Posts Tagged ‘cycle’

Healing & the Power of Place

Written by john on July 27th, 2009
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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.) Of [...]

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Family, Forgiveness & Peace

Written by john on May 29th, 2009
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I always had a hard time linking forgiveness and peace with my early family life. In fact, it was hard for me to understand what forgiveness itself was all about. I thought of it as a remote dream, a utopian feeling. There were many people I had struggled with, [...]

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Taking Depression Apart

Written by john on August 9th, 2008
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I run a race with depression that keeps me on edge. The stakes are high because we race to take each other apart. I intend to keep the lead. For years, I’d hit the wall and lose the bare will to win. But somehow I got back [...]

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Am I Normal? Am I Depressed?

Written by john on May 4th, 2008
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Which insightfully bewildered comic strip character was it who said: I never knew what I was missing until I lost it?
I read that line about ten years ago after a series of surgeries had removed a few expendable body parts and left me in a lot of pain during [...]

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What Depression Can Do – 2: Shame and Despair

Written by john on August 18th, 2007
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What's it like, the mixing of shame and despair? I am full of the sense that I have no future, there is no point to living. This is no emptiness or lack of feeling, lack of affect, as they say. It is the intense feeling of hitting bottom, overwhelmed with shame, worthlessness, convinced [...]

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