Comments on: in between http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/2009/11/13/in-between/ Musings by a mermaid Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:36:05 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Pat http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/2009/11/13/in-between/comment-page-1/#comment-21682 Pat Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:49:03 +0000 http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/?p=2930#comment-21682 Just sending love ~ Just sending love ~

]]> By: KOLLEEN http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/2009/11/13/in-between/comment-page-1/#comment-21671 KOLLEEN Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:30:20 +0000 http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/?p=2930#comment-21671 how helpful this post was and so relateable. thank you for sharing this. i know exactly what you and Hundewanderer are saying...i feel that is right where i am at this time in my life too. you are SUCH an inspiration! how helpful this post was and so relateable. thank you for sharing this.
i know exactly what you and Hundewanderer are saying…i feel that is right where i am at this time in my life too.
you are SUCH an inspiration!

]]> By: Kate http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/2009/11/13/in-between/comment-page-1/#comment-21670 Kate Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:55:58 +0000 http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/?p=2930#comment-21670 Oh...I just adore you. I feel like you are speaking for me, tonight. In so many ways. Thank you thank you. Oh…I just adore you. I feel like you are speaking for me, tonight. In so many ways. Thank you thank you.

]]> By: blissful*thinking http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/2009/11/13/in-between/comment-page-1/#comment-21669 blissful*thinking Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:30:06 +0000 http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/?p=2930#comment-21669 mccabe & hundwanderer - me TOO. & lynd, i agree on principal...depression is part of the human condition, and the struggle for the light is what bring life to so much beauty...but sometimes those indentations are deep. too deep to navigate alone, too deep to let be because you have a job and people depending on you so you have to fight it...to get out of bed, get dressed, get on a conference call, feed the animals, the kids, the spouse, perhaps take medication too. those times when i've had the luxury of letting it be - i do seem to navigate some path out of the darkness more smoothly. but it is an enormous luxury...i am thankful for the luxury, in the same way that i am thankful for the darkness, and the struggle. (and the venue to talk about it all...) here's to the badass navigators of the soul! : ) mccabe & hundwanderer – me TOO.

& lynd, i agree on principal…depression is part of the human condition, and the struggle for the light is what bring life to so much beauty…but sometimes those indentations are deep. too deep to navigate alone, too deep to let be because you have a job and people depending on you so you have to fight it…to get out of bed, get dressed, get on a conference call, feed the animals, the kids, the spouse, perhaps take medication too. those times when i’ve had the luxury of letting it be – i do seem to navigate some path out of the darkness more smoothly. but it is an enormous luxury…i am thankful for the luxury, in the same way that i am thankful for the darkness, and the struggle.
(and the venue to talk about it all…)

here’s to the badass navigators of the soul! : )

]]> By: Hundewanderer http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/2009/11/13/in-between/comment-page-1/#comment-21663 Hundewanderer Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:14:26 +0000 http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/?p=2930#comment-21663 Ah, I am in the same boat as you are, in between who I used to be and who I will become. I recently decided to stop being paralyzed by fear and DO something. Good luck to you in this new chapter of your life. It will be good. hugs from Hundewanderer. Ah, I am in the same boat as you are, in between who I used to be and who I will become. I recently decided to stop being paralyzed by fear and DO something. Good luck to you in this new chapter of your life. It will be good. hugs from Hundewanderer.

]]> By: Lynd aAka Katie willow http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/2009/11/13/in-between/comment-page-1/#comment-21662 Lynd aAka Katie willow Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:27:42 +0000 http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/?p=2930#comment-21662 Depression can also be a very large word with a lot of connotations.. Depression..in my book..is simply part of the human condition. I don't believe there is a soul amongst us who does not experience it at times. Depression can mean a small indentation in an otherwise smooth surface... To me that's all it is, just a little blip in the path of life, nothing to have a brewhaha about or to be afraid of. Just let it play itself out. Like when you squeeze a water bottle and it takes a while for the indentation to pop out again, but it does it quite naturally. Depression (in my view) is nothing to get so, so heavy about and to grapple with trying to find a way out. It has its own plan and it will pass if you let it exist in the first place and don't fight it. Let it be, honour it and go with it a bit and you will hear messages that tell you where to go next and what you want to be doing, what your heart and mind and physicality need. All our pretty flowers and trees come from a dark place and move towards to sun and the light and the warmth and the company of other living things. All living things come from a dark place and move towards light. This fight to survive darkness is in us, I believe and I take issue with the amount of stigma that is attatched to it and the pressure there seems to be to do something radical about it. It comes and it goes. Big Love x Depression can also be a very large word with a lot of connotations..
Depression..in my book..is simply part of the human condition. I don’t believe there is a soul amongst us who does not experience it at times.
Depression can mean a small indentation in an otherwise smooth surface…
To me that’s all it is, just a little blip in the path of life, nothing to have a brewhaha about or to be afraid of. Just let it play itself out. Like when you squeeze a water bottle and it takes a while for the indentation to pop out again, but it does it quite naturally. Depression (in my view) is nothing to get so, so heavy about and to grapple with trying to find a way out. It has its own plan and it will pass if you let it exist in the first place and don’t fight it. Let it be, honour it and go with it a bit and you will hear messages that tell you where to go next and what you want to be doing, what your heart and mind and physicality need.
All our pretty flowers and trees come from a dark place and move towards to sun and the light and the warmth and the company of other living things. All living things come from a dark place and move towards light. This fight to survive darkness is in us, I believe and I take issue with the amount of stigma that is attatched to it and the pressure there seems to be to do something radical about it. It comes and it goes.
Big Love x

]]> By: eric gabriel http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/2009/11/13/in-between/comment-page-1/#comment-21661 eric gabriel Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:13:55 +0000 http://dancingmermaid.com/blog/?p=2930#comment-21661 I can so relate to everything you said... seems to be universal these days. This thought came to me while engaged in the throes of doubt and avoidance and change... simply put "Change is a universal constant, we either flow with it or rage against it... either way we will experience it" You are not alone my dear sweet badass mermaid... eric I can so relate to everything you said… seems to be universal these days. This thought came to me while engaged in the throes of doubt and avoidance and change… simply put “Change is a universal constant, we either flow with it or rage against it… either way we will experience it”
You are not alone my dear sweet badass mermaid…

eric

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