<![CDATA[Stories by SoulTherapeia by Joe Puentes on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@joe.puentes?source=rss-5e2efa1cc51f------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*s53gJ2ueWg5FOHs3lF0cSw.jpeg Stories by SoulTherapeia by Joe Puentes on Medium https://medium.com/@joe.puentes?source=rss-5e2efa1cc51f------2 Medium Sun, 15 Nov 2026 09:55:03 GMT <![CDATA[Increase of Mental Health Disorders and Meaninglessness]]>

Searching for meaning in confounding times

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My phone vibrated in my back pocket. It was my wife telling me John Madden passed away. I typed back, “I heard. It is sad. He was a nice…

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I read a headline this evening. It read, “Are You a Genuine Christian?”  To be fair, I didn’t read the article. I read only the headline…

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I wrote another academic paper and I died a little more inside. I am so close yet so far from the finish line of graduate school being…

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Something the head of the graduate counseling program I’m in said during his message at Residency III has stuck with me and it’s led me on…

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I use to stink at empathy until I took an Empathy Training course in graduate school and learned about the difference between empathy and…

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I’ve been a graduate student for the past two-and-a-half years.

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Poem: “Do not be alarmed… He has risen…”

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]]> https://medium.com/@joe.puentes/do-not-be-alarmed-he-has-risen-521f14f21737?source=rss-5e2efa1cc51f------2 https://medium.com/p/521f14f21737 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:47:22 GMT 2020-04-14T01:47:22.950Z <![CDATA[Poem: “This Monday Is Different”]]>

I wrote this poem two years ago. It’s a reflection I had about Monday, the day after Easter. It’s my thoughts of the feelings of hope that…

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“The Day In Between”

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