Posts Tagged ‘story’

Changing Belief, Discovering Purpose in a Work Life

Written by John on April 9th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by farlane at Flickr Following the last post, I need to expand on the idea of changing the mindset of recovery to that of finding purpose for the future. Just as I could undo the belief in my perpetual illness, I could also undo the belief that there had been little meaning [...]

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Tags: belief, depression, life, meaning, mindset, Pascal, purpose, Recovery, story, Viktor Frankl, 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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