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What Does it Mean to Be Creative at the End of the World?

By Saeed Jones — 2021

A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.

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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels.

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Maggie Nelson
2025
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Out at Home: The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball’s First Openly Gay Player

Before Jason Collins, before Michael Sam, there was Glenn Burke. By becoming the first—and only—openly gay player in Major League Baseball, Glenn would become a pioneer in his own way, nearly thirty years after another black Dodger rookie, Jackie Robinson, broke the league’s color barrier.

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Glenn Burke, Erik Sherman
2015
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Healing the Shame that Binds You

Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives.

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John Bradshaw
2005
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Addiction and Trust: Marc Lewis at TEDxRadboudU 2013

A former drug addict himself, Lewis now researches addiction. In order to get over ones addiction, he explains, self-trust is necessary. Unfortunately, self- trust is extremely difficult for an addict to achieve.

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2013
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Healthy People in Unhealthy Places: Stress and Fitness at Work

Explains how individuals can counter job stress, burnout, and workaholic behavior, and examines hazards that only group- and company-wide action can change, such as toxic exposures and noise.

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Kenneth Pelletier
1984
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Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

An accessible five-step program for treating an array of conditions related to negative emotions in a guide that combines Buddhist philosophies with Western techniques to address such issues as weight gain, depression, and addiction.

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Tsultrim Allione, Jack Kornfield (foreword)
2008
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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

This groundbreaking book, from one of the global innovators in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.

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Daniel J. Siegel, Daniel Goleman (foreword)
2010
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