Blog tagged as depression

September is National Suicide Prevention Month.

Whenever I think about suicide, what it means to me, how I feel about it, the word that always comes to mind is shame. I don't think you can talk about suicide without talking about shame. I have been heavily immersed in Brene Brown's research work on ...

I pose that radical question to you. Meditators often see the spiritual awakening that is, in essence, the inevitable outcome of a long-term practice of meditation as the "death of the self" or the "death of the ego." Like a caterpillar that must die before becoming a butterfly, ...