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Why Writing Helps Heal Depression – 2 As I discussed in this earlier post, writing helps heal the depression that dominated decades of my life. That post reviewed James Pennebaker’s research, as summarized in Opening Up, but said little about...
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Mindfulness as Self-Help for Anxiety There’s nothing like extreme anxiety to make you feel like you’re falling apart. Using a few basics of mindfulness as self-help may be a way to pull yourself back together. The all-embracing anxiety I’m talking...
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The Powerful Noise of Panic Some of the most frightening moments I’ve had during long years of depression were not those of despairing mood or even suicidal thinking. Instead, they were the times of panic when I’d feel yanked into a wind...
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“Are there any alligators in this lake?” I was down in Florida, about to take a barefoot water ski lesson from a two-time World Barefoot Champion. The thought of alligators didn’t cross my mind until that moment. I was about to get into a lake that averaged...
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Filed under: Uncategorized, Inspirational Stuff, fear, face your fears, passion, The Gift Of Adversity, alligators, get over your fears, conquering fear, how to face your fear, fear lessons
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What would you do if you weren’t afraid? If you could transform your fear into strength and get on with your dreams, what would be the outcome? Being afraid, truly afraid, wasn’t a part of my life until I heard the words Severe Pulmonary Hypertension...
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At five o’clock this morning I woke up drenched in sweat. The open jaws of a very large alligator startled me awake. It’s not the first time I’ve had that kind of dream. Here’s how they started: Alligator Dreams You’ll …...
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A Never-Ending Family Story Has to End My never-ending family story has always been a hard scene in which I am very young and small and terrified. I’m staring at my parents and brother locked in combat. There may be no action, it usually flashes at me...
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How Setting Boundaries Helped Me Heal My getting depressed after the cancer operation almost did us in. It was the blow that forced my wife to remind me of the boundaries I couldn’t afford to ignore. I had been in high spirits for the operation and right...
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Fear of Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy One of the interesting things about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is that you can’t think about it too much. You have to do it. Hence the acronym ACT, to be spoken as the word. If you try to understand...
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Reconnecting Depressed Partners Despite Fear and Shame Men and women have the same need and longing to connect with each other, but they also have different ways of reacting to stress that can drive them apart. Psychotherapist Patricia Love believes that...
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When Holding Hands Is Hard to Do The first time our two oldest sons, at ages 3 and 4.5, went for a walk without their parents, I learned something about love and trust. My wife and I had decided to let them walk a short distance up the hill from our house...
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Overcoming Resistance Writing is a way of reclaiming my mind from depression, but there is a darker side to it called resistance. I won’t call it writer’s block because the same thing stands in the way of any purposeful activity or major life commitment...
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Dreams of Depression and Healing Dreams of depression have often marked moments of crisis or breakthrough to recovery in my experience, but it has been many years since I’ve written about them. Here is a revised version of a post – actually...
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Finding Safe Haven from Childhood Fear A psychiatrist friend once summarized a basic tendency he saw in children from their earliest years. He said that a child could grow up either trusting the people and world he lived in or feeling insecure and uncertain...
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Why I Write Storied Mind Writing Storied Mind is one of the most important things I do to stay well, but it’s not easy. I struggle with writing and I thrive on it. I need to write and I long to get away from it. I discover what I’m all about by writing...