change therapy

this is a guest post by one of my twitter friends, the barking unicorn.
“the only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well,” said alfred adler, a colleague of sigmund freud.
“most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves,” said robert [...]

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it’s january 15, and time to serve up this month’s buddhist carnival, a selection of posts from the buddhasphere.  here is this month’s poem:
a first kensho
when things abruptly shift
like part of the body misaligned by a sharp move
when the house goes, or the he or she,
any room at once gets a new look
and old familiar [...]

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today, please visit marie at coming out of the trees.    about her blog she says
i’m passing along a collection of excerpts from my personal and therapy journals to whomever needs to read them. i’m sharing my story so that those of you who are on a similar journey can know that you aren’t the only [...]

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middle of the month: it’s buddhist carnival time! being all busy with NaNoWriMo, this is a quickie version – a little taste from the blogosphere, a buddhist smorgasbrod:
a zen tale from secret forest
the disciple threw stones in the water all day long. the next day, the master told him:
—do throw a stone in the water.
—why, [...]

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i want to thank janet riehl for passing on the superior scribbler award to me.  it had been given to her by matilda butler and kendra bonnett who have a blog that supports women writing their memoirs.
this is a great way to introduce you to some blogs that i haven’t mentioned much, or maybe not [...]

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a while ago we talked about the lack of scripts for talking about mental illness (at least in “polite society”), and before that we had a conversation about how uncomfortable it can be to engage in peaceful communication.  and now evan took up the topic the other day and asked how can we talk about [...]

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a little while ago, a paper was published that suggests that positive thinking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be:
positive self-statements are widely believed to boost mood and self-esteem, yet their effectiveness has not been demonstrated. we examined the contrary prediction that positive self-statements can be ineffective or even harmful. a survey study confirmed that [...]

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in a guest post at alison’s blog writing mental illness, i discuss the idea of scriptio divina, or spiritual writing. here is a little excerpt:
i don’t think it’s possible to truly connect with ourselves and with the divine (whatever you want to call it; from the traditional christian god to the new age universe [...]

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once again, blog action day and the october buddhist carnival fall on the same date. let me present to you, then, a few colourful strands from that corner of the blogosphere where buddhism and climate change intersect.
icebergs are buddhist monks
we always start that buddhist carnival with a poem. here is an excerpt from [...]

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welcome to the september edition of the buddhist carnival, where we showcase treasures from the buddhasphere. today we have compassion and helping hands, cockcroaches, sleep, returning to the centre and a bunch of (no)selves. as always, let’s start off with a poem:
we dance around in a ring and suppose;
but the secret sits in [...]

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today is the last day of suicide prevention week. to honour those who have attempted suicide and survived, those who have lost loved ones, and the lives of people who have chosen this sad way out, i’ve collected a few worthwhile links on the topic. if we put them all together, here are [...]

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here’s a little more from raul’s blog. the topic raul broached was diversity. by the way, those of you who are not engaged in social media, please don’t run away. because guess what – what’s happening in social media is very similar to what’s happening IRL – i mean, in real life [...]

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this is my entry for joanna young’s newest mission impossible group writing project where she challenged writers to push their blogging boundaries. i had asked you, my dear readers, to suggest what i should do. all kinds of interesting ideas came up and i’ll definitely try to incorporate as many as possible in my blog [...]

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i just want to send some kudos to hank for his fabulous blog post want to know what i think?
in that post, hank waxes intelligently and humourously and historically about what makes us blog, or generally express ourselves, like martin luther,
famous for publicly posting his disagreements with catholic dogma (except for the parts dealing with [...]

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here’s the buddhist carnival again! last month my blog was still sick and the carnival didn’t happen. glad to be back for august. the buddhist carnival is a romp / surf / drive / ride through the buddhist blogosphere (blugghasphere?) and today’s menu brings you posts on music, fashion, family, war, wishy-washy buddhism, persisting through the agony [...]

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