Posts Tagged ‘fulfillment’

Re-Reading the Story of Depression’s Meaning

Written by John on September 6th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Jose Tellez at Flickr. There are no more beautiful and moving stories of healing than those told by Rachel Naomi Remen. Kitchen Table Wisdom is one of those books I come back to again and again. Each of its brief stories renders a moment of discovery that reveals a life’s meaning [...]

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Tags: depression, discovery, fulfillment, healing, life, meaning, purpose, Rachel Naomi Remen, Recovery, self, survival, transcendence, Viktor Frankl
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Writing, Creativity and Healing – 2

Written by John on June 9th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by cmykcellist at Flickr Thanks again to isabella at moritherapy and her post about Mental Health Camp, I’ve been reading Louise DeSalvo’s Writing as a Way of Healing. She discusses at length not only the healing power of the writing process but also the need for a writer to care for the [...]

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Tags: Anthony Storr, creativity, detachment, fulfillment, healing, life, Louise DeSalvo, meditation, mind, mood, personality, practice, reality, spirituality, Writing, yoga
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Facing My Double in Depression

Written by John on September 13th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by even at Flickr About a hundred years ago, Robert Frost wrote a famous poem about two roads diverging in a wood: “And sorry I could not travel both/ And be one traveler.” He makes his choice to take “the one less traveled by.” “Oh I kept the first for another day!/ [...]

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Tags: career, creativity, depression, double, fulfillment, life, oneness, path, robertfrost, tension
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Stopping Time, Stopping Depression

Written by John on May 23rd, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by jurvetson at Flickr Are you ever able to get away from time in the sense of measuring what you do, day in, day out? I can’t seem to escape it very often, but I’m convinced that doing so is one of the ways I get myself out of depression. Of course, [...]

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Tags: depression, fulfillment, healing, memory, renewal, resilience, spiritual, stress, time, wellness, Writing
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