Posts Tagged ‘acceptance’

What Do You See in the Mirror When You’re Depressed?

Written by John on August 18th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by Atiqah Aekman W. at Flickr Here’s a post I wrote at Health Central about a year ago. There are a couple of China Beach stories I keep coming back to, and I hope this one is as helpful to you as it has been to me. Quite a while back, there [...]

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Tags: acceptance, belief, depression, self-esteem, shame, therapy
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Meditation and Treatment by Tweet

Written by John on July 12th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by dicktay2000 at Flickr When deeply depressed, it’s not the fear of failure I carry but the fear that success is getting too close. When I’m living in the timeless Now, what happens to hope, to a future, to recovery? I think I’ll want them back if I land again in the [...]

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Tags: acceptance, Fear, feeling, meditation, Recovery, success, treatment
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The Problem of Now in Recovery from Depression

Written by John on June 8th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by monkeytime at Flickr For a long time, I found it hard to relate to the idea of living in the present moment as a method of recovery from depression. The present never seemed all that attractive when I felt smothered by its darkness. That’s the way it had been in the [...]

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Tags: acceptance, awareness, consciousness, detachment, healing, identity, Recovery
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Carl Rogers: The Flow of Becoming a Person

Written by John on April 18th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by muha… at Flickr Carl Rogers summarized what he had learned about his own process of becoming a person in an essay entitled “This is Me,” found in On Becoming a Person. This discussion helps illuminate the beliefs he gained from experience about effective change and acceptance of one’s self. He concluded [...]

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Tags: acceptance, Carl Rogers, experience, feelings, flow, learning, life, person, positive, risk, therapy, trust
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