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Distinguishing between story and feeling is essential to navigating the difficult places in which at times we find ourselves stuck.
I wake in the morning. It is early… very early.
Remembrance Day is a good time to ponder loss and grief and to explore our own response to the inevitable pain that accompanies the often difficult realities of life.
Being an adult means taking responsibility for my own emotional life.
A great deal of pain is caused, or at least made worse, by my determination to avoid pain. The intensity and power of anything I resist always increases.
Alain de Botton recently posted at “The School of Life” some provocative and wise thoughts on the value of melancholy.
I have always hesitated to write about depression.
Life is filled with a complicated mix of complex feelings.
Sue Wintz offers helpful advice for responding to people who are experiencing grief in the face of the death of a child, or any death, at:
It runs like a constant refrain through the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. It is a kind of chorus echoing off almost every page of the Bible.
“Do not be afraid.” Again and again in a variety of voices, no matter how difficult the circumstances, God tells people they have nothing to fear.
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