Posts Tagged ‘pattern’

What Comes After Recovery from Depression?

Written by John on July 16th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by Mike Baird at Flickr In response to a recent post, Clinically Clueless commented that, for her, recovery was a process, not a destination. She needed to keep aware of it, like those recovering from addiction, in order to catch the signs of relapse. I’ve thought of recovery in a similar way, [...]

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Tags: depression, life, pattern, practice, reconnecting, Recovery
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Patterns of Recovery from Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Written by John on May 26th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by Guanatos Gwyn at Flickr My mother survived two heart attacks but died twice before her death. That’s the way she saw it. Her heart stopped both times, but she fought her way back. The second heart-stopping attack occurred during an operation for a different problem. She was 94. I only learned [...]

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Tags: depression, healing, pattern, PTSD, Recovery, relationship, trauma, treatment, trust
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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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Recovery, Purpose and Nests

Written by John on March 22nd, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by *L*u*z*a* lack of inspiration at Flickr There is a link, though it’s a stretch, among recovery and the nests of birds that occurs to me on this fine spring day, and I’ll get there in a moment. Of course, life is blossoming out everywhere. The stunning medleys of the mockingbirds are [...]

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Tags: depression, future, instinct, learning, life, nests, pattern, purpose, Recovery, structure, support, 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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