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Helping Our Anxious, Depressed Kids

February 26, 2017

Studies and polls tell us a huge percentage of kids are anxious, depressed, or just downright miserable – that millions struggle just to make it through the day. The adult world’s answer to managing these gaping psychic wounds? To apply more of the same cultural and parental teachings that are creating the mess in the first place. A few months ago Time magazine published a lengthy cover story titled, “Teen Depression and Anxiety: Why the Kids Are Not Alright.” The article was an admixture…

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Ending Suffering, Part 3 – Liberation Through Truth

In the spring of 1999 I and another member of the American Red Cross boarded a flight bound for the Balkan conflict in Kosovo. A veteran of many humanitarian assignments, I felt no particular concern about the trip. But on the evening of my…

January 15, 2010

Ending Suffering, Part 2: Conscious Suffering

During the holidays my wife received word that a favorite cousin had been hospitalized with advanced brain cancer. He is young, handsome, charismatic, a business owner, a newly minted husband and father of a child not yet one. Family and friends are stunned, praying…

January 15, 2010

Ending Suffering – When Enough is Enough: Part 1

His name is Gene Sprague. He paces the Golden Gate’s walkway at its highest point, occasionally stopping to gaze down at the water more than 200 feet below. Immersed in their picture-taking, nearby tourists fail to notice him. His pacing stops, he brushes his…

December 16, 2009