Category Archives: perspective on illness: personal

Living through uncertainty

Posted on February 2, 2021 by coalfacecaring

I wanted to share a thought with you this morning. The realisation starting to hit me that I am feeling a little more anxious at the moment. I then accepted that I find this time of year a little tricky. … Continue reading →

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’Shades of Einstein”·. (Cont’d from previous blog).

Posted on December 20, 2016 by coalfacecaring

Textbooks will ‘tell’ you that it was one Aaron T Beck who originated a theory of emotion and emotional problems, by defining their core problem in depression as a “thinking disorder”. This disorder, so he explained, developed out of “negative … Continue reading →

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Thinking your way out of trouble. (Cont’d from prev.)

Posted on October 20, 2016 by coalfacecaring

As With thinking, so also with behaviour: we can and we must sometimes unlearn problem and negative behaviour and replace it with something better, more productive. Indeed, it is the application of just such a proposition that leads the sports … Continue reading →

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Change (of emphasis and perspective) can be as good as a rest. (Continued from previous blog).

Posted on September 16, 2016 by coalfacecaring

I intend for a moment to return to the analogy of “the untidy room”, to which there is a self-evident need to restore at least a semblance of order out of chaos and upon which I opted to focus in … Continue reading →

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The Brain ‘Minds’ the Body. (i) ( Continued from previous blog).

Posted on November 10, 2015 by coalfacecaring

Having made reference to the manner in which the human brain has controlled and contributed to every aspect and facet of human functioning – conscious and otherwise – I want in this presentation to refer to another essential way in … Continue reading →

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When Fact is Stranger than Fiction! (Continued). (From previous blog)

Posted on October 7, 2015 by coalfacecaring

It is important to emphasize that what is being attempted here amounts to little more than a ‘cook’s tour’, incorporating only, where essential, the occasional rudimentary reference to brain neurobiology. In the first place, any detailed reference to the latter … Continue reading →

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