7 take-away messages from the recent Washington, D.C. summit on safe tapering from psychiatric medication

65 million Americans are currently taking a psychiatric medication. How many of them, their family, and their doctors understand how to safely taper if…

May 12 • Jacob Z. Hess

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April 2026

Can you tell the difference between effects from depression and antidepressants?

The swirl of daily emotions is hard enough for most of us to understand well. The addition of multifaceted, changing effects from any regular medication…

Apr 23 • Jacob Z. Hess

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John Lennon was right: 'The best is yet to be.'

Easter is as much about the future, as it is about the past. Rather than some theological abstraction, for our family this holiday is about glimpsing a…

Apr 4 • Jacob Z. Hess

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A cautionary tale about antidepressant prescriptions among young adults

Jake had never had mental health problems until stressful experiences during his extended church service. When he felt even worse on medication, the…

Apr 1 • Jacob Z. Hess

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March 2026

Superman isn't the only one getting smeared these days

Have you noticed how many loud and persuasive voices today are making *really good* things look really bad?

Mar 21 • Jacob Z. Hess

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Keep listening, Benson Boone

Just because you haven't experienced something yet, doesn't mean it isn't real.

Mar 8 • Jacob Z. Hess

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February 2026

The beauty of pure, sweet romance ...and what's messing with it?

Happy Valentine's? Not for many. This exhilarating, almost holy experience of pure romance is being gutted and hollowed out so much, that increasing…

Feb 14 • Jacob Z. Hess

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Skip the Super Bowl on Sunday for something way, way better

In 48 years of life, I’ve never watched Sunday football. And my family is so much better off because of it.

Feb 8 • Jacob Z. Hess

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What America’s Isolationist Pacifists are missing

Those pretending moral superiority by condemning any foreign entanglements need to remember how America gained its own independence in the first place…

Feb 1 • Jacob Z. Hess

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January 2026

Mindweather 101: A powerful class for the many beautiful people tormented by their own mind

This All of Life course Thomas McConkie and I created about "navigating mental and emotional distress"is still one of the best online mental health…

Jan 24 • Jacob Z. Hess

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December 2025

101 flavors of condemnation

Jesus didn't come into the world to "condemn the world." But apparently some of the rest of us did.

Dec 14, 2025 • Jacob Z. Hess

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Get the Hess family's "Train Your Puppy" before Christmas

As long as you get us an order by December 17 – 14 days from now – we can make sure you'll get it by Christmas (free delivery in the U.S.).

Dec 4, 2025 • Jacob Z. Hess

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