despair Archive

  • From Suffering to Energy without Effort

    From Suffering to Energy without Effort

    A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
  • She Washed His Feet With Her Tears

    She Washed His Feet With Her Tears

    Forgiveness and redemption are healing, but you can still find wholeness even when others cannot offer it.
  • Empowering Comfort

    Empowering Comfort

    How to identify healthy forms of emotional support and healers that are empowering rather than disempowering.
  • Drug Your Emotions Away

    Drug Your Emotions Away

    Can we use drugs to numb our emotional pain without losing our souls?
  • Happy Crazy Eight Day

    Happy Crazy Eight Day

    An adventure in facing worst fears. This particular monster? Psychiatry. I enter with stigma and exit with side effects.
  • The Secret Healers

    The Secret Healers

    The greatest healers in my life do not even know they are healing me, and most of the time, neither...
  • Not Enough to Be Numb

    Not Enough to Be Numb

    When weeks of grief and turmoil are broken by a neutral calm, the relief is welcome, but the journey is...
  • Philosophy

    Philosophy

    We begin with a belief in separation, and we think oneness is the illusion.  One day we realize we have...
  • Dancing with Love

    Dancing with Love

    I recently went to a Tai Chi center where a group of about fifteen or more people gather every so...