by Rhett Smith on August 31, 2009
I had a chance to sit down with Carlos Whitaker after the ECHO Conference and to talk about the upcoming Cultivate Conference in Chicago, October 27. Check out Carlos below as he talks about why you should attend. We hope to see you there.
by Rhett Smith on August 28, 2009
I’ve been really impressed with Clover and the beautiful websites they have developed, and especially the intuitive ease with which they are designed…especially for those of us who don’t know how to program or code. I recently sat down to interview them and to get a better sense of who they are as a company [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 25, 2009
[image by David R. Carroll] Do you remember what life was like before your cell phone, or before you had an internet connection in your house? It seems like such a long time ago. We even wonder at times how we could have lived life without them. The scary thing is that it wasn’t that [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 19, 2009
[image by annais] Throughout the years I have been presented with various philosophies (systems, ways of approaching it) of reading. When I was in grade school I remember the philosophy was basically quantity. The more books I read, especially in the summer time, the more ribbons the library gave me for my achievement. When I [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 12, 2009
[image by DDFic's] “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” Henry David Thoreau My father shared that quote with me in mid-July when he was visiting and we had found ourselves on the topics of social media, writing, ministry, solitude, etc. Since then that image of [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 10, 2009
“The more original a human being is, the deeper his anxiety.” Soren Kierkegaard Posted via web from Rhett Smith-Therapy
by Rhett Smith on August 10, 2009
“But attempts to evade anxiety are not only doomed to failure. In running from anxiety you lose your most precious opportunities for the emergence of yourself, and for your education as a human being. ‘If a man were a beast or an angel, he would not be able to be in anxiety. Since he is [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 6, 2009
[image by net_efekt's] Marathon Training In the Spring of 2006 I had this deep yearning to run a marathon, something I had never done before, yet something I always wanted to do. Training for this marathon was going to require some shifting of things in my schedule, because 3 days a week of running, over [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 3, 2009
The Running of the Salmon When I was in high school my family and I went on an Alaskan cruise, and along the way we stopped at one of the islands to get a tour of where the salmon swim upstream during the spawning season. I don’t remember a lot of details about what I [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 1, 2009
It is often said that online therapy eliminates face-to-face contact, which is said to hinder the therapy process. Should this be the case, efficacy of treatment could be negatively impacted. There are two points to consider in this argument. This first is that with video-conferencing face-to-face contact is restored. The second point, looking back at [...]