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'This is a complex book. It offers clarification and a sense of reassurance, but does not intend to provide answers, and is not for those seeking concrete direction. This will be a powerful read for many in a place of loss, chaos or existential angst' - Alison Cooper, Psychothearpy and Counselling Drawing on sources as diverse as medical and psychological theory, anthropology, religious and spiritual tradition, art and poetry, experienced psychotherapist Elizabeth Wilde McCormick explores the different elements of the edge - the images, dangers, safe places, and offers a unique handbook which charts that often lonely and alien territory.
Exhaustion: When the Well Runs Dry
Exhaustion: When the Well Runs Dry
I'm tired
From inside out
my spirit craves for
crumbs of comfort anywhere.
A body lost at sea
I sink in hopeless search
for your attention.
I'm almost proud of my exhaustion
I wear it like a medal
to prove ‘she tried’.
But now's the time
to say ‘I quit’
and let the pain begin.
Fatigue and pain must fade away
through ticking minutes of my alarm
and only then will I become
more than I was before.
Collapsed into the void a man crawls in circles, his paper eyelids closed over dry red sockets. He does not know his hands and knees are bleeding.
A state of wellness can be defined as a healthy productive tension which creates movement and produces activity ...