Category Archives: Interesting link

Salvation in Diversity

Posted on July 2, 2010 by jenny

(Written in February 2008) Somebody sent a link to a YouTube video of Paul Hawken’s talk at the bioneers conference.  He’s talking about the “biggest movement in the world and how no one saw it coming.” “It is non-violent, grassroots, … Continue reading →

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More from Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic

Posted on May 11, 2010 by jenny

From Bruce Levine: On depression in adolescence: “Why is it that so many young people have unhealed wounds?  Since our consumer culture is increasingly uncomfortable when it comes to dealing with pain, many parents have difficulty dealing with their children’s … Continue reading →

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More from Bruce Levine

Posted on May 6, 2010 by jenny

From Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic, by Bruce Levine “Given the human need to be contemplative without regard for productivity and efficiency, and given America’s taboo against nonproductivity and inefficiency, Americans, in a sense, are pushed toward illness.  … “If you believe, … Continue reading →

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Hope

Posted on May 4, 2010 by jenny

I have just come back from Rowe for a weekend with Deena Metzger. Deena is a poet, a therapist, a shaman, and an elder.  I have been with her a number of times and I love her fierceness, her warmth, … Continue reading →

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More from Bruce Levine

Posted on April 27, 2010 by jenny

“Many self-help pundits preach that we all have choice.  This is essentially true, but for the unhealed it can be a damaging message.  At some level, they know they should have choice, but they don’t feel like they do.  This … Continue reading →

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Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic

Posted on April 26, 2010 by jenny

More quotes from Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic, by Bruce Levine. “It saddens me when unhappy people who have become so despondent that they consider suicide view themselves as weak or sick.  If death feels more attractive than life, it means … Continue reading →

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“Resisting Therapy”

Posted on April 20, 2010 by jenny

I’ve been reading Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic, by Bruce Levine, and finding it enormously helpful. “This book is for people who believe that any approach to depression that does not confront societal and cultural sources for despair becomes part of … Continue reading →

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Invisible Heroes

Posted on April 7, 2010 by jenny

Belleruth Naparstek wrote Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal.  It’s a book that I have found ENORMOUSLY helpful.  One problem of living with PTSD is that most people don’t have any idea of what that’s like, so … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Embodied Cognition

Posted on March 27, 2010 by jenny

This started with a piece I wrote recently in response to a post on “Embodied Cognition” that went to an e-list of women who took a training with Laura Shannon.  The training was in Women’s Traditional Ritual Dances, and we … Continue reading →

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Mean Mothers and Bodily Harm

Posted on March 15, 2010 by jenny

I’ve been reading a book called Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt by Peg Streep.  She quotes the authors of Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers: “Self-injury represents a frantic attempt by someone with low coping skills … Continue reading →

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