Category Archives: Healing

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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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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The Practice of Self-love

Posted on April 25, 2010 by jenny

(Written in February 2003) Yesterday I was thinking that I had this wonderful new technique for transforming my life, that my relationship with terror and despair is completely different.  Well, actually that’s still true.  Just because the misery doesn’t change … Continue reading →

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Self-hatred

Posted on April 22, 2010 by jenny

Yesterday’s post reminds me of the crisis I went through as we were building my house, when I realized that I hadn’t designed the house with environmental principles in mind.  I experienced a moment of intense fury and then a … 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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Asking for Help

Posted on March 24, 2010 by jenny

(Written in  January 2009) One thing that has come out of this bad time is I’m starting to ask for help.  After I had been to Kripalu for the meditation retreat, I saw Caryn, and we agreed that it hadn’t … Continue reading →

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Therapy

Posted on March 18, 2010 by jenny

(Written in January 2009) Karen was helpful.  I read her some passages out of this journal and the last one.  I said I felt like the bipolar 2 diagnosis had hit me like a tidal wave.  Karen kept saying nothing … Continue reading →

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The Tough Little Drip

Posted on March 17, 2010 by jenny

“The Tough Little Drip that Just Wouldn’t Quit” This part of myself appeared at a woman’s retreat in Essex, Mass.  The retreat was called “Woman’s Way” and one of the techniques we were taught was “Percept Language” — mostly for … Continue reading →

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Art Show

Posted on March 2, 2010 by jenny

Lore said there was a chance for a showing of my work in May, at the same place the other show was.  The theme would be “Art as a Healing Process.” I like the idea.  Took the paintings I showed … Continue reading →

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