The Dark Night of the Soul Is Not Depression - It Is Demolition

You will hear people use the phrase casually. A bad week at work becomes a dark night of the soul. A breakup becomes a dark night of the soul.

You will hear people use the phrase casually. A bad week at work becomes a dark night of the soul. A breakup becomes a dark night of the soul.

A Mercury retrograde that scrambles their Wi-Fi becomes a dark night of the soul. It is none of those things.

The dark night of the soul is a systematic dismantling of everything you thought you were - and it does not arrive because something external went wrong.

It arrives because something internal is finally going right. St. John of the Cross did not coin this term to describe a mood.