Issue 150
Find Issue #150, (Spring 2011) – “Mental Health: Challenges and Hope” of Communities Magazine here!
Hopeful New Stories from the Old World
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Ten European ecovillages show the way to a brighter future.
Nurturing Healthy Minds
Posted on March 7, 2011 byLiving in community can provide all the elements necessary for promoting mental well-being, from kinship and useful work to recreation and beauty.
Rx for “Mental Illness”
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How can we best support mental health? Caring attention—even from amateurs—can promote healing unattainable through impersonal approaches or drugs.
Prescription Facebook
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Ex-members of the Emissaries of Divine Light reflect on their shared past and discover more holistic approaches to inner wellness as they reunite online.
Shadow Sides of NVC and Co-Counseling
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To make best use of nonviolent communication and co-counseling, avoid these traps.
Hand in Hand, Heart to Heart
Posted on March 7, 2011 byWith loving help from others, the old emotional distresses that can sabotage both our mental health and our relationships in community can be cleared and permanently resolved.
Tough Grace
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For 12 years, a once-proud career woman struggled with manic depression, becoming a “bag lady” and experiencing more than a dozen hospitalizations, before entering recovery.
Communicable Gifts
Posted on March 7, 2011 byBoth healthy ideas and unhealthy ideas can take hold and spread like viruses. Suicidal tendencies and eating disorders provide invaluable lessons to one communitarian.
Gifted, Mad, and Out of Control
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The author recounts his personal history with the “mentally ill”—social misfits who can show us the way to a better world, if they are allowed to make the journey.
