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Category Archives: Abuse
Hearing Voices Cafe – Toronto 2020
Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto Coffee and That Jazz 72 Howard Park Ave 6pm to 8pm. First Monday of each month – except when its the second monday because of holidays. For those willing to open themselves to listen, willing to … Continue reading
Hearing Voices Cafe – Toronto 2019
Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto Coffee and That Jazz 72 Howard Park Ave 6pm to 8pm. First Monday of each month – except when its the second monday because of holidays. For those willing to open themselves to listen, willing to … Continue reading
Recovery as a Self-Directed Process of Healing and Transformation By: Patricia E. Deegan Ph.D.
The word “recovery” has now stuck onto every sentence uttered in mental health services just so we’ll know just how “recovery oriented” everything and everyone has now become. “Recovery oriented” is now an established branding but just what does that mean? … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, my story, psychosis, recovery perspectives
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Baboons in The Whitehouse…
“Donald trump has been brought to us so we can be really clear on what too much privilege looks like.” Continue reading
Angry Inuk
The continued existence of Inuit peoples demonstrates their resilience – not only in the environment in which they call home but also, like many other Indigenous peoples of the world, in face of the many hundreds of years of history of those seeking to impose the “benefits” of Western / European civilization upon their way of life.
We have to trust the people who have been the guardians of this earth”
We might also learn from them. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Colonialism, Ideas, resilience, Trauma
Tagged #sealfie, Arctic, Inuit, Inuk
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What if we could…
What if we could interpret the voices a person might hear that only they hear – and especially those most difficult to hear – as if they were part of some kind of ‘map’, or ‘collage’, or ‘mash-up’ or even a mirror of their life experiences?
You can. So, what’s holding you back? Continue reading
What we hold inside…
“Trauma is not what happens to us but what we hold inside in absence of empathetic witnesses”. Peter Levine Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Crazy World, Healing, Ideas, Trauma
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Baboons in suits
Robert Sapolsky on how hierarchy has a destructive force in body and psyche in individuals and community. He is talking about baboons, the ones he’s observed for decades along with the effects of stress upon health and behaviour. His observation … Continue reading
Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic
We will likely be told we have “lost touch with reality”, whatever that means, when the truth is it’s really not hard to understand: we are struggling to feel safe in the world. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Adversity, bollocks, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, hearing voices, Ideas
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What’s it like round here?
Seth Godin often pops something into my inbox that shows me a way to say something I’m struggling to find a way to say and to share… Community standards “What’s it like around here?” It’s a fair question to ask … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Healing, Learning, Trauma
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