Top Quotes on my Current Perceptions
A beautiful collection of thoughts and quotes from Veronike, an awesome writer on a healing journey from deep depression.
What Does Depression Feel Like? Trust Me – You Really Don’t Want To Know – Re-Blog
It’s depression awareness month. This description is completely accurate in my experience – and so rare can anyone describe how it actually is. I recently had a mini-relapse and can tell you that even 20 years into recovery – and I have a great life – the symptoms feel exactly like this – though I describe…
When My Depression Visits ~ By Heather Durling
Heather has written an awesome, light-hearted article for The Wellness Universe about how she deals with her depression when it stops in for a visit. Yes, even well into recovery from depression, it still stops by to remind us to stop and take a look at our lives when in one way or another we…
On People Going Through Depression…
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a…
BEFRIENDING SOMEONE WHO IS DEEPLY DEPRESSED
Originally posted on IMAGINE YOURSELF HAPPY™:
This article by me was published today at The Wellness Universe blog. It’s well worth a trip over there to find all the wonderful content provided by so many healers and thought leaders. Thanks, Gerry If someone you love is seriously depressed, take care of yourself first. What is…
Slaying – or Taming at Least – the Dragon of STRESS – or 7 ways I dealt with yesterday’s stress attack
“Stress” is our body’s way of reacting to a something that we BELIEVE might harm us. When we are in survival mode, we can’t argue with those beliefs because our higher order thinking has shut down, so we need a plan.
There Is No Permanent Happy or Permanent Sad…
We all have days filled with grief we don’t think we can bear, some filled with anger or shame, some filled with love and joy. Most are somewhere in the middle, with elements of all, and what we choose to focus our attention on, moment to moment, decides how happy we are.
A to Z Blogging Challenge – Spirituality – 11 – Kindness
This post is brought to you by the letter K and the number 11. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” Plato Nothing says kindness like the life of beloved actor, Robin Williams. This great man spent his life making other people feel good…not just on stage and screen…but in real…
A to Z Blogging Challenge – Spirituality – JOY
“Keep knocking, and the Joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there.” Rumi I love thinking about JOY, because, well, for so long it was an experience that was SO foreign to me. When I was depressed, someone in a workshop had us to write down three 3 most joyous…
You Are NOT Your Depression: keeping your challenges separate from your identity
I have been thinking about recovery all week and about healing and about therapy. And I want to say that in some forms of therapy, we are asked to dig up and re-live some of the traumas that happened “before now” in our lives. And we spend a lot of time rooting around trying to…
Open Hearted Musings with Gerry Straatemeier 
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