Summary: Reading Gabor Mate’s recent book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture” is like having my own...

Mate reminds us that as beings we want to be in stable caring mutual environments, not aggressive hostile ones. Of course, the latter is...

Secrecy and separateness are two of my main proto-addictions, my Ur-addictions, those earliest of tendencies that, like childhood...

In 1942, novelist, literature professor, and lay theologian C.S. Lewis wrote a religious satirical novel, The Screwtape Letters, about...

The Enneagram is a psychological (some would add spiritual) tool which I first encountered in the 1990s when beginning my seminary and...

Disgust, it has been stated, is seen as disgusting. We turn away from what disgusts us, and so we tend to want to turn away from what...

We often say in recovery groups that all our stories are unique to us and all our stories are the same. Mine then, too, as explored...

Simply put, bibliotherapy is engaging in reading to find healing. Much of it focuses on certain kinds of readings. Perhaps works of...

So you have been discovered or have disclosed your acting out and double life and are faced now with the consequences in a relationship....

Robert Lustig’s book, “The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of our Bodies and Brains” was one of...

Reading Lustig, after Mate’s book, (see book reviews under "more") helped me to see more clearly the biological enemy I was facing, even...