Posts Tagged ‘lost’

Lost in Place, Finding Home

Written by John on August 18th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by simiant at Flickr. Simple things can overwhelm, turn me upside down, submerge who I am in a great wave. I was turned over once as a kid, swimming at a beach near LA, the ocean churning and huge. I tried to jump into a breaker and ride it in, but the [...]

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Tags: action, choice, confusion, creativity, decisions, depression, Fear, feeling, lost, motion, obsessive, overwhelmed, panic, purpose, Recovery, thinking, wellness
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Work, Identity and Recovery – 1

Written by John on March 19th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Funky64(www.lucarossato.com) at Flickr Understanding what work means for my sense of personal identity, for a basic acceptance of who I am, has been a central issue in making progress in recovery over this past year. Yet it seems strange that both my identity and feelings of self-worth should so depend on [...]

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Tags: career, harmony, identity, lost, peace, purpose, Recovery, soul, Thomas Merton, work, Writing
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