Reid Bervik
Reid Bervik is a writer and creator whose books, podcast, and essays explore emotional healing, faith deconstruction, and the social forces shaping our lives.
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- Work
- Writer, creator, and speaker
- Education
- MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
- Book
- Invisible Wounds: A Guide to Healing from Emotional Neglect
- Podcast
- Recess
- Newsletter
- all at once, published as Reid Immanuel
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A place to pause.
By 2021, Reid was making Recess, a mental health podcast about healing, relationships, and the way we understand ourselves. Its short episodes offered listeners space to pause and consider one subject at a time. In The Reality of Healing: People Will Leave Us, he explored how pursuing change can reshape relationships.
Putting feelings into words.
His book Invisible Wounds brings together personal experience, research, and his graduate training in clinical mental health. It focuses on emotional neglect, with exercises and reflection questions alongside the writing. In a 2023 conversation with Gabby Wilkinson on Dear God, I’m Sad, he discussed leaving the beliefs of his white evangelical upbringing and the emotional challenges of faith deconstruction.
Making room for the writer.
In August 2023, Reid wrote candidly about burnout and wanting to move toward creative expression. In January 2024, he explained that All at Once would make room for the different parts of his interests: mental health, personal stories, Palestine, and writing for the pleasure of it. His later essays connect personal experience with questions of race, power, community, and care.
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Writing
- 2025Whiteness and Perception (Part 1)Writer
- 2025The Government Has Abandoned The PeopleWriter
- 2024All at OnceWriter
- 2023spearPoet
Podcasts
- 2023Dear God, I’m DeconstructingGuest on Dear God, I’m Sad
- 2021Recess: The Reality of Healing: People Will Leave UsHost
Quotes
I refuse to be pigeonholed to one topic, one style of writing, one niche.Reid Bervik, All at Once
In January 2024, he explained why he wanted his newsletter to reflect the full range of his interests.
Trivia
- He publishes his Substack writing under the name Reid Immanuel.
- In All at Once, he uses an orchestra as a metaphor for bringing different parts of himself together.
- He credits reading Frederick Douglass in 2015 as an important step in questioning the worldview he grew up with.
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