The Other Day by Joe PuentesIncrease of Mental Health Disorders and MeaninglessnessSearching for meaning in confounding timesJan 14, 2022Jan 14, 2022
The Other Day by Joe PuentesGrieving: Healing the Soul Through Communicating LossMy 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…Jan 5, 2022Jan 5, 2022
The Other Day by Joe PuentesSome People Don’t Know How to Ask QuestionsI 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…Sep 9, 2021Sep 9, 2021
The Other Day by Joe PuentesWhen Anxiety Gets the Best of MeI 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…Sep 7, 2021Sep 7, 2021
The Other Day by Joe PuentesLogotherapy: To Find Meaning in the ExperienceSomething 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…Sep 6, 2021Sep 6, 2021
The Other Day by Joe PuentesThe Art of Empathy and How to Implement it in Your LifeI use to stink at empathy until I took an Empathy Training course in graduate school and learned about the difference between empathy and…Aug 31, 2021Aug 31, 2021
The Other Day by Joe PuentesAPA Style and Man’s Search for MeaningI’ve been a graduate student for the past two-and-a-half years. I just started my last semester and I can’t wait for these next seven weeks…Aug 27, 2021Aug 27, 2021
The Other Day by Joe PuentesDo not be Alarmed… He has Risen…Poem: “Do not be alarmed… He has risen…”Apr 14, 20201Apr 14, 20201
The Other Day by Joe PuentesPoem: “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…Apr 14, 2020Apr 14, 2020