Posts Tagged ‘spiritual’

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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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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Recovery and the Big Book

Written by John on November 9th, 2007
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I started thinking about the value of writing stories to deal with depression when I read Alcoholics Anonymous, the book that named the growing self-help movement in 1939. For me, it was not the method the book describes but the stories that first hit home so deeply. A psychiatrist I was seeing at the time [...]

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Tags: depression, Dr.Bob, narratives, Recovery, spiritual, steps, story, telling, W
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