Posts Tagged ‘awareness’

Posts on Self-Esteem at Health Central

Written by John on August 4th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by paul (dex) at Flickr Here are two posts about self-esteem (here and here) I’ve recently published at Health Central. “Loss of self-esteem” has become the clinical term for one of depression’s key symptoms, but it doesn’t convey much about living with the contempt I used to feel for myself, day in, [...]

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Tags: awareness, cognitive therapy, depression, Recovery, self-esteem
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We Are Most Definitely Not Pleased

Written by John on July 27th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by Felinest at Flickr I’m a paws-on kind of guy so I get really upset when they’re tied behind my back. Truly, deeply, combustibly upset, especially with the self-imposed deadline for my new website fast approaching. For two weeks, I’ve been sitting at this keyboard staring at spinning beach balls of computer [...]

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Tags: awareness, cognitive therapy, depression, Recovery, self-esteem
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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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Healing & the Power of Place

Written by John on July 27th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by frapestaartje at Flickr In a couple of excellent posts, Susan at the Wellness Writer has written about ecotherapy, a form of treatment that seeks to restore the lost connections with the natural world that are essential to health. (She cites a new book of, the same name as a good introduction.) [...]

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Tags: awareness, cycle, depression, ecopsychology, ecotherapy, environment, garden, healing, health, life, loss, nature, participating, pattern, perception, reconnecting, roots, sense of place, spirituality, transformation, wellness, wilderness
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Many Selves, One Mindful Direction

Written by John on May 3rd, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by visulogik at Flickr 1. I walk around with a crowd inside – so many selves wanting to go in different directions. Too many voices are talking all at once, and it’s hard to pick out the one I need to listen to right now. Here’s the intuitive talker, waking up with [...]

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Tags: anxiety, awareness, brain, consciousness, control, creativity, depression, dissociative personality disorder, intuition, love, mindfulness, multiple personalities, order, Paul Bloom, research, self, spirituality, struggle, tension
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Facing My Double Again

Written by John on April 14th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by a_whisper_of_unremitting_demand at Flickr catatonickid recently published a post about facing your double, reaching a place where nothing can be explained, a place where no choice could possibly be right. She calls that the “ideal argument for healing,” or, in the quoted words of Marie-Louise von Franz: “the beginning of the process [...]

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Tags: awareness, creativity, double, emotion, healing, individuation, integration, person, personality, Recovery, self, spirituality, unconscious
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