In: Well-Being

How I Healed My Brain With Fire

Meditations on a birthday candle

James Horton, Ph.D
9 min readDec 29, 2021

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I didn’t start meditating until after my brain had broken.

It took several things going wrong in quick succession to plunge me into my worst episode of major depression. Some problems stemmed from my own poor health; a year prior I had learned that I had Type II Diabetes, and I…

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James Horton, Ph.D

Social scientist, world traveler, freelancer. Alaskan, twice. Follow if you like long(ish) articles. 2x top writer in Psychology, Climate Change.