Tag Archives: depression
The nature of anxiety and courage
Anxiety stunts you Courage makes you grow © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged abandonment, anxiety, contemplation, courage, depression, meditation, psychology, ruts, surrender
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Sadness, O sadness
Sadness, O sadness the sun sags in the sky tugged down by its own weight © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged depression, discouragement, help, help me heaviness, loss, sadness, weakness
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Bone-dead dry
Bone-dead dry eyes weary, withered: where, O God, are you? © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing
Tagged darkness, depression, doubt, isolation, loneliness, prayer, presence, question, writing
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The unfeared descent
The sun knows its slow descent but note how it does not just go out: at its lowest point, it unfurls its majesty, its moment of greatest open giving © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Earth poetry, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged darkness, death, depression, generosity, hope, light, majesty, sun, sunset
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To my friend
I want to help you but you walk away I call you but you don’t respond I run to rescue you and you drop into waters with a weight around your feet – come back, dear one, come back – … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry
Tagged acceptance, depression, friendship, help, weakness
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Dark labyrinth
I ask why I’m here, despondent, seeking answers: dark labyrinth, wandering © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Poetry, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry
Tagged adventure, blind, depression, journey, lost, wandering
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