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what therapy gifts
I had my second therapy session today with the same therapist. Prior to her I’ve gone for two other sessions with two others, but something didn’t feel right. I wondered if I…
psychotherapy in the process of becoming
I am on a search to find a psychotherapist. I’ve been curious about psychotherapy ever since reading Carl Jung, but what really put me over the fence was reading Carl Roger’s On…
how can love begin
how can love begin for oneself without holding sight of one’s true self
thoughts on living and dying
I am reading Irvin Yalom’s ”Creatures of a day” and the book explored a lot on the fear of dying. It made me think about my own feelings about death. Being chronically…
snapshots of myself
There was a point last week when I was feeling some internal turmoil, I don’t know why but I started reading my journal entries that I had written when I was in…
2018
I write a pair of these every year. I learned last year that a large source of my suffering comes from the the disconnect between what reality was and what I expect it…
a lifetime of practice
I am seated facing a spectacular green canopy while writing this and yet for the past few days I’ve been accompanied by a mild but chronic sense of melancholy, made worse by…
How I finally learned to meditate
anyone can learn to meditate simply by learning how to count
blessings and curses
I just recovered from a migraine a couple of days ago. It was interesting to note that: it didn’t occur in the usual time periods: before, during and after my menstrual cycle,…