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Summer is my favorite season of the year. Probably because of all the light. But (this is going to sound weird, but I know you all know what I mean), sometimes I feel pressured to be happy during the summer because I know that I am getting as much light as the year has to…

If you don’t have the luxury of working from a laptop, like I do, which can be transported to a sunny spot, then you might have to bring summer to you. Beliefnet’s Holistic Editor, Valerie Reiss, writes “10 Ways to Bring Summer Inside” which you can get to by clicking here. It begins … It’s…

Thanks to Beyond Blue reader Larry Parker for forwarding me the piece, “The Urge to End It All,” published in last Sunday’s New York Time magazine. It was quite timely for me because I spent the majority of my train ride home from New York discussing suicide with an Amtrak driver (my fellow passenger who…

Group Beyond Blue member Larry Parker started a discussion thread about the New York Times piece on Group Beyond Blue at Beliefnet Community. There he writes: It’s a little disorienting at first reading ourselves discussed in the clinical (literally and figuratively) terms of epidemiology rather than in the abject pain we suffer. The tale of…

In my video I mentioned Dr. Abraham Low’s organization, Recovery, Inc.  For those of you not familiar with Recovery, Inc., it is a somewhat old-fashioned but very effective mental health program for persons suffering from depression and other mood disorders. Founded by the neuropsychiatrist Abraham Low in 1937, the program has group meetings every week…

I wanted to thank all my dear Beyond Blue readers for your care and concern after I published the video about my darker days. I really was mixed on whether or not to publish that. But I remembered my golden rule about escaping despair by becoming transparent under God and to the reader, and how…

Ironically, yesterday’s Gospel reading was about the hemorrhaging woman I talked about in my post about the statue of Jesus in the Hopkins’s administrative building with the inscription: “Come, all you who are weary.” It was a perfect reading for me yesterday because I was feeling fearful all day–unable to locate exactly what was triggering…

Dear God, I always get a little teary-eyed when I get to Matthew’s eleventh chapter, which is today’s reading (Matthew 11:25-30), that says: At that time Jesus exclaimed: “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed…

I used to have a “Footprints” plaque in the bedroom of my childhood house. Or maybe it was in the kitchen. I love the message of “Footprints”, even if it’s not sophisticated theology. It brings me much comfort because I believe God to be a loving, empathetic, involved God. Now that I’m on the other…

Thanks to Patricia B. who posted the following on the message board of my “This, Too, Shall Pass.” I initially hesitated to publish it because I know how much Beyond Blue readers love the poem, “Footprints in the Sand.” But then I thought about all the folks that might (I hope) find some humor in…
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