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Event (via TRS): Uber Therapy - The narratives and politics of digital therapy
Fri 5 Jun 2026 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM BST
Sharing on behalf of our friends over at The Relational School:
Check out my author's site and do a talk. Http ://www.theothersideof the http://rainbow.org
Of the ten non fiction ebooks AI lists on conversion all are by men in a religious beliefs context. Mine is specifically aimed at the erased women’s experience in a secular context with a helpful set of questions for teens and their parents by a gay psychiatrist with 50 years of experience
if you really want the history and the now question check out my book available at less that two Starbucks purchases and a lot more nourishment
Parenting Sanity Minute: dealing with sadness
Tools to protect your mental health in under a minute.
The moment before you say something you’ll regret
Parenting Sanity Minute
Your child says, “You never listen to me.” Your chest tightens. Words start forming before you’ve even decided to speak.
How to Break a Blaming Habit and Build Lasting Accountability in Your Children
Helping children and ourselves develop emotional responsibility through connection, emotional safety, and healthy parent-child communication.
If something spills, breaks, or goes sideways in your home, does your mind race toward the question “Whose fault is this?” That instinct has a name.
This is such a beautiful reminder that responding with a calm heart helps our children feel safe enough to grow. And parenting needs a lot of calmness which I didn't have it at the beginning. Practicing meditation really helped me to act more skillfully towards my own children.
Without Integrity, What Do We Actually Have?
Research on Integrity Impacting Your Health
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. — Proverbs 11:3
How refreshing to hear a man speaking of integrity and getting a sense that you truly mean and practice what you say. Calling out anyone - men or women - on their integrity slips is usually one of the best ways to get another how-to lesson in cognitive dissonance.
I like your stuff, and want to hear more of it. Thanks for the read - Wayne
GIMBHI’s daily mental health update — 05/14/26
📊 LifeStance Health Q1 2026 earnings show margin inflection at outpatient mental health scale (GIMBHI) — 05/14/26
Mental Health Isn't Always Sadness
Heavy crying is not all mental health is about, the same way we cannot interpret physical illness using only heart failure or terminal diseases.
The Missing Safety Layer for Mental Health AI
Mental health AI doesn't have a content problem, it has a state problem. And the architecture to solve this has arrived.
Mental Health Parity?
My book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States has now been out in the world for three weeks. While it spans health insurance barriers in wide-ranging areas of medicine, one aspect to which I have dedicated less attention is mental health. So, let’s dig in.
If You Build Mental Health AI, What You Ship Is Now Legally Accountable
Courts have now settled cases, 43 states are legislating, and the compliance obligations are no longer hypothetical.
In January 2026, Character.AI and Google settled two wrongful death lawsuits involving teenagers who had died by suicide after prolonged interactions with AI companion chatbots. The teenagers were 14 and 13. The systems they had been using were optimised for engagement.
Mental Health Matters
Mental and physical health are deeply intertwined
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to reflect on the importance of mental health across all aspects of our lives, from its impact on our relationships and success at work or school to its connection to our physical health. This we know: our emotional well-being matters not just in May, but every day.
I’m glad you chose the route you did. You’ve done incredible work throughout your career, and you’re continuing that here. I really appreciate the awareness you bring to issues women face, especially violence against women. And your messages of hope are genuinely a breath of fresh air!
Love the subtitle Christine. It's what you wish more of the "lay public" understood. How long did it take the medical community to understand the mind and body are one. It's taken the mental health community just as long to get on board with the same idea in regard to mental health.
Glad you are a strong willed person. I took pre-med courses for two years. Couldn't stand a second of it.
What We Get Wrong When We Build AI for Mental Health
Imagine building a machine capable of perfectly imitating psychotherapy, only to discover that psychotherapy was never the thing we most needed to scale.
A note before you read: I wrote an earlier version of this essay last summer. What you’re reading now is nearly a year of AI expansion later, and my thinking has shifted considerably. The stakes are higher, the evidence is richer, and the commercial urgency has made the argument more necessary, not less.
Goddesses for Mental Health
For thousands of years, human beings have turned toward the Divine in moments of emotional suffering, exhaustion, fear, grief, and mental unrest. Long before modern language existed for anxiety, OCD, ADD, ADHD, depression, trauma, dissociation, or bipolar states, ancient peoples understood that the soul could become burdened, fragmented, or overwhelmed by the weight of living. In temples, caves, shrines, forests, and household altars, people prayed to Goddesses not only for fertility or protection, but for clarity of mind, emotional balance, resilience, comfort, and the strength to continue through darkness.
