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Along the same lines of the Buddhist tale, reader Cindy wrote the following on the message board of my “What Makes People Relapse?” post: Hello Dear Friends: I pray that each of us has better days ahead. I’d like to share this story that I heard years ago on suffering.? One day, a man went…

I was moved by the post “Com+passio” by fellow Beliefnet blogger Rod Dreher, in which he writes: I’ve been reminded in the past couple of days how much intense suffering and grief we have around us. They’re going to have prayer meeting at Matthew’s school for the sake of a little girl from the school…

Have you been labeled “treatment resistent”? Maybe you just haven’t found the right psychiatrist. My blogging buddy, James, wrote a great post yesterday on his process of finding the right treatment for him. He links to my post on “My 12-Step Program,” where I outline what has worked for me. Here’s the beginning of his…

Beliefnet has a cool new feature where you can sign up to receive a daily e-mail update from Beyond Blue. I have signed up for it: to remind myself what I wrote about, and to whom I owe apologies. The sign up is in the lower part of the right-hand column of Beyond Blue, where…

Since so many Beyond Blue readers expressed the importance of exercise in their war against depression on the message board of my “Depression and Coupes” post, I thought I’d share exercise tips by Karen Swartz, M.D., one of the doctors at Johns Hopkins who evaluated me a year and a half ago. She is Director…

I don’t think workout queen Kathy Smith would have stuffed herself like I did at my sister’s farm all week. Her exercise regime is a tad different from mine, but we’re alike in this regard: exercise saved our lives! Here is an interview with her by my lovely editor, Holly Lebowitz Rossi, who is presently…

Did you ever consider designing your workout to match your personality? You think the author of this concept has too much time on his hands? I agree with you. But interesting, nontheless. “Fine-tuning your workout based on your personal tendencies can help you adhere to a program, and consistency is the foundation for getting fit,”…

Not that I want the year to be over, but Beliefnet has this cool end-of-the-year feature on the Most Inspiring Person of the Year 2007. The editors here want to know your thoughts. So be sure to check out the discussion board on that topic which you can get to by clicking here.

Here’s my attempt to rationalize my addiction to Beyond Blue (and maybe to the Internet): it’s my support group. Today it got the okay from my therapist. “Do you think my behavior during my week in the country when I was supposed to unwind and find myself, but instead cursed all week at the slow…

In order to be true to oneself—or (more accurately?) to avoid disaster—sometimes a person has to separate herself from those she loves in order to be able to love them (and herself) even more. I just read about that yesterday in my devotional: Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the…
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