Reflections

Writing, talks, and conversations.

Occasional pieces from our clinicians — interviews, talks, and short essays on the work of psychotherapy, and the life it asks of us.

On Suffering, Presence, and Grace

Psychologist, teacher, and Jesuit priest, Sonny Manuel, S.J., has spent a lifetime accompanying people through pain. He reflects on presence, the question beneath all others — “Do you love me?” — and a God who does not trade in outcomes.

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Lift Me Up

Marking fifty years as a Jesuit, Sonny Manuel, S.J., reflects on the one desire beneath all our loving — that those we love be alive and well — and on the delight that, underground or above ground, lifts us into being.

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