Are We Doomed?
Climate change, with its predictable consequences, appears irreversible. Can coming to terms with a terminal diagnosis help us to deal with the situation?
Looking at life through the prism of psychology, philosophy, mental health and more. Originally created by counsellor, psychotherapist and philosopher Dr Greg Mulhauser, this blog is now the work of an international team of contributors.
Climate change, with its predictable consequences, appears irreversible. Can coming to terms with a terminal diagnosis help us to deal with the situation?
The natural state of being with myself, others and everything else, the way I am when circumstances allow, is like being plugged into the current of life.
There’s a glaring contradiction involved in the way counsellors work with people to enable them to affirm themselves and the way they can appear — either as saviours from above and beyond the daily struggle, as martyrs sacrificing themselves for others, or just as well-meaning people with no sense of their own value.
It’s Spring, a season of creative disturbance. Once out of the cocoon of Winter, everything starts to move and change. There’s a mix of cold and sun, and everything’s in flux; it can seem like one step forward and two steps back, yet it’s all moving forward.
Good Friday is a time of darkness and depletion that comes right before the light, a time set aside to contemplate suffering. I was forcing my system on full steam ahead and it felt all wrong.
The act of intentionally extending compassion to yourself might seem counterintuitive, selfish, artificial, or just plain weird. This is where the concept of unconditional positive regard comes in handy.
A sense of safety is a crucial human need, and working with trauma and anxiety is all about finding this sense of a secure base in the world. However, given our position in the universe, whizzing around on a rock in the middle of infinite space, with pretty much the only certainty in our life being the fact that we will die, is it not a little crazy to imagine that we are safe?
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