Final Module: What Comes Next
Toward a Whole Psychology
For most of its history, psychology has been defined by what it left out. First, it left out the psyche in pursuit of objectivity. Then it rediscovered the mind, but cautiously. Then it began to measure consciousness, but carefully.
Thoughtful Thursday (mental health edition)
A bit of advice that helped me break through.
Ten years ago - the summer of 2016 - was the worst time of my life. I was sa, depressed, anxious, and saw no way out. I have no reason for thinking it, but I just KNEW everyone hated me for some reason.
The Ministry for Mental Health
A much needed new resource for mental health professionals
This organization is a think tank for common sense mental health professionals. We will promote the things that make individuals and societies healthy and happy, and identify what good mental health treatment professionals do to get great results.
Faramir and Men’s Mental Health
The face of one who has been assailed by a great fear or anguish
In my read-through of The Return of the King, I’ve found myself hung up on Tolkien’s introduction of Faramir through Pippin’s eyes.
I think this is one of your most important articles. So many men are beset by anxiety, anguish, and depression and either keep it bottled up or try to muscle through — because those are the strategies the general culture sets before them.
Too, “be anxious for nothing,” “trust in God,” “trust in the power of the Cross” are worse than meaningless for these men. They are added afflictions. The Christian man suffering from depression already knows this, and already feels a failure and maybe even punished or condemned for being anxious or not trusting. Well-meaning friends who cheerlead from the side with counsel like this are like Job’s friends.
You offer the best advice in a short piece for resolving anxiety and depression that I have ever seen. I would simply add that the man who is not somewhat anxious or depressed at the state of the world, the state of the Church, the constant toxic challenges to his identity as man, leader, protector, and provider is delusional, a “master of the universe” causing these problems for others, or a master of himself and well on the way to a sane and sparkling sanctity.
Psychotherapy can be a major help. I recurred to it myself when beset with major clinical depression in my late forties and early fifties and I would not have gotten through without it. One reaches a point when therapy has done all it can do — which is much — and what is really needed is competent spiritual direction: just as psychological affliction requires psychological means, so spiritual affliction requires spiritual means. The absolute best direction I have found comes from John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, and Br. Lawrence: Carmelites all. Pray God raise more men to the ranks of spiritual director to help their brothers scale the heights.
I would add as well that depression is a mental illness rooted not just in alienation but from loneliness. Men need the fellowship of other men — men with whom they can share the joys and burdens, men they support and are supported by, men whom they can mentor and from whom they can receive mentorship. This fellowship arises out of common purpose and commitment — as in the Fellowship of the Ring. Anything that can be done to promote authentic fellowship amongst men strengthens everything — the men themselves, their family, their workplaces, their places of worship. Anything that can be done to promote fellowship in the quest for intimate male friendship with the Redeemer-King is good for everyone.
Faramir is some of Tolkien's best work. It's too bad that Jackson couldn't capture it, or didn't understand it. But you have laid out his character so wonderfully- it may be the most difficult aspect of modern, true masculinity. The men called to lead, protect and overcome, must be led, cared for and overcome by Jesus. I'm thankful JRR understood this, and so could help us to understand it, and thankful that you model it well, and mostly thankful Jesus answers for me in my own suffering. Great one, mate! What a start to the morning! I'm ready to run through a brick wall!
5 Misconceptions About Mental Health
I write this piece as a reflection of my own mental health journey. It was seventh grade when depression hit me like a truck. One day I was planning sleepovers with my girlfriends and it felt like the very next day I had this unmeasurable self hate in a body that couldn’t contain all of it. It was sudden and spread like fire for the next thirteen years …
Beautiful. I really appreciated this piece <3
Happy Mental Health Awareness Month
Prioritizing Your Emotional and Mental Wellbeing Every Day
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The NIL Mindset: When Athletes Become Brands
Performing the Self
Last week, we established the foundation: NIL doesn’t just change how athletes get paid; it changes how they understand who they are. This week, we take the next step. Because once identity becomes visible… It doesn’t just exist. It gets managed.
Federalism as a Psychological System of Legitimacy
Federalism and the Psychology of Power Distribution
The Constitution not only defines rights; it distributes power. Through federalism, authority is divided between national and state governments. On paper, this is a structural arrangement. Psychologically, it does something more fundamental: it distributes responsibility, trust, blame, and perceived legitimacy across multiple authorities (Hooghe & Marks, 2009; Devine et al., 2024).
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