Mental Health Disorders impact 20 to 25% of all people. While meditation is not a cure, medication can help people live creatively and more fully with their diagnosis. The following is a text version of this blog posting. The numbers vary from survey to survey. The most commonly accepted estimates… Read More »Mental Health and Meditation: Three Keys
Some people say it will take a few months. Others think it’s about a year. But even years after a loved one’s death, there are days – or hours or moments – when the pain comes back. How long does grief last? Does it ever go away? Grief, which is… Read More »
We’re told to eat this but not that to be healthy. If we want to be happy, we should do that but not that. We grew up being taught that success in life is important and looks a certain way. We receive all kinds of instructions about ourselves and our… Read More »The Integrated Self
Human beings are amazing! We have a unique capacity to move through overwhelmingly difficult circumstances and toward living in ways that are dynamic and vibrant. In the field of mental health, this ability is called resiliency. It’s an aspect of human experience that is the focus of research and discussion… Read More »Resiliency: The Movement through Death to Life
A few days ago, I was reading an online article about the use of spiritual assessments. In many institutional settings, including hospitals and the military, the use of assessments for spirituality has become common. There is a wide variety among these instruments but they generally ask a range of questions… Read More »Spirituality in the Absence of Belief