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Birthday Blues

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on January 31, 2016 by RachelJanuary 31, 2016

Today is my birthday. I am now two years away from 50. Maybe that’s partly why the birthday blues hit me so hard. Combine that with the recent health issues and I have been deeply reminded of my mortality. And …
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Posted in Personal | Tagged acceptance, depression, passion myth | 2 Replies

Catch-22 of Depression

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on August 28, 2015 by RachelDecember 22, 2015

I don’t know if I have the clinical version of depression but I certainly have some of its symptoms. And it seems like they’ve been lurking in the background since at least my teenage years, always coming hand-in-hand with loneliness …
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Posted in Personal | Tagged depression, friendship, loneliness | Leave a reply

Change Leverage Points

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on April 25, 2013 by RachelSeptember 19, 2013

Earlier this year, I realized that our current dominating system is upheld by our collaboration. Instead of collaborating with the system, I argued, we need to shift toward cooperating with each other. If we’d stop following the rules of the …
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Posted in Activism, Community Building | Tagged belonging, change, collaboration, community, cooperation, depression, leverage points, meaning, shame, systems theory | Leave a reply

Earth Day Triplets!

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on April 22, 2013 by RachelApril 22, 2013

“All guten Dinge sind drei” is a German saying, roughly translated with “all good things come in threes.” So today I am posting three times on the same theme: Earth Day, 400 ppm, climate disruption, and depression/despair/hopelessness. As I was …
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Posted in Activism | Tagged depression, hope | 1 Reply

Ecological Depression

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on April 22, 2013 by RachelApril 22, 2013

I can’t get this out of my head: Atmospheric CO2 is almost at 400 ppm. Scientists estimate that the upper safe limit when climate won’t get changed dramatically is 350 ppm. I can tell how this is undermining my mood, …
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Posted in Activism, Personal | Tagged depression | 2 Replies

Systems Dis-Ease

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on December 13, 2012 by RachelApril 19, 2013

After ranting about the blindness within self-help modalities to the systemic issues, i started reading an article about Naomi Klein. As i was reading the article, i could hear the voices starting, actually continuing, to tear me down: Well, she …
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Posted in Activism, Lebensexperiment, Quick note | Tagged depression, shame, systems thinking | Leave a reply

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