Carl Rogers summarized what he had learned about his own process of becoming a person in an essay entitled “This is Me,” found in On Becoming a Person. This discussion helps illuminate the beliefs he gained from experience about effective change and acceptance of one’s self. He concluded that paper with a brief statement on […]
Recovery
Recovery, Well-Being and Purpose
It occurs to me that recovery is past, well-being is now and purpose is the future. Let me explain. Recently, I wrote about recovery as a concept I no longer wanted to apply to what I’ve been going through. The word carried a set of assumptions that kept me within an illness frame of mind. […]
Recovery, Purpose and Nests
There is a link, though it’s a stretch, between recovery and the building of nests that occurs to me on this fine spring day, and I’ll get there in a moment. Right now, life is blossoming out everywhere. The stunning medleys of the mockingbirds are in the air, and there’s much courting behavior among all […]
Work, Identity and Recovery – 1
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 what I do. I spent a long […]
Move in Progress!
Welcome to this new version of Storied Mind. We have just changed to the WordPress platform, and we’re happy to say that Piotr Polak, the designer of this beautiful theme, has also shifted. Please let me know if you run into any problem, especially with links that don’t take you where they should. Either leave […]
Top Ten!
I’m excited and honored that Psych Central has selected Storied Mind as one of the top ten depression blogs for 2008. What makes this a special honor is that Psych Central, as it says on its welcome page, “is the Internet’s largest and oldest independent mental health network created and run by mental health professionals […]
