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Healing Power in a Human Voice

by John Folk-Williams 5 Comments

Sound Wave

Have you heard or felt a wave of healing power in a human voice? Voices can carry many influences. They can scar like a knife edge or terrify with a scream, but here I want to talk about the power of voice to restore lost harmony. Let’s put it as a question: in your experience […]

Filed Under: Healing Tagged With: ceremony, culture, emotion, feelings, mindfulness, voice

Healing & the Need for Roots

by John Folk-Williams 4 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Recovery Tagged With: connecting, culture, ecotherapy, family, home, loss, love

Healing Sound and Depression

by John Folk-Williams 15 Comments

Have you heard it, felt it? In the sound of a human voice there may come a wave of healing. Of course, it could also be a scarring knife edge or shriek of pain that can hurt or terrify, but here I want to talk about the power of voice to restore lost harmony. Let’s […]

Filed Under: Depression at Work, Depression Causes, Depression Treatments, Fighting Depression, Spirituality Tagged With: culture, depression, prayer, soul

Driving Time, Stress and Mountains

by John Folk-Williams 5 Comments

Some Rights Reserved by wili_hybrid at Flickr Reading old journals reminds me how full of twists and turns a recovery road can be. Along the way, I have encountered strong presences that restore a sense of balance – when I have let them. For years, though, I could not let them work within me for […]

Filed Under: Depression at Work, Fighting Depression, Spirituality Tagged With: culture, depression, tension, time

Creativity and Depression – 3

by John Folk-Williams

Patrick has written a comment packed with ideas about his responses to depression. I’m especially interested in three points he makes about creativity and imagination. First, he notes that his years of experience of therapy led him to see it as a “misguided enterprise, that of creating and recreating ‘narratives’ to explain events of Mind.” […]

Filed Under: Creativity, Men and Depression Tagged With: connecting, culture, depression, imagination, life

Explanations – 1: Finding a Guide

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I’d like to think of the search for the causes and treatments of depression as the tracking down of a killer, a good yarn like the fascinating medical mystery stories The New Yorker publishes from time to time. But we’re a long way from the end of such a story, and those tales can only […]

Filed Under: Depression Causes, Depression Treatments Tagged With: culture, depression, self

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Depression affects emotions, mental abilities, self-concept, behavior, relationships and the entire body. These core posts describe the full range of symptoms affecting daily life. Read More.

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Hoping for recovery gives you a motive but not a method for getting there. This section has posts about therapies and healing methods you can work with either on your own or with professional guidance. Read more.

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