I attended a dinner party recently where one of the guests had just read my book. Partway through my first glass of wine she asked me if I still suffered from depression and anxiety. It was refreshing for me to experience this topic as part of our dinner conversation, but still I paused, wanting to…
If depression is a symptom of being stuck in the pain of the past, and anxiety a fear of the future, the obvious answer is to align oneself in present time. Your physical body is the vehicle by which you enter present time, but in order to do so you must also have mastery over…
If you want to know the common thread that weaves throughout everything that I write, it is this: to give voice to those topics that our culture prefers to hide. I prefer to take these topics out of the closet and shine light onto them. We live in an age of “smiling depressives”, people who…
Meanwhile in the Galaxy Gaia turned to her lover Sol Beseeching him for help With her current condition Such was Sol’s love for her That he gave her a fever Of Biblical Proportions Comparable to the Great Flood But instead of cleansing the planet with a deluge Threatened to sear every vestige of life from…
The telephone rang In the middle of the night It was God Thanking me for taking part In an experiment called insanity. “Your willingness to descend Into the depths of darkness Has been much appreciated. May we call you for future follow-ups?”
Whenever I am asked what it is I believe helped me the most in my healing journey, I reply that it is the fact that I listened to my own inner guidance over and above any expert’s opinion. Sometimes my gut instincts told me to do something completely irrational and illogical, and I did it…
Six years after I resurfaced from my journey through addiction and depression, my sister sent me a revolutionary work by Dr. Gabor Mate. His book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, validates from a medical perspective what I lived through experientially. Dr. Mate is one of those rare breeds of people who go where the…
A recent Harvard study dovetails nicely into what Dr Gabor Mate has been asserting for years. In the words of the researchers themselves, “childhood abuse leads to permanent changes in a seahorse-shaped area of the brain that can cause adult depression and drug abuse.” It also dovetails nicely into a recent surge of anecdotal evidence,…
I like to describe the void as “the insubstantial netherworld where you are trapped in your own grief and pain”. The void is not fun; but it is infinitely compelling. There are things you will learn from it that you could not learn from any other experience. But like Hades, you don’t want to get…
The way I see it, what we are witnessing right now is nothing short of humanity’s collective shadow being unveiled. This is a good thing, because it shines the light of day on what has so far been kept in the closet and hidden in the sand. It is a necessary step if we are…