Barbara Tennell Rupp

Do you struggle with mental and/or emotional illness? Barbara Tennell Rupp teaches women who suffer with mental and emotional problems how to transform their negative thoughts, so they can make positive choices, have meaningful relationships, and experience inner peace, regardless of their circumstances. Barbara was born in San Antonio, Texas, grew up in the Bay Area in Northern California. As a child, she enjoyed the freedom of expression her ballet and tap lessons, drawing, coloring, and daydreaming offered. As a teen, she spent many happy hours creating dress patterns, designing, and making her own clothes, winning Outstanding Designer from San Francisco School of Fashion Design. She also won the coveted title of Miss Bronze Northern California, and Miss Bronze California. Not everything in Barbara's life was joyful. In 1993, after decades of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, Barbara was involuntarily committed to a state mental hospital. Her life spiraled down to the point she was 99% dead physically, mentally and spiritually. It was in the mental hospital where her life changed in a miraculous way. Barbara founded Women at the Well Ministries in 1995, encouraging and teaching women how to be overcomers practically, while struggling with mental and emotional problems. She has served in women's ministry in many capacities, including writing and teaching women's Bible studies, opening her home to homeless women and children, volunteering at a girl's home (who were wards of the state), crisis pregnancy centers, crisis intervention hotline, battered women's shelters, rape crisis hotline and advocate, and holding Bible studies at different shelters. Struggling 17 years to complete her first book, The Woman at the Well...today, Barbara tells how anyone can experience inner peace, regardless of the circumstances. Look for her next book, The Woman at the Well...today Bible Study, to be released before Christmas, 2014. This Bible study will take you step-by-step and teach you how to refocus, transforming your negative thoughts into positive choices. Barbara lives with her son and his family in Southern California. She gladly shares her testimony through women's retreats, conferences, and events. Contact Barbara to book her for your next women's event.