Category Archives: Healing

Hope for the Future

Posted on October 24, 2011 by jenny

I’ve been reading a book called “The Better Angels of Our Nature; why violence has declined.”   His argument is based on statistics from the 1400’s to the present, and his argument is impressive.   I’m a little over a third … Continue reading →

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Imaginal Cells

Posted on October 19, 2011 by jenny

How does the caterpillar become a butterfly?  The actual process is not as simple as I once imagined it: sort of like those computer techniques that can morph a woman into a lion and then a bird just by lengthening … Continue reading →

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Gratitude

Posted on October 12, 2011 by jenny

(Written in May 2011) Lately I’ve had blowing through me an enormous rush of gratitude for depression and PTSD, because it kept me from falling into the numerous pitfalls that are available in our culture.  I’m not sure where this … Continue reading →

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Trying to Connect with God, Revisited

Posted on October 8, 2011 by jenny

Got a comment on my post called “Trying to Connect with God” which was posted November 28, 2010.  I was really inspired to reply, I’ve been on the same path, struggling to make sense of a god who apparently allows … Continue reading →

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Finding the Will to Live

Posted on October 2, 2011 by jenny

A couple of days ago I posted something from August about “no will to live,” and my struggles with it, trying to understand why it’s so hard to take in positive feedback.  Looking back from a month’s perspective, and after … Continue reading →

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Compassion

Posted on September 15, 2011 by jenny

(Written in October 2003) Dream: we’re all in a car coming up Park Road, Daddy driving.  He goes past the driveway & we tell him & he complains that we should have made sounds when he got to the mailbox … Continue reading →

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Guidance

Posted on September 11, 2011 by jenny

(Written in October 2003) O spirits, I’m in a profoundly bleak and despairing place.  I’ve been trying to work with my pain as Greenspan suggests, I’ve been dancing, writing, and painting my pain as well as breathing through the heart.  … Continue reading →

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Observation without Evaluation

Posted on September 10, 2011 by jenny

(Written in February 2010) On a friend’s recommendation I got Tolle’s new book at the Library. It’s called A New Earth.  So far I’ve been agreeing with what he says.  He talked about ego and the problem of identifying one’s … Continue reading →

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What My Heart REALLY Wants

Posted on September 9, 2011 by jenny

(Written in July 2011) Wondering if writing something would help.  I’m feeling badly scattered.  The computer has frozen on me twice today and I’m frustrated.  Maybe try a suggestion from Radical Acceptance — Tara Brach says something about needing to … Continue reading →

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Dancing in the Streets

Posted on September 8, 2011 by jenny

Yesterday I was so bummed out about Obama failing to veto the Tar Sands Bill and allowing the gutting of the Clean Air standards, that I just wanted to give up on politics.  So I called my friend Beverly, whose … Continue reading →

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