I recently spent a week feeling pretty bad. I was extremely depressed. And had zero energy. In trying to make sense about where this onslaught of misery was coming from, there were a number of things I could point to. It’s been a crazy intense year. Lots of changes and some really difficult events that included a couple of rather challenging interpersonal conflicts. I was also dealing with current disappointments, including some health issues and plans not turning out the way I wanted them to. And I did need to rest. So I initially chalked my crappy mood up to simply being tired as well as feeling grief about a bunch of different losses. But I’ve been around the block enough times that I couldn’t completely kid myself. I knew it was more than that. Something deeper was trying to get my attention and calling me to listen. I knew in theory that what I needed was to simply hang out with the discomfort. To “keep my butt in the chair” as the Buddhists say about meditation practice. But it was hard. Hard to be in this place that was so painful. Hard […]