by Jeff Howlin | Apr 5, 2012 | Depression, Individuation, Nature, Psychology, Psychotherapy
There are many ways to solve the pressing problems that occur in everyday life. I received this photograph with the title “Mystery Duck” from a good friend. His brother, a waterfowl photographer, had taken the photograph. They wanted my opinion concerning the... by Jeff Howlin | Feb 25, 2012 | Dreams, Editorial, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Soul, Sports Psychology
He had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable... by Jeff Howlin | Jan 25, 2012 | Editorial, Individuation, Psychology, Psychotherapy
I saw a middle-aged man recently exercising vigorously with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. He paused periodically to take deeper drags on his cigarette. There was a humorous side to this scene, but even more, it reminded me of the forces that hold us back in... by Jeff Howlin | Jan 17, 2012 | Depression, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Psychotherapy
I borrowed the phrase “waking up into the night” from a James Hillman quote that I remembered from a column that I read some time ago. I liked it then, and I like it even more now as I was thinking about this quote recently during a mostly sleepless night. Hillman was... by Jeff Howlin | Dec 10, 2011 | Careers, Dreams, Ecopsychology, Nature, Psyche, Psychotherapy
The river. The river was our life-line. The Missouri river, the longest river in North America, begins in Montana, flowing east into North Dakota and then south into South Dakota, where this story takes place. The Missouri runs straight through the center of South...
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