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We believe people can and do recover from "mental illness" - because we are living it. We believe in the power of supporting each other: learning from and with each other. You are welcome to join us..

A Midsummer’s MADx

Posted on June 3, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Get yer MADx on. Cos… MADx is coming! First time on a Saturday eve! Saturday 8th June 2019  9pm to 11pm [ish] Imperial Pub Downstairs Bar Room at the back.   MADx is about live Performance. Song | Stand Up … Continue reading →

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Choose your language…

Posted on May 13, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

This is not offered as a piece about “right language” and “wrong language”. It is clearly about language but it is really about choice- and the many choices we make whenever we use language to describe another person. Especially, for … Continue reading →

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Pharmacists sent into care homes amid fears pensioners are being put at risk by drugs cocktail

Posted on May 10, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“Healthcare” has become all about drugs. Time to make it about care and about people and about living a life worth living. Here’s a small and welcome change happening in UK. Where 400, 000 people living in “care homes” take … Continue reading →

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Blackbird – Emma Stephens

Posted on May 6, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Emma Stephen sings the Beatles song Blackbird in her native language, Mi’kmaq.  

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FUCKHEAD – Wormland

Posted on May 5, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

       

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A Midsummer MADx – Sat 8th June, 2019

Posted on April 20, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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Barrie MacVicar

Posted on March 12, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Barrie MacVicar, by whom I’m greatly honored to have been called “friend” passed from this earthly life on Friday 9 Mar 2019. Barrie was born in unusual circumstances – on a ferry to the mainland – and from his early … Continue reading →

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ACB – an “evidence based practice”

Posted on February 14, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

via Umbongoworld.com: ACB – an “evidence based practice”

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That’s not ‘trauma’ that’s ‘traumatic’…

Posted on February 4, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

We have come to think and talk of traum as evil things that happend to us perpetrated by evil people. That’s a fairly new way of thinking about it, made up on the back of an envelope by a small number of people – you might be surprised where it comes from.
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Hearing Voices Workshop #1 Accepting Voices – Thu, 02 May, 2019

Posted on February 2, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Limited Spaces Available. Tilt your universe blowing your mind and / or gaining a whole new perspective on experiences that we’re taught to fear and to believe that we can’t possibly understand in simple, human terms. We’ll be joined by … Continue reading →

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