Mark Brouwer is a pastor, writer, and workshop presenter. The focus of his work is to help people do the important work of their lives without getting sidetracked by overwhelm, burnout, or struggles with mental health (especially anxiety, depression, and addiction). Here’s what you’ll find on this site: About Me – Mark’s background, and topics […]
Sex is a great servant, but a terrible master. Sex can bring pleasure, express love, build intimacy, and create life. But out of control, it can bring pain, express contempt, destroy intimacy, and even kill. Like any natural appetite, when fed and directed, it brings satisfaction and joy. But when starved or overindulged, it brings […]
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti . Not long ago, comedian Louis CK appeared on a late-night show and talked about today’s modern medical advances, amazing technologies, and the freedoms we all enjoy. In the midst of all this, he said, we have […]
Most people are familiar with the drug experiments that use rats to demonstrate how addictive certain drugs are. Rats are hooked up to monitors and given the opportunity to choose regular water or water laced with drugs. In the experiments, rats choose the drugs, and this is used to show how addictive drugs are. In […]
To deal with any problem, we must first understand it. And many people are not able to deal with today’s problem, because they think of pornography as similar to erotic imagery that’s been around since there were cave drawings and paintings. Many people think that today’s problem is no different than what human beings have faced […]