You won’t want to miss this inspiring and practical program starting with this entry! From now until the end of the year can join us in an experiment to create a whole new holiday experience for yourself.

The purpose of this experiment is to reach people who find the holidays difficult, eliminate isolation, and quip participants with tools to build a fresh holiday experience and provide consistent support through the end of 2009 (if you’re wondering about 2010 we’ll be continuing next year too!).

If you or someone you know is impacted by depression and find the holidays tough, than this program is for you.  We are building bridges from blue to bliss; join us and heal your life for good!

With the commonly held belief that bipolar is an illness to be managed for life – it seems impossible that one might ever be able to get beyond the diagnosis and live free from the symptoms, treatments and prejudge of the world.  (more…)

This is a radio interview from 3/24/09.   Anna Miller, Author of Madness, Mania & Miracles along with Gwen Olsen, Author of Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher talk with the Abudance Alley show hosts about all manner of topics and issues related to depressive disorders including bipolar, anxiety and clinical depression.  Listen as we debate the use of medications, alternative healing therapies and share our own recovery stories.

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It Felt Love

How
Did the rose

Ever open its heart

And give to this world

All its

Beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light

Against its

Being

Otherwise,

We all remain

Too

Frightened.

Hafiz, Sufi Mystic and Poet

The only way out is in. Wearing the cloak of muted agony known as depression, your body constricted, your emotions throb and your mind races. It all feels so overwhelming and with no end in sight. (more…)