by Jonathan Cannon | Nov 21, 2016 | Compassion, Featured, Mental Health, Poetry |
I just feel like sharing some thoughts on crying, sadness, and depression. I was entertained by Louis CK’s take on cell phones, but I’m suggesting you take three or four minutes to watch this video for a different reason. Beside the laughs, Louis CK...
by Leah Marie | Oct 7, 2016 | Featured, Mental Health |
Last weekend at conference, Russell M. Nelson gave a lovely talk about joy. The sentiment of his talk is fine. The is a lot about the world and humanity that need fixing, and sometimes it is hard to pull your eyes away from the negative. I don’t mind the reminder that...
by Jeremy Timothy | Oct 3, 2016 | Agency, Faith, Featured, Humanity, Mental Health, Mormonism, Theology |
There exists in the LDS culture an idea that we are meant to be happy and to have the gospel is to be happy. It is not uncommon to imagine the afterlife as a state of unending happiness. So much of or rhetoric is based on how we are the happiest people on Earth...
by Jeremy Timothy | Mar 7, 2016 | Activism, Church, Compassion, exclusion-policy, Faith, Featured, Homosexuality, Humanity, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Mormonism, Policy, Service, spirituality |
Depression and suicide have made their rounds in the Mormon blogosphere of late, particularly in regard to the issue of homosexuality in Mormonism. For me, this is a subject that hits home because, you see, I suffer from depression. It’s taken me a while to...
by Geoff Nelson | Feb 26, 2016 | Activism, Charity, Featured, Forgiveness, Mental Health, Word of Wisdom |
I’ve been on antidepressants for about 4 years now. On the couple occasions when I forgot to pick up my prescription refill (just before a 3-4 day weekend) it became clear that I still needed to be on them. It’s not particularly surprising that I have this...
by Julie de Azevedo Hanks | Dec 15, 2015 | Featured, General authorities, Mental Health, Mormonism, spirituality |
There have been a handful of moments in my life when I’ve realized that common words and phrases in LDS culture have become so familiar that they have lost their original meaning. For example, stake center, FHE, and “without a shadow of a doubt” are such common jargon...
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