Author Archives: Neil Durso

Popular therapy programs fail in the end; they start, but cannot finish. The truth is too dark for toxically positive self-improvement or healing recovery. Why be wary of popular self-help books and recovery/therapy programs? Because they are popular! That means they appeal to mass markets, and what mass markets want is, fast and easy. LikeContinue reading “Beware: Why popular therapy programs fall short”

Though I can’t explain entirely why, I’ve become fond of this non-affiliated psychospiritual writing duo. Here is their perspective on “ego.” I’ve become a bit obsessed with the differentiation between soul and ego, and myself describe the ego as our “sensor of separateness, uniqueness, individuality.” I’m pretty convinced that life’s purpose ( esp. therapy’s) isContinue reading ““Ego” according to a non-affiliated psychospiritual source”

Brian is 40. That’s not his actual name. But just in case. There were not more than 3 or 4 seats out of about 40 at the bar at Buffalo Wild Wings at some average strip mall outside Glen Allen, Virginia. He has long hair but erudite glasses. He could be a hippie or aContinue reading “Virginia hippie”

“Everyone must submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are instituted by God. So then, … No Higher Authority