Compassionate Reading

#mental-health

5 items tagged #mental-health, across the whole site.

• Blog February 12, 2019

  Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

  I'm going to start with the easy stuff before it all falls apart.

• Blog December 13, 2018

  Interlude: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

  A dear friend wrote to me. Is there anything better than a perfect email, with questions tailored specifically tailored to you, so that you can be your Fullest Self? There is not.

• Blog September 5, 2018

  The Book I'm Not Reading

  I own a not insignificant number of copies of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, the best novel ever written in the English language. As a Christian who is saved in Christ (I think?)…

• Blog August 30, 2018

  Suffering, Part 2: Good Suffering

  This is what happens when someone tries to lead me through a guided meditation. They'll want to start in a field -- not physically, though; I'm not an Outdoorsy Kinda Guy -- and…

• Blog August 16, 2018

  "I battled the Holy Ghost once on the laundry porch"

  Truth is a Gentlemen’s Agreement between two people, neither of whom are gentlemen, neither interested in honesty. Instead, these people are simply polite fictions dressed up in…