Inherited beliefs, spirituality, sanity, truth and what happens when you begin questioning what you were taught.
Have you ever questioned something you were taught to believe, only to feel guilty for having the thought in the first place? Perhaps you have begun to wonder whether everything you were told about God is true. Perhaps certain teachings no longer make sense to you. Or perhaps you still believe, but the relationship you
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Have you ever reached a point where you seem to be questioning everything? Not just one decision or one belief. Everything. Things you once accepted without much thought suddenly seem less obvious. Ideas you inherited begin to feel like questions rather than answers. You find yourself wondering why people live the way they do, why
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Have you ever stopped in the middle of a thought and wondered where it came from? Not whether it was true. Not whether it was reasonable. But simply: Who taught me to think this? Perhaps you have always believed that being productive makes you valuable. That a good relationship should look a particular way. That
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Most of us are taught how to live long before we are old enough to ask whether the life we are being taught actually makes sense. We learn what success looks like. We learn what a respectable life looks like. We learn when we should work, when we should marry, what kind of relationship we
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Most of us have beliefs we rarely think of as beliefs. They feel more solid than that. They feel like facts. We believe certain things about God, relationships, morality, success, ourselves, other people and the nature of reality. Some of those ideas were taught to us explicitly. Others were absorbed so gradually that we may
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Am I crazy? It is a question that can sound almost flippant when spoken aloud. We say it when our version of events seems different from somebody else’s. We say it when we notice something other people don’t seem to notice. We say it when an idea enters our mind that doesn’t fit comfortably inside
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There is something strange about the word sanity. We use it as though it has a fixed meaning. As though there is a clear line between the sane and the insane, the rational and the irrational, the normal and the abnormal. But who drew that line? Who decided what a healthy mind is supposed to
If you’ve searched how to fix yourself, there’s a good chance you’re carrying something heavy.
Maybe you’re emotionally exhausted. Maybe you’ve been through heartbreak, burnout, anxiety, grief, or years of trying to be everything for everyone else. Perhaps you’ve spent countless hours reading self-help books, listening to podcasts, or watching videos that promise to transform your life.
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The title of my book, Maybe I’m Crazy, But the World’s Gone Mad, often makes people smile. Some laugh. Some pause. Others immediately understand exactly what I mean.
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