change therapy

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!it’s been a year since i last hosted a carnival of healing, so it’s great to come back to this. as usual, there were many submissions. so this is a rather long post. i’ve categorized them […]

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it’s friday and we have a frozen pea friday post to celebrate cancer survivors. today, a guest post by hayley:
hi! i’m hayley and i’m an alcoholic. oh wait, wrong posting day. this is the cancer posting day. let’s try that again!
hi! i’m hayley townley. i’m thrilled to have been asked to be a guest […]

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here, friends, is the second part of this month’s buddhist carnival. the first part is here. enjoy!
forgiveness
andrew, on his blog rants of a gay lunatic (i have to confess that such a title immediately makes me perk up my ears) does not directly mention buddhism in his article why we must forgive president […]

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to my fellow bloggers who like to write about inspiration: one of my blogging buddies, damien at postcards from the funny farm, has a group writing/writing contest project called amazing visions.
it closes on july 1 (extended deadline) and here is what it’s about
can you think of someone you admire? maybe it’s for their brain? their […]

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john over at storied mind has taken up the thread of the discussion on creativity that i started a while ago with Psyblog and, creative person that he is, is talking about it in connection with depression. let me add a bit to that discussion.
first of all, i’d like to say that if someone […]

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hello friends, and thanks for visiting this month’s buddhist carnival!
before we start, i want to say:
happy father’s day!
and i want to tell you a bit about my father, who passed away 12 years ago. it was my father who awakened my interest in buddhism. buddhism was a philosophy that suited my father well. […]

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head over to jacob’s blog JobMob for a post he invited me to guest write for his series on job search and depression.  there’s the beginning of an interesting conversation in the comment section, why don’t you join in!

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the other day i found a little post on resonant enigma’s about reverence. these words here are inspired by this; in fact, it’s a slightly rewritten excerpt of a paper i wrote quite a few years ago in a course on environmental philosophy. here it is:
my great-aunt mathilde had lots of books, but […]

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today i’m guest blogging over at alex’s blog, our evolution, about a profound experience i had some years ago that allowed me to transcend my little judgments and and truly listen to the essence of what is said. you’d think that as a counsellor, that should be second nature to me – and i […]

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welcome to the 17th carnival of eating disorders, where we look at blog posts that deal with anorexia, bulimia, exercise bulimia, overeating, orthorexia, EDNOS, body image and other related topics.
i have to confess that after all this time, the name “carnival” of eating disorders still rings funny in my ears. thesaurus.com suggests these alternative […]

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i’m going to be in the may 2008 bloghology.  bloghology is “a collection of bloggers and their masterpieces blended as a monthly ezine.”
one of the things i’ve been asked for this bloghology entry is, “what are your 5 best blog posts?”
now i have an opinion on this but really, your opinion, dear readers, counts for […]

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8 random facts about me
… and things you may not know …

i once seriously considered starting a web site dedicated entirely to caesar salad
the only autograph i ever bothered getting was from dancer rudolf nureyev
in my crazy berlin-before-the-wall-came-down days, one saturday i had a one-night stand with a kurdish urologist who looked like […]

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welcome to the buddhist carnival, a selection of buddhist posts all over the blogosphere.
this month is poetry month. let’s start with a zen poem, then, by p’ang yun, who lived from approximately 740 to 808 C.E.
when the mind is at peace,
the world too is at peace.
nothing real, nothing absent.
not holding on to reality,
not getting stuck […]

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a while ago, alex shalman interviewed 34 people on the subject of happiness. following up on this, he created the happiness project, a group writing project where everyone who wishes answers questions about what happiness is for them. these posts then are gathered on his blog, here.
below are my answers. and if you’d […]

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ladies and gentlemen, i present to you: the 15th carnival of eating disorders!

anorexia
an x-ray technician talks about three generations of women with eating disorders. she describes anorexia as an addiction:
unlike other addictions, anorexia is something you don’t do. to be an alcoholic you have to find alcohol to drink. drug addicts have to buy […]

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