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Depression / Spiritual Depression

Loving Balance During Difficult Times of Grieving, Depression or Recovery

Whether you are depressed, sick, recovering from surgery, grieving, feeling less than 100%, or just feeling too—fill in the blank—too fat, too big, too small, too scared, etc., it’s important that you love yourself and soothe yourself through the difficult times.
We’ve all been knocked off center and caught in an experience that feels less than [...]

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How to Heal the Emotional Pain of Depression

Can Emotions Harm Us?
During depression, the intensity of emotions can feel so strong that some people worry the feelings will overwhelm them or even harm or kill them. The temptation is to panic, push it all back down, or even shut down.
While diverting attention from an overwhelming emotion is sometimes a healthy coping mechanism, it [...]

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Five Tips for Surviving Depression

During the depression experience, there is no normal, 100%, happy day like there once was. Instead, there is a depression process that has its lows and then there are the really, really lows. Every once in a while there is a happy moment. Overall, the journey requires finding your best way through a truly difficult [...]

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Accepting the Unacceptable Reality of Depression

One of the hardest things to do is to find an empowering meaning while going through depression. In truth, while in the midst of depression, it may be impossible to answer the questions of “why depression” or “why me?”
Everything has a reason, and depression has one, too. However, the reason for depression may not [...]

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Important Truths You Must Know In Order to Heal Your Depression

If you are currently depressed, then quite possibly over the next days, weeks, and months, you are going to continue to feel very alone, lost, and inadequate as you live through an intensely difficult experience. In all likelihood, your depression isn’t going to lift immediately. In fact, there is no predicting when your depression will [...]

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What to Say and What Not to Say When Someone You Love is Depressed

One of the most difficult things about being depressed is that no one—often friends included—has the right thing to say. The experience seems so much lonelier to bear when there’s no one to share the tougher times with. If you have a friend or family member who is depressed or is in need of some [...]

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How to Prevent Being Isolated and Completely Alone During Depression

Depression is by its very nature a time to withdraw and move through a process. However, it’s so easy to move beyond the natural withdrawal tendency into isolation. The intense feelings of overwhelm and the heavy burden of depression leaves us assured that no one could possibly want to be around us during this experience. [...]

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Help Design the Cover for “Depression Freedom”

Hello Everyone!
My amazingly talanted graphic designer Ted Ruybal is currently working on creating the cover for my upcoming book Depression Freedom: Ending the Reign of Darkness. This is a very exciting time and I’d love to share the fun!
To view the images of the book cover click on the link below:
Cover Samples for Depression Freedom
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Back-Cover for Depression Freedom!

Today the first rough draft of the back-cover of my upcoming book Depression Freedom: Ending the Reign of Darkness was sent to my professional copy editor! We are now one step closer to our publication date (mid to end of February 2010). I’m excited and thought I would share a preview with you:
A Guide to Healing the Human Spirit
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