{"id":6981,"date":"2025-06-23T03:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/6981\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T03:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:29:20","slug":"shining-a-spotlight-on-mental-health-with-a-free-concert-in-chico-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/6981\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining a spotlight on mental health with a free concert in Chico | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\"><strong>CHICO, Calif. &#8211;<\/strong> A Christian punk singer is coming to Chico this week, aiming to shine a spotlight on mental health. Grace Graber shared her personal story, revealing that she faced a tough time as a teenager and even had to change schools due to bullying by her peers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">She credits music with saving her life and hopes to continue serving others through her work. &#8220;I became suicidal because of that. And, actually, an old Christian rock band named Hawk Nelson, one of their songs popped into my head the night I was planning on taking my own life and told me that I was not alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">Graber has been a professional musician for 4 year, but says music has always been a passion. &#8220;It&#8217;s always been the thing that has kept me sane and alive and has reminded me in so many moments of my life that I&#8217;m not alone and that someone understands,&#8221; Graber said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">Graber also discussed the challenges of expressing herself within her church community, particularly when it came to discussing mental health struggles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">&#8220;It helps express a part of me that felt like in church I would never be understood if I spoke up about something. I remember first going on medication for depression and being told &#8216;you don&#8217;t wanna tell people that&#8217;,&#8221; Graber explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;re all going through trials and I feel like music is that that thing that can get us to understand without saying the word,&#8221; said Graber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">The concert is scheduled for June 19 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicoaumc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aldersgate United Methodist Church<\/a> on Cohasset Road in Chico. It starts at 6 p.m., and it is free to attend. *AI assisted with the formatting of this story. Click here to see how Action News Now uses AI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsnow.com\/site\/ai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.actionnewsnow.com\/site\/ai.html<\/a>)*<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICO, Calif. &#8211; A Christian punk singer is coming to Chico this week, aiming to shine a spotlight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[8367,210,425,517,50,52,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-6981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-butte-county","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-local","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114730563371358613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}