Practicing Mental Illness

Meditation, Movement, Meaningful Work and the Politics of Crazy

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Mindfulness and Anxiety

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Anxiety disorder is much more than being very nervous or edgy.  In anxiety, a person will report an unreasonable exaggeration of threats, re...

What to Do With All of These Thoughts

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It’s easy to say that when meditating one should focus on the breath and release thoughts as they arise, but it’s incredibly difficult to do...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Compassion - A Look Back at the Failed AHCA

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The current political climate is not good for people with mental illness.   Many receive benefits under the ACA’s parity for mental and phy...
Monday, March 13, 2017

State Your Intention

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Mindfulness Meditation, or working with the breath and releasing thoughts as they arise, has been very helpful to me for many years.  The h...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Inertia and Failure

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I have a lot of ideas.   Some of them good ones.   I’ll get started down the path to developing one, maybe even turning it into a thriving ...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Mindfulness & Happiness: Not So Fast

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Meditation has a deep history in all spiritual traditions as a path toward compassion and insight.  It has also been practiced in many as a...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

The Requirement is Self-Discipline

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I’ve written of the discipline it takes to maintain both a meditation practice and wellness in the face of mental illness as a keystone of...
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