November 2009
15 posts
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity...”
– Fred Rogers (via reluctantbuddha)
“Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what...”
– Virgil (via reluctantbuddha)
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha)
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
– Henri Matisse (via reluctantbuddha)
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you....”
– Winnie the Pooh (via reluctantbuddha)
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via reluctantbuddha)
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw (via reluctantbuddha)
“Endure the present, and watch for better things.”
– Virgil
(via reluctantbuddha)
(via psychotherapy)
“Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.”
– Ram Dass (via psychotherapy)
Church May Not Provide Support for Depressed... →
psychotherapy:
An ongoing study by a well-respected Baptist university has found that local churches may not be the best place to receive counseling or support for mental illness.
Baylor University researchers built upon a 2008 study that found nearly a third of those who approached their local church in response to a personal or family member’s previously-diagnosed mental illness were told...
October 2009
13 posts
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is...”
– George Orwell (via psychotherapy)
poetry as tonic, #7
psychotherapy:
I Have News for You There are people who do not see a broken playground swing as a symbol of ruined childhood and there are people who don’t interpret the behavior of a fly in a motel room as a mocking representation of their thought process. There are people who don’t walk past an empty swimming pool and think about past pleasures irrecoverable and then stand there blocking the...
September 2009
5 posts
I kinda lost my blog for a little while… didn’t know where I put it… but I found it! No worries. :-)
Rob Bell has a new book out… thinking I want it… thinking after the gym I’m going to go buy it and spend all night reading it.
July 2009
10 posts
Tick. Tick. Boom.
I fear the future sometimes. I fear what I see happening. I fear it is getting worse. Our country is bankrupt because of greed. Crime is on the rise. Millions of people out of work, loosing their homes, their vehicles, their pension… their identity. They are scared… but mostly they are angry. It is not their fear that scares me… rather their anger… and where they end...
“Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person...”
– Rollo May (via psychotherapy)
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via psychotherapy)
Questions... or Questioning...
How do you move on from events you are still wounded from? When do you finally move on? When does the pain go away? Does it actually go away? Why do people think its okay to treat others the way they do? Why is there so much pain in this world? Why do I feel so alone? Why do people who say they will never leave you, hurt and leave you? What does a friend actually mean exactly? When will all the...