What Helps Us Carry Life Well
Reflections on mental health, grief, work, meaning, and the choices that shape a life.
Featured Essay
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Mental health stigma: how far have we come?
We are talking a lot about mental health and associated stigma. The consensus seems to be that mental health stigma is on the run, especially when we talk about workplace mental health. I’m not so sure. I found myself asking, how far have we come with mental health stigma? Roughly 25 years ago I got…
We cannot always choose what life brings. We can however choose what we do with what life brings
— Les Kertay
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Mental health and the sins of the fathers
“The sins of the fathers are to be laid upon the children” (from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene V). And so it goes when we start to…
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16 tons and what do you get? (Let’s talk about work)
We love to complain about work. It’s water cooler talk – we connect over the shared misery that we often don’t actually feel. Why?
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Suffering is inevitable, misery is optional (part 2)
Suffering is inevitable, misery is optional In last week’s post, I wrote on suffering, the first noble truth of Buddhist philosophy. Blog posts don’t do it justice but it’s worth…
ABOUT DR. KERTAY
I’ve spent more than fifty years as a psychologist, and people still surprise me.
Most of my work has lived where mental health meets the workplace.
Here I write about the things that matter most: suffering and meaning. mental health and stigma, grief and loss, and showing up for one another with radical civility.