Taking Out the Garbage Your Parents Taught You About Yourself

October 14, 2015 By John Shore

A theme central to much of the work I do on my blog and with my writing clients (and to the novel I recently finished writing) is how essential it is for anyone seeking for themselves a better psychological life to properly and thoroughly analyze and assess their childhood relationship with their parents, especially if, as adults, they are perpetually or even periodically hounded by the internal supposition that there is something critically wrong or aberrant about them. Yikers. I wasn’t sure I was... Read more

When is an abuser’s apology not an apology?

September 25, 2015 By John Shore

Sometimes your brain tells you that you received an apology, while your heart tells you something else. Here's why. Read more

A Christian grandmother nails the transgender issue

September 18, 2015 By John Shore

"The truth wasn't hard to find anyway. It was there every time I looked into my grandson's eyes." Read more

Psychopaths sleep just fine

September 4, 2015 By John Shore

The fact that you're worrying about whether you're good proves that you're good. Read more

Proof that Jesus was freakin’ hilarous

August 20, 2015 By John Shore

"My dream job is to be a sex therapist, but I feel like this focus on sex makes me a bad Christian." Read more

My son is 17, gay, and miserable

August 17, 2015 By John Shore

Dear John, Over the past couple of years, I often wondered if my son was gay. But usually I was able to explain it away or otherwise put it out of my mind. This past February, however, there simply was no denying it any longer, and I confronted him about it. (more…) Read more

Here’s what happens when you yell at your employees

August 7, 2015 By John Shore

Never yell at your employees. Here's why. Read more

The real reason anti-LGBT Christians are so obsessed with sex?

August 6, 2015 By John Shore

I mean, c'mon already. Read more

5 ways to make your girlfriend (or boyfriend) kind of start hating you

July 30, 2015 By John Shore

I get a lot of letters from men worried that they’re blowing their relationship with the woman they passionately love. Here are five things they're doing wrong. Read more

Spam I am

July 20, 2015 By John Shore

Lately I've grown pretty darn tubby, to the extent that I feel as if a whole other person—like, say, an eight-month-old baby—is strapped to my stomach, a baby which, like any baby, has a whole arena of needs and desires of its own. Read more