Why Haiti? Why suffering? We’ve gone here many times on Beyond Blue. But whenever a friend asks me, “How can you believe in a good God when horrendous tragedies like Haiti happen all the time?” I open my mouth, but no words come out. So I go and open the notes from a course I…

On Saturday, my son received his First Reconciliation. I was one of the readers, and I found the passage that I read for the program so beautiful and comforting. It is Psalm 139:   (This is the children’s edition … to which I relate better!) You have looked deep into my heart, LORD, and you…

Fellow blogger and friend Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. penned an informative blog post on Psychcentral that illuminates 13 of the prevailing myths surrounding schizophrenia. I know I haven’t covered that illness much on Beyond Blue. But I’m starting now! Because I know so many people affected by this complicated mood disorder. To get to Margarita’s insightful…

Photo by Will Vinet. I just found a TIME interview with Elyn Saks, author of “The Center Cannot Hold,” and found it fascinating. It begins: “My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy,” says Elyn Saks, the author of The Center Cannot Hold (Hyperion). It’s hard to argue with that. While…

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