Soundings: An Open Harbor Blog
For the thoughts that don't fit neatly into a session note, a consultation call, or a research paper, this is where they go: reflections on mental health, faith, pop-culture, and the things I'm still working out. Some are clinical, some personal, some just me thinking out loud.
Does Your Attachment Style Shape Your Relationship With God?
A new book argues the church should resist “therapy culture.” It has a real point and a real blind spot. On attachment, God, and why faith and mental health shouldn’t be enemies.
Deconstruction Isn't a Crisis. It's a Process.
The word "deconstruction" gets used as both an insult and a badge. Here's what it actually is, why it feels like a crisis when it usually isn't, and why it's often the first time faith becomes truly yours.
The Real Origin of Spider-Man Is Grief
With a new movie in theaters and the 1,000th issue on the way, it's a good moment to say why this hero has lasted more than sixty years. The secret isn't the powers. It's the person underneath them.
The Wound Wrapped in the Sacred
Ryan Stollar spent his life helping people name religious and spiritual abuse, the harm that comes wrapped in the sacred. What that wound is, why it hides, and why it still needs naming.
Are Therapists to Blame for Family Estrangement? What the Headlines Get Wrong
The claim that therapists are driving adult children to cut off their parents keeps making headlines. The reporting is weaker than it looks, and the real story is more useful.