Juanita Campbell's Learning to Be: Finding Your Center after the Bottom Falls Out explores Campbell's own contemplative journey in and through depression. It explores so many of the spiritual practices that can sustain us as we make that same journey. For that reason alone, this is perhaps the most important book to read in 2021. We've just come through one of the most isolating, uncertain period in contemporary memory, and some of us didn't fare too well. Isolation quickly ushers is depression. And 2021 is filled with those of us who haven't made the transition well.
Campbell calls her major depressive episode "the crash", and describes it in vivid detail. But she does so with an eye toward medicine and spirituality. That makes this book essential reading.
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