A Mindful Life

I recently happened across a blog called Blaugustine, written by the “altar-ego”of a woman named Natalie. She doesn’t have permalinks yet, and she’s permitted me to post several images of a list she created. It’s a neat list that graphically depicts the kinds of thoughts we have.
It reminds me a bit of the [...]

Grief is a natural process, one which our culture pressures us to either avoid or process quickly with the assistance of therapy. I’ve been reading Anne Lamott’s book, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith; in one chapter she writes about her experience grieving the death of a dear friend as well as the [...]

From PsycPORT comes a summary, Morning Headaches Associated with Depression and Anxiety:

Morning headache affects one individual in 13 in the general population, Dr. Ohayon writes. Chronic morning headaches are a good indicator of major depressive disorders and insomnia disorders. Contrary to what was previously suggested, however, they are not specific to sleep-related breathing disorder, concludes [...]

Regarding the inevitable brouhaha surrounding Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ:

The argument about the film’s political implications is important and, in any case, will be hard — at least for a while — to drown out. But at a certain point, disciples of cinema, whatever their other loyalties and affiliations, must reaffirm a basic [...]

For a good portion of Wednesday and Thursday, and now apparently into Friday, I have been reading and extrapolating information from Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, compiling quizzes from the book to use with the various couples I counsel.
The author, John Gottman, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington [...]

I started writing this blog in late August, when I launched my private practice. Its purpose has been to provide a public service by posting about mental health topics/links and also by featuring words that provoke thought.
At the same time, I started a personal blog using a pseudonym. I’d [...]

Why not walk in the aura of magic that gives to the small things of life their uniqueness and importance? Why not befriend a toad today?
–Germaine Greer, The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause

The writer of Heart @ Work has invited other bloggers to answer the question of why people blog. Today’s guest writes BrewedFreshDaily. His answer to how blogging has changed his life appealed to me, because it’s an excellent metaphor describing this virtual experience.

G: Now that I think about it, my website has really [...]

An excerpt from an eloquent treatise on why suicide should not be dismissed as “merely” an act of irrational behavior. From the blog of Antonio Savoradin:

So I do ask, under such circumstances, in which the sufferer of depression is mocked, is disbelieved, is denied treatment, is blamed for his illness, is acused of selfish [...]

A psychiatrist wrote about his experience of working at a mental hospital where cell phones, laptops, and other such devices were permitted to patients. As experiments went, this one had its problems. He raised an interesting point as well — mental hospitals formerly provided respite from the world to give the patient time [...]