Compassionate Connection

We can also do this for our own Inner Child when it is anxious or overwhelmed...

Interesting article. Perhaps not applicable for everybody, but some good points raised. “This pain you are feeling is not a pathology. It’s not crazy. It is a signal that your natural psychological needs are not being met. It is a form of grief – for yourself, and for the culture you live in going so wrong. I know how much it hurts. I know how deeply it cuts you. But you need to listen to this signal. We all need to listen to the people around us sending out this signal. It is telling you what is going wrong. It is telling you that you need to be connected in so many deep and stirring ways that you aren’t yet – but you can be, one day.”

Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? In this extract from his new book, Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 14 years, calls for a new approach