{Excerpted from book: The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression, by Eric Maisel, PhD.}
For an artist, it is a driven pursuit, whether we acknowledge this or not, that endless search for meaning.
Each work we attempt poses the same questions. Perhaps this time I will see more clearly, understand something more.
That is why [...]

Posted in Identity / Self concept | No Comments » | 01.18.08 | Share This

“My therapist gives me permission to accept that I’m human.”
Actor Claire Danes also explained in an interview that, as a kid, she “was on this whole perfection trip. And that’s just totally boring. And arrogant!…
“I finally realized after years of therapy.. that you can encourage yourself to move further in a nurturing way.”
Taking care to [...]

Posted in Mental health | No Comments » | 01.04.08 | Share This