mental and physical. With training in divinity, public health and biology, she is uniquely equipped to provide strategic and practical means by which individuals can achieve wholeness in their lives. She is especially interested in removing the stigma in the church and African American communities regarding mental health and assisting individuals over the age of 40 to re-tool, re-fuel, and re-cycle their passion toward a life that is fulfilling. In addition, she founded Mind the Mental, Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to equip youth and young adults to be so in tune with and in control of their mental well-being that suicide among this group will be virtually non-existent. Her new book, The Scream Within: Clergy Marriage and Mental Health, Journey of a Pastor’s Spouse depicts her journey with her husband who is “at war with” clinical depression. It is written with the hope of turning the scream within to a scream without- without fear, condemnation, embarrassment or ridicule. She is also the author of a Bible Study guide, Living the Word Beyond Sunday Morning: Practical Ways to Live God’s Word and Make an Impact for God’s Kingdom.
