Tim Gorman
The Workbench — featuring the oldest question in Western ethics, history’s least likely duet, a psychiatrist who built a discipline out of his worst years, and the difference between a wounded healer and an open wound Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: recovery has been quietly training you for something, and you haven’t noticed because … Read More
How a Story From the Deuterocanonical Books Proves That God Works Through Fish Guts, Unexpected Companions, and Prayers You Think Nobody Hears A Quick Note Before We Begin: Tobit comes from the Deuterocanonical books (also called the Apocrypha), which means it’s included in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles but not in Protestant Bibles. If you’re Protestant … Read More
The Rhythm — featuring the philosopher of habit (whose brother wrote the novels), the original rhythm philosopher of the West (afraid of beans), a sixth-century monk whose bells still ring, and a motto worth the whole day: always we begin again Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: every big promise you’ve ever made was written … Read More
The Storyboard — featuring the philosopher of the retold self returning with his whole toolkit, a story-telling animal, Sartre warning you not to narrate instead of live, and the day this workbook’s title finally explains itself Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: the ending you keep dreading isn’t a prophecy. It’s a draft — and … Read More
The Table — featuring Aristotle finally getting the chair he’s held since Day 4, a philosopher who said you can’t know a friend until you’ve eaten salt together, the woman who explained why lonely people sit anywhere, and a Frenchman whose beautiful theory of hospitality your recovery must politely decline Let’s start with an uncomfortable … Read More
The Garden — featuring the most misunderstood philosopher in history (whose school was literally a garden), the uncle revealing an unexpected green thumb, and the most famous last line in French literature Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: your recovery might be all weeding and no planting — and a plot of bare, well-weeded dirt … Read More