LEARN · 24 HOURS
Samaritans
Samaritans
Here because some of these subjects reach further than a written exercise should.
Free, confidential, any time, whether or not you are in crisis.
Find out more ↗
Was this useful?
Resources
Want to go further?
Everything worth your time on the question: What has changed in what I believe, and what follows?
← Back to the sessionLEARN · FREE TOOL
Every Mind Matters
NHS
Free, clinically grounded, and available today if something here is heavier than an exercise can hold.
NHS self help for sleep, low mood, anxiety and stress, including a short personal plan.
Find out more ↗
Was this useful?
READ · GUIDE
Information and support
Mind
Reliable, and specific about what to say when you make the appointment.
Clear information on mental health, treatment options and how to ask for help.
Read more ↗
Was this useful?
READ · BOOK
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
Read it if the exercise found a principle you have never allowed to bend. It is the strongest available argument against the tidy version of consistency.
The plainest introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy, where values are treated as directions you keep moving in rather than rules you either obey or break. It also makes the case that rigid rule-following, even about admirable things, is one of the more reliable ways to make yourself miserable.
Read more ↗
Was this useful?
READ · RESEARCH
Deconversion: qualitative and quantitative results from cross-cultural research
Heinz Streib and colleagues
Best for seeing that losing a belief follows recognisable paths.
A careful study of people who left a faith, which resists both the triumphal and the tragic version of the story. What stands out is how long the process takes and how rarely it turns on an argument. If you are in the middle of doubting something, it is steadying to see that the experience has a shape and that the shape is not decline.
Read more ↗
Was this useful?
READ · RESEARCH
The Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale
Julie Exline and colleagues
Best for understanding doubt as a struggle rather than a failure.
Exline's work treats religious and spiritual struggle as a describable experience with several distinct forms, including doubt, moral struggle and conflict with other people. Naming which kind you are in is more useful than deciding whether you still believe, and it removes the pressure to resolve anything this year.
Read more ↗
Was this useful?
Recommended by the TAIU community
What helped you?
If you've read, watched, listened to or tried something that helped you think about this differently, we'd like to hear about it.
We review recommendations before sharing them with the community.