I am looking forward to reading a new book I got, Compassion Focused Therapy: Clinical Practice and Applications, edited by Paul Gilbert and Gregoris Simos.
It is a book title I came across while I was renewing one of my licenses (my LMFT license). It does seem like the book offers something that has been missing from contemporary therapies.
I'm looking forward to digging into the book.
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A good book is Solitude: A Return to Self, by Anthony Storr. I read it a number of years back and sometimes pick it again just to read well-written passages. Here are some phrases I found particularly pleasing:"
--"the uses of solitude"
--"religion dismissed as superstition"
--"A silver haze shimmered and trembled over" (Bernard Berenson)
--"Call no man happy till he dies." (Solon)
--"this is a disposition akin to madness" (Erich Heller)
--"the yearning for a lost paradise" (David Aberbach)
--"This is characteristic of the mystic vision..."
--"unexpected juxtapositions of themes, and unpredictable interruptions"
--"For years his whole existence had perforce been one of inert and idle submission to circumstances." (David Cecil on William Cowper).
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I have been wondering if supplements will become more popular as the Baby Boomers age. I would think so. Yet I have really not read on the topic. Especially since people as they age don't seem to eat much better than when they were younger, I would think supplements would look quite good.
I hope to do some reading on the topic in the near future and to report back.
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I have made myself a sort of bipedal guinea pig. I have been taking a number of different supplements over the last year. I have taken the ones that seem to have a number of studies to back up them up.
Hopefully I don't go overboard.
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