Thanks for the post. I enjoy reading your posts. Thank you for the time.

What a lovely article on a positive trend in the business of healing the mind and heart. How wonderful that you were able to use this newer insight to help her. How nice that spirituality and prayer fit right in, and helped the process. Faith has a way of taking a person not only out of the bad, into neutral, but then also past that and often into some of the most important phases of a person's life. This phase is generally filled with helping other people in some way(s), and what a beautiful thing. The goal of pleasing God can be so helpful in pulling us out of our misery. I have heard it said that if you are depressed, go help someone. The change in focus is a sure miracle, I think. I think you may be on to what may have been a flaw in the "old century" psychology: self-centeredness, and what may be the miracle of the new psychology: looking outward and kindness to others. We never get happy with increased self-inquiry. We may heal some mysteries, we may understand our angst, but then to move on past neutral we must look outward, and put others above us and think of what we can do for them. Not necessarily "charity work" or something. We can start with thinking about our spouse, a friend, a parent, a child: "what can I do to make that person's life better?" Anyway, excellent article!