top of page
Wandering Thoughts & Insights from
Annelisa
Search


Friends
Intimate relationships are one of the most exquisite, disappointing, frustrating, supportive, revealing and illuminating opportunities...

Annelisa MacBean
Jun 2, 20212 min read


Hope and Hopelessness
When things are falling apart, it can be so hard to maintain a sense of hope. When I have tried so hard to keep it all together, to...

Annelisa MacBean
May 30, 20212 min read


Death in the Field of Love
Over time, I’ve noticed, Love (or Life, or Divine or God) moves into and out of form. Time dissolves the forms, but the Love remains, as...

Annelisa MacBean
May 26, 20212 min read


What Are We So Afraid Of? A TMT Perspective on the Politics of Fear
by Tom Pyszczynski Fear and anxiety are two of the most intolerable emotions we humans are capable of experiencing. People will do...

Annelisa MacBean
May 22, 202127 min read


No Mistakes
It is not a mistake that you have been born into a complex human form with a sensitive, tender nervous system and a heart that is...

Annelisa MacBean
May 18, 20211 min read


Postponing Death
It is so easy for me to take tomorrow for granted, to expect another opportunity to watch the sunset, or take a hike on the coast, visit...

Annelisa MacBean
May 14, 20213 min read


Taking a Break!
Sometimes I just want to take a day off from fixing myself, from practices and protocols that will enable me to become better or more . ....

Annelisa MacBean
May 10, 20213 min read


Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of Humanistic Psychology 2021, Vol. 61(2) 173–189 Tom Pyszczynski, McKenzie Lockett, Jeff Greenberg, and Sheldon Solomon Abstract...

Annelisa MacBean
May 6, 202124 min read


Shift in Perception
When we are infants, feelings of shame or humiliation feel “bad”. As we adapt to our environment and to the moods, tempers and...

Annelisa MacBean
May 2, 20213 min read


Awe: An Antidote to Death Anxiety
How awe neither denies nor catastrophizes death anxiety. By Kirk J. Schneider Ph.D. I've been hit with death anxiety or the fear of...

Annelisa MacBean
Apr 28, 20213 min read


COVID-19 and the Denial of Death
By Ewan Morrison Has COVID-19 changed the way you behave? Has it made you more depressed, defensive, or even aggressive? Since the...

Annelisa MacBean
Apr 24, 20214 min read


Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
By Mary Elizabeth Frye Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the...

Annelisa MacBean
Apr 20, 20211 min read


Self-Esteem and the Denial of Death
Human children gain increased cognitive complexity as we grow, and with this comes the capacity for self-awareness. Still physically weak...

Annelisa MacBean
Apr 16, 20214 min read


The Loss of Self for the Sake of Esteem
Remember that human infants are born in a completely helpless and vulnerable state while, at the same time, they are learning about and...

Annelisa MacBean
Apr 12, 20213 min read


Death and the Birth of Self-Awareness
In this and my next few blog installments I will progressively explore my ongoing interest in death awareness, as it affects or...

Annelisa MacBean
Apr 8, 20213 min read
bottom of page
