A friend posted this video on her Facebook page and I really liked it. Being alone is so hard – hard when you’re young and trying to figure out the whole relationship thing, hard when you’ve just been dumped because you haven’t quite figured out the whole relationship thing, hard when you want a family, [...]
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Jumping to the Loss
September 27, 2009 – 6:59 pm
The cute guy you met Saturday night calls and cancels the date you had set up for the following Saturday. Sighing, you think to yourself “I will never have a boyfriend.”
The promotion your boss told you that you were in line for goes to another colleague. “I will never get anywhere,” you tell yourself.
“I look [...]
Crossing the Street: Acceptance and Change
September 24, 2008 – 11:39 am
It is one of those paradoxes in life that a key ingredient for change is acceptance. This can be somewhat frightening: why should we want to accept our depression, our anxiety, our bad relationship, our boring job? Indeed, the reason most people show up for therapy is in fact to change [...]
Backing Into Fear
July 9, 2008 – 6:07 am
“Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear.” ~Chogyam Trungpa in Shambhala: the Path of the Warrior
One of the most interesting things [...]