Posts Tagged ‘social connection’

Healing & the Need for Roots

Written by John on August 10th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by pictoscribe at Flickr I’m finding that healing the effects of depression has a lot to do with understanding the need for roots and what the experience of being uprooted is all about. The metaphor of roots growing into a nourishing soil kept me focused for a long time on just one [...]

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Tags: community, culture, ecotherapy, environment, family, home, loss, love, order, place, rootedness, roots, social connection, society, spiritual, therapy
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Is It Loneliness or Is It Depression?

Written by John on April 28th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Alyssa L. Miller at Flickr It may seem strange to pose this question: is it loneliness or is it depression? After all, many people feel loneliness at the loss or weakening of close relationships because of depression, and most of us who’ve lived with the condition over a lifetime experience those [...]

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Tags: community, connection, depression, friends, intimacy, isolation, loneliness, marriage, partner, sadness, social connection, spouse, trust
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