Tectonic plates slip Cement liquifies Buildings implode Thousands perish Tens of thousands Refugees, cold, weary, hungry Dazed, wandering...

They are different, however. · Chaplains are seminary trained, board certified, ordained or endorsed, and specially educated in...

I’m not anti-church Churches have done much good over the centuries – Invented hospitals, nursing homes, hospice, orphanages promoting...

“The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.” – C.G. Jung Family secrets are...

Enlightenment influenced modernity deifies the mob. While the despot, the dictator, and the king identify themselves with the state,...

Grief waves not in sets, crosscurrents, rip tides, slapping, gasping not a lake shore gentle lapping, nor the predictable surfable sets,...

A radical gulf lies between what the ego is convinced it needs and what the soul truly needs. The ego is convinced it needs to be loved....

Being Reparented by Abba We all have a wounded little child within. We are not wounded beyond repair, but we are wounded nonetheless....

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) was previously called multiple personality disorder. It was portrayed in the 1973 book and film,...

Those Long Seasons of Divine Absence Lawrence R. Taylor Long ago, a psalmist wrote that weeping or mourning may linger for a night, “but...

When incoming patients register at hospitals, they are asked to identify a religious preference. The majority self-identify as either...

Personality disorders are ways of describing dysfunctional personalities. They are persistent, life-long ways of behaving that are...

What does it mean to be psychotic? Psychosis describes a loss of contact with reality. Thoughts and perceptions are disturbed to the...

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 4.4% of Americans are affected with bipolar disorder sometime during their...

Depression can make your body so heavy it’s nearly impossible to get out of bed. It can rob you of interests, ambitions, the motivation...

What is the Enneagram? · Part of the occult? · New Age hogwash? · Pagan? · Tied to an Eastern religion? · ...

I do not pray to the universe. The universe is impersonal. The universe is neither benevolent nor malevolent, neither compassionate nor...

When we speak of sexual energy, we naturally think of having sex. But sexual energy is larger than that. Perhaps libidinal energy or...

The false self isn’t false. Nor is it bad; nor something to be rid of. It is the collection of personas we develop as we grow up. It’s...

Because we are created, designed, and therefore evolved as rational, thinking beings, we humans often display an innate curiosity, a...