Posts Tagged ‘health’

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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Recovery, Well-Being and Purpose

Written by John on April 5th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by lepiaf.geo at Flickr It occurs to me that recovery is past, well-being is now and purpose is the future. Let me explain. Recently, I wrote about recovery as a concept I no longer wanted to apply to what I’ve been going through. The word carried a set of assumptions that kept [...]

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Tags: assumptions, healing, health, hope, illness, life, meaning, medication, men, mind, purpose, Recovery, treatment, Viktor Frankl, well-being, will
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Am I Normal? Am I Depressed?

Written by John on May 4th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by notsogoodphotography at Flickr 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 [...]

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Tags: change, cycle, depression, disease, energy, health, loss, normal, pattern, Recovery, work
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