Tag: Isolation

• June 20, 2011

  Learning to Recognize Your Personal Warning Signs

  There is a point in the slide toward depression where reaching out for help feels impossible. Not difficult. Impossible. The very act of picking up the phone and calling someone…

• June 29, 2010

  Fault-Finding Is a Projection

  Have you noticed how easy it is to become irritated by other people’s failures to follow rules that you follow? Someone runs a stop sign. Someone parks in a handicapped…

• May 29, 2010

  The Attraction to Emotional Trauma

  What is your devastating weakness? Not in the abstract, not philosophically — what is yours, specifically, in the way your inner life actually works? Most people have never answered that…

• April 1, 2010

  That Which You Can Know, You Cannot See

  There are two worlds we move through every day, and most people spend the vast majority of their time in only one of them. The first is the world of…

• February 9, 2010

  A Practice of Infinite Perspective

  Most of us spend our lives feeling small — like a minor character in a story being written by forces much larger than ourselves. But what if the opposite is…