Do the emotional paper-cuts hurt the worst?
January 31, 2015 Comments Off on Do the emotional paper-cuts hurt the worst?

Guardian

When truly bad things happen, they cross a threshold, triggering mechanisms that help us to recover. To use one of Gilbert’s examples: if a woman discovers her husband has been having an affair, she may draw on all her powers of rationalization, convincing herself it was something he had to get out of his system, or that it’s a crisis from which they’ll emerge stronger. By contrast, if his only fault is leaving dirty dishes in the sink, her cognitive defences won’t kick in. So her anger at the lesser failing may bubble longer.
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Are emotional issues really a disease?
August 8, 2014 Comments Off on Are emotional issues really a disease?

KevinMD

The primary treatment for diabetes is a drug. This analogy works if we accept that the primary treatment for mental illness is drugs. The pharmaceutical industry would be pleased with this approach.

But, in fact, the primary treatment for problems of emotional well-being is time. What is needed is time and space for listening, where individuals can have the opportunity to have their feelings recognized and understood.
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The difference between depression and sadness/despair.
August 4, 2014 Comments Off on The difference between depression and sadness/despair.

ZenArchery

All the genuinely smart, talented, funny people I know seem to be miserable these days. You feel it on Twitter more than Facebook, because Facebook is where you go to do your performance art where you pretend to be a hip, urbane person with the most awesomest friends and the best relationships and the very best lunches ever. Facebook is surface; Twitter is subtext, and judging by what I’ve seen, the subtext is aching sadness.

I’m not immune to this. I don’t remember ever feeling this miserable and depressed in my life, this sense of futility that makes you wish you’d simply go numb and not care anymore.
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Is parenthood a form of trauma?
July 1, 2014 Comments Off on Is parenthood a form of trauma?

Times

Parenthood takes its toll on your relationships as well. A 2009 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that the transition to parenthood is linked to reduced happiness in the marriage and more negative behaviour during spousal conflict. Evidence also demonstrates that this transition is connected to substantial reductions in the size of a parent’s networks of family and friends.
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Has dissatisfaction become a place of comfort?
March 8, 2014 Comments Off on Has dissatisfaction become a place of comfort?

Psychology Today

A basic assumption of human behaviour is that people pursue pleasure and seek to avoid pain. Then why is it that some people seem content to wallow in their misery, even boasting about it as some sort of badge of honour? Even when given steps to improve their lives, they prefer to continue complaining. Is there a certain comfortable familiarity with being dissatisfied that becomes an obstacle to change?
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A better way to test for genius
December 17, 2013 Comments Off on A better way to test for genius

ListVerse

One of the hallmarks for intelligent people is an obvious tendency to ignore the “accepted” behaviour of the general public. Smart people seem to have their own agendas and their own schedules. A recent study by the London School of Economics indicates that insomnia is a natural tendency of the intellectually elite amongst us. It doesn’t appear to be a fluke, either.
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Real healing for PTSD
September 26, 2013 Comments Off on Real healing for PTSD

The Guardian

Fury, paranoia, hypervigilance, overreaction to a perceived threat – all are common in a traumatized person. The psychologist who helped me to get better characterized the condition thus: imagine your memories are a conveyor belt of cardboard boxes heading towards a final point, where they are processed. But if something life-threatening disrupts that process, the box memories get stuck, trapped in the amygdala, that bit of the brain that triggers your fight or flight survival impulse.
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God’s Promises
August 2, 2010 Comments Off on God’s Promises

Rev. Bob Stevens

“Jesus said of himself, ‘If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me.’ Well, he has not drawn all men, not even a majority of men, and I am inclined to think that he has never been lifted up. An unreal, imaginary character is being lifted up instead, and men are not being drawn by it.”
The Promises of God
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THE WAY GOD REVEALS HEALING BY HIS LIFE/LOVE
March 7, 2010 1 Comment on THE WAY GOD REVEALS HEALING BY HIS LIFE/LOVE

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The God Who Speaks – July 7, 2006
I was gearing up for soul-restoration, not issues-exploration. But Cam is usually right, so I kept my eyes open and asked the Lord for a strategy. Sure enough, not long into my “breather”, up came some “stuff” that wants to bully me towards isolation. How do you rest when old insecurities, temptations, or “demons” rise up when you finally still your heart? Or am I the only one who didn’t automatically get all his shortcomings washed away at baptism? If not, read on:
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I’ve Learned
June 18, 2009 Comments Off on I’ve Learned

It’s a single-author blog site filled with poetry from a person who, evidently, experienced some incredible abuse and is coming through it to some significant healing. If you start with the first poem (Down at the bottom) and then read them in order, they read like a road map of growth and transformation.
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M	T	W	T	F	S	S
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8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
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Session Notes

Do the emotional paper-cuts hurt the worst?

Are emotional issues really a disease?

The difference between depression and sadness/despair.

Is parenthood a form of trauma?

Has dissatisfaction become a place of comfort?

A better way to test for genius

Real healing for PTSD

God’s Promises

THE WAY GOD REVEALS HEALING BY HIS LIFE/LOVE

I’ve Learned

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