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Mindfulness and deep breathing may not cure anxiety, but they can be easy and quick practices to ground yourself — especially in situations and environments outside of your control.
Anxiety can feel like “high energy confined to a restricted space.” Changing your environment — whether through lovingkindness meditation, chanting, or otherwise — can help you create space for it to dissipate.
To teach is to foster a kinship — to love and be loved in return. For Christina Torres, her work as a teacher has helped her manage her anxiety and depression.
Suffering is universal. It’s time I grew wiser about how to sit alongside it.
Some fears are realistic; others are imaginary and insurmountable creations, fabrications of “free-floating hyperactivity of the mind.”
“Emerging from depression — “healing” if you will — doesn’t mean leaving darkness behind. It means being aware and whole enough to accept dark months and dark times as expressions of human vitality.” Krista Tippett on understanding the lingering vestiges of her depression.
Depression has a profound spiritual effect that is difficult to speak about and can often only be traced years onward. Krista Tippett reflects on her own experience with clinical depression and what she's learned from others who have lived through its darkness.
A woman finds the gift of stories to ground us and give shape to our suffering — by teaching creative writing to in-patient adolescents on the psychiatry floor of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
A woman's story of her family — fractured and bruised but not without deep, complex love. A reflection on mental illness and divorce, the infinite shapes a home can take, and the courage to carve out space in a world built around conventions.
Death and illness are rational fears, yet there are some truths we need to ignore in order to function. For people with health anxiety, a strange lump can incite a multitude of fears. A generous (sometimes humorous) window into life with hypochondria.
The harmful cycle of guilt can devolve into cycles of self-hatred. Guiding words on the constructive work of remorse, which can be especially powerful when directed toward forgiving ourselves.
Can the process of grieving go on too long? Especially when you write about it for a living? Jane Gross on her bout with understanding death's unsettled trajectory.
For the end of Suicide Awareness Month, an elegy for a vibrant but fragile life unraveled by mental health — and one woman's challenge to recognize love in the presence of desperation.
If kindness, especially towards ourselves, is not our habit, where will it come from? Sharon Salzberg tells of her first encounter with lovingkindness and how we use can this practice to look upon ourselves differently — and with those we most want to ignore.
The task of the healthy is to be willing to see the same wholeness in those who aren't, to help them understand that they are needed and wanted and complete. A documentary film helps one man ponder how Jesus might frame our understanding of our potential role in modern-day healing.
The act of letting go is a popular idea — but it isn't easy. It's a practice requiring time, patience, and a good deal of steadfastness. Words of wisdom on acknowledging an experience and changing our relationship to it.
Researchers are showing that doing it all at the same time is a “diabolical illusion.” If we know this, why does it continue to be so seductive, so alluring? In this technological, overambitious age, a commentary on striving to be focused and whole again.
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