When I was on my way out of my own experience with Evangelicalism, I audited a course online with UC Berkeley called the Science of Happiness because I had no idea how to find joy, satisfaction, or happiness within myself on my own—that is how carved out and empty of valid, real, human emotional experience I was. I was in my mid-twenties and I truly did not know how to feel my own feelings—I was numb every moment of every day—and I honestly felt that I needed some tangible and scientific proof that I would be able to be happy on my own at some point. What is ironic to me now is how that
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