What the Bear in Your Bed Might Be Telling You: Managing Anxiety
I don't suffer from anxiety a lot, but in the past week, I've found myself on several nights wrestling with a bear. Here is what the bear was telling me.…
Going Meta: Divorce, Depression, and Befriending Sadness
I am a feeling-driven person. My moods can drive ecstatic highs of creativity and pull me into lows of lethargy and inertia. There's no amount of lamenting that's going to…
A Radical Approach to Joy
Joy is different from happiness. Happiness is fleeting. Joy is innate. I believe we have set points, but not of happiness, of joy. I know that even in moments of…
Guidance and Direction Request from John of The Whole Parent
Hi, and thanks for being a reader of The Whole Parent. A lot has changed since I started this blog over 5-years ago. My life has been through so many…
When Contemplating Suicide (In the Final Seconds of Life)
[I want you to contemplate the final seconds before a suicide attempt for a few minutes. This is an uncomfortable post. It's supposed to be.] As two beautiful, luminaries, died…
Depression in a Relationship: Keep Climbing the Hill
I'm not a young man. I'm 53 years old. And still tripping and falling flat onto my face. And each time the structures and supports around me have supported me,…
What Am I Doing? Divorce, Depression, and a Single Dad In #Recovery
No rapture here, just daily strength and hope, from a divorced dad. I do think I've grown as a result of this blog. The growth and transformation over the last…
What “Responsible Separation” Means
Laura A. Munson has written an amazing book about a crisis of heart she and her husband suffered. Well, actually her husband suffered some sort of mid-life crisis and…
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